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...House and Senate also differ on a number of other details about the administration of the credit. A House-Senate conference committee will try to resolve the differences between the two versions, but aides say they cannot predict when the committee would send the tax credit bill to Carter...
...preventive care" to avoid disputes or help resolve them outside the courtroom. Litigation may well increase?but only, says A.B.A. Consultant Philip Murphy, "because individuals with rights assert them rather than sleep on them." If most citizens are educated about their rights and have private counsel to help them, predict Werner Pfennigstorf and Spencer Kimball of the American Bar Foundation, there will be "dramatic changes in the social fabric...
Like any other big construction project, the subway extension promises to be a big mess--"five miserable years of it," as officials in the Harvard Planning Office predict. But Harvard has its own committee to coordinate plans with the MBTA, and even though most Harvard students won't be riding the RedLine to Alewife, this process will have a big effect on their lives...
Undersea exploration and oil searches go on apace. Oceanographers, environ mental experts and futurists freely predict that man will not only soon put vast tracts of seabed under cultivation but may eventually be commuting back and forth to shallow, Atlantis-like undersea apartment clusters. It is tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that...
There remains a factor that the oddsmakers in the betting parlors of London and the Vaticanologists in the trattorie of Rome cannot predict. Only one outside influence will be able to sway the Cardinal electors once they are sealed into their election quarters. Just before they vote for the first time, the Cardinals will recite the Veni Creator Spiritus: "Come, Holy Spirit, and from heaven direct on man the rays of your light..." The touch of the divine, bringing tantalizing possibilities, may once again make foolish the wisdom of the world...