Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Proposition 2 1/2, city officials predict municipal services would resemble Hamburg's in 1945. City Manager James L. Sullivan estimates that Cambridge's property tax would be cut 60 per cent over six years and the city would lose one third of its annual budget. In the first year, Cambridge would have to lay off a third of its police force and firefighters, more than a third of its teachers and public works employees, close health centers, branch libraries and community schools and stop underwriting public celebrations. When Proposition 2 1/2 is fully implemented, "there will not be sufficient...
Although there is a small drift to ward Carter, the race quite clearly is virtually even. The key variable may be the degree of turnout among the sup porters of the two candidates, which the Yankelovich survey makes no attempt to predict. But the poll did ask whether voters were looking forward to Election Day or whether they wished they did not have to make any choice at all. Thirty percent say they would rather avoid making a selection. That figure, moreover, rises to 55% among the undecided, the very group now tending toward President Carter. What is more, fully...
...concludes: "I'm for Reagan because he's not Carter. With Carter's record, it's amazing he's even a viable candidate. The only reason people will vote for Carter is that they know what they're in for and they can predict what he can and can't do." Even with his mind made up for Reagan, Andy Sefcik isn't happy. Says he: "I worry that Reagan puts his mouth in gear before his brain is running. And that bothers me in a delicate foreign situation." What Andy would...
Going into the race, the favorites are Navy and Princeton, with last year's winners, the Columbia Lions, following close behind. But it's impossible to predict which team will pull the trick to get the treat...
...draft of the report--which has not been adopted as University policy or endorsed by Harvard officials, but has been distributed to admissions officers for comment. The report largely deals with test scores. It makes the unproven and often-assailed assumption that standardized test scores are valid predicters of students' performance in college, and it goes on to evaluate how accurately the tests predict performance for different groups...