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...thousands of students and parents are asked not only to plan a four-year budget in view of present tuition rates and unforeseeable inflation, but also somehow to predict tuition and room and board increases that University officials say cannot be predicted...
...posterous impression that Nathan's hold on the intellectual booberle is a sensual one. He is supposed to titillate their nerve centers, causing them to jump. More palpaple tosh than this has not been formed a part of the public superstition since the Sermon on the Mount...I confidently predict that in a hundred years he will be remembered solely for his cravats...
...will discuss, and may vote on, the proposal at its meeting Tuesday. Thus far, the Department of Social Relations is the only one to forecast a large increase in the tutorial enrollment if the new plan goes into effect. Both Dean Monro and the members of the History Department predict little or no change in numbers...
Canada, like the U.S., will probably come out of its recession in 1961. Most economists predict a sharp upturn during the latter half of the year, which may soothe the complaints about the U.S. But the tides of nationalism are running strong, and the U.S. can expect to hear more and more about that jaw-cracking word "Canadianization...
...time did we predict that Nixon would "squeeze ahead by two percentage points." Our only prediction was that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate...