Those involved in the No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign also predicted the trouble.
Yet even as it predicted the trouble, Germany failed to anticipate that the countries running a trade surplus would inevitably need to finance the southern states' shortfalls.
No surprise, because Del Bosque had predicted the trouble Spain would be in if it underestimated Argentina's array of talent among its forwards.
As just about nobody predicted the present troubles, humility is what becomes today's forecaster the most.
The figure of 40 percent was commonly cited by people involved in the assessment, but that number could go higher as government number crunchers try to predict the impact of Cyprus's troubles on the value of the bank's assets.
Throw in the Great Recession, the trouble predicting the weather, and consumer spending shifts away from apparel to electronics, and it's not surprising that merchandise buyers in department stores have become more conservative.
A story of love, death and fate, this truly adult movie has a great cast that includes Marie Bell as both Florence and Irma, Charles Vanel as a vile hotelier and Françoise Rosay as a compassionate barmaid who predicts the hero's troubled future.
The index attempted to predict where trouble across the Arab world was most likely to arise by applying a subjective weighting to factors such as the length of time the leader had been in power, GDP per person and the level of democracy.
As many real estate specialists predicted, the deal ran into trouble.
Questioned last week about his hamstring, Barber acknowledged he was having trouble predicting the irregular course of the injury.
