Most of these random scenarios were highly inconsistent with the model (possibilities lower than 0.1 in 99% and 95% of the datasets, for each battery).
Ford is taking the possibility of lower sales into account as it proceeds with its corporate revamping, Mr. Fields told reporters.
According to the committee's report, HS2 "told us that the possibility of lower train operation speeds had not been considered".
The possibility of lower interest rates, Mr. Mintz said, would help ease some of the expected damage from fourth-quarter earnings disappointments.
The possibility that lower interest rates and tax cuts will prove a shot in the arm for consumers in the US should not be ruled out.
With negotiations for a new television contract set to begin this summer, the N.H.L. is facing the possibility of lower rights fees and, at worst, a reduction in the relatively high visibility it now enjoys.
Chinese companies will soon be in on the act too, bringing the possibility of lower prices and improved technology for electric cars, according to Peter Wells, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School.
While the Sun group is concentrating on the potential speed of asynchronous circuits, the asynchronous circuits group at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is exploiting other potential benefits, including the possibility of lower power consumption and reduced electromagnetic emission.
With a 21 ½-foot lot, Mr. Stearns faced the unpleasant possibility of lower walls so thick they would leave barely eight feet in the clear on the ground floor.
With only a handful of stragglers in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index reporting quarterly earnings last week, investors focused on the possibility of lower interest rates as a reason to buy stocks.
