By some predictions, by 2025 L.A. will be home to more than 14 million.

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Thus, for the foreseeable future, savings to federal entitlement programs, insurers and patients will surely be much more modest than some of the hyperbolic predictions made by politicians and others.

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He was accused of having an overly rosy outlook, by McCain, because of some of his past statements and predictions.

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And while some give little credence to their predictions, others swear by them and say that they sometimes provide valuable information leading to evidence they would not have otherwise obtained.

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In the UK there are thought to be more than 9, 000, the majority of them women, and that figure is currently rising at 5% a year, with some population predictions suggesting a total of more than 58, 000 by 2032.

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Some will also be irritated by the show-offy flashiness of his prose and the extreme certainty of his predictions.

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