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Media analysts forecast that the industry will pick up 8 million to 10 million customers by the year 2000. Early sales reports from DSS's initial campaign have been encouraging: according to the backers, dishes have sold out in the 41 states where they have been marketed, and 28% of the early buyers are cable subscribers. (Only 12% retained their cable after getting a dish.) Still, many industry observers are cautious. Tom Wolzien, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a New York City investment firm, predicts that dbs might steal away 1% of cable's growth over the next...
...Washington team struggled, Clinton took a positive message to the heartland. Campaigning in Cleveland, Ohio, he announced today that the fiscal '94 federal budget deficit shrank to $203 billion -- much lower than the $220 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts -- and predicted it would fall again in 1995. Clinton crowed about the fact that the deficit is down for two years in a row for the first time in two decades and said a further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy...
Over the past quarter-century, Kevin Phillips has built a reputation as a peerless predictor of major political trends. His first book, The Emerging Republican Majority, published in 1969, correctly forecast that the postwar Democratic dominance of presidential politics was over. Two decades and five books later, 1990's The Politics of Rich and Poor announced that the Republicans, in turn, would be turned out in a wave of neopopulism -- and, thanks to Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, out they went...
...press time, the forecast for today indicated that the rain would abate, though fog and cloudiness would continue...
...raining, even pouring, but we went to the stadium anyway. It really made no sense, and we knew it, so thick were the forecast bands of precipitation. But with the scarier storm of a players' strike on the horizon, to neglect the tickets in our possession seemed suicidal...