This speculation drove up real estate prices in the cities, causing widespread dissatisfaction among the public.
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All levels of society participated in this speculation and some great fortunes were made and lost.
For now, most of this speculation is for the future, if not the birds.
This speculation is based on studies reported last week at the European Federation of Neurosciences Society in Sweden.
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This speculation is understandable but let me assure you Dalglish will only play Carroll if he is fully fit.
There's all this speculation about his health but don't worry folks, he's fine -- the album proves it doesn't it?
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This speculation drives prices even higher, until some shock (or the desire to take profits) causes the boom to implode.
If this speculation is true, Icahn could push for a board seat and press the company to consider a sale.
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In fact, I'd suggest, what we have seen is that China is becoming quite savvy at getting good public relations from this speculation.
As a result, we believe the recent speculation around breaking HP up will dissipate and the associated stock rally resulting from this speculation will fade.
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Even if some of this speculation is wide of the mark, the fact that the Labour leadership is being discussed less than a year into Mr Brown's tenure is alarming.
And regardless of the logic, from an investment perspective, it's important to be aware of this speculation, since some of the deals are real possibilities, and more consolidation is pretty much inevitable.
What this speculation actually reveals is that many in Brazil are longing for experienced and winning coaches, who are keen on discipline and hard work, but will not compromise talent in the process.
Of course, Sony could just end all this speculation and guess work by showing us a PS3 powering two 1080p screens beautifully, at which point we will collectively hand over our wallets, souls and firstborn children.
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After spending yesterday in Berlin, I can tell you the German government is mightily fed up with all this speculation - and fed up with getting blamed for everything bad happening in the global economy (last week's cover of the Economist, for example).
But this is speculation based on assumptions about future developments of computer hardware and software.
This prompted speculation that one of his predecessors, Surayud Chulanont, was in line for the job.
That meeting was cancelled suddenly, and so there was this great speculation about what it all meant.
Presumably, the NIE's authors would admit that this is speculation rather than a statement of fact, since the facts suggest otherwise.
But as flamingoes tend to spend much longer filter feeding in water than these other birds, this remains speculation, Anderson says.
Nobody is engaged in this intense speculation of how well John McCain and Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani are going to do.
All this prompts speculation over whether Mr Peretz and Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, are too much under the security establishment's thumb.
This was speculation on the future direction of share prices.
The truth is that all of this is speculation, and the people who were sent to value the riches have been told to submit the inventory and its value to the court.
It should be said, this idea that Intel will manufacture for Apple is only speculation at this time.
There is, to be sure, a certain hot-potato aspect to this kind of speculation.
Please do note that this is informed speculation, not a result of any inside knowledge.
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This set off speculation that the White House was preparing itself for more bad news.
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