Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whitcomb is using an experimental earthquake-prediction technique developed in the Soviet Union and successfully employed by Columbia University scientists to predict a small temblor in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. The method involves measurement of variations in the velocities of sound waves traveling through subsurface rock. While no one, from scientists to civil defense authorities, is dismissing Whitcomb's prediction, his data will come under intense scrutiny by experts of the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council within the next two weeks...
Currie declined to predict the final numbers of acceptances of women and minorities. Last year's entering class had 110 women and 50 minority students...
...Wall Street's division of labor, stock analysts try to forecast earnings of individual companies and pick those that might make good investments, while market analysts attempt to predict whether the market as a whole will rise or fall. To put it mildly, neither always succeeds. But Edson Beers Gould, at 74 the dean of market analysts, has been right often and spectacularly enough to be a market force in his own right. Two weeks ago, just after the Dow Jones industrial average rose smartly to 1,009, rumors began circulating that Gould was about to forecast a short...
...Chinese, for example, managed to predict the Manchurian quake with such extraordinary precision that the big jolt came only a few hours after their warning. As a result, says MIT Geologist Frank Press, more than a million people were evacuated from their vulnerable homes and tens of thousands of lives were saved...
...winner by "a modest margin." That left CBS the lone TV network holdout. CBS steadfastly refused to concede anything except that the race was "extremely close" until 1:30 a.m., when it became clear that Carter had eked out a victory and Walter Cronkite could crow, "Some other networks predicted that Udall would win [and] we did not predict that here...