Florida officials predict as many as 50 more companies will open work-site schools in the state within five years, all of them charter schools.
The first and second parts of a move are the easiest to predict, as shorts are trapped and things looks cheap.
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Local and regional weather patterns are more difficult to predict, as anyone who has relied on a five-day weather forecast can understand.
By 2020, analysts predict, as many as 200 billion objects will be connected to the Internet, taking in and broadcasting data at an amazing clip.
Mr Proebsting says he believes it is just a matter of time before Microsoft starts using predictive markets to predict external as well as internal events.
They have moved into the tech magazines' territory, increasing their technology coverage substantially and have launched technology supplements. (The Economist, too, plans a quarterly supplement for later this year.) The danger for the tech magazines is that they may fall victim to exactly what they so often predict: as technology becomes ubiquitous, magazines devoted solely to that field will find themselves obsolete.
When we stare into our crystal balls and try to predict the future, often as not we predict the possible troubling implications of this or that technology.
And states like Maine and Connecticut are beginning to predict budget savings as pieces of reform come online.
The company has been profit-forecasting on a monthly basis for about 40 years, trying to predict components such as sales, commodity prices and exchange rates.
Patent cases are difficult to predict, and as the trial winds to a close, the betting is all over the map as to who will win.
For some things, like retail sales, the categories into which Google classifies its search-trend data correspond closely to what people may want to predict, such as the sales of a particular brand of car (see chart).
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As the witch conjured by Saul to predict the future (and costumed as his dead wife), Dominique Visse's high, pinched sound made Saul's nightmare especially present.
If Greece is eventually forced out of the Eurozone, as we predict, it will cause ripples.
Unless, as some predict, national health care policy changes create permanent, new pressure on sector profits.
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The consensus is 2.3%, and I predict it could be as high as 2.8% (after the final revision).
Researchers have developed software which could predict future events such as disease outbreak.
Mathematical models cannot predict or uncover fraud as well as some may think.
MIDs, netbooks and nettops will be as successful as many predict, says Dean McCarron of Mercury Research, a market-research firm.
If House Democrats lose as many seats this November as polls predict, her new minority status could certainly accelerate such a decision.
Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung is going so far as to predict that the average selling prices for microprocessors will begin to rise next year.
Consolidation is far from over, however, as analysts predict that over 100 more companies will likely close or get bought in the next few years.
"Aviation delays will grow without significant reforms as forecasters predict that air traffic will increase by the equivalent of two major hubs a year, " she said in a recent statement.
He says he believes researchers will soon publish results in a major medical journal that could lead to a diagnostic test that may predict whether drugs such as Tarceva and Iressa will work.
But if, as many predict, the shift from cars with conventional combustion engines to electric cars is set to remain slow for years yet, there is another, less visible, electric motoring revolution taking place.
In the same vein, consumers actually use debit cards instead of credit cards more often than economic theory would predict, in part as a way of limiting their own spending to money they actually have.
From Atkins' vantage point, even if the energy bill dies in the Senate (as some predict it may), her company is positioned to reap the benefits of the transition away from fossil fuels and toward a lower-carbon economy.
Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.
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Just about everyone agrees with Ni Jun of Shenyin Wanguo Securities in Shanghai that nonperforming loans will rock bank earnings sometime during the middle of next year, even if the economy hits bottom this quarter, as many predict.
Facebook is so vast and tells such a complete story of us as social beings, that by analyzing it in smart ways, we can actually do things that were never possible before in human history, such as accurately predict where we should work, who we should date or how much money we will make during our lifetime.
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As a result, divorcing couples hire experts to predict how much money their spouse might ever earn as the result of a license or degree earned during the marriage and receive up to 50% of those predicted earnings.
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