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Although competing in different heats, Dunster turned in the fastest time of the day, edging the Eliot boat by one second. However, both boats won by more than five lengths in their respective races, so one tick of the second hand doesn't predict victory for the Funsters, just a close race...
Most states rely upon gasoline taxes for maintenance funds but, as the surging price of fuel has forced people to drive less, those revenues have decreased. In Ohio, for example, state officials predict that their gas tax receipts will be $15 million less this year than in 1980. Meanwhile, the cost of rebuilding a road is 166% higher than it was only a decade ago. Inevitably, repairs are put off. Maine's original 1980 budget called for repaving 1,250 miles of highway; because of inflation and a decline in revenues, only 524 miles were actually restored...
Industry analysts predict that as a result of the weak market, first-quarter earnings, which the companies will begin to release this week, will be down sharply. Said Dillard Spriggs of New York's Petroleum Analysis Ltd. research house: "Virtually every company will be affected by the downturn." Exxon and Mobil are expected to see earnings drop about 25%, while Gulfs earnings may decline more than 40%. Overall, of course, Big Oil will still remain very profitable. Some companies, such as Standard Oil of California, may well show modest increases over first-quarter 1980 profits, which were enormous...
...luck, good or bad. People who believe in luck aren't particularly rationalist either, however, since scientific rationalism has as much trouble dealing with luck as theology does. The best it has to offer is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that it is absolutely impossible to predict the exact behavior of atomic particles. Luck is a weird, pagan, primitive business. Or else, in modern dress, it is a frigidly heartless existentialism. In any case, whatever its occasionally whimsical moments, luck has a philosophically terrifying core...
...force to draw near, to descend from the void of the random for an instant and shower fortune on some lucky head. To ward off luck's malevolent side, the infection of a curse, the evil eye, populations have danced and chanted and worked with charms. To predict its whims, they have studied omens, birds' flights, goats' entrails; they have consulted gypsies and star charts...