In the meantime, financiers will keep trying to use the pair's methods to make money, and economists will continue to use their analyses and methods to make crucial forecasts.
Mr. Obama's ability — or inability — to help here will be crucial in forecasting his own chances in 2012.
Modeling the depletion induced permeability alteration is crucial in forecasting hydrocarbon production and designing a drilling strategy.
Clouds are one of the biggest wild cards of climate change: They're crucial to forecasting the future but devilishly hard to model.
Understanding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is crucial to forecasting future climate change impacts, as it holds enough ice to raise sea levels globally by at least 3m (10ft) and perhaps 7m (23ft).
Thus, an understanding of the resilience threshold to fire for these ecosystems, and the linkages with fuel modification, is crucial to forecasting their response to global changes.
The nature of size fluctuations is crucial in forecasting future population persistence, independently of whether the variability stems from external forces or from the dynamics of the population renewal process.
NHC forecasters had factored in conditions such as warmer waters in the tropical Atlantic and the absence of an El Niño, but, as Masters notes, "not everything crucial to a forecast can be forecasted months ahead".
Crucial in such forecasts is the assumption one makes about the average annual physician productivity in future years.
