It now looks exceedingly unlikely that the White House will give Mr Rumsfeld the push.
It originally planned to join the euro in 2009, but that now looks very unlikely.
That second effort now looks like a diplomatic blunder, given Russian and the implacable French opposition.
The wedge pattern that has been building now looks set to resolve to the downside.
But gold has been rising so strongly for so long, a big setback now looks overdue.
Sarah Palin has squandered her fame (though not her fortune) and now looks unserious.
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Given rising protectionist sentiments among America's lawmakers, another renewal two years from now looks extremely unlikely.
And this may be a particular headache for Europe, where mobile spending now looks shaky indeed.
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It now looks like the company that rival General Electric can only wish it could be.
Once viewed as inconceivable, war between China and Japan now looks possible, though thankfully still unlikely.
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In addition, one biotech giant I earlier recommended avoiding now looks attractive for new positions.
This was my favored scenario a few months ago, but now looks much less likely.
The striker now looks to the example of his club colleague Zinedine Zidane for inspiration.
Sure, the country now looks certain to receive another tranche of bailout money next month.
Finally, Best Buy now looks to be capitalizing on its strength in the services segment.
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Mr Fujimori now looks far less able to resist international pressure for democratic reforms.
Plenty of newspapers in what now looks like their golden age survived on plutocrats' generosity.
Yet the euro zone now looks woefully behind in its mission to save the single currency.
Some relaxation of either the roll-over rules or the lifetime limit now looks likely.
But where we stand now looks a lot different than where we stood a few years ago.
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Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.
If the cycle continues to elongate past 2007, as it now looks like it will, I'm golden.
It now looks much less likely that the team will reach its destination of the North Pole.
Her campaign (she won both states) has tried to get them seated, but that now looks unlikely.
It now looks as if al-Assad is losing ground, but other regimes have survived strong uprisings.
This free-market, pro-western party, which did better than expected in the December parliamentary elections, now looks split.
Felipe Gonzalez, a former Spanish one, was once much-fancied but now looks over-embroiled in controversies back home.
The world now looks to them to turn the horror of war to the promise of peace.
And it now looks as if Intel will use its manufacturing prowess to crack open the graphics market.
So it now looks unlikely Mr Hunt can make a judgement on any of this till the autumn.
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