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...They now predict that unemployment will rise to 8.2% by the fall of 1980-just in time for the presidential elections. That is well above the 6.9% rate predicted by the White House last month. Real G.N.P. is expected to drop 1.4% this year. Because the recession will hang on through next spring instead of ending late in 1979 or very early in 1980, real growth next year will be no higher than 1.1%, instead of the 2% forecast earlier. Finally, inflation will continue to rage at 11% through the end of the year and average close to 9% next...
...hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what...
...added that the problem with carbon dioxide "is that we are not knowledgable enough to predict exactly what the effects on the atmosphere will...
...crucial is the ability to survive projected Soviet countermeasures. Explained William Perry, chief of Pentagon Research and Engineering: "We will put these missiles on our radar measurement range and make very detailed measurements of their radar cross sections. The data will be fed into a computer for simulations that predict what kind of performance we will get against different sorts of air defenses...