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...only thing the press covers is polls," Callegari asserts. "If you're not a frontrunner then the polls don't mean anything. When they show some upward movement that's when things start ticking and you receive some cover age. The media is not that ambitious to cover...those who aren't high in the polls," he adds...
Much about Chernenko suggested that he had stepped into history straight from the Siberian village where he was born on Sept. 24,1911, only seven months and 18 days after Ronald Reagan. His open, almost cherubic face, with frosted brows that slant upward and icy blue eyes set in high Asiatic cheekbones, seemed unpretentious. As the new Soviet leader went through his paces last week, his dark suit appeared to hang awkwardly from his broad, slightly hunched shoulders. He seemed almost relieved after a Kremlin reception to enjoy a few private moments of male camaraderie with his elderly Politburo comrades...
...however, the economy remains upward bound. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who was President Ford's chief economic adviser: "The slowing from the peak pace of last year has been remarkably modest. And far more important, there is no evidence of imminent deterioration...
...Adviser Martin Feldstein, known as the Administration's "Dr. Gloom," agreed with Penner's warning that the deficit could reach the $300 billion range by the end of the decade. If that happened, said Feldstein, federal borrowing would be swallowing 75% of American savings and putting powerful upward pressure on interest rates. Even Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, usually an optimist and a critic of Feldstein's dour outlook, admitted that "without proper fiscal and monetary policies, there is a possibility of our slipping back into a recession in the U.S." Unless the Federal Reserve speeds up growth...
...nuclear power industry had anxiously been watching as economic recovery slowly nudged upward the demand for electricity. Now, utility executives concede, the industry will do well just to hold its own. No one expects U.S. utilities to shut down any of the 82 nuclear plants currently in operation, but no one is betting against cancellation of some of the 48 plants in various stages of construction around the country. The utilities have not placed an order for a new nuclear plant since 1978, and they are unlikely to do so in the near future. Says Robert Scherer, chairman of Georgia...