Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether a child will be affected, because a sort of genetic lottery decides which of the mother's chromosomes the child inherits. (How Victoria got the defective gene is a mystery. Medical sleuthing has failed to show that she inherited it, so she may have developed it herself-perhaps...
Administration forecasters predict a G.N.P. rise to $609 billion without a tax cut, claim that a tax cut would mean a rise to $621 billion. Surveys of business capital spending indicate only a moderate 4% or 5% increase in 1964, but almost all businessmen now consider this far too low, feel that the jump may actually be as much as 10%. "Businessmen act less conservatively than they plan," says Edward Carter, president of Broadway-Hale Stores, the West's biggest department-store chain. One reason for acting less conservatively from now on: the large number of children born during...
...Psychologists Kenneth B. Clark (whose studies of segregation bolstered the 1954 Supreme Court school decision) and Lawrence Plotkin, who both teach at City College of New York. Their chief conclusion is that colleges ought to weigh entrance-exam scores less for Negroes because the tests "do not predict the college success of Negro students in the same way they do for whites...
...possible to predict the behavior of the committee," Doty said. "Our recommendations may begin to jell, but it's also very possible that we'll have more excursions...
Handling the questions of a potentially explosive audience with considerable aplomb, Rock translated the tense atmosphere into one of delight with his quips about his personal campaign for universal acceptance of contraceptive procedures. He did not predict when birth control will achieve success, but insisted that he "was born and will always remain an optimist...