Word: predicting
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...fiscal 1983 budget with an equally dizzying debt. The man who for years attributed almost every economic woe to Government's propensity to spend more than it takes in shrugged off this lapsed faith by saying, "There are too many imponderables for anyone to predict deficits or surpluses several years ahead with any degree of accuracy." Reagan has discovered that it is much harder than he once claimed it would be to increase defense spending, cut taxes and balance the budget all at once. When faced with the conflict, he decided the first two goals took a higher priority...
...rumors and leaks that have abounded in Washington over the past week predict Reagan will ask for cuts of 50 per cent, on the average, to all college financial aid programs--grants, guaranteed student loans, and work-study--over and above the steep decreases already approved in October, John W. Peltason, president of the American Council on Education, said yesterday...
Champagne opened with white, promising to follow a secret Russian strategy, but observers said yesterday that it's too early to predict a winner in this thinking-man's version of The Game...
...committees, which have become a major force under the new rules, tend to be made up of such pro-G.O.P. elements as conservative businessmen and members of the Moral Majority and the New Right. But pro-Democratic groups are assembling to join the financing fray. And experts therefore predict even greater spending by such organizations in coming elections. That result is fine with Senator Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, whose Americans for Change was a winner in the case. "It involves more people in the political process," he says...
...formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless." Here the purblind Idealist...