Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 1 million college-bound high school seniors-one-third of the class of '84-took the SAT exam last year. The test is designed to predict how students will perform in college. But each year's results have come to be scrutinized as a signal of how U.S. high schools are going. The plunge from 1963 (when the verbal average was 478, the math average 502) to 1980 and '81 (when they bottomed out at 424 verbal and 466 math) was attributed to social factors, softening ,- academic standards and deteriorating schools...
TIME'S economists predict that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will fall from 7.6% in the second quarter to 4% in the last three months of the year. In 1985 growth is expected to remain at a healthy 3.5% pace. As the economy slows, upward pressure on interest rates should ease considerably. The TIME board forecasts that the prime rate will rise no more than a percentage point, to 14%, between...
...reasons are clear: the number of 18-to 22-year-olds is rapidly declining; some demographers predict a drop of 25% over the next decade. Furthermore, 30 years ago college students were about evenly divided between the public and private sectors. Today 78% of all college students attend public institutions. Even though the total cost of educating a student is roughly the same, public tuition, aided by state and federal taxes, averages $1,126 a year, vs. $5,016 at private institutions. Notes Gary Quehl, president of the Council of Independent Colleges: "American higher education is the only national industry...
...will comment on several issues of varying degrees of difficulty. In doing so, I will not pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech. So much turns on the particular facts of each situation and the situations are so numerous and hard to predict that no one could aspire to present a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Instead, I have tried to choose a sample of questions growing out of the recent incidents at Harvard and other campuses in the hope of clearing up some of the confusion that can arise over the application...
...copies of medicines already being sold. Under the new law, firms need only show that their generic pills are the chemical equivalents of brand-name drugs and deliver the same amount of medicine with the same speed into the bloodstream. Because of this change in the rules, industry experts predict that within a year or two, generic copies of perhaps 150 leading brand-name drugs will appear. They include Valium, a tranquilizer, Diabinese, a pill to control diabetes, and Motrin, a medicine for arthritis. Hemant Shah, a drug-industry specialist with Mabon, Nugent, a Wall Street investment firm, estimates that...