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...rolling hills of the Wisconsin course favor strong, tough runners rather than speedsters, and Sheehan hopes that those conditions (the forecast for Monday is rainy, with temperatures in the mid-30s) will aid the Crimson and slow down the Midwesterners...
...interviews with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Shah of Iran her best. Her November 1977 interview with Begin and Sadat, the first time in modern history that leaders of the two countries had been interviewed together, was a "forecast of things to come," Walters said...
...Carter's surprise announcement, Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a computerized forecasting firm, was still not ready to forecast a downturn. His current view: "We now predict recession. At these [interest] rates you are going to drive down housing and construction." Specifically, Eckstein's DRI estimates that there is a 55% chance of recession. Milton Friedman, guru of the conservative monetarist school of economists, gloomily asserts, "We have gone beyond the point of restoring the economy without a recession...
Last week, however, Percy's sunny forecast was unexpectedly clouded by a Chicago Sun-Times straw poll. The newspaper surveyed 23,976 voters across the state and found that Seith (rhymes with teeth) was leading 53.3% to 46.7%. The poll boasts an impressive record of accuracy dating back to 1932, and Percy last week acknowledged that he is behind. Said he: "It's the anti-incumbency feeling. People are frustrated and angry and want to take it out on someone, and I happen to be around...
...improve the business climate and stimulate investment. The energy bill permits natural gas prices to rise significantly, leading to total decontrol in 1985, and meanwhile imposes the same pricing system on gas pumped and sold within a single state and fuel piped across state lines. Energy executives in Houston forecast that as a result, more gas will flow from producing states like Texas and Louisiana to homes and factories in the North and Midwest, where gas ran desperately short the past two winters...