My prediction: Next year at Cannes, American Express and its 2011 work around Small Business Saturday will win in this category.
The modern crystal ball is thus unveiled and companies await the next prediction.
If a forecaster really doesn't feel confident to make a prediction on the next day he has to spread his tokens evenly across all three bins.
The Economist's poll of private forecasters shows the average prediction is for growth next year of 0.6%, down from 2.6% in September (before the terrorist attacks).
StanChart point out that their prediction of a construction boom next year hinges on government policy.
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To prove it, I'll send you one free prediction every week for the next five weeks, and when you see I'm 100% accurate I can guarantee you'll be praying there is still a copy of the program left.
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That unrealistic way of predicting future trends could keep stock prices up this month before they begin to fall next month if my prediction of slowing economic growth starting now is accurate.
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Earlier, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas told MPs on the European Scrutiny Committee the "best estimate" of numbers of workers from the 10 newest countries to join the European Union was a prediction of 665, 000 for next month - 550, 000 more than when they joined the EU in May 2004.
Hopefully its central prediction that these rates will fall during the next few months, and that underlying inflation will be 2.5% two years from now, will prove more accurate.
Traveling down from the top of the hierarchy to the base sensations, he figures, the neocortex functions as a prediction machine, anticipating what we will see next, where the ball is headed or how an experiment might turn out.
My prediction: a drastic increase in Rickrolling over the next 48 hours.
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This is a prediction of the likelihood of a customer defaulting over the next 12 months.
"I will make a prediction right now, " says Christian Svensson, editor of Next Generation Online, a videogame magazine based in Brisbane, Calif.
The nine-member committee, which sets interest rates, sees the exchange rate falling over the next two years, but warns of uncertainty surrounding this prediction.
My prediction is that we will easily hit 300% penetration over the next five years and others are even more bullish in their estimates.
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But one of the most mind-bending is the low probability prediction that one of the five companies expected to launch a drug next year will actually manage to deliver good stock performance.
The neon headline that came out of Blair's testimony was his prediction that al-Qaida will try to attack America again within the next six months.
The first cases are likely to be brought in Alabama or Texas next year--although Frazier hastened to add that that prediction has to do with the way cases were scheduled, not with any particular patients.
While many have been quick to write off the injured Tiger Woods, my prediction is he will come back for some memorable duels with McIlroy over the next decade.
Those on the front lines of networking, such as the telcos, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange companies and wireless operators, still prefer time-tested Unix as the operating system for networks. (Prediction: Cisco and Lucent may become the biggest threats to Microsoft over the next five years.) n Thanks to the Internet, small niche companies can reach mass markets in a heartbeat.
For baseball games, there are five different prediction games, including the results of an at bat, the direction of the next hit and what a runner on base will do.
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When the initial prediction turned out to be correct, students were more willing to pay to see the next forecast.
For anyone who has been compelled to give a long-term vision or read a marketing forecast for the next decade, Mr. Taleb's chapter excoriating "The Scandal of Prediction" will ring painfully true.
My prediction is CEO Tim Cook will raise the dividend at least 20 percent or so within the next quarter.
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