Short termers seem to be the most bearish as they look ahead at the debt ceiling debate in March.
None of this shows up in Mr Bush's deficit projections because they look ahead only five years, not the traditional ten.
When people make big economic decisions like buying a house or a car, or investing in a business, the kind of decisions that will collectively determine how long and deep this recession is when people make those decisions, they don't just act in the present: they look ahead to the future.
When it comes to their own businesses, they look a long time ahead, thinking of what the business is going to be like 5 to 10 years from now.
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That bet is going to take a while to pay off, but I think we should be applauding their willingness to try to look ahead, because for a lot of years people said the companies wouldn't look ahead, they always tried to fight the future.
In his story, sorcerers and fortune-tellers had to walk backwards since their heads had been twisted 180 degrees, unable to see what is ahead because they tried, through forbidden means, to look ahead to the future in life.
However the complaint I have with most of them is they are too complicated, and they tend to look too far ahead.
But it was the loss of Samuels just three overs before the close which really gave West Indies food for thought as they look to regain some confidence ahead of the second Test in Hobart.
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While other research has been done in this area, it has tended to be retrospective - looking back at the event leading up to an outbreak - rather than using that data to try to look ahead to the next one, they said.
The smart ones look ahead by banking as much money as they can by branding themselves as actresses or designers or talk show hosts--anything really--for those days when the modeling jobs dry up.
We can only hope Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have time to take a look ahead of their encounter tonight, in which they are expected to spend much time discussing China.
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"In the first few years of 77th Street, we were able to tell customers what was the direction, we were able to tell customers what they should look for in terms of what's the trend ahead, " she remembers.
Stock markets typically look ahead six to nine months and react now to what they expect economies to be six to nine months in the future.
You get a decent look at it ahead of time, though, by watching how they build new ways seize it.
Instead, they look more broadly at financial imbalances, particularly excessive growth in credit, which tends to signal problems ahead.
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"The club's progress to the top of the English and European game means that they are set to remain a top 10 Money League club for the foreseeable future, and will look to push on ahead of the two English clubs immediately above them in the Money League, Arsenal and Chelsea, for a top five ranking, " said Houlihan.
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