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Admission officers at other law schools did not predict similar changes in their own applications...
...expert can predict exactly how the oil-price savings will filter through the rich complexity of the U.S. econ omy. Many companies will lower prices; others will increase workers' salar ies; some will fatten their profits. Adroit managers will try to do all three. But there is no doubt about the net result: Americans will have more money in their pockets, and they will be able to find fresh ways to spend, invest and enjoy their newly recovered wealth, at least...
...first spread to humans who ate monkey meat or were bitten by the animals. Somewhere along the line, Essex hypothesizes, the virus mutated into the lethal AIDS-causing form. His newly discovered strain might be one of several intermediate forms that arose as the virus mutated. Says Essex: "I predict there will be other viruses in the spectrum...
...millions of dollars, belonging to Marcos, his family and associates. Never before had Switzerland issued such a sweeping order without an explicit request from an aggrieved government. An estimated $1 billion of Marcos' assets abroad, mostly in the U.S., have also been frozen. No one, however, was ready to predict that the paper trail would come to an end soon, or that Marcos would be easily brought to justice...
...potential revenue from an amnesty is enormous: $81.5 billion in federal taxes went uncollected in 1981 alone, according to Internal Revenue Service estimates, and amnesty proponents predict that a one-time program could glean $8.6 billion. But many in Washington doubt that tax dodgers can be enticed into paying up. Since studies indicate that most people who take advantage of state amnesties faithfully file U.S. tax returns, presumably because of stricter enforcement at the federal level, the House Budget Committee reckons that a federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including...