Word: predictioneer
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Of this new-old cooking, the late James Beard, an early champion of American food, said, "It doesn't matter if it's regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that...
Only naive Americans would invest so much money in a country where anti-Americanism is spreading. President François Mitterrand openly attacks the U.S., and Premier Laurent Fabius blames America for every French ill. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has made a mistake in choosing the Marne-la-Vallée for...
The week's diplomatic roundelay was a heartening shift in the pattern of Middle East maneuvering, but will the renewed to-ing and fro-ing about peace yield concrete results? Not many diplomats were willing to venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the...
On that subject, Shultz ventured a prediction of sorts: If Gorbachev takes the same combative line in Geneva that he did in Moscow, the summit could become "something of a spectator sport. The President is an old hand at this." Said the Secretary, with a weary grin: "I'm looking...
Yet the researchers stress the still primitive nature of their craft. In the case of Mount St. Helens, one of the most heavily instrumented volcanoes ever, experts predicted many aspects of the 1980 eruption, yet they were caught off guard by both its fury and the extent of the mudflows...