Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface, however, officials continue stoically to predict success. O'Brien insists that Harvard is not developing an alternate electricity-generating plan, one that is not based on installing the diesel engines. Rising oil prices, he says, will eventually help oil-efficient MATEP pay for itself faster. Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, says the power plant's rising costs are similar to problems with the Seabrook and Pilgrim II nuclear power plants. "The initial estimate has practically no bearing on the costs because of the environmental questions," he says, but adds that he is optimistic the project will succeed...
...Anderson faces enormous skepticism about the success of his efforts as a presidential candidate. Asked who will actually be the next President, 52% say they expect Carter to be reelected, while only 30% predict a Reagan victory. Only 1% say Anderson will win. Asked for their reaction to the statement "You don't take Anderson's campaign too seriously, and he doesn't stand a chance of being elected," 59% say they agree. At the same time, only 23% of his supporters say they are strongly committed to him. No less than 55% continue to express unhappiness...
While almost all forecasters expect unemployment to grow, they predict only scant relief from high prices. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker sees a "reasonable prospect" that inflation may drop from the current 18% to about 10% before the end of the year. Then he quickly adds, "But that can only be a first step, and in some ways the easiest step, on the road to price stability." The last miles on the road back from inflation are sure to be the toughest ones...
...applied for 2,000 lifeguard, clerk, bathhouse attendant and other such jobs paying $145-$178 a week. Though Atlanta's Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park will provide 3,500 vacation jobs, 70% of the young people in the area are expected to be without work. Chicago experts predict youth unemployment will be higher than at any time since the 1973-75 recession...
...painted Gustave Coquiot, a fashionable Paris art and theater columnist, as a sinister god of urban pleasure, green shadows straining against red lips in a pale mask of a face. Some of the women, their faces blurred by laughter or squinched up into pug masks of greed, seem to predict by ten years the jittery misogyny of German expressionism. Woman in Blue, 1901, with her fierce little Aubrey Beardsley whore's head surmounting the dress of a Velázquez court portrait, is an especially compelling example...