Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the prospect of a bruising battle, with an outcome neither side could predict, that prompted the long compromise negotiations. Those talks began fairly promisingly. Though the President had campaigned for the "10-10-10" plan-10% cuts in income tax rates in each of the next three years-Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and Treasury Secretary Regan readily agreed to reduce the initial cut to 5%, and to delay it from July 1 to Oct. 1, the start of a new fiscal year. That will hold down the deficit for fiscal 1981, which is already estimated...
Many American economists now predict a reduction in inflation to around 8% by year's end, and growth in real terms of a modest 2.3%. Said Brittan: "A lot of the relative optimism depends on a quirk in your Consumer Price Index, which can show substantial short-term fluctuations with little change in the underlying rate of inflation." The annual core inflation rate in the U.S., which is closely linked to wage rates, is now about...
...minorities, though, administrators and faculty predict a less bright future in tenured slots. No comparable boom to that of women exists in academic for minorities--only two minority students in the entire Harvard class of 1980 opted for graduate work in the arts and sciences. Administrators say the declining rate at which minorities seek academic employment could eventually force the University to step up its recruiting even more just to maintain its proportion of minority faculty, especially since competing universities are also expected to respond to smaller pools by intensifying their recruitment...
...recent study will have little impact in increasing the proportion of tenured women and minorities, many predict. Its emphasis on more aggressive recruiting will likely pay off with additional minority and women junior faculty, they say, but will have little impact on tenured appointments...
Professors like Zvi Griliches, chairman of the Economics Department, predict that some departments may take advantage of the special permission the report grants to departments with qualified minority or woman candidate but no opening--but say this opportunity will not raise dramatically the proportions of minority or women faculty. But Griliches does note that Economics is "in the process" of considering a woman for a tenure appointment--and depending how the department decides to define the post, it could become the first department to take advantage of the new opportunity provided by the study...