Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear them up." But his ability to excite crowds and raise money causes many political experts to believe that if he can surmount those "myths," the tall Texan is the most formidable Republican challenger for the presidency. Richard Nixon himself phones occasionally to offer encouragement and to predict the polls will change...
...Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, 35, both professors at M.I.T. Published in 1977, it has become the largest selling advanced economics text. The authors' central thesis reflects the new economists' nagging uncertainty about the omnipotence of their own profession. They contend that the complex computer models used to predict the effects of specific economic policies or actions simply do not-and cannot-reflect the way the real world behaves. "What will be the magnitude of reaction to a broad tax cut?" asks Dornbusch. "Will people spend the money at once? Will they wait?" His conclusion...
...exactly. Otherwise I'd be a very stupid man. Just remember that any complication for the Palestinian cause means a complication for the Middle East crisis, and also complications that the American computer itself might be unable to predict, including Soviet complications. Is all that risk in your interest just to keep on spoiling your naughty baby Israel...
...difference between current assets and current liabilities, which is one measure of its ability to pay its bills from its own resources-has dropped from an acceptable $1.1 billion early this year to a weak $800 million in June. The figure now is still lower, and stock analysts predict that it could shortly fall below $600 million. That would violate the fine print of the company's 1977 revolving credit agreement with some 180 banks and could place it in technical default on $567 million in debt...
...order to analyze the environmental impact of the M-X missile system, she directed development of socio-economic models to predict what effect missile bases would have on nearby towns and cities...