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...impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow's forecast. The fear of boring the viewer makes the discussion of city budgets and school boards incomprehensible-as they may well have been to the "reporter" himself...
...campaigning. Carter studied voting trends and population patterns in all 435 congressional districts; The plan called for entering all of the primaries and caucuses on the assumption that he could create enough momentum in the early contests to breeze through the later ones. It was an amazingly accurate forecast of what indeed happened...
...settling a two-day strike, a Teamsters' contract that may raise wages and benefits 33% over the next three years. Moreover, the rubber companies are expected to increase their profits by perhaps 33% this year, thanks to the growth in auto production. Firestone President Richard Riley has forecast a 23% growth in worldwide sales of original-equipment tires...
...Wall Street's division of labor, stock analysts try to forecast earnings of individual companies and pick those that might make good investments, while market analysts attempt to predict whether the market as a whole will rise or fall. To put it mildly, neither always succeeds. But Edson Beers Gould, at 74 the dean of market analysts, has been right often and spectacularly enough to be a market force in his own right. Two weeks ago, just after the Dow Jones industrial average rose smartly to 1,009, rumors began circulating that Gould was about to forecast a short...
There was little doubt that Gould's forecast was responsible for the sell-off-which caused some embarrassment for Gould's employer, the New York firm of Anametrics, Inc., an investment advisory service. Clients who pay $500 annually for Gould's opinions were upset to receive them only after they had been acted on by other investors who read summaries of Gould's advice in the newspapers for a few cents. Anametrics Chairman Steven A. Greenberg hurriedly mailed letters to clients denying leaks to journalists and pointing out that Gould's advice should have come...