Even stock prices--which are supposed to reflect the future earning power of the companies they track--don't do a consistently good job of calling a crash or a recovery.
In addition, Mr. Abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a round-trip ticket didn't trigger any secondary screening, calling into question the efficacy of the system that is supposed to spot passengers who are acting suspiciously and may be threats.
The calling off of his wedding, for example, didn't really happen.
They also didn't make the list of Republican lawmakers Obama started calling over the weekend.
No, I would say very firmly because marriage is a relationship between man and woman and I don't think it actually helps to confuse terms, I also believe very strongly in the importance of friendship and people can have a deep friendship and call it friendship but we don't have to muddy the waters in terms of calling, calling it marriage.
So we went with the ambiguity of calling ourselves what we were called before, but we weren't really what we were before.
Plaid's Jonathan Edwards MP tweeted his response: It would help if Labour weren't cherry picking the Silk recommendations and calling for full implementation of the package.
Calling Greenlight's campaign a waste of time, Cook said Apple wouldn't squander money by mailing letters to shareholders to persuade them to vote for the proposal.
When I first started calling for it, a lot of the same economists who now say don't do anything about it said, well, it won't be that bad.
"A lot of people were calling for Jon to be sacked but thankfully the club didn't panic, " Wild told BBC Sport.
And in this deep and lasting recession, a hard job has been that much harder because for much of last year people weren't buying and customers weren't calling and banks were not lending.
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"The whole city is a mess, people are calling each other, the operators can't cope with such a huge number of calls at a time, " said Olga, a BBC News website reader in Moscow.
Since the basic Skype service doesn't cost a dime, it threatens to popularize the idea of free calling, and make it difficult for phone companies to continue to charge today's high rates.
But thanks to the fast adoption of instant messaging and Internet-based telephone systems, the days of cheap and easy video calling may finally be here -- they just don't run across phone lines.
The merger agreement, which Friedman evidently had drawn up without the advice of a seasoned investment banker, didn't have a "collar" clause calling off the deal if Associated's shares fell below a certain level.
But the residents of Newtown didn't appear to be content to wait for Washington to move, calling their home state to take action.
' " Says San Francisco lawyer Robert W. Wood, author of a recent book on lawsuits and taxes: "I don't think calling legal fund contributions 'gifts' flies.
Mr Muscat, an economist and former member of the European Parliament, is calling for a change in direction although observers say he hasn't fully explained what that means.
The only native app being shown off was Skype, and there was a camera mounted on top of the demo TV, though we didn't get to actually check out video calling in action.
As we crawled through traffic, one of Dhani's troupe reminded me that Dhani isn't the first to have this calling.
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But that won't satisfy the tens of thousands of people (Muslims and otherwise) who signed petitions calling for this British pair to face British justice.
The impression remains of a smooth-talking businessman who can't forget the glory days when bankers came calling, elections were predictable and lucrative projects there for the taking.
It wasn't long before Ben Bradlee, the newly appointed executive editor of The Washington Post, came calling.
"For companies where 30% or 40% of the stock is in the hand of retail investors who wouldn't vote if not contacted, you can move the needle by calling, " explains Drake.
The company also touted its new calling feature, "myFaves, " which allows T-Mobile customers on specific billing plans unlimited nationwide calling to their five favorite people, regardless of whether they use a competing wireless or landline phone service.
With more carriers pushing unlimited calling plans, we can't say there's necessarily a need for the friends and family features of yesteryear on this side of the Atlantic, but plenty of networks beyond the good ole US of A are a bit more stingy when it comes to tallying talk time.
Over 50 faculty members signed a letter calling for Pernetti's dismissal and demanding Barchi explain why Rice wasn't fired when the school first learned of a video showing Rice's behavior during practices in November.
Mr. WILLIAM BRIGHTON (Homeless): What they're doing is they're moving suburbia LA back downtown, and in a way it's unfair to a lot of homeless people who have become accustomed to calling downtown, the streets, their home, because they can't afford anything else.
But truth be told, this exact same story made the circuit about six months ago, when Reggie Fils-Aime sat down with a number of media outlets during the 3DS launch and said that children under seven shouldn't watch 3D, calling the rule a "standard protocol" in the industry.
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