Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called Sesame 79. Part 1 examined regional atmospheric conditions. Part 2 is aimed at collecting data from specific storms. Nobody in the Great Plains is pleased to learn that a tornado is on the way. But these scientists, engaged in a $3.5 million project to help measure and ultimately predict tornadoes and severe storms, are excusably excited...
...graduate student in East Asian studies. But Smolin feels the administration is aware of the problem. He says his discussions with Keenan reveal that Keenan is "genuinely concerned with the problem." The decreased size of the school may lead to more Faculty-student contact, but no one can yet predict if the pressure of fewer students will allow Faculty members to feel more free to isolate themselves in their research...
Just this week, the House Rules committee granted H.R. 13778 passage to the House floor, where many predict easy passage. "If it comes up on the floor tomorrow, it would pass," Joel Packer, legislative director of the United States Student Association, said last week. With the approval of both houses--some predict the conference committee's work may take less than a day--the government will have adopted Cabinet department number...
...increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove a demonstrable need for a new department. Destruction of HEW, they predict, would fracture a delicate but workable coalition of federal bureaucrats responsible for education...
Even if the department is created, however, opponents believe it will be dominated by public, elementary and secondary education interests. Many, including the outspoken Sen. Daniel P. Monyihan (D-N.Y.) predict higher education--slated to receive one of every three dollars in the new department's budget--will take a beating under the new system. The post-secondary sector currently accounts for 40 to 50 per cent of federal funds allocated for education, but the inclusion of overseas dependent schools for 135,000 Americans in the Department promises to severely drain available resources...