Word: predict
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...distance of 450 miles. The once flourishing tradition of personal correspondence has faded in the U.S. For years, Americans have tended to favor the more direct communion of telephone wires. Given the condition of telephone service in some parts of the country, however, it may be safe to predict a small renaissance of letter writing in America, even at the higher prices. Of course, if the postal service does not improve either, there might be an instauration of drums, flashing mirrors in code, smoke signals, yodeling and great howls across the countryside...
...Kenneth Burke proposed a Government lottery of two-year-olds to decide which of them will be unemployed when they grow up. Those who are selected will not have to bother with school at all. Satire aside, a plausible case can be made that the Government should try to predict the future manpower needs for every occupation, and then channel the intake into universities, discipline by discipline. This kind of massive educational planning is done to various extents in Communist countries, as well as in Sweden and France...
...Middle East, political prospects are always hazardous to predict. Nonetheless, cabled TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott from Cairo: "As long as diplomacy remains credible to Egyptians, Sadat's authority will remain unchallenged. His turn to the West, balanced by effusive May Day thanks to the Kremlin and motions toward Arab federation, is highly popular. Educated Egyptians have no taste for falling under the political influence of Moscow. Tentative as they are, the signs of rapprochement with Washington are gratifying." Now it remains to be seen whether Sadat will give Washington comparable cause for gratification by sincerely pressing the pursuit of peace...
...Pattern delighted him. The way he selected a flower as a motif and set his figures against a whole screen of them, the petals interlocking with reverse shapes of gold leaf, was a master stroke of decorative invention that seems both to look back to Moorish tile work and predict art nouveau...
...seven buses, one of which is a women's free bus, left last night from B.U. Neither the PCPJ nor Mayday would predict the course the Washington actions will take...