Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign for the New Hampshire primary moved into its final three weeks, high-flying Republican candidate George Bush swept through Boston yesterday but refused to predict victory in the February 26 contest...
...were to tumble into complete chaos. In the Administration's view, however, it was considered more likely that the Soviets would pour increasing numbers of troops into Afghanistan in order to quell the rebellion as quickly as possible and set Karmal firmly in the saddle. Then, U.S. officials predict, the Kremlin would probably want to pull out as many of the troops as possible-though some tens of thousands would have to remain-and go on a propaganda offensive trumpeting the "stability" of Afghanistan. "They don't want to stay in there," one policy expert said...
...ones from the forecasters. Professional analysts, enamored of their computers and software and printouts, tend to mutter and mumble about technical imperfections in their still young methodology. Many admit that they erred by simply extrapolating from the trends that seemed evident as the '60s decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen...
...stressed that the White House does not "want to make sweeping statements about the ultimate nature of the relationship when we are clearly in midstride of a grave international crisis." It would make sense, for instance, to wait and see what happens in Afghanistan. Western experts in Moscow predict that the adventure will cost the U.S.S.R. more dearly than it had expected, in men, in material and most of all in world esteem...
...will see in the 80s that there is no solution within the present institutional order. I predict wage and price controls on a permanent basis in the 80s. The conservatives who argue you can't have price controls without dislocations are right. We'll have controls, and that's where planning comes in. Planning without controls. Because of problems generated by capitalism, these controls will necessitate more controls and more planning...