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However, Kennedy campaigners predict the close second-place finish in Maine will bolster the senator's chances against Carter in New Hampshire, the nation's first primary...
...effects of the boycott upon Soviet behavior are not easy to predict. "The Soviets are a people who have a great desire to be proud of their government," says Princeton University Political Scientist Robert C. Tucker. "If the government is seen to be in disgrace because of the barefaced invasion of a small neighboring country, then they will be in some serious way discomfited by it." Some effects may be undesirable. The boycott may help create even more of a cold war climate in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet leaders may exploit the atmosphere, as they have in the past, conjuring...
...twelve-year veteran of diving, Schramm can predict what a dive will be like the second he leaves the board. He enjoys the quick feedback of the sport because he can repeat the dive immediately if he's displeased...
...campaign for the New Hampshire primary moved into its final three weeks, high-flying Republican candidate George Bush swept through Boston yesterday but refused to predict victory in the February 26 contest...
...ones from the forecasters. Professional analysts, enamored of their computers and software and printouts, tend to mutter and mumble about technical imperfections in their still young methodology. Many admit that they erred by simply extrapolating from the trends that seemed evident as the '60s decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen...