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...Finneran predicted life won't always be so easy for the mayor. "I would predict that in his second term his style will change. He will be judged more on his performance than on his style...
...Harvard junior, who transferred from Brandeis University this fall, is one of 10 grand prize winners in Honeywell's annual essay contest, which invites American students to predict the future of the aerospace industry...
...Progressive Conservative party capitalized on public disillusionment with the Liberal government of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to score the greatest victory in Canadian political history, capturing 211 of Commons' 282 seats and sending the Liberals into opposition. Since then, Mulroney's star has plummeted steadily. Many Canadians now predict that the Prime Minister, who must call national elections by September 1989, will be swept from power in a defeat every bit as dramatic as his earlier triumph. "I don't doubt for a moment that we will be defeated in the next election," said a gloomy Tory backbencher last...
...year, prices are rising at a 545% annual rate in Brazil, the highest level ever for a country that was notorious for its triple-digit inflation earlier in the 1980s. As prices have leaped, interest rates have surged to more than 700%, dealing a devastating blow to business. Economists predict that Brazil's real growth rate will be cut in half this year, to less than 4%. The trade surplus, which provides the only cash the country has for paying interest, has dwindled from an average of $1 billion a month throughout much of last year to $129 million...
...dwindling numbers in later generations may not be enough to support the huge demands that the baby-boom generation will put on the Social Security system. Demographers predict that payroll taxes on baby boomers now entering their peak earning years will build a surplus of retirement funds that will sustain the Social Security system for a while. But by 2020 the amount coming in from the smaller cohort of workers behind the boomers will not be enough to cover costs. Says Ben Wattenberg of A.E.I.: "What you put into a Social Security system is babies, and what...