Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competitors have moved aggressively. Just last June, a French consortium won a $1 billion contract to build two reactors in South Africa'. West Germany earlier this year captured a $5 billion nuclear job in Brazil and another worth $7 billion in Iran. Between now and 2000, some experts predict, nuclear contracts worth a staggering $120 billion will be up for grabs...
...believe that it will reach satisfactory levels late this year. But others are worried that the outlays are coming too late, and that as the economy speeds up, industrial capacity will run into production bottlenecks and shortages that will kick off another round of destructive inflation. Meanwhile, trying to predict when a new business spending surge will occur has become a favorite guessing game of economists and businessmen...
...simple matter to explain. Many scientists are sure that the research will revolutionize the world's understanding of some basic biology, that it may lead to greater knowledge about agriculture and disease. Scientists, however, are also sure about another element of the research--they as a group can't predict what the organisms will be like. The may be unstoppable little monsters--Frankensteins, some have labelled them. Or they could turn out to be harmless bacteria incapable of escaping the containment facility...
...arguments on both sides, it is impossible to predict with any accuracy what would happen to the price and supply of oil if major companies were dismantled. Even with divestiture, some companies would be giants; as far as accounting figures can be interpreted, just Exxon's refining and marketing operation would make it the second largest corporation in the world behind General Motors. Oil Economist Morris Adelman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sees no great loss or gain from breaking up the oil companies and thinks the effort is a "waste of time." Yet the issue will probably...
...usual, the European recovery is being led by the powerful West German economy. In the first quarter, industrial production in West Germany was 3.3% higher than a year earlier, and new orders were up a thumping 17%. The country's five leading economic research institutes now predict that West Germany's gross national product, which fell 3.5% last year, will rise 5.5% this year. One concern: the mark has become so costly in terms of other currencies that many West German exports could become uncompetitive...