Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penthouse wrote: "It's always difficult to predict who'll finish last in the Ivy League because, let's face it, folks, the Ivy League is for amateurs...
...economy were based on the free market at work, then economists could predict the future with a high degree of accuracy. But with the Federal Government's increasing influence in the private sector, the economist finds himself in the role of the middle linebacker trying to guess which play the quarterback (Paul Volcker) is going to run next. Under these conditions, 50% accuracy...
...debate of an emotional intensity that neither side had anticipated, and it worried both candidates, since neither could predict its ultimate political impact. Having boiled up during and immediately after the Republican Convention, particularly in remarks in which Reagan asserted that religion and politics are "necessarily related" and characterized opponents of his school-prayer amendment as "intolerant of religion," the issue did not subside last week. Indeed, it intensified and widened, involving politicians and pundits across the nation, including a full range of religious spokesmen. But most of all, it provided a theme that for once found Reagan backpedaling...
Some U.S. officials predict that Mulroney will eventually have to take a more critical stance toward the U.S., if only for domestic reasons. Canadians have a historical ambivalence toward the colossus to the south, proud of their status as one of the world's leading industrialized nations but keenly aware their neighbor is about ten times Canada's size in production and population. "Mulroney will have to give the Americans the back of his hand every so often," says a Capitol Hill expert. The Reagan Administration expects that relations will remain warm because of Mulroney...
...deductions, as well as the privilege of credit-card payment. Lucrative though its business was, the firm closed up shop last week with the announcement that it had been an FBI sting. "We got everything we hoped for, and more," said Chicago FBI Special Agent Bob Long. Officials predict that the sting, dubbed Operation Safe Bet, could produce indictments of as many as 75 people, including nightclub owners, mid-level mobsters and police, once a grand sifts through hundreds of hours of taped conversations recorded...