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...elegantly simple method is based on the idea that the products of certain industries are used as production factors in other industries. Using input-output analysis, an economist can chart the interdependence of industrial output and predict the effects shifts in one industry will have on another...
...privileged, modern and optimistic, the other poor, neglected and burdened with grievances-that were etched so sharply in the election results are a product of the unevenness of the remarkable prosperity of the Gaullist years. The robust French economy has almost tripled in size since 1962, and some analysts predict that it will pass West Germany's by 1980 or 1981. Yet France's rising gross national product has mainly benefited the slowly expanding middle class and the country's pampered farmers, who voted overwhelmingly for Giscard. Prosperity has largely bypassed the aged, struggling to live...
...expected to pass. New England fishermen stand a better chance of getting help from the U.N.-sponsored Law of the Sea Conference, which will open June 20 in Caracas. Control of ocean resources, including fish, will be high on the agenda. But even those who predict the eventual enactment of a badly needed treaty providing for conservation in ocean management concede that implementing such a treaty will require at least a decade...
...author wisely does not predict where man's skills will take him. As a scientist, he recognizes that human progress is governed by the same uncertainty principle that applies to the movement of electrons. Science can specify where a moving electron is at any given moment, but cannot tell where the electron started from or where it will stop. Nor can science be any more exact when it comes to man. His origins are shrouded in mystery. All that is certain is that man is still evolving and, if the past is really a prologue, ascending. · Peter Stoler
...health, he might risk killing himself in a grueling primary campaign against upstart Alderman William Singer, 33, the lawyer who unseated the mayor's delegation from the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Once past Singer, Daley would probably face Republican Jim Thompson in another punishing battle. Some friends predict that he is ready instead to retire. In that case, he will need to pick a successor if the machine is to hold together. The trouble is, there is no strong candidate acceptable to all factions. In the manner of most absolute rulers, Daley has consistently chopped down all those...