Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most states rely upon gasoline taxes for maintenance funds but, as the surging price of fuel has forced people to drive less, those revenues have decreased. In Ohio, for example, state officials predict that their gas tax receipts will be $15 million less this year than in 1980. Meanwhile, the cost of rebuilding a road is 166% higher than it was only a decade ago. Inevitably, repairs are put off. Maine's original 1980 budget called for repaving 1,250 miles of highway; because of inflation and a decline in revenues, only 524 miles were actually restored...
Industry analysts predict that as a result of the weak market, first-quarter earnings, which the companies will begin to release this week, will be down sharply. Said Dillard Spriggs of New York's Petroleum Analysis Ltd. research house: "Virtually every company will be affected by the downturn." Exxon and Mobil are expected to see earnings drop about 25%, while Gulfs earnings may decline more than 40%. Overall, of course, Big Oil will still remain very profitable. Some companies, such as Standard Oil of California, may well show modest increases over first-quarter 1980 profits, which were enormous...
Leaders in Congressional debate over registration and the draft have declined to predict the possible results of a decision striking down the existing program. Staffers in the Senate and House of Representatives have said, however, that such a ruling could give supporter of the draft an excuse to re-open debate on that issue...
...they didn't move after Bobby Kennedy was killed. These guns that are only used to kill someone, not for hunting, ought to be regulated, but I predict they...
...results of the game encouraged Ippolito and fellow captain Lisa Bernstein to predict future success for the squad...