Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the present $1 billion U.S.-U.S.S.R. annual trade volume will not be significantly reduced. As for the technology that the Soviets require, Tass has already indicated that Moscow is still looking toward the West, "not excepting the most economically powerful Western nation -the U.S.A." The Kremlin may now reckon that Congress, discouraged by its inability to make the Soviets change their internal policy and fearing a genuine breakdown in detente, will eventually abandon its demands. There is not the slightest indication that Congress will...
...world's second largest diamond "pipe," a gem-rich geological formation nearly a mile across. The government's part ownership with De Beers Consolidated Mines, plus tax receipts from diamond exports, earned the country some $25 million last year, but that was only the beginning. Geologists reckon that the pipe may be good for 500 years of mining, and they have discovered a second one 30 miles away whose diamond deposits could be even more profitable...
...long ago, it was widely assumed that the resources-rich U.S. was better placed than other countries to ride out hard economic times. But the OECD economists reckon that the U.S. gross national product will decline by about 2% next year, after a slide of 1.75% in 1974. The real shocker is that the only other major nation that will show a G.N.P. decline in 1975 is battered Italy -and the U.S.'s slide will be the steeper...
...sales and promotion campaigns. Finally, the system relieves stores of the chore of stamping prices on each individual item, which means that they can get by with fewer $4-an-hour grocery boys. Although the cost of installing the system can run as high as $125,000, industry analysts reckon that automated check-out can save a typical eight-lane supermarket about $40,000 a year. Some chain officials predict that 8,000 U.S. supermarkets will be using the system...
...research and write, is called An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants. Like its predecessor, its argument is statistical. The probability of any conventional water-cooled reactor's having an accident in any given year that might kill 1,000 people, the researchers reckon, is about the same as that of a meteor's striking a U.S. population center and killing 1,000 people-1 chance in 1 million...