Word: forecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more relaxed budget is welcome, of course, but as Brewster warned the Yale Corporation, "the surprising divergence of estimates and performance does pose a danger that no future forecast will be believed." Moreover, he said, such "skepticism and suspicion" about how accurate Yale is in forecasting its budgets might shake "the community's confidence in the credibility and competence of the administration...
...company that has scarcely 5% of the domestic market. In an analysis of the industry, Arthur D. Little, management consultants, forecast last January that Burroughs "very likely" can raise its market share to between 7% and 9% in the next four years. One reason is its new machines. Burroughs has brought out a series of small computers that fill a link in its product line. These machines rent for about $1,500 a month, can be run by an office clerk, and are designed for small companies, branch banks and hospitals. Burroughs already has orders for 100 new computers...
...notes, that a Supreme Court ruling is in effect allowing registration until within 30 days of Election Day; in past years it had to be done much earlier and it was difficult to generate political interest six months or more before an election. By Dutton's hopeful forecast, McGovern would get 13 million of the new youth votes, to 5,000,000 for Nixon. Considering the fact that Nixon won by only 500,000 votes in 1968, the McGovern planners thought they were going to the convention with a plausible argument...
...submarine. Experts agree that neither weapon is an immediate military necessity; for example, the Air Force's durable fleet of 527 B-52 bombers, which the B-l would replace, is expected to remain effective into the 1980s. SALT I thus lends support to a recent Brookings Institution forecast that the first $100 billion U.S. defense budget could arrive...
...There have been widespread predictions that the pound would have to be devalued by the time Britain joined the Common Market on Jan. 1. Such talk spread gasoline on the floor of world currency markets, and Labor's Healey tossed a lighted match on it with his devaluation forecast...