Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic forecasts of TIME'S ten-member Board of Economists, which met for a day in Manhattan last week. Each member acknowledged that predictions are particularly chancy in these mercurial tunes, and that any seemingly logical forecast could be thrown off by a severe oil crisis or some unforeseen event...
...also said, barring some unforeseen emergency, there will be no increase in the tax rate next year...
Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...three-day official visit to Washington last week. His talks, he said, had produced a chance to establish "real peace" after "the delay of almost a generation." President Carter seemed almost equally optimistic. "I believe we have laid the groundwork now," he said, "and barring some unforeseen difficulties, that will lead to the Geneva Conference in October." He also suggested that such a conference could well lead to eventual compromise. "We've not found any of them to be so adamant in their positions that they are not eager for accommodation...
Auckland's "hospital without walls" is aimed not so much at eliminating hospitalization as at shortening it. Barring unforeseen complications, patients who have undergone gall-bladder operations, for example, are sent home only five days after surgery-compared with a typical ten-day hospital stay in the U.S. For these Auckland patients, however, hospital care continues at home. Nurses pay them regular visits. Family members are trained to meet their special needs. Patients may even borrow hospital equipment. It may be an everyday item like a bedpan or cane-or more complicated gear: a respirator, wheelchair or even...