Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify with a killer's motives and thus predict his next move. But Will has much to lose as well: a wife, a son, a family life just like those the psycho loves to explode. And thanks to a tip from another serial killer (Brian Cox), the psycho has Will's home address...
...nowhere near a low enough level to solve the trade-deficit problem." Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University, is more sanguine. He comments, "I have no problem believing that the export surge is coming." Not surprisingly, neither Meltzer nor anyone else is willing to predict the precise timetable for a turnaround in the balance of trade...
...Marcos aside, however, the U.S. has yet to deliver as much aid as a disappointed Aquino government had initially hoped would be forthcoming. ( The money is sorely needed. In the four months since the new President came to office, the economy has not revived as expected, and some economists predict the country will be lucky to register a 1% growth this year. When Aquino announced her first official trip to the U.S. this September, she specifically said she was coming "to appeal to the private sector...
...declining petroleum costs. In addition, the airlines are curbing payroll expenses through staff attrition and employee wage concessions. The cost of carrying a passenger for a mile on traditional airlines averaged only 7.7 cents during the first quarter of 1986, an 11% decrease from 1985. Wall Street analysts predict that as traffic picks up during the peak summer travel season, the industry will enjoy a turnaround and make a profit for 1986 as a whole...
...follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate one another's lives in ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy of the creeping dry rot of urban corruption. But the atmosphere is entertainingly breezy and sleazy, with a wisecracking, side-of-the-mouth narrator and some of the tightest, meanest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard...