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...country is now paying less for oil than it previously expected. More important, concentrated efforts at conserving energy will reduce consumption by an estimated 2.7% this year over last, according to one private forecast...
...added that the government frequently borrows outside economic models but uses its own predictions. "In that case, it's a government forecast, not a Data Resources forecast," he said...
...generally don't have people going back and picking one monthly forecast and using that as a definitive prediction," Douglas Lee, an economist in Data Resources' Washington office, said...
...government spending, with all the risks that such an adventure involves. Said Charles (Buddy) Roemer, a Louisiana Democrat, of the President's bill: "Nobody knows for sure what's in it. It was purely a take-it-on-faith matter. And I think that few members can forecast how it will affect the economy or the country...
...spent a lifetime observing and absorbing the medium. He waxes nostalgic about the days when "they called specials 'spectaculars' and everyone talked about the wonderful future ahead." Thus some of his sharpest barbs are reserved for network executives who do not even try to fulfill that glowing forecast. Says he: "You can't expect Hamlet every night, but you can expect a Roots every year or so, something that really knocks your socks...