Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predict which song from Fear of Music, the last Talking Heads album, best indicated where the group was going, I would have suggested "Life During Wartime," a periodic dance tune that is easily the biggest hit they've had (getting more play than "Psycho Killer" from the Talking Heads: '77 album). An entire album like that probably would have broken them into the big time. But art-rock groups do not always seek mainstream acceptance. The Talking Heads have instead followed the path started by "I Zimbra," a seemingly one-shot affair that got heavy play on disco stations because...
Andrew Brown, Princeton's dean of student affairs declined yesterday to predict the outcome of faculty and administration review of the proposal, but said the faculty "may be hesitant to accept this method of funding...
...have seen that America and Western Europe can no longer gather in all the world's wealth, leaving whole continents ravaged. Abdnor, Dan Quayle, Steve Symms--these men subscribe to the Reagan "placed here between two great oceans" theory of the American mission. To the scientists who predict that pollution, and overproduction, and depletion spell disaster, the Republicans shout Pollution is From Trees. There are New Sources. We Can Get America Moving Again. Just step on the clutch and put it in reverse...
...council, which heard experts predict that the development could eventually generate millions in tax dollars from a currently underdeveloped area, wasted no time in approving the plans...
...poor quarterly reports show that some U.S. corporations have yet to escape from the mire of recession, despite signals that the slump is over. The Government reported last week that its index of leading economic indicators, which seeks to predict future business trends, jumped 2.4% in September, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. Yet interest rates continue to rise like an incoming tide. Major banks last week hiked the rate they charge their best corporate customers another half point to 14.5%. That could easily snuff out any strong economic recovery, and it may mean that business reports for the fourth quarter...