Word: predictions
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...Progressive Conservative party capitalized on public disillusionment with the Liberal government of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to score the greatest victory in Canadian political history, capturing 211 of Commons' 282 seats and sending the Liberals into opposition. Since then, Mulroney's star has plummeted steadily. Many Canadians now predict that the Prime Minister, who must call national elections by September 1989, will be swept from power in a defeat every bit as dramatic as his earlier triumph. "I don't doubt for a moment that we will be defeated in the next election," said a gloomy Tory backbencher last...
Pipes defended the film, saying it was not meant to predict the future. However, he said such an invasion was possible and compared it to that of Czechoslovakia...
Marriage prospects should improve for women in the baby-bust generation. Women tend to marry men a few years older than themselves, and younger women will find larger numbers of potential spouses among the baby boomers. Nonetheless, demographers predict that the smaller cohort of the baby busters will form fewer families, resulting in less demand for housing and household goods. By the middle of the next decade, the number of new households a year could drop to 1.2 million, down from an average of 1.7 million during the 1970s. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research...
...dwindling numbers in later generations may not be enough to support the huge demands that the baby-boom generation will put on the Social Security system. Demographers predict that payroll taxes on baby boomers now entering their peak earning years will build a surplus of retirement funds that will sustain the Social Security system for a while. But by 2020 the amount coming in from the smaller cohort of workers behind the boomers will not be enough to cover costs. Says Ben Wattenberg of A.E.I.: "What you put into a Social Security system is babies, and what...
...present the heterosexuals facing the greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds of the heterosexual cases now are black and Hispanic, concentrated on the East Coast," says Curran. "I would predict that AIDS would spread fastest in those communities...