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...rehired 2% of its labor force, but that still leaves only 42% of its workers on the job. "There have been a couple of blips, but we don't see signs as yet that this is a basic recovery," says Spokesman Andy Stursky. In Detroit, auto executives predict that 1983 sales will be 10% higher than those of 1982, which was the worst year since 1961. "Ten percent better than terrible is still terrible," says General Motors Chairman Roger Smith...
...bond sale, which officials predict will occur within the next six months, is expected to end nearly a decade of MATEP-related financial headaches for Harvard. Since construction began in 1974, funded by operating capital, the cost of the plant has risen more than 10 times the original estimate of about $20 million, and a variety of refinancing schemes have collapsed because of the nation's economic climate and numerous administrative delays...
Describing Cambridge's current circumstance as a public housing emergency. Daniel Wuenschel, executive director of the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA), said that it is impossible to predict how many new homes the city will be able to provide in the next five years because of substantial cuts in federal assistance under the Reagan Administration...
...difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have been because of such careful spadework that the Kremlin was able early on to examine Angola's struggle for independence and predict the winner, a nationalist group called the MPLA...
Whoever lowers the price first, oil experts predict, the average cost of crude oil to U.S. refiners will fall about $2 per bbl., to $30. If the cost falls below that level, oil companies will probably begin to buy aggressively, and the price will stabilize. Theoretically, a $2 reduction in the crude price could mean about a 5? drop in the price of a gallon of gasoline. Because of sluggish demand, gas prices have already been drifting down from an average of $1.29 per gal. a year ago to $1.18 per gal. now. At a few stations in some areas...