If the latest forecast materializes, it would be the fastest job growth since last May, when the numbers were lifted by temporary Census-related hiring.
If anyone deserves credit should a comeback materialize, it would be Thom Browne, for years the white shirt's most visible fan.
If that much snow materializes, it would be New York City's biggest snowstorm since Jan . 7 , 1996when 13.6 inches of snow fell in Central Park.
If the expected cut materializes, it would be the sixth rate cut this year the Fed's most aggressive cutting in almost two decades.
If the deal to buy Lucent, a descendant of the 132-year-old telecommunications empire formed by Alexander Graham Bell, materializes, it would be the boldest move yet by Serge Tchuruk, Alcatel's chief executive.
Like Masaru Sakai, who was about to capitalize on an investment and figured that even if the tsunami materialized, it wouldn't be a concern, Murakami rationalized not evacuating.
If a book had never materialized it would have been, in a way, wholly in keeping with the spirit of the subject.
If a crisis akin to that of 2008 and 2009 were to materialize again, however, it would be harder for Asia to bounce back as quickly as it did in 2009.
Colin Devine, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney in New York, said that if a competing bid for Clarica were to materialize it would most likely come from the Power Financial Corporation of Montreal, which controls Great-West Lifeco, Canada's third-biggest insurance group.
Mr. Sanders added that from the start he suspected that nothing might materialize: "I always had the thought that maybe it would be an absent presence.
