Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth of California's 1976 $9 billion in agriculture earnings. In Oregon, where four coastal counties joined the list of nine eastern ones designated...
...Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze, who urged him to hold the increase to 6%. Last week U.S. Steel did so, and the rest of the industry fell into line. Several Board of Economists members nonetheless view such gentlemanly jawboning as inadequate to stop inflation. Nathan and Pechman predict that a disappointed President will eventually move to far more vigorous and public intervention in wage-price disputes...
Although Powers would not predict a date for final settlement of the police contract, he said he is "optimistic" that both sides can reach an agreement before the extension of the current contract expires July...
Harvard will break its third varsity boat into two fours for The Race. "It's hard to predict this one. There's no way of knowing how fast the Yale crews are going to be," Parker said...
...grass field earn more than the president of the United States? College graduates ought to pass up law, medicine, and business, and head for the baseball diamond. With all due respect to the fans, commentators, columnists, and owners who utter cries of indignation at those fat contracts and predict the demise of the game, there are a number of justifications for the players' present bargaining position...