The encouraging thing is that none of the problems anticipated for this quarter came true.
In the first week, of course, almost none of the optimists' forecasts came true.
"People said it could cannibalize the Orioles, and it came true, " said industry consultant Marc Ganis, of Sports Corp.
His wish came true: "My life improved drastically once I quit, " Cohen says.
And all my life I have been dreaming to be the best in what I do and my dreams came true.
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Riley was shocked and expressed great regret when the image came true.
Their dream came true when scientists announced Monday that DNA testing had established that the skeleton was indeed that of Richard III.
Alonso's prediction that he would start on the third row came true as he finished half a second off Vettel's time fifth.
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"It came true, " the actress said when she collected her statuette.
Such a threat came true in basketball when the Seattle SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 after failing to get a new publicly-funded arena.
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And their wish for early wickets came true immediately when Afridi, having top-edged an attempted hook for four to take his score to 16, was undone.
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Her dream finally came true in 1998 when she realised that there was a gap in the security services sector, an area that was dominated by male entrepreneurs.
And, in reflection, almost every prediction they made came true.
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America gave me opportunities and my immigrant dreams came true.
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"I said, 'We're going to have 100% of the stroller market for three years, and then we'll be lucky to have 5%, '" Jeff predicted, and his prophesy came true.
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Thinking she should be more specific in case her wish came true, even though it wasn't an official wish, it was just a thought, Debbie thought, I wish something different would happen.
Your wish just came true thanks to a new site called Pinstagram which provides a free service that lets you enjoy the best of Instagram presented in a Pinterest style interface on the web.
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"The dream came true seven years early!"
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On 30 July 1966, Moore's dreams came true as England won the World Cup on home soil, defeating great rivals Germany in the final at Wembley -- outside of which a statue of their former captain proudly stands today.
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It seems to me that when we look back at old predictions of the future, we tend to focus on the way technology would change, and whether those predictions came true, but pay less attention to whether the cultural, social and economic predictions came true.
Or if the gasoline-powered emergency generator came with a true-life story about what happened to the family that had one of these things running indoors?
For Pythagoras, true happiness came from knowledge, in particular from the order and harmony of maths.
"The true performance came out in qualifying and in the first one or two laps in the race, " he added.
True Office came into the program with an iPad app and came out with one that operated on Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.
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