There is large speculation (though nothing evidently documented yet) about the moon phase, direction the player is facing, in-game day (every day of the week is assigned an element), and even time of day the synthesis is performed to either increase or reduce the results of the recipe.
If Nick Clegg were to fall on his sword before the next election and be replaced by Cable – both very large "ifs" – the speculation about closer relations would become deafening.
The investment bank expanded rapidly after 2008, when Barclays bought the Wall Street operations of Lehman Brothers, although in recent days there has been speculation about large-scale resignations following the departure of Skip McGee, head of its US investment banking operations.
The unresolved larger narrative arc encourages speculation about future story events.
Rich's parents gave a statement to Newsweek, saying, "It's unfortunate and hurtful that at the moment a murderer remains at large, there remains unfounded press speculation about the activities of our son that night," adding, "We should be focusing on the perpetrator at large".
Far from dampening the outlook for ever-larger communications concerns, the dissolution of the agreement fueled speculation about consolidation among large telecommunications companies, with both WorldCom and Sprint being mentioned as potential takeover targets for foreign companies.
In The History Teacher, Keith Polakoff comments that "only with the publication of Blassingame's work do we obtain for the first time a detailed examination of the daily lives of the slaves on large plantations, with some intelligent speculation about the forces to which they were subjected.
Far from dampening the outlook for ever-larger communications concerns, the dissolution of the agreement, which had been expected for several days, fueled speculation about consolidation among large telecommunications companies.
The news at Random House, which included the resignations of the heads of two of its largest groups, followed months of speculation about the company.
There was speculation about what larger message from the West Mr. Papandreou, left, might be passing on to Mr. Milosevic, given the lavish pre-election coverage his meeting with Mr. Milosevic, indicted for war crimes, received on state television.
The Herald probe, meanwhile, showed Epstein's plea deal seemed almost designed to stoke speculation about a larger plot of international sex trafficking, for which there was some evidence, by providing immunity to "any potential co-conspirators").
