European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 Quot a the stars and stripes. I. A s a. ? a j v looking at trends for 93 by Leslie Dreyfous. Columbus Ohio. Quot you will see quite athe associated press bit of mall redesign and refurbishing they re out there sifting through data though.�?�., crunching the numbers going on gut frugal is in. Still. Marketing Ricc tors trying to forecast what the year end like Ken Gurin of town Dller and associates in new York see it in things it like the growth of in Home diagnostic Friday saturday a Gourary a 1993 a Bell Bottoms and All 545 oozy will a serving the service. A a. A a. Chief Petty. Officer Francis Potchak prepares to make the rounds in one of two vans in the Naples naval support activity a designated Driver program in Italy. About 45 Volunteer Drivers in the program sponsored by the Naples chief Petty officer association and morale welfare and recreation began driving Holiday revellers from popular a Jujj spas a Racks and ships dec. 19. They will continue through saturday night. As of wednesday no alcohol related traffic accidents had occurred. Stones will say 364 Days from now. In trend speak they re a a Crystal Balling  of course the prognosticators done to know what will happen in 1993.a of they Krotow that there wifi be a new administration in Washington. But they Don t know the. Really Juicy stuff like whether interest rates will go up or Down. Or whether i and Charles will reconcile. Or whether the hew Star trek spinoff will go where no series has gone before. They do have some Good hunches a about baby Boomers All grown up about baby busters leaving the nest finally about jell Bottoms. Yes Betl Bottoms. More on that later. A lot of what they foresee is bound up in what Many of us feel a optimism a beginnings at hand. Bill Clinton s baby Boom cohorts will applaud analysts said As he moves their priorities to the top of the National Agenda. The postwar generation surprised the census Bureau last year by sustaining a 4 million plus annual baby Booklet of their own and the experts said it s not Over  you be not heard the last of family values. They re just being reshaped the traditional nuclear Mold altered to fit the shortage of time and Cash. Policy makers predict 1993 will find _ help on the Way. �?o1 think we re going to see a Good Deal of attention paid to child issues and children a problems a said Nicholas Zill executive director of child trends a nonprofit research organization. Much of the push will Likely conic from Hillary Clinton a first lady first spouse first mate. Long a children s rights advocate Shell no doubt play a key role in the new a a administration. As will a lot of women. A year ago everyone was talking about Susan Faludi a backlash and the state of feminism in the 90s. Well it looks As if the year of the woman has extended to 93, with new female lawmakers and executive appointees. Along with the focus on children a hos of social issues will take Center stage. Activists like Ralph incas executive director of the leadership conference on civil rights said they feel certain that economic Opportunity race relations civil rights of All kinds will get their year or four in the Sun. A now for the first time in 12 years you have two branches of government committed to equal Opportunity issues Quot Neas said. With the los Angeles ribs stil Uresh advocates Are hopeful that inner cities the unemployed and disenfranchised will gel some Relief. 1 so Long As it does no to Cost Loo much. Consumer Confidence was up pretty it dramatically in Decembly dul economists said that does t mean there Are jobs enough or that the employed feel Eure the Economy will Tell the tale of �?T93, nearly everyone predicts. A a you re not going to see Many new malls built. That a fur sure Quot said Carl Steidtmann chief economist at management horizons in tests no Brand labels and new nonprescription  rather than going to the doctors office and paying $50 and getting prescription that costs. $25 or $30,�?� he said Quot people can now go for a $ 15 or $20 Over the counter product that will do  ,. A. A quo Nickels and dimes should t be As big a concern for Many in the Ever expanding Over-55 set however. Quot the older folks Are sitting pretty and will continue to do so Quot said Diane Crisp Eli executive editor of american demographics Magazine. A Quot they be got their pensions social Security financial  things arc less sure with the baby busters. Will this generation born Between 1965 and 1976 finally move out of the House again it seems to depend on the Economy. The Way things Are looking experts said they May actually. Stride out on their own. Hear that mom and dad Quot _. A a lots Riding on this recession a Crisp Eli said from Ithaca , �?othe.,., Twenty somethings might even Start getting married buying Homes. That a what everybody is waiting  Sidney Levy a psychologist and professor of behavioural science at the. Kellogg graduate school of business said he suspects americans wont stay Down Long. Or rather they can to. / a we re basically an optimistic people. Its in american to be depressed too Long a he said. Quot things Are going to get More whimsical. I think people will be increasingly interested in things that have a a Light frivolous colourful  if so then Walt Disney will keep banking on animated Gold like Aladdin and Beauty and the beast. Amusement Parks too will get a Good ride what with the new crop of kids and All. If Only everyone lived in fantasia. But in the year to come people will continue to die. Some of them from aids which will by the end of 1993 strike Between 390,000 Anil 480,000 people according to the centers for disease control and prevention. There a something new the a and. _ prevention Quot that the cd added late in �?T92. The medical Community is continuing to shift to preventive health care through improved diet fitness a. A you know the old new years resolutions. Psychiatric ally speaking the exciting news is in the pioneering drugs coming into wider use to treat depression schizophrenia panic and anxiety obsessive compulsive and other disorders. A there Are some real breakthroughs happening Quot said or. Michael Freeman of the Institute for behavioural health care in san Francisco. A this is being called the decade of the brain because for the first time we re really beginning to understand How the brain functions and How to treat  this in combination with the growing trend toward managed health care does t Bode Well for or. Freud. Shorter term More goal oriented therapies Are gaining popularity. As to that other therapy the self help and recovery movement this May be the year it comes off its Peak. Have we heard enough yet about our a wounded children within Quot John Bradshaw May have hit the Point of overexposure. In any Case the self help Book Industry is Likely to slow Down at least a Little this year. After All there a Ontso much shelf space. A a in be certainly heard a lot of talk about How they be been  and that particularly recovery books Are slowing Down Quot said Nora Rawlinson editor in chief of publishers weekly. That a not to say that spiritual self discovery will be out. A More and More its coming out of the closet a said Jonathan Adolph executive editor of new age Magazine. A people Are More concerned about How things Are going As a society. And the soulless path.�?�. On the us lighter Side Kim Long takes a look at what shot and what a not m his the american forecaster almanac 1993. Let see there s infomercials hot and Western music not. Long is positive there la be a craze for powdered condiments. But then he was off last year on the Boom in powdered water. And he a Given up predicting politics in the �?T92 edition he said a the election would be Short and Boring Quot enter Perot tragedy Isnit a popular prediction the old Farmer s almanac forecasts for sept. 7-u possible on Shore Hurr Jeane. For oct. 18-22, heavy Rains Central and North from possible Hurricane. Last year they predicted for aug. 30 a possible Hurricane  on aug. 27, Hurricane Andrew hit. Too ominous consider this i fashion an Industry insider confides the big trend will be. A Bell Bottoms. Bell Bottoms Are it. That i can say with definite  now that a scary