Meanwhile, the data continue to disappoint.
"The manufacturing data continue to show signs of improvement.
But in 1999, a safety board report concluded that "missing or erroneous data continue to occur at an alarming rate".
DNA data continue to resolve the relationships among major groups of birds.
Companies with customer data continue to gamble on their own computer security, even as the break-ins increase.
"But if the data continue to show the same kind of results that we've had in the first set of reviews, I would certainly recommend extending the policy".
If data continue to support this challenge, the theory will be discarded because, like evolution, it was "only a theory" in the first place.
"Despite better-than-expected earnings reports, especially last week, unfortunately the economic data continue to be weaker than expectations," said Conrad F. DeQuadros, and economist with RDQ Economics.
Their data continue to show uncertainty (as they measure it) rising with the debt ceiling and again with the fiscal cliff.
"There is no Library of Congress for astronomy," Dr. Szalay says, and as long as the data continue to accumulate at an exponential pace, there will never be one.
However, we will be tempted to push this back to November or beyond, should the run of activity data continue to disappoint, or indeed if the tone of next week's inflation report is more dovish than we expect.
