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Both Lawton and Robert E. Kaufman, associate dean of the Faculty for finances, said last week they cannot predict savings this year because they will depend on the weather...
Finally, there's that aspect that no one can predict in a big game, the one under the heading titled "breaks." If things hold up as they have in the past, it won't be Harvard making the key errors...
...makes no other claims for their tests than that they predict how well an applicant will perform at the institution to which he is applying. And according to an article by Steve Brill in the October, 1974 issue of New York Magazine, entitled The Secrecy Behind The College Boards, "ETS admits that aptitude and achievement cannot be measured in terms nearly as specific as the score that is recorded." An SAT score of 600, says Brill, means only that there is a two-in-three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there...
...very unsure," torn by "inner conflicts" and who thus respond to a Ford gaffe one day, a Carter gaffe the next. "People are uneasy about Carter and find Ford an acceptable alternative," says Yankelovich. He emphasizes, as do Gallup and Harris, that polls are not supposed to predict future results. "The figures can only tell you how the voters feel at a given moment in time," he says, and the voters may not feel that way on Election...
...draftsmanship, traced with wire in air: portraits of Jimmy Durante and the shimmying Josephine Baker, or a farouche she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus through six wooden drawer pulls that serve as her teats. Often there is a prophetic note. Calder's motorized sculptures of the '30s predict the kinetic art of the '60s and are fulfilled in such giant works as Universe (1974), in Chicago's Sears Tower...