Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waiting Game. No one is ready to predict what the insurgents-inside and outside Phnom-Penh-will do next. The initiative is all theirs, military observers agree, and they have a range of options: they could launch a frontal attack on the capital, or cause a slow strangulation by cutting off its supplies, or even stage a Tet-like uprising from within. Although Lon Nol has 75,000 troops in and around Phnom-Penh (with insurgent forces estimated at 20,000), fewer than 12,000 are regarded as battle effective. Thousands of others perform headquarters tasks or serve as bodyguards...
...seven Democratic and two Republican candidates have been campaigning hard during the past month. But voter interest in the election has been low, and experts predict a turnout of under 20 per cent...
...lifted by record exports of farm products and more recently by sales of nonagricultural goods. Though the second quarter surplus was modest, the trade improvement should enhance chances for reform of the world money system at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Nairobi in September. U.S. officials predict further gains in the trade balance later this year as devaluation of the dollar makes U.S. exports more competitive in the world. The second quarter U.S. trade figures for the last three years...
...report charges that the oil companies should have been able to predict increased demand and take steps to meet it. Instead, they "have attempted to increase profits by restricting output." Noting the number of major refinery expansions that have just been announced, the report brushes aside industry assertions that environmentalist complaints stalled refinery building. Said the FTC staff: "Now that governmental intervention has become a strong threat, these companies have suddenly overcome their environmental problems...
...pudding is being tested by the Freshman Union for General Mills, Inc., the cereal firm which supplied the samples. Through this poll, General Mills hopes to predict public response to its product if and when it becomes available on the open market...