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...entitlements. And on defense he's promising to spend "too much" rather than too little. So what's left on the table accounts for only about 23% of the budget. Analysts at the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, co-founded by Dole adviser Warren Rudman, the former Senator from New Hampshire, predict that by the year 2002, this slice of the pie will have to be slashed more than 40% in order to meet Dole's objectives...
...reason, Mooney said, is that students at Harvard have a much greater tendency to buy books and return them because of shopping period. It is therefore much more difficult to predict, even after a class has begun, how many people will eventually enroll...
...although elections are still two weeks away, the shape of this new council is already beginning to take form. Council insiders predict, among other trends, the diminished role of one of last year's most prominent council factions--the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC)--due to a diminished numbers of returning PUCC representatives...
...million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel...
...facilities. But the efforts are limited at best, and governments in Africa, the Far East and South America are not always receptive to international intervention. Ideally, says Morse, doctors and public-health officials would love to be able to cure every disease they encounter or, failing that, to predict where and when the next outbreak will take place. "The current system is a reactive one," he admits. "Our ability for prediction will remain limited for quite some time...