Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fukuda proposes retraining laid-off workers and granting as yet unspecified hiring incentives to employers. In addition, the nation's central bank would lower interest rates slightly to encourage business spending. All that, said Fukuda, should boost the annual growth rate to 6.7% by next spring, from 5.9% forecast currently, ease unemployment and stem the tide of bankruptcies, now running at 1,500 a month...
...early as 1979, North American output of electricity will fall short of demand, starting in the Southeast, then in other areas, until by 1986 power shortages will become almost nationwide and stretch into Canada. That is the forecast of the National Electric Reliability Council, an organization composed of virtually all U.S. and many Canadian power companies. William McCollam Jr., chairman of the NERC, bluntly summarizes: "You're going to have curtailments, brownouts, blackouts...
Government officials find the NERC forecast overly gloomy. McCollam's response: "We think their assessment is unduly optimistic. Maybe somewhere between is the answer...
...novel's forecast: collapse...
Citing Sohio's own figures, the California Air Resources Board says that even under "best case" circumstances, the Long Beach operation would add to the air about 1,140 lbs. of emissions per day-the equivalent of the exhaust from 38,000 cars. The "most probable" forecast is even darker: nearly 81,000 lbs. of added emissions per day, equivalent to the exhaust from 2.7 million autos...