Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more difficult to predict with any assurance is the net effect on economic activity of the huge changes in oil prices and taxes being proposed by Ford to help solve the energy problem. The increase in energy taxes could amount to $28 billion and over an 18-month period could raise the consumer price index by as much as five percentage points over what it otherwise would have been. If the general inflation rate does not abate, that could prove an exceedingly high?and probably politically intolerable?price to pay to achieve a negotiable measure of independence from imported...
...problem was less easy to solve. Doctors had known for years that there are many forms of hypertension that affect different patients in a vast variety of ways. Some respond to one kind of treatment, others to something completely different. It remained for Dr. Laragh to show how to predict an individual patient's response to a particular drug...
Attendance has revived after Christmas, he said, and the theater still turns people away on weekend nights. He said he cannot predict how much longer it will run, and at this point the theater is "playing it from week to week...
Both defense and prosecution predict a trial of perhaps a month's duration that could depend on a determination of the age at which a fetus becomes a human being and on considerations of medical ethics and complicated surgical procedures...
Rallying Support. This year supporters of the ERA predict a turnaround. Last fall's elections drastically changed the makeup of many state legislatures. They now contain about 28% more women and a majority of Democrats. Both of these groups-outside the South-tend to be pro-ERA. Of those states considered good prospects, Missouri should be the first to act, with a vote expected as soon as the legislature convenes in January. Other states likely to vote in the next six months: Illinois, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. According to a poll taken by the League of Women...