Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, who called for the GAO investigation, Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci argued that the Pentagon's decision to buy the C-5B "was based on a careful analysis of our airlift needs." Indeed, experts predict that the joint congressional committee responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp...
...public have regularly reviled for making "obscene" profits. Between 1978 and 1980, Exxon more than doubled its annual earnings, to $5.7 billion. This incredible surge, caused by an unprecedented jump in oil prices, could not continue for long. Profits dipped slightly in 1981, and oil industry analysts predict that the company's income will fall this year to as low as $4 billion. Though that sum still looks enormous, it will not be enough to meet Exxon's burgeoning cash needs. The company had hoped to boost its budget for exploration and other capital investment this year...
...poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
...appearance of real writing in the world is a miracle. Sociology cannot predict it. But certain patterns appear. Perhaps great writers arrive only at certain stages of a civilization. Great writing may be conjured by great injustice, for example, and a peculiar receptivity in the audience, not gullibility exactly but a kind of craving, a deep need for moral definition. One detects tremors of both the talent and the need in Latin America. That part of the world is breeding up unexpected, wonderful writers the way Russia did in the 19th century Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for example...
...what they see as Washington's lack of concern about the consequences of an Iranian invasion of Iraq. Indeed, some Arab analysts believe that Saddam Hussein's forthcoming battle could prove to be the most crucial military encounter in the Middle East in recent times. They predict that a Khomeini sweep into Iraq, conducted with the backing of the Soviet Union, would establish a pro-Iranian regime in Iraq that would then make its peace with Syria...