Word: proving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...possibility of another significant oil supply shock within the next five years festered in the imagination of MR&A forecasters. The downfall of the present Saudi Arabian government looms on the horizon: "If CIA reports claiming the Soviet Union will run out of domestic oil supplies by 1983 prove accurate, it's not hard to guess where it will find the oil it needs," a Westinghouse executive prognosticated...
...economic indicators, such as total population, housing stock and employment to predict total electricity use. The model must adjust these input assumptions from the energy forecasts of Data Resources, Inc., Otto Eckstein's Lexington, Mass., econometrics firm. However sophisticated the model or precise its electricity computations, the forecasts will prove no more accurate than the input assumptions someone feeds it. MR&A's forecast last year projected about 104 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) total energy demand by the end of the century--considerably more than the projected figures of the U.S. Department of Energy. The divergence represents differing perceptions...
...goes "The Energy Game". Corporations like Westinghouse and Exxon which serve the nation's energy needs must convince people their products are indispensible. Their forecasts might prove correct--many people see a boon to the nuclear energy market after 1982. But, for now, (the only certain thing anyone can say about the energy future is that it's uncertain...
...impossible to spirit the soldier out to the West. On the other hand, particularly in the midst of an election campaign, the Carter Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting between Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, it was thought they might allow the hapless defector to go abroad-though not to the U.S. Otherwise, he was likely to remain...
...began his Thursday speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the cliched, "I am honored to speak at one of the finest centers of learning not only in the United States, but throughout the world," many thought what was billed as a "major policy speech" on education might prove to be just another campaign appeal...