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...Carter's surprise announcement, Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a computerized forecasting firm, was still not ready to forecast a downturn. His current view: "We now predict recession. At these [interest] rates you are going to drive down housing and construction." Specifically, Eckstein's DRI estimates that there is a 55% chance of recession. Milton Friedman, guru of the conservative monetarist school of economists, gloomily asserts, "We have gone beyond the point of restoring the economy without a recession...
Such results may not justify the millennial euphoria of the TM faithful who now predict that meditation may eliminate prison violence, and ultimately prisons, entirely. But any results are encouraging in a field where rehabilitation has been an almost total failure. Says State Department of Corrections Chief of Research Robert Dickover: "I think I have seen enough results from prison studies to justify my opinion that positive effects are emerging from the TM program...
...outcome of the game is about as easy to predict as the King-Dukakis primary. The wishbone-based Quakers play very. very well on their familiar rug, having beaten Lehigh and Columbia and tied Yale. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a personality schizophrenic enough to qualify for some psychology textbooks...
Citing several studies, McClelland concluded that while most admissions tests predict grades in college reasonably well, grades and tests do not predict performance later in life...
Tsongas was favored over Brooke by the students polled yesterday afternoon, but most said the senatorial race was difficult to predict...