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...slow, so gradual, that all you notice is a slight diminishing of some of your faculties," he said solemnly. What the elderly want is "to be thought of as just other people. They need love. They need compassion." He concedes that attitudes toward the aging are improving and predicts that this will get much better when, as demographers predict, the elderly constitute an even larger share of the nation's population...
Today's "Friends of ROTC," however, is likely to be less controversial, veterans of 1969 predict. Pipes, one of the Faculty sponsors of the group, feels that, simply on the grounds of freedom of speech, the club should exist. What's more, Pipes contends. "We need good officers, and Harvard, as part of an intellectual elite, and other schools like Harvard, should provide their share...
There have been a few signs of a temporary truce in the gas war. Last month Arco raised the price it charges its dealers by 30 per gal. Some analysts predict that prices everywhere will rise about 40 to 60 per gal. at the beginning of the summer, with the onset of the heavy driving season. Even so, with refiners scrapping for a share of a declining market, there are likely to be more salvos in the price-cutting...
...government's rationale is that the 8 million French citizens who traveled abroad last year spent $4.9 billion, or more than a third of the trade deficit. The government hopes to slice that sum in half, although some analysts predict that, given the ability of most Frenchmen to circumvent rules, one-fifth would be more realistic. But the negative effects will be substantial. State-owned Air France, for example, could lose 1 million passengers this year...
There is, of course, nothing magical about the winter of 1986; the writer is not predicting-no one can predict-that an oil supply disruption will occur that year. An oil supply disruption could occur in 1985 or in 1987. What is important is that the growing volatility of the Persian Gulf region and the consequently higher probability of disruption almost insure that an oil supply cut-off of sufficient magnitude and duration will occur sometime in the 1980's. The later the disruption occurs, the greater its impact on oil prices, since the world oil market will become increasingly...