Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monastery itself is so new that even Suzuki is unwilling to predict total success. He is pleased by the dedication of his students, even though he observes that "Americans have too much freedom." Baker is even more enthusiastic. "There are more potential students of Zen here than there are in Japan," he insists. "We are a bunch of Americans trying to find out what religion is-and that is real religion...
...mile downstream stretch is already navigable, will be extended another 100 miles to Little Rock before year's end. Engineers predict yearly benefits of $69,927,400, by 1970, a strangely precise estimate arrived at by combining savings in flood control, hydroelectric energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich...
...after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
...next day, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, a knowledgeable member of the House subcommittee on defense, accused Humphrey of "loose talk-dangerous, harmful talk -confusing and, in my view, irresponsible talk." Whereupon he proceeded to indulge in much the same sort of talk. By June, Laird went on to predict, the U.S. will "likely" have 90,000 fewer troops in Viet...
...Very Private Life is set in the distant future, at a time when a technological civilization has developed beyond the wildest dreams of 20th century man. Rather, it has developed precisely as a good many current dreams predict: a detritosphere, made up of atomized waste products and the debris of innumerable satellite disasters, smothers the globe. The sun has been stifled, the sea polluted. The earth itself is encrusted with a layer of rubble. The human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind...