Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customers. That's the only rigid intrusion on our free-form world. Presumptuous twits. From their cash-for-'cream outlook across the counter, all they see are neatly lettered flavor lists, the digital register, and a convenient human production-line waiting to place their order before them. You order, you pay, you eat your ice cream. A nice little sequence that's as smoothly cause-and-effect as popping coins in the Coke machine. Wrong...
...everything to discuss how the government's new $92 billion budget would affect their pocketbooks. In his budget message in Ottawa's Neo-Gothic House of Commons, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced an 8.4% decrease in Canada's $24 billion national deficit, crowed about the country's improved economic outlook and promised a tax-reform program that would lower personal taxes. Wilson had barely finished announcing the good news when most Canadians yawned and turned their attention back to the question that has really preoccupied them lately: How much longer can Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his scandal-ridden Conservative...
Though his tactics and outlook may seem like the products of mere common sense, Murphy is deserving of special praise for his efforts. It was only a year ago that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 made a very different kind of trip to South Africa. He traveled there--as the chairman of the University committee with responsibility for spending the fund--with a specific preordained plan in hand for spending part of a $1 million aid fund...
...billion trade surplus with the U.S. But if the White House is counting on much help from the Europeans this year, it is likely to be disappointed. That was the consensus of TIME's European Board of Economists, which met in London for its semiannual review of Europe's outlook. Average growth in the gross national products of the major West European nations will be a solid but unspectacular 3% in 1987, predicted Switzerland's Hans Mast, senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank. The expected growth rate will be up slightly from...
...least the next year, however, continued economic growth throughout Europe is likely to keep labor unrest to a minimum. The outlook for Europe's major economies...