Despite a respectable showing this season, ticket sales were far off projections in the fall.
Two years after the embarrassment of making erroneous projections in the 2000 presidential election, the major television news organizations are taking extra measures to avoid a recurrence.
Among their long-term projections in the 2016 edition: fabulous weather from coast to coast for Election Day, something that could boost the presidential election turnout, Geiger said.
Warnaco, the maker of intimate apparel, said that it would miss earnings estimates by a wide margin, the third time it has missed projections in the last year.
Revenues from the sales tax and income tax that support Alabama's education trust fund fell $266 million behind projections in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, and dropped another $72 million in the first quarter of the current year.
BUSH WINS (THIS TIME THEY MEAN IT) -- For an event of flabbergasting incompetence and importance, it's impossible to beat the mistaken projections in the 2000 presidential election, television's longest night.
Revenue collections have gained steam in the past two months, after significantly underperforming projections in the first quarter.
As a result, the future projections in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were based on data from 25 climate models, including the 25 used here.
The governor's original projection of a $438 million surplus in the next fiscal year has been revised to $1.6 million.
Fertility can defy predictions too: one projection in the 1940s failed to foresee a rise in child-bearing in the following two decades and put the population of England and Wales at 35m in 2000 a third less than proved to be the case.
