Word: predictible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors expect some of the new strain to hit here, Postel said. He said it was impossible to predict how serious an outbreak of the new flu could be at Harvard...
...expressed disappointment that the Senate did not enact the bill, but declined to predict whether the legislation, resubmitted by Gov. Dukakis yesterday morning, could pass during the present session...
...ironies of the Middle East that Menachem Begin, 64, should emerge as Sadat's partner in the new quest for peace. Few would have dared predict this role for Begin last spring, when he became Israel's seventh Premier after his unexpected victory in a national election. His long-established image as an intransigent, superhawkish ultra-Zionist sent waves of concern, and even fear, throughout much of the world. The Arab press, led by Cairo, bitterly denounced him as a dangerous annexationist dreaming of a Greater Israel. Even Jimmy Carter hinted that he was concerned that Begin...
...have been drilled in the desolate desert west of the Nile, and scientists have discovered what they think is a vast underground network of rivers and reservoirs, possibly with enough water to irrigate half a million acres for 700 years. Egyptian officials call this area "the New Valley" and predict that one day it may rival the Nile Valley itself. One hundred thousand people have already been resettled at the Kharga Oasis, at the southern end of this underground water supply...
...members of the TIME Board of Economists put it in more modern language, but that essentially is the forecast they are making for 1978. Despite all the doubts and uncertainties gripping consumers, businessmen and investors, the economists predict a year almost uncannily similar to 1977-a solid though unspectacular growth in production, incomes and profits, another strong rise in the number of people working, but no great reduction in unemployment. Inflation will speed up from its current pace, and that and other factors could set the stage for a downturn in 1979 or 1980. But for the next twelve months...