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Ashton would not predict what effect the recent incidents will have or Arboretum attendance. "We don't get a lot of negative calls but there is always an undercurrent of rumor...
...director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith sees the flagging economy as the reason. Says he: "Few people today can walk into a store and casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that by 1990 more than half of all books will originate in soft-cover-a situation that prevails in Europe today. And many of the hard-cover editions will be mere tokens, published in small amounts for libraries, for reviewers who shun paperbacks-and as a boost for authors...
Reagan now searches for evidence to bolster his position. Economist Milton Friedman came by the White House last week and told the President that interest rates were at an in-between stage. Bankers who were betting on a Reagan retreat, Friedman said, predict the rates will go still higher; those who believe he will not yield expect the rates to come down. Stand firm, the economist declared, and rates will fall. Reagan nearly hugged...
...experts predict the imminent demise of OPEC. It will always serve the self-interest of the oil producers to get together and try to influence prices. The organization did that for more than a decade after its founding in 1960, but hardly anyone but energy specialists noticed them. It was only in 1973, after the industrialized countries had allowed their economies to become hostages to OPEC oil, that the Middle East producers were able to begin dictating world petroleum prices. As long as the U.S. and Western Europe continue to conserve energy and produce more of their...
...nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back on the credit business. The most widely held cards now used are those of Amoco (7 million) and Exxon (6.5 million...