Word: predictable
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...Others predict that the academic recession will foster intellectual dullness on many campuses. As they see it, conservative administrators are likely to cow unorthodox graduate students and young teachers who lack tenure. Those who speak out may be forced out. Still, job insecurity may also curb the intellectual arrogance that afflicts some graduate students. "I've rarely seen such deference from Ph.D. candidates," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. "They're becoming obsequious again." For his part, M.I.T. Physicist Brian Schwartz suggests that all graduate school catalogues should bear a new legend: "Warning: graduate education may be hazardous...
...been dropping steadily since President Nixon's first full month in office. It went down from 78.1 in this year's first quarter to 75.4 in the second. Because the findings have always led the changes in the economy by at least one quarter, the survey takers predict that the present slowdown will extend through the third quarter and probably until year's end. If so. the recession will have lasted twelve months, the longest stretch since...
...that prices have risen 11% in the past twelve months. Snack sales are also on the rise. Smoke-Craft, a producer of low-cost pepperoni, beef jerky and other snacks, showed a sales growth of 85% in the last report. Lower-priced alcoholic drinks are moving nicely. U.S. brewers predict a record 120.6 million barrels of beer will be downed this year. Though oenologists may wince, wine merchants are doing well with 99? "California Liebfraumilch...
Qualifications are used most often to predict the probable outcome of the race. A general rule is that the winner will come from the first two rows in qualifying. The reasoning is that unless a crew has good enough control to qualify the car with a fast time on the first weekend of trials, they won't be able to field a car that is capable of lasting 500 miles at racing speeds. Fast qualifiers on the second weekend usually don't finish, even if they lead the race at some point. The past decade at Indy bears this...
Since the military presently includes almost 3.5 million men, it is hard to understand how the commission could predict an end to the draft by 1971. especially with pay increases calculated to maintain a force of only 2.5 million. Even earlier this year. when the commission's report was completed, significant reductions in the size of the military seemed unlikely in the near future...