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...writer and critic, and by no means a specialist on political or economic matters, like many people in Eastern Europe, I became an "involuntary dissident" because of moral rather than political convictions. Here, I am still treated as an expert on Polish affairs and somebody who can predict Poland's future. True, I have seen with my own eyes all that happened; I even took part in it, just as hundreds and millions of my compatriots did. But mere participation does not give anybody the title of a specialist, and an eyewitness can not be called a clairvoyant. The only...
...year 2040, as against only 11.2% at present. While there are now 3.2 workers supporting every retiree, the Social Security Administration estimates that there will be only about two workers for every retiree by the year 2040. The agency's own actuaries predict that the system will be out of money by 1984. Other experts say it could happen as early as next year. While Congress will certainly not let the system go broke, it may soon be forced to reduce benefits, increase Social Security taxes or borrow from other Government funds...
City officials, who predict a repeat of the usual last-minute crush of registrants, said yesterday the Election Commission office on Green St. in Central Square will stay open until 10 p.m. tomorrow. It will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 6 to 7 p.m. today...
...last week underscored the sense of an economy slipping into recession and provided a gloomy setting for the annual reunion of world financiers at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington. The Commerce Department reported that its index of leading economic indicators, which is supposed to predict the future course of the economy, dropped .5% during August, its third decline in the past four months. Sales of new one-family homes plummeted 14% during the month, to an annual rate of a mere 362,000 units, the lowest level since April 1980. Moreover, the Labor Department reported...
While none of the minority representatives contacted would predict the outcome of today's meeting with the constitution committee, several said they were "optimistic" that a decision would be reached "in the near future" as to what kind of minority representative the committee will propose for the council...