But Long Island City, the long predicted fourth central business district in the city -- after midtown and downtown Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn -- is largely on hold, its momentum stopped cold by the events of Sept. 11.
CURRENCY forecasters who have long predicted its decline have seen the dollar climb inexorably for years.
It's not the delivery, it's the program". Ironically, KFI owes much of its top-spot boon to satellite radio -- something critics have long predicted would be its eventual doom.
ONE of Britain's longest-running merger stories resurfaced this week, with reports that Telewest, one of Britain's two remaining cable companies, had appointed Rothschild, an investment bank, to advise it on the possibility of a merger with its rival, NTL.Industry-watchers have long predicted an alliance.
It also points to a long predicted trend whereby the smartphone replaces your wallet.
Peak oil - that is the theoretical moment when oil extraction will reach its height and inevitably decline - has been long predicted and never arrived.
It's painful to see their condition, but it's not surprising: Scientists have long predicted the situation now playing out.
He'd been after her job for ages, and now – as she'd long predicted – he'd finally stolen it.
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who was the new law's primary sponsor, has long predicted that lawyers would erode it over time.
Investors have long predicted a meltdown in the Japanese bond market, given that its public debt stands at nearly 240% of GDP.
* Air power: Advocates have long predicted that strategic bombing could inflict such devastation on a society that its people would overthrow their leader.
