Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this gingerly approach was that the Mondale team by then had evidence of Ferraro's stubborn independence: she had sternly and successfully resisted efforts to tie her to a whirlwind August campaign schedule that she felt would be premature. Mondale and his aides feared they could not predict how she would react to heavy pressure on the financial disclosure issue. They also insist that Mondale felt confident such pressure would prove unnecessary: he had seen both Ferraro's and Zaccaro's tax returns, was convinced that the couple had nothing damaging to hide, and trusted they would...
Both groups predict that animal tests will begin within a year, and if all goes well, human trials could start a year later...
...around him, laughing and applauding. "This is the heart that pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict, the fledgling cypress will grow up to 30 ft. tall...
Still, forecasters have grown wary of trying to predict just where the high flying dollar might next be headed. Said Board Member Sam Brittan last week: "There could be a sharp drop in the dollar over the next six months, or there could be a gradual drop, or it could move even higher. The only honest answer is that we do not know." Having been consistently amazed by the dollar's surge, the experts now prefer to let the currency do the talking. - By John Greenwald. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
Government borrowing must increase because under most projections the deficit will continue to go up. Recalculating the figures after last week's tax changes and spending cuts, and assuming a roughly halfway compromise on military outlays, congressional budgeteers now predict $174.2 billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...