Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...time did we predict that Nixon would "squeeze ahead by two percentage points." Our only prediction was that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate...
Crimson depth in the one and two mile relays may have the edge in these events. On the other hand, experts predict a Terrier victory in the two mile run, though Mullin could make it a very close race...
Some officers contend that the result of the presidential order will be a net loss, both in gold and in national security. They warn of a flight from the service by married men unwilling to be parted from their families, and predict that the first to go will be the expert technicians already tempted by high salaries and plentiful Levittowns back in the States. The good old days, when Wiesbaden village so overflowed with togetherness that 40% of its servicemen voluntarily extended the normal three-year tour of duty to four, seem coming to an end. But some of Wiesbaden...
...problem is for Radcliffe to allow students to pay for lunches individually, using meal tickets and indicating in advance which days they intend to eat lunch in the dormitory. The dining halls could plan meals accordingly, thus wasting considerably less food than they do at present, when nobody can predict how many will eat there. In addition, when the number of students eating lunch in the dorms fluctuates greatly, the college could provide box lunches or Refectory slips at the standard price under a less stringent set of restrictions, thereby encouraging students to continue paying Radcliffe rather than a commercial...
Generally speaking, Aron said, "Neither the right wing nor the army will revolt against de Gaulle unless there is occasion for it." Aron preferred not to predict what might happen under such circumstances, except to say that "If de Gaulle is beaten, we will enter into a revolutionary situation, and a very dangerous...