Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week some of the urgency of the energy program seemed to diminish as Treasury Secretary William Simon testifying before a Senate subcommittee again emphasized his view that the buildup of petrodollars in the oil-producing nations was not going to be as massive as had been predict ed. Their foreign reserves, said Simon, might reach only $200 billion to $250 billion in 1980, rather than much higher figures that some had forecast. Reacting to higher prices, other countries were buying less oil from the oil states, which in turn were buying more goods and services than had been anticipated. Thus...
...What did Nicholas "Miraculous" Butler, president of Columbia University, predict would "end the slump...
...Governor." But there was no confusion in his mind over his role in Government or his relationship with Ford. Pressing two fingers together, he declared: "We're like that." The circumspect Rockefeller would not discuss foreign policy ("That is not my field"). He also would not predict whether he would develop with Ford an overall concept of American life to serve as a framework for domestic policy, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has done for U.S. foreign policy. Said Rockefeller: "My hunch is that that is what the President is going to do, [but we haven...
...early to predict how AM America will finally fare. But the staff seems undaunted by the barbs of early bad reviews. Announced Edwards hopefully at the start of one show: "We're going to keep doing it until we get it right...
...recovery, when it comes, is likely to be slow and sluggish at best. Many industry observers predict a generally flat year ahead, with no really significant upturn until August or September. The range of forecasts for total domestic sales is wide: Wall Street Analyst David Eisenberg believes that Detroit will sell no more than 6.5 million autos in 1975, but General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy talks of a 9-million-car year. Though that would be well short of 1973's alltime high of 9.7 million new cars, it would be comfortably ahead of 1958, when only...