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...estimates on expansion for the period will not be out until this week, most economists have already scaled down their earlier growth forecasts from 4% to 3%, or less. All at once fear settled like a fall frost on Wall Street, chilling investor confidence and sending stock prices spiraling downward in the worst plunge of the year...
...Downward Revisions. The number that caused all the stir is a complex mathematical composite of twelve* important economic indicators. Of these three were largely responsible for the drop: the layoff rate in the manufacturing sector (it rose), the length of the average work week, and the dollar value; of contracts and orders for new plan and equipment (both declined). But Julius Shiskin, commissioner of labor statistics, believes there are technical aberrations in the layoff and work-week statistics and that after recalculation they will be corrected for the better. Other factors taking the sting out of the August index drop...
...while the recovery has not been reversed, it surely has slowed. The G.N.P grew by 9.2% in the first quarter, by only 4.5% in the second, and was general expected to sustain its second-quarter growth in the third. Now many economists will be revising their third-quarter predictions downward...
...understand mountain climbers, and not even mountain climbers understand the pale, mud-smeared troglodytes whose curious passion it is to worm their way down through the clammy dark into the deepest and narrowest capillaries of caves. These low adventurers are brave, but their squirmy feats seem inglorious. If, slithering downward, one of them carried a banner, its strange device might well read !IROISLECXE...
...paid eagerly to see the caver's body displayed in a glass-topped coffin. It is still there, though no longer on display, and minus a leg pilfered by rival cave owners. Modern cavers, say the authors, often have a word with Floyd as they head onward and downward...