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Brown's Democrats, who control both houses, predict other dire consequences: a brain drain that is bound to deter the best and brightest from working in the statehouse, and a weakening of the legislature as it confronts some of its own ex-staffers now in the ranks of special-interest lobbies. One surviving expert, respected Democratic economist Steven Thompson, 49, predicts that when the term limits start taking effect in 1996, the legislative branch could even suffer constitutionally. Reason: the inexperience of rotating members will prevent it from holding up its end of the checks-and-balances system. So vehement...
...fourth-quarter 1990 earnings are announced this week. But Wall Street analysts applaud GM's moves, saying they indicate that the world's largest automaker is preparing for a long, hard recession. And with sales of domestic cars plummeting 31% in January to the lowest level since 1982, they predict that Ford and Chrysler will be forced to make similar cuts in the spring...
...distinction provided little solace to farmers, who consume 85% of the state's water and are likely to take the biggest economic hit from the drought. With spring planting only weeks away, agricultural analysts predict a grim harvest: as many as 1.5 million acres left unfarmed, $642 million in net losses and layoffs of thousands of farm workers. "This is the worst drought most of us can remember," says Bob Vice, president of the 85,000-member California Farm Bureau Federation. "You can't raise crops unless you have tools, and water is the most important tool...
Although polls released last week show an increase to about half in the number of respondents who expect combat to last six months or more -- considerably longer than White House and Pentagon officials predict -- about four-fifths of those polled continue to support the war. That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard...
...Fitzsimmons added that he is not surprised that Harvard has fared better than national demographics might predict. "With the economic downturn, colleges that are well-known and that have strong financial aid programs will usually hold their own," he said...