After an embarrassing delay when Venus failed to appear at the precisely predicted time at the top-left hand edge of the Sun, someone noticed that Venus had in fact appeared at the bottom right-hand edge, resulting in a hasty re-adjustment of the camera.
DeLay predicted to TIME last week that if, as expected, the Judiciary Committee sends an impeachment resolution to the full House, the Speaker-elect will vote yes.
Parents predicted at the time that extra places would be needed in the future.
East Coast urged passengers wherever possible to travel before 18:00 on Friday, as heavier snowfalls were predicted after that time.
Experience from previous natural disasters, such as earthquakes, suggests that they often have less impact than was predicted at the time.
Although it is a stimulating intellectual exercise to imagine the inherent risks to any company, true disasters are rarely predicted ahead of time.
Jacques Delors, the then commission president, predicted at the time that the inter-governmental structure would prove unsatisfactory in practice, and so it has turned out.
Mr Darling, who is visiting a job centre in Marylebone, central London, said he had predicted at the time of the Budget that unemployment would rise further this year.
And that's been predicted for a long time now, but...
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The market at that time incorrectly predicted they would peak at around 2.75% over the next year, but by the end of 2006, key rates for Europe were at 3.5%, as growth exceeded expectations.
Through this Smarter Traveler research initiative, scientists could eventually recommend better ways to get to a destination, including directions to a nearby mass transit station, whether a train is predicted to be on time and whether parking may be available at the station.
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McSweeney's has worked to rejuvenate the beauty of books at a time when many predicted the rise of the digital novel.
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In a statement on their website, Red Bull wished Webber well and confidently predicted he would return in time for the 2009 season-opening Melbourne Grand Prix.
In a decade's time, Bishop predicted an "electronic nose" would be able to detect the pheromones that make up individuals' scent, and could even be used as a "hacker-proof" security system, replacing pin numbers and passwords.
"It takes time to explain a new post, " the prime minister said, and he predicted voting numbers would be "much higher next time round".
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At that time, many analysts predicted car sales in India were on track to hit the 9 million mark by 2020.
Some researchers predicted imaging could cut drug development time in half.
It's the first time we've been predicted to finish in last place, which I think is pretty crazy.
Some analysts predicted the test would come around the time of inauguration of South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, on Feb. 25.
As data accumulate (usually by getting closer to the time of the event being predicted) he sharpens and then further sharpens the predictions offered.
Most of the new EU jobseekers in the UK were from Poland - in numbers far greater than had been predicted by the UK government at the time.
In the 1980s, they like to point out, Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even predicted, amid much derision at the time, the demise of the internal combustion engine.
Ever since the European Central Bank unveiled its crisis-fighting programme last summer, strategists have confidently predicted it was only a matter of time before Madrid would be forced to ask for help.
Time was that the digiterati predicted a world flattened by the power of the Internet and the unleashing of virtual meetings, telecommuting, and soon immersive reality, etc etc, would replace costly and energy-intensive air travel.
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From the day the Jets made the move to bring Tebow in to compete with Sanchez, many fans and media predicted it was only a matter of time before the former Florida star stepped in as the starting quarterback.
Gregg Bloche, a Georgetown University medical ethicist, warned of the need to manage the downside of "race-based therapeutics"--and predicted that it was only a matter of time before race was linked to the effects of other drugs.
More recently, in an interview in Time magazine in early 2010, Gross predicted interest rates were about to begin rising.
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After setting Friday's fastest second practice time at the Nurburgring a bullish Hamilton predicted a brighter future for the McLaren MP4-24.
Pundits predicted an end to his political career at the time, pointing to previous ethics problems and the potential of redistricting after the 2010 census.
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