The company also provided current quarter earnings and revenue projections that were below current forecasts.

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All costs are plotted as projections based on forecasts by Vincentric analysts, and gas prices include a 3.5% inflation rate.

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One bright spot has been the inflation picture: the central bank forecasts 10%-13% this year, and private projections, 18% (1998: over 60%).

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Yet we continue to operate as if we can magically superimpose control, accurate long-range forecasts, accurate budget projections, ever-increasing performance arrows and other products of strictly linear thinking on those complex and interwoven conditions beyond our four walls and that, somehow, it will all work out just as planned.

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"The Fed took a giant step towards enhancing the clarity and transparency of monetary policy by agreeing to include explicit interest rate forecasts in its quarterly projections, " said Paul Edelstein from consultancy IHS Global Insight.

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It describes the decadal projections as part of an experimental effort launched in 2004 to fill the gap between daily weather forecasts and century-long estimates for climate change.

BBC: Climate model forecast is revised