Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guatemalan junta has announced plans to dismantle the death squads and bring to trial former government officials. But policy to shore up Guatemala's troubled economy has been made public. New elections, promised by Rios Montt, have yet to be set Clearly it is too early to predict in which direction Rios Montt will go. It should be at least as clear to Washington that to change policy so dramatically to ward a regime which is only a month old is folly...
...enough that he as an educator, gives evidence of thinking in statistical rather than individual terms, he omits any mention of the 25 percent of these low achievers who do finish college, presumably by overcoming severe obstacles. ("It is impossible, of course," he says in passing, "to predict precisely which students will fall by the wayside.") It is worse that, in drawing absolute lines for the privilege of moving up the socioeconomic ladder, he relies so trustingly on yardsticks that may favor the advantaged...
...that happens, however, and Congress goes its own unfathomable way, no one can predict what the outcome will be. Quite possibly, the resulting budget would be unacceptable to Reagan, thereby producing a presidential veto. That could lead to a new period of confusion and stalemate, which, at the very least, would halt all progress toward economic recovery...
Meyer also announced yesterday he will sequester the jury in a nearby Ramada Inn for the entire trial, which attorney predict could last several weeks. In an address to the jury yesterday, Meyer said that sequestering a jury during a trial, white unusual, is necessary in this case because of its extensive pre-trial publicity...
Many economists expect the U.S. economy to begin growing, albeit slowly, later this spring or summer. Business in Europe and Asia will probably pick up shortly thereafter. Industry experts predict that world petroleum stockpiles, which now bulge with 105 days of supply, will dwindle to a more normal 90 days by year's end, once demand for crude increases. If so, OPEC may again find itself dealing in oil markets from a position of strength. Today's declining prices for gasoline and heating oil would then become just a fond, fading memory...