Word: predictioneer
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By the time cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager...
If it adopts the new option, Harvard should make clear that it will remain just that--an option. And in spite of the prediction figures, it should restrain its public enthusiasm for the Achievement Tests and be extra careful to look at the scores in light of students' high school...
There's no prediction of an immediate coup out of Briggs Cage, however, only guarded optimism. "I think there's a lot of talk right now," McLaughlin says. "But I think it has to be backed up with some actions. Let's see Penn and Princeton finish third or fourth...
Using computer linkups with more than 1,000 statisticians in 20 cities, the center also is exploring possible risk factors in arteriosclerosis among Soviet citizens. Chazov's prediction about the outcome of the work by Soviet scientists and researchers worldwide: "We will solve the problem of arteriosclerosis in the...
Their interest is political combat, and their purpose is not description but prediction and, ultimately, prescription. To say that situation A is really a reprise of B is to say that A will end up like B-unless one follows certain advice. The advice is invariably and immediately forthcoming.