Is it too much to predict some sort of eccentric exit, written by a team of humorists, within 90 days?
Other studies have found that to some extent it is possible to predict future house-price movements from information available now, namely past price increases and the deviation of prices from their long-run trend.
And it is a good antidote to an undue emphasis on interests, which (notwithstanding the new middle class) leads some people to predict that the state will be difficult to roll back further.
In that world, the immediate past and near future were usually similar enough to allow us to predict the future with some confidence.
That has prompted some analysts to predict that the Reserve Bank of Australia may once again increase borrowing costs at its next meeting.
This led some forecasters to predict that 100m people, half Indonesia's population, would be living in poverty and short of food.
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That led some economists to predict U.S. GDP in the first part of 2012 will be aided by manufacturing aimed at rebuilding inventories.
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Government-bond markets are benefiting from the deteriorating economic outlook, which is leading some forecasters to predict both a recession and a brief period of deflation in 2009.
This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.
While that record will undoubtedly come to an end at some stage, there are those willing to predict that it will not be until after the tournament's conclusion.
The drug certainly seems to work in at least some patients, although it is difficult to predict who will benefit.
You might conclude that the direction of prices and some stocks are easy to predict.
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Reed used his insight, based on some compelling math, to predict in the 1990s that eBay would soon outperform Yahoo even though Yahoo seemed to be as firmly entrenched at the time as Google is today.
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But it's just so hard to predict because there are some individuals who react to the news or they react to things that are happening in their lives and see that is the moment to act.
Most of the schemes he presented in the Budget were not expected to come into force for some time, and their impact was inherently difficult to predict.
Insect allergies may be harder to control than some food allergies because it's not always possible to predict when bees, wasps and other stinging bugs are around, Capes said.
If businesses fail to prepare for IPv6, it is hard to predict the full impact, but we do know that some applications will be hurt, resulting in performance and appearance issues for consumers trying to access those sites.
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This, some predict, will eventually lead to a more relaxed policy towards population-control, even in the big cities.
On the face of it, a warmer world might be expected to create more storms, and some climate models predict it will.
Some research that has helped us to predict extreme weather events.
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Some now predict that the blow to Cyprus's financial sector, which accounts for about half of economic activity, combined with an existing credit squeeze, will send output into a tailspin.
Some of the battles are easy to predict: domestic businesses v. multinationals, manufacturers v. service firms, business whose value-added is in their intellectual property v. those who deal in commodity products.
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While it is impossible to predict a terrorist attack, taking some precautions and preparing oneself should be a priority for all travelers, says Christopher Falkenberg, a former Secret Service agent who now runs Insite Security, a risk management and security consulting firm that services corporations and high-net worth families.
In some companies, Mr Johnson was able to predict a worker's length of employment from how much access he had.
Some predict global GDP growth in 2011 to be around 4.3 percent.
Some experts predict that if it continues to melt at the present rate, it may be entirely gone in little more than a decade.
Some experts predict a Democratic gain of close to 20.
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Still, some predict that by 2009, the ability to swipe everything from a pair of pants to a bar of soap under a scanner will mean that shoppers will spend less time in a cash register line.
The sticking power of well-to-do couples puzzles some sociologists and economists, whose theories predict the opposite outcome.
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