Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ways and Means Committee in the Democrat-controlled House to report out a similar bill. Like several other committee members, Massachusetts Democrat James Shannon sees "a good chance" that this will happen, but quickly adds that there is no guarantee of passage. The catch: no one can predict the outcome of the battle on the House floor...
Scalise yesterday declined to predict whether the case, which charges him with being an accessory "after the fact," would go before a judge, saying his attorney, Albert F. Cullen, had spoken with the district attorney, Cullen could not be reached for comment...
Many long-time residents and political leaders predict that these projects could provide needed jobs, especially blue collar and unskilled employment needed to preserve Cambridge's diversely populated neighborhoods. The losses of blue collar jobs have levelled off, says Lindquist, but few positions have been replaced. Instead, most of the new opportunities have been in almost exclusively white collar fields such as research and industrial consulting. This development has allowed the city's economy to grow at a slow but steady pace during generally rough economic times, but it has also brought a higher-income group to the city, driven...
Business leaders in the community generally predict that the economy will rebound in the near future, allowing businesses to occupy these revitalization sites. "The city is bursting at the seams," says Barbara Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. "You can only hold back development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
...office with computers of other managers, his secretary's word processor and centralized files or duplication services. A businessman could thus call up information for a report, write it out, send it to duplication and then to the company files with the push of a few buttons. Experts predict that the equipment to tie these various machines together will be a $1 billion-a-year business...