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...celebrate the Bicentennial, Michael O'Leary, president of Philadelphia Resident Astrologers Inc., decided to have various seers, psychics and stargazers of his acquaintance predict the nation's next 100 years. The prophecies were sealed in a 3½-ft. steel cylinder and buried 25 ft. beneath Chestnut Street...
...system is modeled on horse racing's familiar parimutuel pool method. Bettors may buy into two weekly pools, called "Football Bonus" and "Touchdown." The Bonus requires picking winners outright in either seven or 14 N.F.L. games; in Touchdown, fans must hit the point spread correctly as well as predict the outcome of any three, four or five games. It will cost $20 to bet on the Football Bonus and $10 on Touchdown. The payoffs, which will be announced on Tuesdays following the weekend games, will amount to 45% of the total pool. At race tracks, by contrast, about...
...competitors have moved aggressively. Just last June, a French consortium won a $1 billion contract to build two reactors in South Africa'. West Germany earlier this year captured a $5 billion nuclear job in Brazil and another worth $7 billion in Iran. Between now and 2000, some experts predict, nuclear contracts worth a staggering $120 billion will be up for grabs...
...Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about Chicano hustlers, Sunset Strip women and hotel-bar bums. A quatrain from his ballad Desperados Under the Eaves: "And if California slides into the ocean/ Like the mystics and statistics say it will/ I predict this motel will be standing/ Until I pay my bill...
...believe that it will reach satisfactory levels late this year. But others are worried that the outlays are coming too late, and that as the economy speeds up, industrial capacity will run into production bottlenecks and shortages that will kick off another round of destructive inflation. Meanwhile, trying to predict when a new business spending surge will occur has become a favorite guessing game of economists and businessmen...