Word: predictions
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...class has a 95 percent chance of attending college within five years--if his family is in the top income quartile. A student whose family income ranks in the lowest quartile has a 50 percent chance. A combination of race, income and educational level of the mother can predict academic persistence at least as well...
...ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS. The real shocker. The Administration is now forecasting two full years of double-digit unemployment: 10.9% this calendar year, a trifle higher than the 41-year peak of 10.8% recorded in December, and an even 10% in 1984. By the fourth quarter of that year, when the nation will be choosing its President, the rate would still be 9.6%.* It would not get down to 6.6% until 1988. The reason, Reagan's economists predict, is that the national output of goods and services will rise only 1.4% this year and 4% in later years, too slowly...
...emergency preparedness area. And the highest single priority there would be to fill up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We have an opportunity to take advantage of lower prices. If the world oil market is going to be tight by the end of the decade, as I predict it will, it takes a maximum effort just to achieve a 750-million barrel target. If the reserve is not filled, it will not be available even in the 1990s. And I think if one looks at where all the military expenditures are going, the contingency that most worries military planners, other than...
...middle of this year, 6,000 new housing units will be completed, and 35,000 Israelis are expected to move to the West Bank, more than doubling the territory's current Jewish population and bringing the total to more than 60,000. Israeli officials predict the number will reach 100,000 by 1987, if not sooner, and by the year 2010, they say, the West Bank will contain 1.4 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs. Says Ze'ev Ben-Yosef, spokesman for the World Zionist Organization's settlement division: "People are moving in every week...
...year that, thanks to a war 8,000 miles away, she will mark as a turning point in her fortunes. As a British businessman puts it: "In 1982 Prime Minister Thatcher restored our national pride." Her rating in the polls is up to 44%, and many Britons confidently predict that she would win an election handily if she chose to call...