Offshore Paper Usage — Mixed Emotions on the Rise

—Bruce Janis, president, Management Science for the Publishing and Graphic Arts

"The forecast for the second half of '98 is bleak. Pulp prices are the market's driver/indicator, and prices are down from June to July. And there's no reason for that forecast to change. 1999 is going to be miserable.

"Wall Street analysts say recovery will take until the year 2000 at least. It will take China that long to get back on its feet.