Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall...
...balance changes in the dark of some night in these next months, then every goof he has ever made, every policy that has failed, every miniscandal he has brushed against and even his beguiling smile will become objects of loathing. It could happen. It is almost impossible to predict when the public will decide that a President is more loser than winner. But the people let the White House know in a hurry when they make up their minds. It was some time in 1966 that Lyndon Johnson got the word that the Viet Nam War outweighed his Great Society...
Fluosol, the product of a Japanese pharmaceutical Company. Green Cross is a blood subsitute. Forecasters predict that Fluosol, will capture $1.2 billion of the worker for the blood I've usually artificial blood might be used in up to 10 percent of the world's blood transfusions. While the American drug industry has began the development of its own blood substitute it will be years before a product emerges...
...Republicans are also counting on Jackson to push other threatened whites into the G.O.P. column. Conservative Jesse Helms even invokes Jackson's name in fund-raising solicitations (in one letter, 24 times). Republican strategists predict that Jackson will register more whites for the Republicans than blacks for the Democrats. Each side aims to sign up about 2 million new voters, but that represents far more of a challenge for blacks, since there are 49 million unregistered whites compared with 7 million unenrolled blacks. Says Lamarr Mooneyham, president of the North Carolina Moral Majority: "If I could afford...
...Aubuisson would undoubtedly lead Congress to cut off U.S. military support for El Salvador, but his chances seemed to be diminishing. When Francisco José Guerrero, who won 19.3% in the March 25 election, refused to throw his support to D'Aubuisson, Christian Democratic pollsters began to predict that Duarte could win as much as 60% of the runoff vote. Duarte appeared to gain a tactical advantage last week when El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Magaña, vetoed an ARENA-sponsored proposal for changing the May 6 voting procedure. The change would have scrapped the country...