Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year, Prime Minister Wilson this week is expected to call new parliamentary elections for early October to try to win a majority government. Recent polls indicate that no party will gain a majority, but Wilson's advisers see no advantage in delaying the balloting, especially since experts predict that Britain's economic situation will only get worse in the near future. Yet if another minority government is elected, it may not be able to impose the necessary stringent economic measures; hostility between Britain's classes could grow and create a political crisis. Trade Union Leader Hugh...
...reasons like these, a nation's birth rate is difficult to predict. The history of demographic predictions, in fact, strongly counsels humility in forecasting birth rates. During the Depression, with its dampening effect on the national psyche as well as on the economy, estimates of future birth rates proved to be much too low. Later, stunned by the postwar baby boom, demographers and sociologists of the '60s warned about cities that would be literally crawling with people. Now that specter has been replaced by the beatific vision of Z.P.G. The fact is that many births that should...
...increases and decry those that seem excessive. It has no subpoena, suspension or rollback powers, but these could be added if the council proves ineffective. A surprising number of economists, ranging ideologically from Joseph Pechman, a former adviser to George McGovern, to Milton Friedman, onetime adviser to Barry Goldwater, predict that Ford eventually will feel compelled to revive full wage-price controls, though the President declared at his press conference that "wage-price controls are out, period...
Though that number seems high-only a prototype of the Anglo-French Concorde and two Soviet TU-144s are now flying-most aviation experts predict that at least 500 SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...
Specifics of what's likely to happen this year are naturally hard to predict. One possible storm center might be the Godkin lectures on foreign policy in the fall--former Pentagon director Elliot Richardson '41 is the lecturer, and he ran into some heckling at Class Day last year. Another likely possibility is another union battle--some of Harvard's secretaries have been talking about organizing, and there are a lot more of them than there were printers. In general, my guess is that Provisionals are more in touch with other students than they've been for some time, partly...