Word: forecaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end FHA Commissioner Philip Brownstein forecast that mortgage money will soon begin to flow back into FHA loans. Said he: "I think that the worst of the money shortage is behind us." Many builders remained skeptical, if only because housing has long been recognized as the easiest big industry for Washington to turn on and off, simply by choking its mortgage money life line...
Melting Surplus. Only seven weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler insisted that the U.S. would end the chronic deficit this year, give or take $250 million. The new forecast, which came from Commerce Department experts despite official denials of its existence, seemed to erase Fowler's promise...
Early this month the National Opinion Poll gave Labour a lead of 12.4 per cent and the Gallup Poll forecast an 11 per cent Labour margin...
...course there are many qualifications on this forecast. Even if the election were held today, it is by no means clear that the Labour majority would be so great. Labour has led in the national polls throughout its 17 months in office, but in seven of eleven by-elections there has been a net-swing to the Conservatives. Moreover, the average shift in local council by-elections suggest that the Conservatives have kept pace with Labour...
...forecast of a 3.75 per cent unemployment rate looks too high; until this year the federal government defined a full employment economy as having a 4 per cent rate