| Mention a fourth commercial TV network in this country and suddenly the dire predictions emerge in job lots. |
| All these predictions about death rates are based on historical analyses. |
| However, those same predictions can whip us into frenzy if the fateful deadline looms ahead. |
| At best they distill public information into the most accurate predictions possible. |
| Britain would be in the front line but predictions of a Wall Street collapse have simmered for ages and still the good times roll. |
| But here we're making predictions based on certain assumptions, just like Gartner is, and using similar mathematical jiggery-pokery. |
