TY - BOOK AU - Heath,Daniel ED - Oxford Analytica (Firm) TI - America in perspective: major trends in the United States through the 1990s SN - 0395395704 AV - HC106.8 .A427 1986 U1 - 303.4/973 21 PY - 1986/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Economic forecasting KW - sears KW - United States KW - Social prediction KW - Economic conditions KW - 1981- KW - Politics and government KW - 1981-1989 KW - Forecasting KW - Social conditions KW - 1980- N1 - Includes index; Revised and updated report of a study commissioned in 1981 by American Express, Bristol-Myers, and Sun Oil; Bringing America into perspective -- Part I. Society. Changes in population : the future of the American people -- Changes in life chances : the future of the American dream -- Changes in life-styles : the future of the American way of life -- Changes in religion and values : the future of the American creed -- Part II. Politics. The actors on the political scene -- Changing institutions and machinery -- Changing attitudes and ideologies -- Part III. The economy. Productivity -- Unemployment and the changing labor market -- Monetary and fiscal policies -- Part IV. Into the 1990s. Themes of the future -- View of the future : interacting themes; Adult; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Results of research done in the 1980s on projections of economic prospects for growth/stagnation and stability/instability into the 1990s ER -