Colonel Gardiner said he was puzzled by the Pentagon's inability to predict this outcome.
"Paradoxically," he concluded, for cancer patients "this inability to predict the future becomes their sustaining hope".
But an inability to predict the cloud's behaviour made matters worse.
A paper in the Journal of Consumer Research explores this process, as well as consumers' inability to predict it.
Cisco Systems dropped 30 cents, to $18.83, a session after its inability to predict a turnaround ignited some selling.
He said, "A roadblock in developing new drugs has been the inability to predict what will happen over time".
Meantime, he said, "There's growing frustration with this inability to predict how long the government is going to stay open".
They offer final evidence of his inability to predict the actions of his high-minded but wily adversary: Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.
Ms. Saporta also noted that the 2007 decision to publish economic projections had focused some unflattering attention on the Fed's inability to predict the future.
Any variations in results from year to year owes more to respondents' inability to predict acceptance rates and total admissions with unfailing accuracy than to any inherent flexibility in the quotas.
Alan Ackerman, senior vice president of Fahnestock & Company, said: The inability to predict market swings has created three camps in Wall Street -- the bulls, the bears and the bewildered.
