Word: concerns
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There is also concern that tapping the deep aquifers will cause smaller pockets of water closer to the surface to disappear, along with scattered oases, on which Bedouin tribes depend for survival. "You may completely depopulate a large area of desert and end a way of life that has existed for millenniums," says Debney...
Despite the ample causes for concern, chances are good that the economy will shake its slump and gather new momentum. That was the consensus of the TIME Board of Economists, which met in New York City this month to discuss the outlook. The economists forecast that GNP growth, after adjustment for inflation, will accelerate from an annual rate of .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the last half of the year. For 1987 they predict a sturdy, if not spectacular, 3% growth rate. Said Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council...
...this week. Board members hailed such features of the bill as the lowering of the top tax rate from 50% to 28%, the lifting of all tax liability from some 6 million poor Americans and the abolition of many nonproductive tax shelters. But some of TIME's economists expressed concern that this complicated legislative contraption could dampen business investment and make the rules of the tax game even more uncertain for many corporations and households. In the end, the panel was almost unanimous in predicting that the new law would soon be followed by more legislative tinkering. Concluded Guest Economist...
...political threats, not drug threats, are what concern Ronald Reagan. Alcohol is too much a part of our dominant culture--the culture of Reagan's martini-guzzling business cronies--to be attacked by a President hoping to gain political points...
...played moderatly well," Co-Captain Ray LaRaja said. "It's a disappointment to lose, but the main concern is developing team skills...