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...Data Resources, Inc. (DRI) model has been used to predict the prospects for the U.S. economy if present policies are little changed but there is a modest tax reform in 1981 reducing personal and corporate taxes. It is not a worst-case model, rather just a trend projection. For 1980-85 it sees GNP growth at 2.7%, productivity growth at 1.4%, core inflation up as actual inflation (CPI) drops, and long-term interest rates at 10.34%--all figures worse than the traditional performance level of the U.S. economy...
...Iraqi attack on the islands would probably lead to outright war with Iran. In that event, it would be hard to predict the outcome of the struggle. Iraq's population is only a third the size of Iran's, and Baghdad would suffer from the fact that the three disputed islands lie 490 miles away from its border, at the opposite end of the Persian Gulf. On the other hand, Iraq's armed forces are believed to be the second most powerful in the region, after Israel's, while those of Iran have lost manpower, equipment...
...difficult to predict what the effects will be--we're not dealing with an entirely rational system," he said...
Buried in her fourth floor office in the far reaches of Federal Office Building No. 6, hidden from view by the endless expanse of her desk, Hufstedler is not what one would expect but already she looks at home. Many predict that she would not get comfortable so quickly. Coming from neither the education nor bureaucratic worlds, Hufstedler was an outsider in professions where people like to take orders from insiders. Because Hufstedler was not clearly associated with the interests of primary or higher education, people on both ends of the spectrum were angry about Carter's choice...
...comes word that as many as half a dozen women at the clinic have been impregnated. Though it is far too early to predict how many of them will carry their babies to full term, Drs. Howard Jones Jr. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, the husband-and-wife directors of the clinic, have expressed hope for a 50% success rate. Thus the odds seem to favor the birth, late this year, of the first U.S. test-tube baby...