Word: foresaw
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...course, budget projections are notoriously fuzzy. A few years ago, no one foresaw the surplus. This year many experts were surprised it melted. About the best thing politicians can hope for is that these latest gloomy estimates will prove wrong...
Conversely, out-of-state operators were supposed to flock to California. These new competitors would help bring down electric rates that were among the highest in the country. "To be charitable," Wilson told TIME last week, "no one fully foresaw the dimensions of the increase in demand...
...Crimson hardly foresaw such a tough match after its powerful start. Breaking free of a sluggish 5-5 tie in the first game, the Crimson pulled out the game with a six-point rally and dominated the second game with 17 kills...
Stine's prophecy got the drift of the future right but erred on the details. It took far less than a decade for droves of young readers to desert his two series; and the other things he foresaw himself doing turn out to look spookily like the things he was doing before...
Since the age of steam, the European labor movement has mustered red flags and brass bands on May Day for a traditional show of strength. But this year, post-May Day, Europe faces a labor paradox that Karl Marx never foresaw. While 15 million people are registered as unemployed in the 15-nation European Union, millions of jobs still go begging for lack of qualified applicants...