Circuit City has been struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, and if history is any guide, the future for Circuit City is not bright.
One way to project the future with confidence is to look to history, when it was warmer.
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Author of The City: A Global History, he is finishing a book on the American future.
Although past performance is no guarantee of future returns, the Theory is an interesting one worthy of note and has a history dating back to the 1800s and has been accurate in three out of its past four predictions.
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It will be hard, but for supporters here that is the future - this was a moment of history, a moment of joy and relief.
The reason for that second objective is also the reason for thinking 2011 might, in the history books of the future, be seen as the year when the space cadets' dream finally died.
Siilasmaa's company is based in Espoo, Finland, a city among lakes and forests that lacks history, but is dense with the future.
The milonga -- essentially any place or event where people gather to dance tango -- is where the history of the dance meets its future, where the nostalgic sounds of accordions blend with the rejuvenating energy of youth, and where the most seasoned dancers share the dance floor with novices.
But you guys stuck with me because you knew that at each and every juncture in our history, when our future is on the line, when our country is at a crossroads -- like we are now -- we can come together and we can do big things.
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But in addition to Aboriginal history, Sydney is also emphasising the present and future of its indigenous inhabitants.
They complain, for instance, that history is too much neglected in the consideration of future trends.
Cain should rest assured that no matter how dubious his marital history is, if he plays his cards right in the future he can win back his conservative creds.
And though these countries may be a great distance from our shores, we know that our own future is bound to this region by the forces of economics and security, by history and by faith.
And so I say to this Congress and this country, something that runs deep in your character and is woven in your history, we conquer our fear of the future through our faith in the future.
In particular, for those who are not well versed in this topic, Hess grounds the conversation in the possibilities of where technology will go in the future and in a history of regulation, distance learning, and technology that is useful to understand and heed.
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Even greater use of 3D mapping for these tasks and others is "inevitable" in the future, according Prof Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps.
On its streets you wander through yesterday and tomorrow, from ancient history to accelerating future, sometimes in the same shimmering minute, and there is nowhere, absolutely nowhere, quite like it in our world or in our time.
If we accept Mr. Taleb's premise about power-law ascendancy, we are left with a troubling question: How do you function in a world where accurate prediction is rarely possible, where history isn't a reliable guide to the future and where the most important events cannot be anticipated?
My worry is that some future Friedman, some monetary scholar of the future, will write in her history of these times that it was this, this one action, this one moment, that was the gibbering insanity that crashed the system for a decade or more.
This agreement between Democrats and Republicans, on behalf of all Americans, is on a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.
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Truly, this is a nation that encompasses both a rich history and a belief in the promise of the future.
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Greenspan's failure is history now, but we should demand that the Fed take asset bubbles more seriously in the future.
The answer is by spending most of its time looking backwards into its glorious history rather than forwards into a future that required a major shift in business strategy.
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That history is worth bearing in mind when assessing the latest bout of fretfulness about the dollar's future.
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Our goal is to act as responsible stewards if a unique unspoiled area and preserve history while conserving wetlands for the future.
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Modern Berlin is a city escaping the weight of its history, yet while Berliners seem intent on inventing their own future, visitors will find themselves constantly reminded of the city's past.
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