Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking Congress for a one-year extension of the Economic Stabilization Act, which empowered Nixon to declare the freeze; that act expires next April 30. A similar program of firm control was also suggested earlier in the week by Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans, who went on to predict that wage increases will have to be based on a "productivity formula," presumably one that would tie the amount of pay hikes to specific increases in output per man-hour...
...would you describe the University's financial situation at present, and can you predict where cutbacks in spending, if any, will come...
...would you describe the University's financial situation at present, and can you predict where cutbacks in spending, if any, will come...
...what the rate of increase is today. In recent years, Peking has encouraged late marriages, use of birth-control pills, sterilization and abortion. "Projections of future populations are admittedly fictions," says one of the more moderate prophets, Philip Hauser of the University of Chicago. "No one can actually predict future population, and anyone who claims he can is either a fool or a charlatan . . . The fact that man is able to consider [the] implications is one reason why the projected numbers will never be reached...
...Spater and Kirk Kerkorian, the Western board chairman, more on the grounds of convenience than necessity or public interest. Spater contended, however, that the merger would generate $50 million in new annual profits-$22 million in increased revenues and $28 million in cost savings. Yet some CAB economists predict a $20 million burden of cost increases on the merged carrier...