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Another oil optimist, Bernardo Grossling, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, puts the range of recoverable oil at anywhere from 2,500 billion bbl. to 6,000 billion bbl. His argument: the potential of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America is "staggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil: What's Left out There | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...little if anything to temper inflation, which is expected to average 8% this year as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Robert Nathan, who heads an economic consulting firm in Washington, thinks the rate may come down a point or so next year, but he is the board's optimist. Sprinkel believes inflation may actually worsen a little next year; the others see little or no change. And inflation will keep the dollar in trouble; Monetary Expert Robert Triffin thinks it may steady in the next six months, but plunge again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Crash of '79 Coming Up | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Thanks be to heaven that McCurdy is an optimist, and so there is some hope on this earth for the '78 version of the Harvard cross country...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: ...While Striders Hope for a Comeback Year | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...with both problems and promise galore, the '78 version of the Harvard harriers prepare for their September 23 opener against Northeastern and the tough meet with Providence and UMass. It will be a baptism under fire for McCurdy's men, but the coach remains ever the optimist...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: ...While Striders Hope for a Comeback Year | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...calls part of the Jews' homeland by "natural and eternal right." The hope was that when he came to power, he would recognize the historic necessity of giving up the West Bank with its 692,000 Palestinian in habitants. A year later, observers wondered whether even such an optimist as U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis any longer held out hope that Begin will change. Israel's leader truly believes that the West Bank is more important than peace or, to put it another way, that there can be no peace and security without maintaining Israeli troops on the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Begin: Beyond the Pale | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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