Word: forecasters
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...will also move to pull Canberra's foreign policy back onto its pre-Whitlam path. Fraser has criticized the Labor government's steps to improve ties with Communist and Third World countries "while neglecting friends and allies with whom we share political ideals and philosophies." That would forecast a return to Australia's traditionally close foreign policy relations with Britain...
...forecast is ever certain, of course, and the near unanimity of the board's predictions mildly worries some members. It indicates that they are all operating on the same assumptions about how the economy works-which could be wrong in some important respects...
Ironically, economics may accomplish what Nader and his allies have so far failed to do with their safety campaign: to put a halt to the construction of new nuclear power plants. In the early days of nuclear power, scientists forecast that the electricity from nukes would be "too cheap to meter." Today, points out Nuclear Opponent David Dinsmore Comey, the economic advantage "has turned out to be an illusion...
...policy; so it is a good guess that the index turned up in November. And the number of people receiving unemployment benefits dropped by 82,100 in early November, to 5.2 million, indicating that the November unemployment rate to be announced this week will be down. Many economists now forecast that total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation, will rise at an annual rate of 5% this quarter. That would be a solid gain, though below the 13% leap in the third quarter, when output got a one-shot lift as businessmen who had cleaned out their inventories...
...which remain in storage all year except for this and perhaps a few other special occasions. At Morey's tavern, well-bred alumni quaff two--dollar cocktails. Undergraduates bring beer and liquor to lunch in the college dining halls, where they sit with old high school classmates and forecast the doom of each other's team...