In the meantime, the county has announced a tax increase for this year of 16 percent.

The budget projects an inflation rate for the year of 4.7 percent.

The executives say they are expecting a sales increase for this year of more than 10 percent.

The contracts give workers wage increases over the next three years of 10.5 percent.

Gartner forecast mild growth next year of 3 percent, to $152 billion.

Investment in cable systems rose $2.2 billion, to $9.9 billion, an increase from the previous year of almost 30 percent.

In its budget update, the administration will project economic growth next year of 3.2 percent, a more robust projection than most private economists are making.

That single burst has given it an average annual return for five years of 16.4 percent, despite several rotten years in between.

He forecast global growth next year of 3.25 percent after a meager 1.75 percent rise in 1992.

Japan's economic growth for 1988 will be 5.2 to 5.5 percent, far above the Government's forecast at the beginning of the year of 3.8 percent.