Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe, coach Pappy Hunt says that improvement is inevitable, but uncertain. "The competition in women's track is the unknown factor," he said. "We know that the state schools are the powerhouses in this sport, but we haven't been around long enough to predict where the real challenge will come from...
...coffee by 50?, to a record $4.21 per Ib.-the coffee-growing regions of Central and South America are enjoying a new-found prosperity. Growers in Brazil, for example, were getting $2.33 per Ib. last week for prime coffee beans, four times last year's price. Brazilian officials predict that export earnings from coffee will reach $4.3 billion this year, enough to take the sting out of the country's ruinous bill for imported...
...literary Senator selected the Granite State's primary to challenge former president Lyndon B. Johnson in the winter of 1968, and he scored a startling upset that political pollsters, who generally read computer printouts more carefully than sonnets, failed to predict...
When they asked Duke Ellington to predict the future of jazz as he foresaw it in the 1984 era of Big Brother he, speaking from the premature and unlamented passing away of smaller-but-still nasty McCarthy era, declared "Nobody's going to worry about whether it's jazz, symphony, boogie-woogie or folk music. The categories will be abolished...
...expensive trend, though, when we don't predict correctly," Wilcox said. Unexpected enrollment jumps or declines mean headaches for Wilcox, who is responsible for Gen Ed course budgets...