Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's decisions pleased people in the new gateway cities. In Atlanta, John Wilson, president of Multimart, an import-export company, declared that the order "puts the small and medium-sized business directly on the line to Europe." Officials in Tampa, New Orleans and Kansas City predict a big increase in tourism by foreigners...
Their efforts should produce, in effect, a stop-action picture of the rapidly changing features of the great land swell. From this picture, they hope to obtain a more definitive view of the strange events around Palmdale. That knowledge, in turn, could eventually enable them to predict if-and possibly when and where -an earthquake will strike. "'Uplifts have been observed before several major earthquakes," notes Seismologist Peter Ward, chief of earthquake mechanics and predictions for the U.S.G.S. Among these quakes is California's last large temblor, the one that shook the San Fernando Valley in 1971, taking...
...service on various business and government committees have given him a wide acquaintanceship in the financial community, and most businessmen and bankers hailed him as one of their own. Miller will have to be a miracle man to keep that universal favor; his cheering section includes both people who predict that he will be less tight on money than Burns, and others who assert with equal confidence that he will prove just as conservative and independent as the chairman he replaces. But for the moment the only discordant notes came from some American grumblers who think that Carter should have...
...laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
Tureen, the attorney for the Gay Head Wamponoags, said he could not predict the effect of the Mashpee decision on the Martha's Vineyard case in which the Wamponoags of Gay Head are claiming 200 acres of land in Gay Head. He added the difference between the two cases is that "the people have a disposition to resolve the matter...