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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Continued steady growth across the industry is exhibited in May chip sales and, as announced in our forecast last month, we expect the industry to close the second quarter with growth of 4.7 percent.

During the summer, nearly every area of the country is normally subject to periods of extreme heat, wetness, or dryness. Summer weather patterns over the continental U.S. are more difficult to forecast than those in the winter season because they are not strongly tied to a climate indicator, such as an El Nino or La Nina.

There's still plenty of warm water that it needs to move over in the next couple days. The forecast is favourable for further intensification.

There's a great deal of uncertainty associated with this cutoff low system as to where it will stall, where it will come across. So people need to remain in touch and don't assume the forecast won't change.

The trade deficit seems to only get bigger and never recede. The reasons are clear, oil prices are up, foreign growth is still relatively weak and US growth is strong. There is no reason to forecast a lower deficit.

The trend is still toward wider deficits, so this is a concern for the U.S. dollar. I continue to forecast it lower.

The trajectory that emerges from this forecast is one in which inflation is temporarily high in the current quarter but quickly approaches the current estimate of long-run inflation of 2.5 percent.

I've been reading press clippings about what I can do and what I couldn't do for a long time. That's just the nature of the business. ... Forecasts are forecasts. It's forecast to rain today, probably, but that doesn't mean it's going to. What matters is what we think about ourselves.

It would have been better to have left the growth forecast unchanged, but that would have lowered the inflation forecast to below its target. They are having to work hard not to have to cut interest rates.

The winds are forecast to remain calm, so if we wait until tomorrow morning, the batteries will deplete, the relays and valves will go to the normally open condition. As the oxidizer warms up, the tank vents will open, removing the flight pressure. With the booster depressurized and batteries depleted, it will then be safe to approach the rocket.

The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.

It was very promising until the temperature dropped a bit and more snow fell than expected. The weather forecast indicated clear skies during the race. So the assessment was completely wrong in relation to how things went.

These companies are having a tough time following through with the kind of sales projections they had forecast only months ago, ... No one, including the analysts themselves, had predicted such a significant and all-encompassing slowdown, and there's a lot more to come.

The September results are in line with the 1997-2000 worldwide forecast we released last week which calls for industry growth of 5.5 percent in 1997 and 16.8 percent in 1998.

The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions

The strength of electronics output and exports were one of the pillars supporting the Singapore economy in the first quarter. Services grew strongly as well and that will help the Singapore government achieve its growth forecast this year.

The study shows there will be sustained pressure on rail networks over the next 10 to 15 years caused by forecast increases in the numbers of commuters.

The simple reason that they're able to forecast that kind of figure, that they're able to launch and get retail acceptance for something this large, is really positive.

The swell is expected to come up this afternoon, so there is a good chance we'll start the competition tomorrow. The forecast for the remainder of the waiting period is excellent.

The three things we'll digest this week are earnings and guidance for the fourth quarter, and the long-term forecast for energy prices.

The Sunday and Monday forecast is pretty good, it will help us get a handle on it.

The thaw is set to start at seven tonight and temperatures are expected to rise so if they've got the forecast right, we are laughing.

Sony's higher forecast is a positive signal that the restructuring and efforts to improve finances and other reforms are leading to results. It's a turning point.

Our concern just gets deeper as every day passes without rain. The forecast is still no rain.

Ophelia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next 12 hours.

... No rain is in the forecast for the rest of the week. This means that ground conditions will become even drier.

Normally we'd get about 10. This year, the forecast is averaging 20 or even higher.

Then, a strong high-pressure ridge is forecast to develop over the eastern United States. This pattern would force Ophelia westward and west-northwestward toward the US coast.

a forecast about the future evolution of policy, not an unconditional commitment.

After a long product portfolio transition, we forecast that Bristol-Myers could return to a period of sustained high teens earnings per share growth in 2007-2010.

The most modern weather forecast system will be in place by 2009, in time for the Delhi Commonwealth Games.

Some strengthening is forecast ... and Maria could be near hurricane strength by Sunday.

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter as forecast by many meteorologists. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Despite our conservative remarks on margin compression and pricing intensity, we continue to believe Intel will meet our revenue forecast and reiterate our intermediate-term neutral and long-term accumulate rating.

Detailed planning will follow if the forecast for success in program growth is positive.

Anyone who was surprised by Toyota's forecast has been living on another planet.

An unexpected surge in wages would likely see the bank raising its inflation forecast and needing to tighten rates, so keeping a close eye on wages and inflation data in the coming quarters will be important.

A number of developments concern us. These include the excessive dependence of global demand on consumption, especially in the US, the elevated level of asset prices, particularly housing and the high and volatile price of oil. The downside risks to our forecast have thus increased.

An increase in inflation doggedly forecast to follow the ever lower unemployment rate--now the lowest in three decades -- has not occurred,

As far as the biggest surprise goes, it would have to be that the increase in energy costs did not impact demand at all, ... When we put our forecast together a year ago. we were quite conservative and expected demand to be flat.

As forecast at the beginning of the year, full service airlines have begun to look at new ways to encourage travel and provide good deals for their customers on both their long-haul and short-haul routes and these incentives are paying off for some of the carriers, possibly easing the strain of higher fuel costs on the industry.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

A year and a half ago it was pretty obvious how to forecast the path of the funds rate. Now, I think what happens is really going to depend on the new data that comes in.

A year ago, the Energy Department forecast that gasoline would be selling for $1.80 a gallon, not the $3.12 a gallon that it was in Colorado yesterday, ... These continuing high prices will create economic havoc in Colorado's economy and across the country.

Barclays brought their ECB rate forecast forward to May rather than June, and it's definitely given the market a reason to sell off.

The models that we look at, most of them are going in all different directions. So, it's making it difficult to forecast for us where Ophelia is going to go.

This is a sign that the committee is beginning to think aloud about shifting to a more neutral position - but the forecast of significantly slower growth will have to come first, ... For now, the elevated headline inflation rate and the tight pool of available labor remain bigger concerns, so the Fed's guard is still up.

This is a purely voluntary program. It's an individual's choice and there's no way we can put a forecast or number on that.

This is an industry in crisis. Every oil company will reduce their production forecast as lower spending will immediately be followed by lower production and lower reserve replacement.

The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

The wealth of information collected ... will lead to better hurricane forecast capabilities in the future.

This early forecast has put us in good shape.

This development brings the advantages and pervasiveness of the GSM platform to the notebook market, where this year sales of more than 60 million laptops are forecast worldwide. As 3G network roll-outs accelerate across the world, with additional media rich capabilities added through HSDPA upgrades, laptops with in-built connectivity to the 3GSM world will enable PC users to enjoy the full benefits of seamless access to mobile broadband wireless services with secure authentication.

This forecast unrealistically assumes that discretionary spending will grow only with inflation, that all expiring tax breaks will expire on schedule -- they almost never do -- and that Congress will not enact the prescription drug benefit for Medicare that a House-Senate conference is now debating.

This amounts to a profit warning ... and it's hard to avoid connecting (Alan Giles' departure) with the profit warning. My reaction would be to cut 20 million pounds off my (pre-tax) profit forecast to 90 million pounds.

This is a bit of consolidation ahead of the major data that we get tomorrow. The forecast for the data is relatively optimistic, although that optimistic outlook does not seem to be played out in the markets.

A lot of things have to come together to make my forecast of a slowing current account deficit come true.

They knew exactly what was going to happen, but they ... were afraid to make a decision, because they believed if they made a wrong forecast they would get blamed.

It?s easier to forecast the weather for next year than forecast whether orange will be the hot color next year.

It seems so tied to the price of oil, that it's very hard to forecast what stocks will do next. On balance the message of the markets for the last nine trading sessions, including today, seems to have shifted to say that the price of oil is taking a chunk out of consumer spending.

It's a turning point. Sony's higher forecast is a positive signal that the restructuring and efforts to improve finances and other reforms are leading to results.

It is very hard at this point in time to forecast either length of time where there may be disruptions or where they will occur, ... But I think it likely to be that there will be some disruption in terms of supply of motor fuels.

It's very difficult to try to make a stock market forecast based on an interest rate outlook because things change. We don't think you gain a whole lot of value by trying to make those type of predictions. Take a step back, get rid of a lot of noise, and focus on good businesses, good industries and not pay too much, you sleep a whole lot better and you've got a much greater probability of success.

It's nothing short of incredible. It's not enough to send me scurrying to raise my forecast for next year, but it's pointing toward considerable momentum going into the new year. It gives me more confidence we're going to be able to maintain strong growth in the first half.

For instance, we're as accurate today on a five-day forecast as we were 15 years ago on a three-day forecast. So that improvement is almost a doubling in the accuracy of forecasting.

For anybody to sit back today and say that they forecast he was going to be the player he is now, that's just impossible. If that was the case, there's no way Toronto ever would have dealt him. He's become a superstar. He's unbelievable.

It looks like GDP growth forecast risks might be on the upside.

It's another indication of why I think this revenue forecast is very risky,

It?s going to continue snowing throughout the nighttime hours and into tomorrow morning. We expect the snowfall to intensify throughout the evening and should keep with our original forecast of 8 to 13 inches by the time it?s all over.

It should be no surprise that two different organizations, using different analysts, different methodologies and different assumptions come to different math at the end of the day. Where there's no difference, however, is that both OMB and CBO forecast that we meet the president's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009.

It's unclear whether the declines are related to year-end concerns or to a more general softening in manufacturing activity, but they do add evidence to the (Fed's) forecast for slower growth going forward.

Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves he should make while he worked the computer controller.

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Consumer sentiment numbers are not reflecting economic sentiment, but political or social sentiment. If you were generating an economic forecast of spending from these numbers, you'd be totally wrong.

The official forecast is very uncertain...The computer model guidance is really all over the place,

The October sales are another indication that the industry is on track to achieve our forecast of 4.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter.

The numbers were mostly in line with what we were expecting. We've marginally upped our profit forecast to just above 25 million pounds and are holding our overweight recommendation.

Even with the increased forecast numbers, this won't be one of the worst seasons of the century, ... but we are anticipating an active season not unlike several of the most recent years.

Everybody has to learn a little more economics than they want to learn, now that we're drawing more and more of a distinction between actual GDP and final domestic demand, which is GDP minus inventories. Inventories can surprise. It's hard to make a solid forecast about them, and the Fed said that. I think the market continues to overestimate Fed rate cuts.

E-commerce last year, revenues totaled about $3 billion, ... We anticipate they'll total about $7 billion in 1998. And the forecast for 2002 is $41.1 billion.

Economic policymakers face enormous uncertainty. Economic models provide a set of useful tools to frame future outcomes, but as we were reminded repeatedly during our efforts to forecast the economy in 1974 and 1975, models can go off track in myriad ways, ... Objective and thorough analysis ... is the most effective counterweight to this challenge.

Economic growth is better than what was forecast in October, though this needs to be balanced with the fact that inflationary pressures haven't built up as much.

The big question continues to be what will happen beyond the five-day forecast period. It is still impossible to state with any confidence whether a specific area along the U.S. coast will be impacted by Isabel.

The bonds were forecast to jump as their government backing means little risk to investors. As the country's stock markets still face policy uncertainties, these bonds provide a haven for investors.

The best thinking right now is 8 to 15 inches. We make a forecast for the most likely event happening.

The best option in these cases ... is to forecast little motion. The bottom line is that Ophelia will likely meander just off the northern Florida and southeast Georgia coasts for the next five days.

The basic conclusion is that 1999-2000 will bring further gains in corporate profits, mild-mannered inflation and a generally favorable outcome for equity prices. Increasing confidence that the economic expansion will continue through our newly-extended forecast horizon encourages a modest upward revision in stock price targets.

The bad news is rain stays in the forecast basically until further notice.

The adoption rate in the region is slow, but we forecast that it will pick up gradually. Just like managed care originated on the West Coast and worked its way east, we think there will be a similar pattern with that here.

It's built to address flexibility on the service side of business. You have a lot of variability that needs to be baked into service. It starts with the commitment to the customer. Based on that, forecast in the need for parts and labor capacity at each location ... that translates into recommended action, what to buy, what to stock, what to move. On the labor side it is hiring and training. But all of those decisions must be made months before the actual need of the customer in order to be prepared in the most profitable way possible.

Nokia will go on conquering the mobile phone market at the expense of its rivals. Nokia has reiterated (its) forecast for the next three years, which makes a refreshing change for companies in this sector.

Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be.

It's very hard to forecast turning points, ... glamour cities.

They built in some room in the first period running up to Feb. 28, so they have more cushion relative to forecast than is true in subsequent months. And the way the covenants work, as you proceed through March, April and May, that's when they anticipated the cost savings would kick in.

They have over 30 years of hiking experience, but tonight the temperature is forecast to be 10 degrees below zero.

They just beat last quarter's (earnings) forecast and raised their guidance.

These things are extremely difficult to forecast and Ophelia has been a pain in the neck from the beginning,

The near term out of these companies is shaky. It's the forecast for higher growth in the second half that is really bringing markets higher today. People are seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel.