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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...
...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...
...executive-jet business. But some industry experts believe that the market for turboprops like the King Air (1,500 are flying today) may soon reach the saturation point, and General Dynamics' experience with jet power could help Beech expand into that field. This year, for example, industry analysts forecast that the light-plane manufacturers will sell 12,300 small single-engine prop jobs like the familiar Beechcraft Bonanza at a total wholesale cost of $375 million. Yet their sales of bigger jet craft, while projected at just 230 planes, will bring them almost as much revenue: $368 million...