Word: forecaster
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...betting windows. Already ahead of them in line were tough characters who were taking their own sweet time placing two-shilling (280) bets, counting out the sums in small coins and brushing off protests with a snarl. The insiders were placing all their money on "forecast combinations" on the three dogs most likely to lose, thereby running up the odds on the three favorites. A forecast bet is similar to a quinel-la in the U.S., that is, picking the first two finishers in order. They did their job so well that only a single ticket was sold...
...more they improve their techniques, the more they refine their measurements, the more problems astronomers seem to discover. But the very recognition of those problems may point the way toward prediction of the weather of the universe, toward the type of forecast that will be essential for far-voyaging astronauts...
...Bury St. Edmunds, in the farm country of East Anglia, Conservative Eldon Griffiths, 38, beat out Labor's Noel Insley, another teacher, even though Insley's own determinedly optimistic poll forecast a clear-cut Labor victory. A correspondent for TIME and Newsweek before he became a speechwriter for the Conservatives, Griffiths was accused by Labor of feeding the Prime Minister uncharacteristic lines full of unfashionable alliterations: on one occasion, Home had referred to Harold Wilson as "this slick salesman of synthetic science." Griffiths, however, proved himself a slick and energetic salesman of Conservatism. Drawing on his experience...
...Laborites managed to narrow the Conservative 1959 margins of victory: from 7,962 to 2,459 in Bury St. Edmunds, from 3,838 to 1,670 in Devizes, and from 12,792 to 6,064 in Winchester. London's bookmakers made only a minor change in their forecast for the general election in October; they dropped the odds a point, still favoring Labor, 3-1. But the Tories felt more hopeful than they had in months. A sizable number of voters had, after all, accepted the Tory line, which essentially came down to this: things are good enough right...
Every chief executive takes pleasure in delivering good news to his stockholders-and the opportunity has rarely been better. Last week, in the largest concentration of the year, more than 100 U.S. companies held their annual meetings. The reports were overwhelmingly bullish, and many corporate chiefs echoed the forecast of Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont Copeland: "Our sales for 1964 will reach a record...