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...will make a "substantial formal offer" to compensate families of the 270 victims within a month. The April 23 letter to families was written by New York City attorney James P. Kreindler, who has been in Paris negotiating with senior Libyans behind closed doors. Kreindler's missive does not predict how much money Gaddafi will put on the table. However, a number of estimates place the figure as high as $3.5 billion...
Organizers predict they will draw between 3,000 and 4,000 people to the MAC Quad during peak hours, according to Michael R. Blickstead ’05, co-chair of the council’s Campus Life Committee...
Manufacturers aren't the only businesses that can profit from forecasting software. Internet companies use it to predict when their sites will get the most hits so their servers don't crash. Credit-card companies calculate who is likely to default. And looking at such factors as employees' ages, salaries, number of years on the job, how often they have changed jobs in the past and opportunities in their fields, human-resources departments predict which employees are most likely to quit...
...total revenue within five years. That means building new stores not just in established economies like Japan but also in countries with fast-emerging consumer cultures like China, where there are already 42 Wal-Mart and Carrefour outlets and dozens more on the way. In South Korea alone, analysts predict the number of hypermarkets to swell to 230 within three years, up from nine...
These expenses become particularly problematic because program administrators often predict unrealistically low costs for staffing and equipment to encourage the school to approve their requests, Hogan says...