Word: predictions
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...others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation at the Versailles summit to mask their own economic failures by launching massive attacks against the U.S. policy of high-interest rates. It is therefore not necessary to possess the gift of foresight to predict that the meeting of the leaders of the seven most important democratic industrial nations will again end with wordy and reassuring declarations of intent, instead of with clear and forward-looking decisions...
...collected more than $200,000; a local radio station held a 48-hour telethon two weeks ago and raised $36,000. According to Riva, the town's patriotism "has never been higher, but there is increasing anxiety that war may affect this haven of peace in ways none dare predict." Father Fidencio Gago, the parish priest, was holding a special Mass every evening, leading the community in a simple prayer: "We beseech you, Mary, Holy Mother of Christ, that peace will come soon...
That was the verdict of TIME'S Board of Economists, which met last week in Manhattan to assess the state of the U.S. and world economies. For now, the economists predict that consumer spending will increase sufficiently to give the U.S. a 3.3% annual growth rate during the second half of the year...
Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, sponsor of the Senate bill, insists that it will produce 400,000 new housing starts and provide 700,000 jobs. Most experts, however, predict that the measure will create, at best, a few thousand more homes. Even the National Association of Realtors, which would benefit from the bill, doubts that the program would work. Said Jack Carlson, chief economist for the trade group: "Getting down the deficit is the only solution...
...process, Lilly has embarked upon a three year, 1,600-patient study. A number of researchers doubt, however, that Oraflex is unique in its action on macrophages. Pfizer Medical Director Dr. John Jefferis maintains, "Feldene does everything benoxaprofen does." Says Dr. Frederic McDuffie of the Arthritis Foundation: "I would predict that whatever effect you could get with benoxaprofen you also could get with aspirin, if you gave enough...