Word: outlook
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Plagued by uncertainty about economic trends at home and abroad, the French business outlook is clouded. Industrial investment continues to decrease, and Chevalier doubts that French industry will get many benefits from last month's devaluation of the franc. He believes that French businessmen, unable to raise prices at home, will be tempted to increase them on exports and thus not enjoy larger foreign sales. As a result, Chevalier expects a trade deficit this year of about $10.4 million...
...above all, Patrick Geddes, the Scottish social theorist recognized as the father of town planning. Geddes later drove his student away by insisting that Mumford turn his teacher's brilliant but chaotic mental processes into limpid prose. But Mumford never repudiated what Geddes stood for: "The regional outlook, the urban focus, the unification of all the dispersed and dissociated aspects of our present jumbled technocratic culture...
...outlook for change in Congress is not bright. Over the years the Defense Department has developed a cozy relationship with the Armed Services Committees and the Appropriations Committees of both houses. These people do not encourage other members of Congress to play the role of overseer. Further, they believe in what they are doing and are reluctant to venture forth on uncharted waters...
...might give U.S. steel producers some more of that precious breathing room they keep asking for in order to get their industry back on track. The action, though, could bring on the very sort of risky and pointless transatlantic trade battles that would benefit no one. Either way, the outlook for steelmen is not encouraging. not encouraging. - By Christopher Byron. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/Paris
Given the boost, College officials--even those who maintain there is still more cause for alarm than complacency--sound positively sanguine about the short-term dollar outlook for the fall. Long threatened more by what L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, calls "erosion of fixed incomes" than by specific cuts, Harvard can hope for an easing of aid pressure as the inflation rate inches down; if the pattern continues, the income on the endowment may once again be able to keep pace with costs. The admissions office also stands to gain from the Harvard Campaign...