Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot prove that arts on cable is a viable business. The channel charges a small fee to cable systems that carry it but hopes to earn most of its revenue from advertising. Though progress has been slow, 24 national advertisers have signed up thus far, and network executives predict that the channel will be in the black by 1986. "We have minded our knitting," says Davatzes. "We finished our first year ahead of our business plan." For the last best hope of culture on cable, that is no mean feat...
...uncommonly volatile one. The now reversed 1976 decision itself reversed a 1968 decision, a constitutional zigzag that scholars believe has never before occurred. And another zag may not be far off. Given the probability that President Reagan will make at least one new court appointment, many observers predict that the states' righters may soon regain control. "The majority thinking in this case is doomed," says Velvel. Indeed, in a surprisingly candid judicial version of "the South will rise again," Justice William Rehnquist, author of the 1976 decision, last week wrote tersely, "I do not think it incumbent on those...
...poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this day he is wary of investing in the market. Says he: "I can't stand it when people try to predict what the market is going to do. It simply can't be done...
...stylish Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. He makes no claims to being a great long-range corporate planner, even to the point of refusing to keep an appointment calendar. Jacobs is a person of instinct and action. Says he: "You can't predict what I'm going to do next because there is no track, no character to it. Our big asset is our flexibility, being able to move on a moment's notice...
...Harvard lawyer Vance said the Brookline appeal confuses "real" and "statistical" deaths. The study, Vance said, did not predict that four people would die, but said that because of scientific uncertainty, the four deaths are "the upper level that the scientific evidence can not rule...