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...Data Resources, Inc. (DRI) model has been used to predict the prospects for the U.S. economy if present policies are little changed but there is a modest tax reform in 1981 reducing personal and corporate taxes. It is not a worst-case model, rather just a trend projection. For 1980-85 it sees GNP growth at 2.7%, productivity growth at 1.4%, core inflation up as actual inflation (CPI) drops, and long-term interest rates at 10.34%--all figures worse than the traditional performance level of the U.S. economy...
Powers said he has not decided whether he will present a counterproposal or the details of any possible offer...
...past trends continue, not only trade balances but the U.S. current account could move into substantial deficit in the 1980's. The prospective surpluses in agricultural trade and investment income could be more that offset, by the cost of oil imports and manufactured goods. An extrapolation of present U.S. and foreign growth paths implies a continued erosion of the U.S. manufactured goods trade balance. There are many factors which might influence the outcome in either direction; but if present trends continue, it will be essential to find a coordinated program to change both the levels and composition of production...
...free-lance journalist who received the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes for her account of the Vietnam War, "Fire in the Lake," Fitzgerald's latest book, "America Revised," explains how textbooks present American history...
Publishing houses "have no philosophy at all," Fitzgerald said, calling the firms "receptors" that try to determine what the public wants and present it without angering any interest groups...