Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to find any Democrats, other than Mondale and his immediate entourage, who are willing to flat out predict victory in November. The odds in Las Vegas are 4 to 1 against such an outcome, making an even-money bet on Mondale the biggest gamble since George McGovern was a 5-to-1 underdog in his race against Richard Nixon...
...spur sales and make the PCjr more compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices to $599 and $999. It reduced prices on its other personal computers by up to 23%. Smaller companies that make personal machines similar to IBM's may have to follow the lead, and observers predict that a nasty price war could erupt this summer...
...phone calls, rounding up new pledges and fencing in old ones. As Mondale waded about soggy New Jersey, his campaign won the backing of two Governors (Mark White of Texas and William Sheffield of Alaska), nine uncommitted delegates in Mississippi and six in Hawaii. Mondale's aides predict he will have 1,750 of the 1,967 delegates needed to nominate before the voters go to the polls on Tuesday...
...much of A T & T's long-distance business can the new companies capture? Competitors predict that they could get 20% to 30%. The more likely share will be no more than 10% during the next year or two. Many consumers are as comfortable with their Ma Bell as they were with their Ma, and they will be slow to change...
...measure the health of the U.S. economy, suggested by the late economist Arthur Okun, is the discomfort index, a sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. In November 1980, that yardstick stood at 20.2% (12.7% inflation and 7.5% unemployment). On Election Day this year, TIME'S economists predict, the discomfort index will be only 12.7% (5.4% inflation and 7.3% unemployment...