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...Fuel costs for the Faculty were lower than expected, since the budget forecast was prepared early in the Gulf War, according to Knowles...
...leadership, debates have been about as reliable a predictive tool as newspaper horoscopes. In 1960 neither Kennedy nor Nixon hinted at the looming U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters?" With mangled syntax, Bush responded...
INTERVIEW: Eduard Shevardnadze's Forecast...
...White House economic forecast offer much solace to candidate Bush. It predicted a meager 2.7% growth rate for the year -- up from the January prediction of 2.2% but still sluggish. Two days before the forecast was issued, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, presenting the central bank's semiannual report, predicted that the weak recovery would become more stable sometime next year -- too late to help the President's re-election...
...week to see. His task is not easy. Even with an Israeli government genuinely committed to negotiating, the tactical challenges of bringing all the parties together are still complex. And if Baker decides to leave the State Department to run President Bush's re-election campaign, as officials widely forecast last week, he has less than a month before the Republican Convention to give the talks his personal impetus...