Word: predictableness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anomalies of 1975 was the curious public quiescence about the highest unemployment rates that the nation has seen in the era since World War II. The rate hit 9.2% last May, and has since inched down to 8.3%. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists unanimously predict, in line with most other forecasters, that it will still be above 7% at the end of 1976-meaning that it will be as high after a year-and-a-half of recovery as it has been at the bottom of some previous recessions...
...reluctant to predict who will win the nomination, but admits that if he had to bet, he would bet on Reagan--"but I wouldn't bet much." He gives Reagan the edge mainly because of the sort of people who vote in presidential primaries. Reagan, Will says, "is more fun, and basically politics at the nominating level is dominated by comfortable, middle-class, leisured people. They do it for fun, not because they're being ground into the dust by the iron heel of tyranny." Asked his own preference between Ford and Reagan, Will pauses as if he had never...
...midweek absence at a meeting, raised the eyebrows of some Western Kremlinologists. Although the latest grain disaster was a result of ferocious weather conditions, the two ailing leaders might make handy scapegoats for alleged errors in agricultural planning. Both men later reappeared in public; Sovietologists in Washington predict that Brezhnev will remain firmly in power until well after the Communist Party Congress meets next February. Indeed, Brezhnev reportedly delivered a secret speech to the Supreme Soviet attacking people who might be held accountable for the agriculture catastrophe. The most obvious targets were Agriculture Minister Dimitri Polyansky and Fyodor Kulakov, chief...
...University officials who try to predict how many students will return in order to provide housing space for them, the increase in leaves has been a blessing...
...Silverman, author of "How Will I Feel Tomorrow?", yesterday called himself a "latter-day prophet" because of his "considerable work on the prediction of physical illness." Silverman said he can isolate ten "cues" which can predict physical illness before symptoms appear...