Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Housing prices are rising so rapidly--almost doubling between 1970 and 1976--that the study's authors predict that an average home could cost $78,000 by the 1980s...
...classifies Harvard as a non-profit institution but budget officials have managed to tuck away a tidy proportion of the University's income in the name of fiscal conservatism. But the debt-ridden graduates of the '70s can be glad they're not 20 years younger--experts predict that by 1995 four years of college will cost over...
With an older and less adventurous population, demographers predict, there will be less pressure on the nation's congested beaches, lakes, waterways, hiking trails, ski slopes and wilderness areas -while sales of art supplies, mah-jongg, backgammon, books and endless variations of electronic games should soar. The station wagon, the Patton tank of suburbia, may be replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better...
Most observers around the court house predict a speedy resolution to Ralph's suit, perhaps involving an out-of-court settlement. But the end of the legal battle will probably do nothing to restore political peace in Middlesex county. Ralph and McLaughlin are ensconced in office until 1980. Danehy, who must face the voters in two years, stands an excellent chance of re-election. Barring an unexpected resignation or a still more surprising rapprochement, it looks as if the Middlesex county commissioners are going to have each other to kick around for several years to come...
...more that scientists learn about the world weather machine, the more they realize that it is an engine of enormous complexity. They are only beginning to figure out how it works or predict what it will do next. Until man has a better understanding of the weather, he is wise not to tamper with...