Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate foot-in-mouth was cured. Both candidates were more poised, presidential and restrained than before-in fact, at times they sounded downright angelic. Both avoided the kind of fatal gaffe that inspires a politician's nightmares. The verbal slips were slight. Old Football Player Ford began to predict improved economic prospects for "the fifth quarter" and quickly checked himself. Carter, often accused of changing his mind, said he would select Supreme Court Justices "who would most accurately reflect my own basic political philosophy as best I could determine...
...Vintage Car, sponsored by Borg-Warner, is equipped with cut-glass liqueur-decanter fog lamps, a crystal ball to predict traffic conditions ahead, a petunia-powered antipollution catalyst and a speedometer that registers from Nought, through Gently, to AWFUL. In fact, Emett notes, the machine "has a great safety factor: it doesn't move." His Far Tottering Railway was a hot ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered...
Both Lawton and Robert E. Kaufman, associate dean of the Faculty for finances, said last week they cannot predict savings this year because they will depend on the weather...
Finally, there's that aspect that no one can predict in a big game, the one under the heading titled "breaks." If things hold up as they have in the past, it won't be Harvard making the key errors...
...makes no other claims for their tests than that they predict how well an applicant will perform at the institution to which he is applying. And according to an article by Steve Brill in the October, 1974 issue of New York Magazine, entitled The Secrecy Behind The College Boards, "ETS admits that aptitude and achievement cannot be measured in terms nearly as specific as the score that is recorded." An SAT score of 600, says Brill, means only that there is a two-in-three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there...