Word: predictioneer
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That gloomy prediction has proved premature. The R.S.C. returned Nickleby to its repertory last Christmas, albeit with an almost entirely new cast. Now the revival is playing in Los Angeles as the kickoff of a U.S. tour slated to include Washington, Philadelphia and Boston after a return to Broadway next...
Indeed, Dole predicted that tax reform was "unstoppable" and that Congress would have a tax-overhaul bill "on the President's desk by Labor Day." The Senate leaders are "trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy," noted Congressional Expert Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. Even so, most Hill...
According to a source familiar with the center, Yalman's prediction proved true several weeks ago when Egyptian security officers detained and questioned an Egyptologist with ties to the University. Although the Egyptologist, Bassim Zaki, could not be reached for comment, the source says his interrogation focused on Safran's...
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop recently said he would not be surprised if those who smoke in 1995 are required to light up out of doors. Officials of the General Services Administration, the Federal Government's housekeeping arm, evidently decided to do their part in making that prediction come...
As long ago as 1915, Albert Einstein predicted that as a consequence of his general theory of relativity, light rays would be bent if they passed through the intense gravitational field of a massive object. That prediction was confirmed by British Astronomer Arthur Eddington in 1919, when he traveled to...