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...around him, laughing and applauding. "This is the heart that pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict, the fledgling cypress will grow up to 30 ft. tall...
Still, forecasters have grown wary of trying to predict just where the high flying dollar might next be headed. Said Board Member Sam Brittan last week: "There could be a sharp drop in the dollar over the next six months, or there could be a gradual drop, or it could move even higher. The only honest answer is that we do not know." Having been consistently amazed by the dollar's surge, the experts now prefer to let the currency do the talking. - By John Greenwald. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
Government borrowing must increase because under most projections the deficit will continue to go up. Recalculating the figures after last week's tax changes and spending cuts, and assuming a roughly halfway compromise on military outlays, congressional budgeteers now predict $174.2 billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...
...hard to find any Democrats, other than Mondale and his immediate entourage, who are willing to flat out predict victory in November. The odds in Las Vegas are 4 to 1 against such an outcome, making an even-money bet on Mondale the biggest gamble since George McGovern was a 5-to-1 underdog in his race against Richard Nixon...
...spur sales and make the PCjr more compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices to $599 and $999. It reduced prices on its other personal computers by up to 23%. Smaller companies that make personal machines similar to IBM's may have to follow the lead, and observers predict that a nasty price war could erupt this summer...