To qualify as a disastrous forecast, a major event has to be predicted and held on to even as it fails to materialize.
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The economic costs associated with these oxygen-depleted areas are unknown, but predicted to be significant on a global scale.
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This is a known phenomenon that can in principle be calculated and predicted based on a given sea-level rise, by means of the so-called Bruun effect.
Through this Smarter Traveler research initiative, scientists could eventually recommend better ways to get to a destination, including directions to a nearby mass transit station, whether a train is predicted to be on time and whether parking may be available at the station.
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The eye of the storm crossed the North Carolina coast near Cape Lookout at about 0730 local (1130 GMT) on Saturday - at the start of what is predicted to be a 36-hour assault on the US east coast.
Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, predicted Sunday there would be a House vote on campaign finance reform no later than "the middle of February, " and he predicted victory.
The economy grew at a very robust-sounding 8.7% last year and is predicted by many to be on course for similar growth in 2010.
They looked at the returns earned by investors in American shares between 1982 and 1997, and calculated how much of the differences in returns could be predicted from traditional financial indicators based on company accounts.
Cheney predicted the impact would not be felt on domestic oil and gas prices until late 1999 and early 2000, a prediction that proved to be accurate.
"We know that it causes problems from placebo-controlled trials, " says Garret FitzGerald, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who predicted early on there might be a risk with Cox-2 drugs.
U.S. commanders considered buried bombs and other booby-traps to be the biggest danger to the assault force, and they predicted the belt of land mines on the outskirts of town would be the biggest ever breached by North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops.
The key point is that all possible attacks on a Trustworthy Space cannot be predicted.
The vectors of a technology can be predicted, and that is what I focus on.
The Times article noted that seven years ago Bill Gates predicted the war on spam would be won in two years.
Many observers predicted that a referendum on entry would be called for next spring, which would require prior legislation.
Some have predicted eventually 99% of data may be stored on spinning disks yet 99% of accesses will be happening on SSDs.
Charles Peabody, an analyst at Mitchell Securities, predicted on December 28th that rates would be cut during the first week of January.
What can be predicted is that those who rely for their profits on inefficiencies in the exchange of information between creators and their audiences (and collaborators) will fight the revolutionary and uncontrollable transformation of their industries with every cent of rent-seeking capital at their disposal.
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And colleagues at the school also predicted it would be 10 years before a vaccine came on to the market.
If Yahoo hopes to become a leader in mobile payments as Chowdhry predicted, Levchin might be a good guy to have on the board.
The county council report looked at the impact of construction traffic on the A12 and predicted it would be slightly reduced compared to earlier studies.
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Unison branch secretary Chris Hanrahan, who represents civilian staff working at the force, said the union had been expecting further cuts and predicted civilian staff and police officer jobs could be lost on top of 100 staff already made redundant.
Snow began to fall throughout the Northeast on Friday in what's predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard.
Both parties are coy about the details, but the arrangement does not seem to be giving KarstadtCoffee the 9% return on sales that it predicted so boldly when it signed up to the deal in 2001.
Even in the mid-1980s, few pundits expected the entire edifice to tumble down, and fewer still predicted that, a decade on, Russia would be holding regular and reasonably fair elections, amid a cacophony of self-expression from media and politicians alike.
Not many web experts predicted that one of the hottest companies on the internet would be providing a new way to distribute coupons for use at local retailers.
Deliberate intention is focused on a destination, but realizing that every step need not be predicted.
In 2009, I predicted that CNVs would be a hot topic in autism research (pats self on back).
Gritters will be continuing to work on the roads of Herefordshire and Worcestershire as temperatures are predicted to stay below freezing.
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