Website designers rely on accurate predictions of network growth to understand the demands placed on their infrastructures, and work such as this can help them make more reliable forecasts.

网站设计者依赖于网络成长的准确预测以理解用户对其基础设施的需求，诸如此类的工作可以帮助他们做出更可靠的预测。

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And his predictions for the public finances are acutely vulnerable to setbacks in his forecasts for strong GDP growth from 2011 until 2014.

他预测2011年至2014年GDP会有强势增长，其中他对公共财政的预测极易受到猛烈抨击。

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Rabobank's predictions add to forecasts that food costs may surge next year, potentially raising inflation and paving the way for a reprisal of the bull market in 2008, when prices surged to records.

拉博银行预测，明年食品价格将可能大幅度上涨，当涨到一定程度时，将加大通货膨胀度，这是对08年牛市的报复。

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And therefore they turn to and depend on predictions and forecasts.

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Almost half of CMOs have used social data to make predictions or forecasts, and nearly nine in 10 say this data has influenced their decisions.

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There are, you know, in a normal political society, you can make forecasts and predictions and, you know, go on Sunday morning shows and make a fool of yourself, but sometimes you can be right because people talk and debate, and there's real politics.

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