Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...voice on fashion decisions relating to female leg exposure." Says Council Chairman Thomas Redington: "Designers are paying too little attention to legmen. We're going to change all that, even if it takes some high-pressure lobbying." Already, letters have gone out to all members of Congress; Legmen predict large-scale support...
Such is the sophistication of modern man that no scientists were in danger last week of losing their heads, as had the ancient Chinese court astronomers Hsi and Ho for failing to predict the imminence of a solar eclipse. No one in the U.S. shot arrows into the sky, as Peruvian Indians often did to frighten away the beast devouring the sun. No one even thought, as had the Tahitians, that the sudden darkness meant that the sun and the moon were engaged in celestial copulation. Nor in a smog-ridden society did the midday blackness even seem all that...
Rewriting the Books. Members of the Board of Economists predict that the Federal Reserve will soon begin expanding the money supply again, but only at about a 2% annual rate. Unanimously, they judge that move to be inadequate as well as overdue. David Grove argues that the Reserve Board should aim for a money-supply increase averaging 3% to 4% at an annual rate over the next six months. Other members disagree only over whether the Reserve Board should reach that target gradually, as Heller and Pechman prefer, or immediately, to make up for having been too stringent too long...
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