KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The narrowing gap between President Clinton and Republican Dole in recent preferential polls comes as no surprise to two University of Tennessee political scientists. “A week can be a lifetime in American politics,” UT-Martin political scientist Ted Mosch said Monday. “All these large leads begin to fade. They do in every election,”
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennesseans who eat beef could be hit in the pocketbook by a shortage of hay, University of Tennessee agricultural economist Emmit Rawls said Monday. It’s been 34 years since the hay supply on Tennessee farms has been as low as it is this year, UT forage specialist Gary Bates said. Farmers cut
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A better industrial work force for Tennessee may emerge from the new Governor’s School for Manufacturing at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, a UT engineering professor said Monday. The school gives 30 of the state’s best high school students an opportunity to study technology, engineering and business strategies for manufacturing, said Dr. Joe
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s economy, now in its fifth year of sustained expansion, will continue growing into 1998, University of Tennessee economists have told Gov. Don Sundquist. In its quarterly report to the governor, UT-Knoxville’s Center for Business and Economic Research said the 1996 buying power for Tennesseans will increase 3.7 percent. “What measures the