Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the slow start, industry executives predict that how-to tapes will eventually catch on. "If you look at a bookstore," says Stuart Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette...
Although the major television network employ experts that can predict results without resorting to exit polls, they have defended their use of such data partly because they see the criticism as calling into question their ability to report the news responsibly, she says...
...President also called attention to a just released antiabortion film, The Silent Scream, a startling 28-minute documentary that shows ultrasound images of a twelve-week-old fetus being aborted. Activists predict the film will become a high-technology Uncle Tom's Cabin, arousing the public just as Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement. Declared Reagan: "It's been said that if every member of Congress could see that film, they would move quickly to end the tragedy of abortion." The producer, American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., plans to mail the movie...
...shelter for the Ethiopians, the refugees are finding themselves in a nation that is almost as bereft of aid as the one they left. There are now about 1 million refugees in the country, and their numbers could swell by 600,000 by the end of March, relief officials predict. The worsening plight of the region, says a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, is rapidly becoming "a disaster of major proportions...
There was one question in the beginning, not just puzzling but murky. How could almost every other team have been so wrong about Marino? "You can't predict that anyone is going to be better than anyone has ever been," Shula / says, a stunning sentence. "Before the college draft, everybody in the league calls up everybody else and lies to each other about which players we all like." As for the 1983 class, Miami agreed with the rest that the clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season...