Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig, who would talk to Habib, who would talk to the Lebanese, who, finally, would talk to the P.L.O. The responses of the P.L.O. would work their way back to Begin and Haig through the same elaborate route. Said one top U.S. official: "It is just too early to predict the outcome?or even to judge which way things are going." The U.S. feared there was little time to get the P.L.O. to surrender its arms before the Israelis, contrary to pledges they had made from the start, took matters into their own hands and attacked Beirut. Said another Washington...
Nixon knew enough about the rhythms of American opinion to predict, accurately, that his status would change. Indeed, his reputation has gained by a process of historical comparison and the sheer passage of time. Since he boarded his helicopter on the White House Lawn for the last time in August 1974, the impression of Watergate on the public mind has been blurred in several ways...
Backers of the river reversals are convinced that the great investment-at least $40 billion in the early stages alone-would pay off handsomely. They predict grain production would be boosted by as much as 30 million to 60 million metric tons a year-equivalent to 18% to 35% of the U.S.S.R.'s current crop. They also point out that the northern waters would revitalize two major inland seas, the Caspian and the Aral, whose levels have been dropping rapidly because of irrigation needs...
William R. Fitzsimmons '67, acting director of admissions here, is emphatic about the scores' role as only one indicator among many--all of which cast light on the type of background that may have affected the scores. But few admissions officers think the tests' imperfections impairs their ability to predict performance. Ignoring the tests because they suggest that poorer students have less education smacks of "killing the bearer of bad news," says Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok and a testing expert, contending that admissions committees must consider a student's preparedness. Yale's David concedes both...
Harvard has no civil defense plan of its own. In the event of a nuclear war, the survival of the University's population would depend on a newly revamped scheme that state civil defense officials predict would reduce the civilian death toll in Massachusetts by 40 percent. But many citizens, city officials and area congressmen have opposed proposed increases in civil defense spending, calling the mass run-and-hide scenario implausible and wasteful. The debate has raised the crucial question of whether Americans should devote large amounts of money and intellectual energy to trying to survive a nuclear attack...