Immediacy, simultaneity and the rapidity of communication mask the passage of time and prevent projection into the future.

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And the full-year projection he made at the time, 43-to-45 cents, also down from 63 cents for the year ended January 31.

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June, which was preceded by a 2.6% growth projection for 2012 at this time last year and 7.4% growth forecast for 2012 published in the spring of 2011.

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"The boulder signals a point in time and a concrete idea of the launch and a projection into the future, " said Mike Stanley.

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It's time for someone over at IDC to pop the champagne, as its 2007 projection about the end of rear-projection TVs turned out to be only a year off, now that the last company still making them has announced it's getting out of the game.

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Why seek to replicate back-projection, for instance, when those compelled to use it at the time would have been thrilled to find something more realistic?

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The placement reflects the vote or state delegate totals being provided at the time, and not a candidate's pledged delegate estimate or CNN's projection of the candidate's final placement in the contest.

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Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.

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MPC's central projection is that inflation will be close to the 2% target in two years' time (see chart).

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