Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edgar Hoover, urging him to use "maximum available resources" of his agency to investigate and predict riots. Angered at Johnson's refusal to allow wiretapping and electronic bugs against gangsters, Hoover balked. In fact, he proceeded to scrap many of the FBI'S more dubious but productive techniques, such as burglarizing the homes and monitoring the mail of suspected spies and criminals. Stymied by Hoover and realizing that not even the 8,700 agents of the FBI could cope with riots, the Johnson Administration turned to the U.S. Army as a tool of massive retaliation, giving...
None will yet predict an outright recession in 1974, but several foresee a period during which growth will be insignificant. Several warn that an actual recession could occur, given policy mistakes that it would be all too easy for the Government to make...
...Doctors predict that in a matter of years they will be able to remove an egg cell from a woman, fertilize and grow it as an embryo in a test tube, and then implant it in the mother or even in the uterus of a volunteer, where it will continue to develop until delivery...
...really quite simple to predict Richard Nixon's actions. When deprived of the California governorship in 1962, Nixon stomped off the political stage like an undisciplined child, fuming "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." Ten years later, in the heat of the Watergate scandal exposed by the press, anyone might have predicted what turned out to be Nixon's snide retort: "We have had our differences in the past and I hope you give me hell everytime you think I'm wrong." Give him a teething ring or a dog biscuit to munch on (like...
Stowell agreed, "It's hard to predict what will happen when you don't know who'll be competing from other schools. All we can do is hope for decent weather and hope our men register better performances than they've turned...