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There are still other religion cases pending before the court, and in light of its recent rulings, no one can predict which way the Justices will decide. Many accommodationists were encouraged last year when the court, by an 8-to-1 vote, approved a federal law that allows voluntary student religious clubs to meet in public schools after hours on the same basis as other noncurricular student clubs...
...predict with confidence that all will go well, but I can predict that both sides will work hard--positively," she says...
...POCKETBOOK INDICATOR. A reliable way to predict whether a President will be re-elected is to look at the growth in Americans' real disposable income -- essentially their spending money -- in the 12 months before the election, according to Robert Wescott, an economist at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates. His study of postwar elections shows that every time growth was less than 3.8%, the incumbent party lost the White House. If Wescott's prediction for 1992 holds up, Bush faces trouble...
...RIDDLE of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what the results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," some say with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others...
...venture capital helped rekindle the region's growth. Regis McKenna, Silicon Valley's pre-eminent marketing consultant, says he has seen half a dozen recessions in his 31 years in the Valley. "Every three years we go through these cyclical changes," he says. "In the course of them, people predict that the Valley is changing or coming...