Nor did Mr. Bush dwell on the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, which he once predicted would abate if Saddam Hussein was ousted from power in Iraq.
Google has essentially conquered spam, which was once predicted to be the death of e-mail: less than one per cent of all spam in Gmail reaches an inbox.
When the Michigan ban is upheld in June, racial preferences will remain constitutionally permissible elsewhere, but the practice seems likely to peter to a halt well in advance of the 2028 date by which Sandra Day O'Connor once predicted it would no longer be necessary.(Photo credit: AFP).
Both candidates were already looking past Florida, which Mr. Gingrich once predicted he would win if he won South Carolina.
The ensuing years have shown how difficult it is to bridge the gap between the gene and the cure, which has been accomplished far less often than people once predicted.
"There's a substantial amount, and an increasing amount of asbestos litigation, which is not what people expected," said Barry R. Ostrager, a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, noting how experts once predicted that the number of claims would decline over time.
Although "Pearl Harbor" had grossed $160 million through last weekend, the film, which cost $140 million, has slowed at the box office and will not be the biggest hit of the summer as Eisner once predicted.
Bank had once predicted +4%.
Barring an exceptionally harsh recession, which no well-known economist is predicting, enough spending reductions have been made to keep the annual deficit from climbing to the $300 billion that the President's former budget director, David S. Stockman, once predicted.
Chemistry is underpinned by an elegant conceptual framework which, once mastered, enables chemists to predict and explain the properties and reactivity of many, many different substances.
