Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist in a medium where economic news is usually relegated to some place between the weather forecast and the cough syrup ads. Wearing one of his Rukeyser Enterprises hats, the WSW moderator is a hot item on the lecture circuit, where he gives about 100 speeches a year, com mands a top fee (at least $4,000 per appearance) and is booked through next May. He also turns out a thrice-weekly column on politics and economics that appears in 170 newspapers, has written one bestseller (How to Make Money in Wall Street) and is preparing another book on economic...
...keep this fall's congressional elections from being interpreted as a Republican defeat, G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock is going to great lengths to point out his party's modest expectations. Republicans, he says, are concentrating their money and energy on local races, where they forecast a net gain of six governorships and 250 seats in the state legislatures. He adds: "What we're trying to do is restore our party's base so we can go into 1980 with lots of enthusiasm and momentum. "In other words: wait till next time...
...occurred, the U.S. would have been in a desperate inflationary jam: wholesale prices of other finished goods continued to jump at double-digit rates. At best, chances have only improved for holding consumer-price increases for the year to no more than the 7.2% that the Administration forecast. Says Alan Greenspan, a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "I think that the rate of inflation is slowing down from disastrous to merely terrible...
...lesson of Seveso is that by their very freakishness, modern technological accidents raise clouds of mystery and uncertainty that last long after the initial misery. As Basilico says, weighing the future of his town and the future health of his son: "Even the professors don't know. They forecast. They warn. They show concern. But they don't know...
That crisis could occur sooner than Nyandoro anticipates. British intelligence recently advised Prime Minister James Callaghan that the breakaway colony is on the verge of collapse. The most optimistic forecast was that even if the voting and negotiations toward majority rule were stalled, Smith and his black colleagues could still survive attacks by the Patriotic Front until spring. The most pessimistic view: massacre and mob rule by September...