Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbors. The U.S.'s G.N.P. has declined this year by about 2%, and even a modest rebound could dramatically help America's trading partners. A big push is also needed from Japan, where production is now rising at a rate of only 2.5%. TIME'S economists predict that America and Japan will pull out of their doldrums and help most Pacific nations achieve growth rates between 5% and 8% next year. Their views on some key economies...
...disability is that the disabled community comprises a very small part of the general population and that the numbers are decreasing. In fact, there are over 36 million people with disabilities in the U.S. comprising 12 to 15 percent of the population. The number is increasing and some estimates predict that 20 percent of the population will have disabilities by the year 2000. This makes sense when you look at the increased life span and the numbers of people who survive serious accidents or live longer with debilitating diseases...
...19th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 yesterday, the Associated Press--the nation's largest news service--devoted five paragraphs to a story about a memorial service held at the Statehouse in Boston. More than twice that amount of space was used to predict today's weather...
...says that it is the lowest since March 1933, during the very worst of the Depression. Rather than sell at such low rates, farmers are putting up their grain in the hope that they will be paid more for it later. That strategy seems doomed, however, because experts now predict that prices will remain low for another two years...
...would take a true optimist to give butter the edge in this debate or to predict that Andropov will have the power, the time, or even the inclination to push through the reforms that are necessary to turn the Soviet economy around. Still, it would be a mistake to underestimate the enduring strength of the gigantic industrial machine that Brezhnev helped build. Moreover, the often cumbersome Soviet political system is still flexible enough to allow a new generation of leaders to make crucial decisions on the allocation of resources, industrial growth and military spending that will assure the Soviet Union...