But these forecasts are often badly done, or worse, done with a purpose to influence the future while pretending to be predicting it.
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Rather, it is informed by a wide range of experiences, thoughts and emotions, and therefore, to be creative with a purpose requires you to be well-informed of the world around you.
Sometimes I get the feeling that this linear route was designed with a single purpose: to give the happy hiker a near-continuous view of the rocky African coast.
"We're fit and strong, but we've got a team that wants to score goals, we play with a tempo and a purpose - we want to win games, " he told BBC Radio Norfolk.
The B Team, brought to us by Virgin Unite, is a plan with a single purpose: to make business work better.
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And I think today what we see is leaders coming together with a sense of a common purpose to address what ways Europe can, again, solidify its implementation of that plan and what ways the international community can express support for their efforts going forward.
But he seemed to be walking with a purpose, he seemed to be know where he was going.
In the current economic climate, depositors are seeking to develop a relationship with a bank whose purpose is to service and support its customers, rather than one completely focused on its profit margin.
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Establishing a formal presence also demonstrates to potential customers a seriousness of purpose with respect to China.
This Naples Ministerial Council will be key in setting the priorities of the agency in this decade, and Britain has now indicated it wants to play a leading role - but with a very clear purpose: to spur economic growth at home.
Mr. Gingrich was recommended to West Georgia as a dynamic young academic "with a single-minded purpose in life: to become a fine teacher-scholar, " wrote Charles P.
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It's a series with a conscience, and a historical purpose - to retrace part of Cook's voyage of discovery.
Let's work together, with a seriousness of purpose, to do what must be done to keep our country safe.
Mr. Guttman said he could improve on existing art-storage options with a facility purpose-built to receive and protect fine art.
So he expects that if Congress comes back to Washington with a seriousness of purpose, a sense of urgency about the need to do something on the American economy, do something for the American people, they will act quickly -- before Thanksgiving, hopefully -- on jobs and growth.
Understand that with regard to higher education there is a fundamental public purpose to be served and even though the market may be an extraordinary device for sorting, for pricing, for determining who gets what, ultimately the market in the service of the public good is the most powerful potential device we have for ensuring that higher education serves public purposes.
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"My intention was to skate very close to the letter of the law with only one purpose - to achieve a better situation, " he said.
But socially-conscious buying offers a way for consumers to marry unique expression with a social purpose.
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The result is that many vendors that started off with a special purpose solution are looking to extend the product offering.
But the indictment paints another picture of Hall, one of a superintendent with "a single-minded purpose, and that is to cheat, " Howard told reporters last week.
This contrasts with taking a general purpose solution and trying to to it to a very high performance application.
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President Preval formed a provisional government with one purpose: to hold the elections.
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"Even if cloning begins with a benign purpose, it could lead to scientific categories of superior and inferior people, " said Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida.
The United States has deployed a few hundred troops to Jordan, just south of Syria, with the purpose of aiding refugee care and, according to a Los Angeles Times report, as "the vanguard of a potential military force of 20, 000 or more" in case the United States decides to move to secure Syria's chemical weapons.
This type of calamity can be somewhat of a wake up call to action toward aligning a companies culture with a greater purpose.
BitTorrent fundamentally is a technology company, founded with the purpose to efficiently move large files across the Internet.
The cause is based on a simple and clearly understandable idea with a significant and far-reaching purpose: To bring people together to save lives.
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It was designed with a specific purpose in mind, which was to hold Congress's feet to the fire, which is what everybody said at the time would be the effect of the provision.
This year, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is marking the occasion with a variety of activities whose main purpose is to promote tolerance, equity and social justice through access to quality basic education and lifelong learning.
These are not necessarily independent in the sense in which it is understood in western economies, with their primary purpose being to offer a different perspective on the operation of the SOEs from those of the executive rather than to represent other non-state interests.
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