Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainstays of the team," says Flaman. "He does a very good job both offensively and defensively." He goes on to predict that Bucyk will win the Jones award again for the 1983-84 campaign...
...practical importance than the Geneva talks. The main reason for this is that troops and tanks are far larger drains on the superpower economies than nuclear weapons, and are not nearly as desirable from a technology or prestige point of view. By limiting the ability of the East to predict conventional victory, and the West to expect defeat, a success here would take away any incentive for Soviet attack, or for Western use of nukes in "self-defense" against an attack, Vienna, not Geneva, may prove the best defense of Lawrence, Kansas...
...estimated 15,000 electronic work stations are now in operation in the U.S. Jack Nilles, a director at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research, forecasts that in the early 1990s 12 million computers will be sold annually. Other experts predict that within 15 years as many as 10 million people will be working from home...
While observers are reluctant to predict how long this period of quiet, concerned student involvement will last, they say the mood and activity of the campus is beginning to resemble Harvard in the late '50s and early...
...million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument manufacturer. Noyce's 8% stake in Diasonics is worth $30 million. He helped finance Monoclonal Antibodies, which sells pregnancy-testing kits and hopes to market a product that will predict the timing of ovulation. Noyce has also suffered a few setbacks. Through a venture-capital fund, he invested in Osborne Computer, the maker of portable models, which filed for bankruptcy four months...