Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...department stores, cash-register tapes for the Christmas season are running scarcely above last year's cheerless levels. The National Retail Merchants Association in November had predicted a rise of 6%. Then its officials took one look at the early returns and revised their forecast to a 3% or 4% gain. Considering inflation, that would amount to as much as a 3% drop in the volume of goods actually sold...
...forecast bet in which the bettor must pick the first three horses in a race...
...members of TIME'S Board of Economists, meeting last week, could see only an unsatisfactory improvement on the price front next year. The board's majority forecast is that unemployment throughout 1971 will average about as high as now, reaching a peak of 6% or more during some months, partly because some 400,000 men will be mustered...
...obviously very difficult to interpret or predict the duration of given political trends and cultural styles. To forecast such developments is similar to dealing with the weather. The best prediction about tomorrow's weather is that it will be the same as today's, but whatever phase we are in, a heat wave, a cold wave, a rainy season, this, too, is sure to end and be followed by a very different type of climate. In politics, conditions which encourage the growth of right-wing or left-wing movements, or of relative stability and little political interest, also last...
...have noted, Watson, in The Adventure of the Empty House, that after my disappearance, I wandered for two years throughout Tibet spending some time with the High Lama. Whilst in that country, I studied the space-time continuum and learned to forecast the future...