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Whatever their feelings about letting Germany remain the playing board in a superpower chess game, the Greens have become a force to be reckoned with. They hold more than 1000 city government seats and are represented in six of the country's II state countries. The latest polls predict the Greens will get 5.5 percent of the vote in a national election in March, enough to put them in the German national parliament, the Bundestag. More significantly, members have turned some of the romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks...
Wright: I don't believe that economic recovery is like the weather. I don't thing you can just predict from meterological data. I think you must influence them. The chances therefore depend upon the policies we follow. We cannot just sit back and wait for it to happen nor can we continue the policies that have given us the recession...
...class has a 95 percent chance of attending college within five years--if his family is in the top income quartile. A student whose family income ranks in the lowest quartile has a 50 percent chance. A combination of race, income and educational level of the mother can predict academic persistence at least as well...
...effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony or a travesty that SAT sores will be used to exclude Black males from collegiate athletic competition. They are that segment of the population for which the SAT's predict academic performance least efficiently...
...ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS. The real shocker. The Administration is now forecasting two full years of double-digit unemployment: 10.9% this calendar year, a trifle higher than the 41-year peak of 10.8% recorded in December, and an even 10% in 1984. By the fourth quarter of that year, when the nation will be choosing its President, the rate would still be 9.6%.* It would not get down to 6.6% until 1988. The reason, Reagan's economists predict, is that the national output of goods and services will rise only 1.4% this year and 4% in later years, too slowly...