Word: prediction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty girls from Moors Hall took the Tech Human Relations Department Poll last night and 40 girls from Briggs and Barnard Halls took it last Thursday. The poll is designed to test the abilities of college girls to predict the reactions of other college girls...
...this area is going to stick its neck out and build a television station all by itself. But almost all have approved of the Council's actions so far, and have indicated they'll donate in the future. Though its officials aren't talking, it seems safe to predict that the actual station on Massachusetts' Channel 2 will be run by the Lowell group...
...middle-income groups have begun a long-delayed counterattack. So far, they have convinced seven states to rescind their resolutions. Massachusetts should become the eighth. The bill to repeal the resolution, now before the Constitutional Law Committee, should be reported favorably and passed. Since no one can accurately predict future expenses, the Government should not limit its future budgets according to pre-War II needs...
Under the Moran plan, an ironclad schedule of graft rates was instituted-$10 to $35, depending on the size of an installation. Most of the city's 1,000-odd contractors were thus able to predict the bribe necessary to get a burner or tank certified for operation, and the more venal among them were able to pass the cost along to the customer in their early estimates...
...country's young men. Selective Service would remain to plague them with rapidly shifting quotas and deferment standards, and local draft boards would still have the power to compound the confusion. Whether they were reservists or not, students and other potentially deferable young men would still be unable to predict their status from year to year. And this uncertainty would continue to make it impossible for them to plan their careers intelligently...