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...this is a rather narrow and altogether too optimistic forecast. As Phillips recognizes, there are other groups at large on the political scene now, using their democratic freedoms for ends Piven and Cloward will never consider progressive. Mass political participation produced Martin Luther King--but also Howard Jarvis, George Wallace, and Jerry Falwell. To put it another way, Piven and Cloward correctly assess the contradiction between capitalism and democracy: Phillips, however, paints a subtler picture of an America bedeviled by multiple contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than...
...Administrations midyear budget review, which will be published this week. It predicts that the economy with grow at an annual rate of more than 4.5% during the second half of 1982, and another 4.5% next year. Said Weidenbaum: "That projection is within the realm of possibility. But my personal forecast would be more on the cautious side...
...modernization program scheduled to be completed in September is already changing life for local forecasters, whether they are blow-dried TV personalities or the salty voices on marine weather radio. By installing minicomputers and video screens at its regional offices and connecting them to its nationwide computer network, the NWS's new Automation of Field Operations and Services (AFOS) is eliminating the need for the paper weather maps and long rolls of teletype that once decorated the walls of every weather office. Using AFOS, a meteorologist summons up on a video screen the weather service's national data...
James admits to no special acuity as a film critic or tea-leaf reader-"How should Ted James know what makes a great movie?"-and cautions that "the film industry is among the most difficult to forecast. We analysts just have to have the courage of our convictions and hope we're right 51% of the time." In their executive offices on Dopey Drive, the Disney people are hoping that Ted James is right only...
...pullout by Exxon from the Colony Shale Oil Project does not diminish the potential for synthetic fuels as an eventual solution to our energy problems. Government and private energy planners forecast rising world oil prices in the near future. All foresee the necessity for synfuels before the year 2000. The pullout by Exxon underscores the need for the Government to set a firm, long-term policy through the Synthetic Fuels Corporation for the development of a synfuels industry...