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Current Tally - 09/12/04 2000 Adjustment:  Bush +3.3%EV's:  Bush 285, Kerry 253Pct:    Bush 51.1%, Kerry 47.0%This site keeps a running projection for the 2004 US Presidential Election.  Using the most recent polling data, state-by-state voting totals from 2000 will be updated to project a 2004 outcome. Click here for an explanation of the formula I use to make these projections. Current Poll NumbersJob Approval:Approve: 51.4%  up 0.4% from 51.0% Approve: 48%  Newsweek  09/10/04 Approve: 52%  Associated Press - Ipsos  09/09/04 Approve: 56%  Time  09/09/04 Approve: 49%  Fox News  09/08/04 Approve: 52%  ABC - Washington Post  09/08/04 Bush vs. Kerry:Bush:...

2004 Will Be the U.S.'S Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years, The Conference Board Reports in a Revised Forecast Thursday December 11, 11:01 am ET NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years. The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3%...

<p>Economists are nudging higher their projections for economic growth early next year, suggesting they are becoming more confident the recovery is sustainable.</p> <p>Among 53 economists who participated in The Wall Street Journal Online's November economic-forecasting survey, the average forecast for the inflation-adjusted, annualized growth rate of the nation's gross domestic product during the first quarter of 2004 was 4.1%. That was revised up from the 3.9% rate predicted when the group was last surveyed in October.</p>

Issue 31. January - February 1999 LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF CONVENTIONAL WARHEADS Anatoly Mikhailov, Deputy Chief Designer, Head of the Gas Dynamics Research Section, Russian Federal Nuclear Center   To continue a series of publications dedicated to the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFYaTs-VNIIEF), and its role in the advanced development of conventional weapons, we shall focus on the Institute s gas dynamics research which constitutes a major aspect of warhead research development. The research in the field of gas dynamics, together with theoretical projections and computer modeling, help determine warhead physical configuration and its basic design....