Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associates and acquaintances of Regan predict, as Washington Lobbyist Jack Albertine puts it, that "he will be one of the strongest chiefs of staff in history. The White House will be a tight ship." That may be overstated, but it is clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
...since 1978. That has made Japanese imports cheaper for U.S. shoppers, and American exports more expensive in Japan. Economists think the dollar may decline a bit over the next year or two, but not nearly enough to erase Japan's surplus. In fact, some Japanese trade experts predict that their country's favorable balance of trade with the U.S. could balloon to $75 billion...
...resume nuclear arms-control discussions, and promised not to cut Social Security . .. Now that, by the way, was the Democratic platform. I welcome the borrowing of it by the Republicans. But I think the ones who wrote the platform are probably the best ones to implement it. And I predict that in 1988 we will get the chance...
...Doonesbury I'm a basket case for the rest of the day,' and have a cause of action. Where does it stop?" Flynt's lawyers plan to ask the judge this week to throw out the jury's finding. If he does not, legal scholars predict that the issue of emotional-distress suits against the press may ultimately have to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...