Ever since aiCIO founder Charlie Ruffel and a select few others accurately predicted in the mid-1990s that "defined contribution" was the future, lesser
prognosticators have been dismissing these gargantuan pools of capital.
Prognosticators in the StarTrib newsroom had predicted an 85-percent passage of the contract.
Though gloomy forecasts abound, most
prognosticators have said that any U.S.
"Us" is the community of reporters, pundits and
prognosticators who so confidently -- and so rashly -- stake our reputations on the illusion that we understand politics and have special insight that allows us to predict the behavior of voters.
Despite the
prognosticators and their doom and gloom, it remains a very exciting time to be an appraiser--and a member of the Appraisal Institute--as evidenced by the more than 100 members who achieved their SRA designation last year, and the 70 who received their MAI designation.
College basketball
prognosticators have tabbed Starr as one of the leaders in the Sun Belt and a big key for A-State, which is reloading after losing a significant portion of last year's offense to graduation.
Frankly, a lot of
prognosticators just aren't sure right now.
And, unfortunately, many of the tea-leaf
prognosticators do not foresee a strong bounce-back in the near term.
The company has announced plans to boost its capital spending in the next few years, which is a milestone in itself considering
prognosticators were digging a grave for GM just a year ago.
Other
prognosticators, including a 10th-grade civics class, were political operatives like Paul Kirk, Amy Walter, Kellyann Conway and Fred Wertheimer.
Like the tragic Cassandra, contemporary political
prognosticators occasionally try their hands at geopolitical divination that can also prove unpleasantly prescient.
We hadn't even made it to baseball's All-Star break yet, and the pigskin
prognosticators were already talking about Week 3 of the NFL season!