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...dropped impressively, from 14% to 12.3% among Hispanics, and from 20.6% to 19.5% among blacks. Even the teen-age unemployment rate, the highest of all, declined from 23.6% to 22.8%. As for the overall total, it is already slightly below the 9.6% average that the Administration's official forecast, prepared by Feldstein, had predicted for the last three months...
...Color Association, a major force in guiding U.S. color tastes, has been issuing projections for clothing for more than 60 years and a forecast covering home furnishings and appliances for nearly 30 years. About 700 companies, ranging from textile houses to car manufacturers to bathroom-fixture makers, receive each year the color forecast cards. Membership annually: $320. According to the current women's apparel color selectors, all of them from fashion and textile firms, stores will be stocked 18 to 24 months from now with clothing in mint green, lemon yellow, orange-red and many shades of blue. Says...
...color prophesies of CAUS and other organizations have a demonstrable effect. After studying the 1983-84 forecast, which predicted the increased popularity of soft, muted greens, Fieldcrest has introduced new shades of green in its line of towels. The auto companies, working with CAUS charts, are hoping that buyers in 1985 will flock to silver cars...
...March, Government computers forecast that the snowmelt would be 4% below normal. A month ago, they predicted 31% above. The most recent predicted overflow: 110%. "Our estimates," admits Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Robert Broadbent, "were wrong. The flows this year just didn't fit into that computer model. It was winter clear up to the 20th of May, and then all of a sudden it turned to summer...
...Christian Democratic headquarters, the shock of the setback was compounded by its severity. The party's own polls had forecast a vote of 40% to 41%, and Party Secretary De Mita had confidently predicted at least 37%. When De Mita finally emerged on election night, he was shaken. Said he: "We believe the problems of government now are more difficult, more complex. The vote seems to have expressed a judgment of protest, or condemnation." Around the corner, a block away at the Communists' modern, red stucco headquarters, there were scenes of jubilation. As a youthful crowd...