Word: unforeseen
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...talked to, including the ones here and some from Western Europe, have indicated to me that they did not foresee the precipitous drop, particularly in the automotive field. Of course, that has been told to me very directly by the automotive manufacturers. There was a rapidly developing and certainly unforeseen massive loss of public confidence. When you combined all of those, the plan we had wasn't adequate and it wasn't properly balanced...
...have had to restudy conditions as we see them now and as we foresee them, and the new plan is aimed at the current circumstances rather than what the circumstances were in August and September. It is just an updating for the current conditions, conditions which were unforeseen and are far, far more serious...
...week, Speer told Rees of his plan for an inch-back: a series of reductions that would have the effect of cutting the size of the original increase from 4.7% overall back to 4%, plus a promise to hold the price line for at least six months, barring "major unforeseen economic events...
...dozen committee members are likely to vote against him when hearings conclude in early December. Last week the Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously to confirm him, and an Associated Press poll indicated that only five Senators plan to vote against him on the floor, with 16 undecided. Barring the unforeseen, Rocky should receive the nicest Christmas present of his life...
...mystery as to why the U.S. consumer is giving Detroit such a rough time. As a Detroit industry analyst puts it: "The price of a car sounds just too damn high." Coming off three record-sales years, some letup was expected. But the gravity of the current situation was unforeseen. With the late-summer announcement that 1975-model prices would jump an unprecedented average of $400 per car, buyers flocked to showrooms to make down payments for late 1974s at what seemed to be bargain prices...