Word: predictions
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BEHIND ALL of these problems looms the question of whether local efforts would remain test cases or would spread beyond a few isolated communities. To predict this would require weighing negative voting trends like the rejection of Proposition 15 and Reagan's reelection, against the public opinion polls that have supposedly supported handgun control. The weight of the negative voting trends has tipped the scales against the Coalition's plan. The shift to local level politics would create a vulnerable focus for the NRA's politically powerful, three million-membered, $52 million machine--a focus that would only grate...
...enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon Cos., a major grocery and retail store operator: "There's much to agree on in the document, particularly when they speak of the dignity of man and the dignity of work. But their policy recommendations, I predict, are going to be widely ignored. They're bad economics...
Minnetonka, the Minnesota firm that developed Softsoap, last May introduced the first pump toothpaste, Check-Up. Now Colgate-Palmolive is following with Colgate in a pump, and Lever Bros, has put out a pump version of Aim. Procter & Gamble started test-marketing a Crest pump in August. Packaging experts predict a tough battle over which brand's pump design is superior. Crest's model, for example, uses valves to extrude the paste, while Colgate's design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have...
Luckily for the survivors, most analysts predict record Christmas sales, whipped up by promotion campaigns timed to coincide with the start of the buying blitz. Apple and IBM are expected to spend $30 million each on advertising before Christmas. Says InfoCorp Analyst Howard Purer: "December should just go off the page." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...years ago by proclaiming Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter while much of the country was still voting, responded to critics by delaying Tom Brokaw's victory decree until 8:30 p.m. At that hour, voting remained in progress in 26 states. Cable News Network abstained from predictions but nonetheless reported as news the projections made by its three bigger rivals. Politicians had voiced fears that the four major television news organizations would predict the outcome of the contest while polling places remained open on the West Coast. As it turned out, the networks called the race...