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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose not to fight for it at the same time that he was launching his embattled energy program. An additional embarrassment to the policymakers: shortly before they appeared in front of the committee, the Administration lowered its forecast of economic growth for the year a notch to 4.9% (see chart), and raised its prediction of the 1977 inflation rate to 6.7%. Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that both revisions were caused by the abnormal winter cold, which held production down for a while and pushed up prices for food and fuel...
Overall, first-quarter profits should be up 16% over last year's period (see chart), paced mainly by brisk retail sales generally and strong auto sales in particular. The Big Three automakers will report first-quarter earnings this week, and they are expected to be good. For the year, profits should be up 20%, according to some projections. That is not as good as the 30% or so for 1976-but then nobody expected those gains to continue; last year's profits were rebounding from recession. The present level of profits still leaves many U.S. corporations awash...
...that point Robinson accepted the consensus typified by German Critic Werner Kummel's listing in 1963 (see chart). But, as "little more than a theological joke," he decided to investigate the arguments on the dating of all the books, a field largely dormant since the turn of the century. The results stunned him. Owing to scholarly "sloth," the "tyranny of unexamined assumptions" and "almost willful blindness" by previous authors, he decided, much of the past reasoning was untenable...
...exist in many other parts of the world, from Soviet Siberia to the marshy fields of Holland-and several of the nations with the biggest reserves must export gas if they are to tap the potential wealth, because their populations are too small to use all they have (see chart). Yet apart from a trickle of imports flowing in by pipeline from Canada, the gas deposits in most other countries might just as well be on Mars for all the help they offer in easing American shortages any time soon...
...Harvard cagers continued to show about as much consistency as the fever chart of a malaria victim when after a clean sweep of Brown and Yale over the weekend, the hoopsters dropped a 66-54 game to lowly Dartmouth last night in Hanover...