Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succession of twelve-minute time exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer Malcolm Kuhring, who is chairman of the committee. "The birds fly with tail winds; they fly the pressure patterns...
...rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...
...laws of economics predict that if wages for military service are raised, then enlistments will increase as well. Few people are so poor that they have no alternative but to respond to the offer of higher wages. Those who enlist are simply deciding that, all things considered, it is in their own best interest to join the army. This is hardly coercion...
Most of them are conducted in informal, periodic dinner meetings. It is hard at this point, Neustadt feels, to predict what shape the groups' results will take. But Dean Price feels that the groups may have a function analagous to the seminars held by the Council on Foreign Relations in that they could stimulate one of their participants to write a scholarly work on a problem raised and discussed by the groups...
...spotty so far, will widen into a sharp downtrend before easier credit and federal deficit spending again pump up business-and prices. Many economists expect the inventory gain to slip to an annual rate of about $9.5 billion during the first three months of this year. Even so, few predict anything worse for the economy than what Leon Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, calls "a period of stagnation." With federal, state and local government spending on the rise, with housing starting to recover from its 1966 slump, with unemployment low and incomes continuing...