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...declining dollar, down in value by about 8% against major currencies so far this year, poses the greatest threat to such hopeful scenarios. The weakened greenback has contributed to an increase in inflation, since a falling dollar tends to drive up import prices. But most economists predict that consumer prices will rise this year by no more than 5%. Says University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller: "I don't think the elements are there for inflation to feed on itself." Still, skittishness about inflation last week led to a dramatic spurt in the bellwether Commodity Research Bureau Index, as investors...
Walsh might also charge some people, particularly North, Richard Secord and others who shredded documents, with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Legal experts predict Walsh will further seek indictments against officials, including North and possibly Robert McFarlane, who helped draft a chronology of the Iran-contra affair that contained serious inaccuracies. The chronology was intended to prepare the President for his Nov. 19 press conference and to help guide the late CIA Director William Casey through his congressional testimony. Here the charge would be conspiracy to suborn perjury. Walsh would not have to prove that Casey or anyone else actually gave...
...already listing the Tories as 2-to-13 favorites, with Labor at 4 to 1 and the Alliance a 25-to-1 long shot. Still, few expect the kind of electoral landslide that gave the Conservatives 397 seats in the House of Commons four years ago. Most analysts predict that the Thatcherites will be lucky to emerge with half the 144-seat majority they won then. Even so, Tebbit, the feisty party chairman, predicts the election will be a "walk" for the Tories. That may be overly optimistic, but try telling Thatcher. "I am still bursting with energy," says...
...same practice for roughly similar reasons. Last year, according to the American Automotive Leasing Association (A.A.L.A.), a lobbying group, individual customers leased nearly 2 million of the 11.4 million new cars delivered in the U.S., a record. That 17% market share compares with 12% ten years ago. Experts predict that personal leases could account for more than a third of new-car deals by the early 1990s...
Some officials predict that private colleges may see a substantial drop in minority and low-income enrollment if they are forced to decrease their aid. "We don't have enough money to go around," says Barbara J. Williams, associate director of financial aid at Howard University, a historically black college...