Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Seldom Seldom do do Utopias Utopias pass pass from from dream dream to to reality, reality, but but it is often an illuminating exercise to predict what could happen if they did. The following very personal and partisan speculations on how the world might be different if Women's Lib had its way were written for TIME by Gloria Steinem, a contributing editor of New York magazine, whose journalistic curiosity ranges from show business to Democratic politics. Miss Steinem admits to being not only a critical observer but a concerned advocate of the feminist revolt...
...blight will affect the retail price of corn-fed animals. Housewives are likely to find chicken prices rising in about five or six months. The record numbers of pigs already fattened may actually depress pork prices this winter and next spring, but agronomists predict that higher feed costs could drive up the price of bacon and other cuts of pork by next fall. Beef prices could also rise next fall...
...have genuine deterrent effect, we must make some drastic changes. The most simple and most obvious remedy is to give the courts the manpower and tools-including the prosecutors and defense lawyers -to try criminal cases within 60 days after indictment and let us see what happens. I predict that it would sharply reduce the crime rate." On other fronts, Burger recommended...
...special, even desperate attempts to understand. Those who truly make the effort also find that in a strange way the parent becomes the child's pupil; that in guiding his father through the country of the young, the son becomes the father. Psychologists like Berkeley's Paul Mussen predict that this phenomenon may become common in U.S. life, at least among middle-class parents. As Mussen puts it, "We are going to see a period in which the young will be our teachers...
Some analysts go so far as to predict that the industry growing up around video cartridges will become a mainstay of the U.S. economy. By 1980, officials of RCA expect the new industry to reach $1 billion in revenues. Less conservative forecasters put the figure at three times that sum. So far, the cassette gold rush has attracted at least a dozen companies from the U.S., Japan and West Germany. They are battling for the emerging new medium with five competing but incompatible technologies...