"I don't know what to do about that," said Dan Madzelan, chief of forecasting and policy analysis for the department's office of postsecondary education.
"It's a passive and open invitation for your friends to come join you," said Rene Pinnell, co-founder and chief executive of Forecast.
"We could have continued to call it a hurricane for one or two days," said James Franklin, the chief of hurricane forecasts for the center.
Harold A. Linstone, emeritus professor of systems science at Portland State University and longtime editor in chief of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, said Dr. Hoos was in many ways the intellectual conscience in the field of technology assessment.
They were designed to be open and accessible and easily linked, and that means one or a few people have the potential to be highly disruptive and very destructive," says Thomas Fingar, the longtime chief of global trends forecasting for the US intelligence community's National Intelligence Council (NIC).
Hovnanian also will pay off about $15 million of Forecast debt, Hovnanian's chief financial officer, J. Larry Sorsby, said.
Although years vary, the trend is that over the last three decades the expanse of Hudson Bay ice on that date has decreased by about one-third, according to John Falkingham, chief of the service's Ice Forecasting unit.
Mr. Cheney, a former White House chief of staff and defense secretary, was forecast to be the equivalent of a prime minister.
Barclay Knapp, the chief executive, forecast that the company would meet its 2001 earnings goal of £385 million ($562 million), compared with 2000 earnings of £229 million.
Mr. Carter, chief of the brand division, said the new forecast probably would be in "the mid-15s" but that the number was not final.
