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Whether Mr Persson wins or not, most pundits expect him to step down within a year or two.

But policy makers, pundits and, I'm sorry to say, many economists decided, largely for political reasons, to forget what they used to know.

Nevertheless, pundits were still seeing data that told them the sustainability of any rally was far from certain.

Pundits wholeheartedly agree that the purchase of a strong central defender would be most welcomed.

These pundits, especially in the United States, of course, hoped that this would not be true.

But the professor was delighted to see that pundits' rankings of the best soccer players closely matched the new system's results.

For while debt can be a problem, the way our politicians and pundits think about debt is all wrong, and exaggerates the problem's size.

'It feels like alotta pundits are suddenly trying to call a bottom, ' says Todd Harrison, founder of Minyanville. com.

Back in 2009, armies of television pundits used to shout about stocks all day long, while up-to-the-minute prices whirred across screens.

That, of course, is just the sort of cockiness that rankles with health pundits.

My own impression at the time was that nobody really needed comfort or reassurance, except the pundits who complained.

During the crisis, pundits talked as if consumers would return to depression-era habits, and just hoard all the essentials.

Some pundits speculate that, rather than closing the party, the court will bar Mr Erdogan and a few of his lieutenants from politics.

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None of these hawkish pundits openly advocated violence, and all have (for the most part) distanced themselves from Breivik's act.

Where ideals clash and sometimes even when pundits seem to agree, I prefer to provide support that gives the programmer a choice.

Media pundits lapped up Gorbachev's "peace" speech, just as an earlier generation of media pundits lapped up Hitler's "peace" speeches.

Oh, and let me give a special shout-out to "centrist" pundits who won't admit that President Obama has already given them what they want.

Asset markets are unpredictable. When house prices in London stalled during 2004-05, many pundits thought the spell had been broken.

China is indeed mounting considerable efforts on the innovation front. However, many of the pundits seem to confuse inputs with outputs.

Feverish speculation all over the internet, gadget shoppers nearing mass hysteria and pundits predicting our lives will never be the same.

But as the euphoria of some and anger of others both subside, these may turn out to be less dramatic than many foreign pundits suggest.

Pundits have long predicted that advances in genetics will usher in a golden age of individually tailored therapies.

Pundits started to wonder whether the defeated Republicans had been smashed for a generation.

Conservative pundits hail the well-padded Mr Christie as the "Trenton Thunder" and the man who "might have saved New Jersey's life" .

Some pundits are complaining that the technology is not new, but that's besides the point.

Some political pundits are concerned that by becoming America's banker, China could exercise significant influence over the U. S.

Pundits pondered whether the legalisation of gay marriage in California would have an impact on the general election.

None of this bodes too well for Brazil and Spain, the top two teams in the FIFA index and most pundits' favorites.

So the European monetary union did not fall apart, despite the dire predictions of the pundits in late 2011.

Pundits have revelled in painting him as a traditional Zulu leader out of kilt with modern politics.

Yet that message does not appear to have penetrated the thinking of either Western political leaders or pundits in the policy community.

Dalglish was also asked if he felt the result would affect many pundits' view that Liverpool would claim a top four berth this season.

You hear from pundits and other all-knowing observers that the Treasury has no detailed plan.

Some pundits predicted that the Pistons would slip a bit this season without Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown at the helm.

Pundits and media organizations insisted that the biggest risk facing America was the threat that investors would pull the plug on U.

When these polls were later analyzed, it turned out that the pundits and prognosticators had overstated their case a bit.

WHEN oil prices last approached $80 a barrel, a year ago, pundits put it down to the "fear factor" .

Over the years, basketball pundits have described Yao as a "finesse player" who had trouble banging inside with the big men of the NBA.

Pundits are at a loss to explain football's shifting fortunes, but much of it can be ascribed to just one factor -- last summer's World Cup.

Conservative pundits here like to speak of this equality and sameness as being cornerstones of "Japanese" tradition. Nonsense.

The first two would be in most pundits' watchlists, but few would be likely to pick out the insurance firm.

The reporters and pundits are paid millions to say whatever furthers the causes of this elite class.

In a neighbouring district another incumbent Democrat, Betsy Markey, is in even more trouble: the pundits think her opponent is in the lead.

But many political pundits agreed this probably spells the end of her political career.

This delusion is, of course, most prevalent among pundits themselves, but it's also widespread among political operatives.

It is unfortunate, therefore, that there is so much confusion about what pundits mean when they talk about a "global recession" .

His seat is now up for grabs; pundits give the Republicans a good chance of taking it.

However, Roh Moo -hyun has vowed to reform the MDP. Pundits predict he will change the name of the party and distance it from Kim Dae-jung.

Pundits said he was too weak going forward, not tough enough in defence and too slow on the whole.

AMERICA is spending beyond its means, both parties and the president (not to mention pundits and protesters) have recognised.

To many pundits, Ukraine has been lost and Mr Yanukovich has turned out to be as bad as they had always feared.

During the next 18 months circumspection was rarely seen in pronouncements made politicians, pundits, and officials.

The pundits said. Well, he had plenty of interest but none sufficiently systematic to qualified as a hobby.

Pundits on the left are suspicious of any plan that reduces marginal tax rates on the rich.

Too many citizens are still out of work. Unemployment remains at a 26-year high and pundits warn darkly of a "jobless recovery" .

For decades, pundits have been warning that a time would come when Social Security would start to become a drain on the federal budget.

The police are seen by many pundits as the last unreformed public service.

What the technology pundits missed was the rise of alternative languages for the Java virtual machine breaking on the horizon.

Over the ensuing weeks, pundits have shifted their focus from one set of email exchanges to another, dubbing the issue "climategate. "

The leading nations of Europe did not lose their nerve, and they did not work only to protect themselves, as many pundits predicted.

I can't tell you how exhausting it is to keep hearing pundits say that some product is the "iPhone killer" or the "Kindle killer. "

Even those pesky pundits have noticed. ESPN 's JeffVanGundy said he was revising hisearlier viewthatthe Magic wasn't a serious contender.

At least, you hear these pundits say, the autocrats get things done.

A president is embroiled in a sexual scandal, however, his approving rates rises rather than declines, which confounds the pundits.

Many pundits say that these two problems are enough to sink his chances.

In both cases, claims of decisive victory by the U. S. military and pro-war pundits were mistaken.

Some pundits reckon that rather than bailing out industrial dinosaurs government should be encouraging new technologies.

Media dealing : It used to be having a pints with the pundits.

In a way, that may be true. But pundits should remember this weekend before going overboard.

Sri Lankan pundits are calling this violence "Eelam War IV" : the fourth round in the struggle for an Eelam, or independent Tamil homeland.

There were said to be unpublished manuscripts in his safe; most pundits were happy to wait.

This has resulted, paradoxically, in his being labelled by pundits "too consumed by appearance" , a slight the Tories are eager to deflect.

The pundits, who to a man, predicted a weak and fractious coalition dependent on regional leaders, were stuffed.

After tonight's tremendous victory here in West Virginia, it's clear that the pundits declaring this race over have it all wrong.

All of this means that pundits and prognosticators will now increasingly focus on the next milestone: No. 1.

Ever since then the Gallup polling group, based in Washington, DC, and many other research pundits have tried to prove Mr Rumsfeld wrong.

Washington rang with calls from pundits and policymakers for a global league of liberal democracies.

So when pundits call on the parties to sit down together and talk, the obvious question is, what are they supposed to talk about?

McCain asked right-wing talks show hosts and pundits who have criticized him to see if there are areas they can all agree on.

In voicing their own fears, Chinese pundits -- not unreasonably -- impute fear to the United States.

The group of journalists, pundits, reporters, and cameramen who cover politics for newspapers, television, magazines, and now the Internet.

But now economists and pundits are warning that curbing government spending now, with growth in a rut, is a major mistake.

Now that Apple is making a profit, pundits need something else as the target of predictions of impending doom.

The approach I find that works best is to avoid the generalist publications and futurist pundits who talk about big trends.

Pundits and fans alike tend to attribute red cards and faulty lineups to a loss, devaluing an opponent's star-studded-side.

The protests were promoted by a Washington-based conservative group and by conservative pundits and bloggers.

But some pundits are pointing to the sluggish economy as a potential threat to President Bush's re-election chances.

since then, dozens of security pundits have been searching for new answers to the question.

Many pundits of the time said that Longhorn would completely change the face of operating systems.

Some pundits began mentioning him as a future Presidential candidate.

It's no wonder, then, that pundits and investors are salivating over the prospect of an effective way to search this information.

Quite a few Italian pundits have that opinion.

And pundits and market prognosticators focused on earnings, not uprisings, to assess where the market was headed.

By the mid-1990's, pundits in China began to call the 21st century China's century.

Politicians and pundits alike told us that we had to resign ourselves to a new era of " limits" .

Political pundits and party members are watching dozens of highly competitive contests throughout the country.

Pundits called for Mr Humala to put an endto the uncertainty by naming key cabinet appointments quickly.

He increased his training intensity, but more importantly, he ignored the pundits and believed he could achieve it .

Pundits are right to point out that the Internet also is used to support terrorist networks.

Most pundits said they were wrong, because respondents were giving unreliable answers.

Many pundits view taking a position in the middle of the political spectrum as a virtue in itself.

Thus, market pundits don't just miss the huge surprises no one could foresee; they also tend to overcompensate for small ones.

The hardest thing for pundits like myself and other talking heads is to say "I don't know. "

Some pundits argue that Germany's brutality to Greece during the second world war should have tempered its irritation with the Greeks.

Ever since Rick Perry derided Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, economists and other pundits have jumped into the fray.

Politicians and pundits alike were making a case for a fiscal stimulus package even before the Fed's surprise rate cut on January 22nd.

South Carolina, pundits say young voters may play a big role in determining the outcome of the next contests.

Pundits and practitioners of modern warfare agree that things have changed significantly over the past several decades.

It should make both Chinese bureaucrats and Western pundits think twice before pronouncing on China's "innovation deficit" .

Many climate pundits assume the meat of a deal will be reached in other, smaller groupings .

Some political pundits believe Tuesday's deadline may pass without a resolution.

Like so many other economists and pundits, Krugman sees the effect and interprets it as the cause.

Stock mavens and traders could do worse than following the various pundits and editors involved with Wall Street.

Malaysian pundits think Mr Anwar has lined up a fairly large group of potential defectors.

So when the shampoo story surfaced in July, some bloggers and pundits blasted Chan as a calculating opportunist.

Academics in Arab countries serve at the pleasure of the secret police, which is one reason I've only quoted western pundits here.

And pundits who likened the flood's aftermath to a third-world disaster cannot have seen many of those.

Best of all, the economy lost fewer jobs in July than most pundits were expecting.

ONE of the canards of the credit crisis, trotted out regularly by politicians and pundits, is that banks have stopped lending.

Political pundits may claim that society is becoming atomised , but online communities are thriving and growing.

Pundits lambasted President Lee Myung-bak for suggesting that Koreans try eating cheaper North American cabbage.

Surely pundits will scrutinize this election for years to come. But business leaders can take its lessons right now.

Once again, the Financial Times' top pundits have assembled to pit their wits against the fickle future.

The iPad looks and acts exactly the way the tech pundits predicted: like a giant iPod Touch or iPhone.

Foreign pundits sound even more bearish, and one sometimes detects a hint of gloating at the hyperpower's distress.

Times have changed, obviously, the Lakers now taking up space atop most pundits' championship predictions.

CNN has thoroughly integrated social media into its shows, frequently passing emailed comments to pundits.

It is fashionable for pundits to declare that the world's center of gravity is shifting east. But that need not be the case.

Some pundits feel that the energetic midfielder would be better served by moving to a club where he can become a first-team regular.

Pundits on the right, meanwhile, are suspicious of anything that increases government revenue.

Many pundits felt emerging markets really would prove more resilient when crisis struck than they have done in the past.

It has become fashionable among pundits to argue that China's leadership is feeling insecure these days.

But the financial conundrum of open source development sometimes causes pundits to question its long-term viability.

Most pundits reckon that Toyota took its eyes off quality control in its efforts to overtake GM.

Pundits predict some unseemly scrambling within Likud in the days ahead for the jobs still remaining.

"If you got back to the close season the so-called pundits were writing us off, " Rice told Arsenal. com.

There are lots of companies, SEO gurus and social media pundits offering up their solutions, some of them more legitimate than others.

That is not to say, as some lazy pundits do, that Mr Cameron's Tories have few or no policies.

During this crisis, economists and pundits have clambered over themselves to become the kings and queens of gloom.

Considering Ghana is in the World Cup for the first time ever, pundits might speculate wrongly and dismiss the Ghanaian team as underdogs.

True philosophy was supplanted by dogmatic opinions. The pundits took delight in vain polemics .

'Egypt is not Tunisia, ' the pundits repeatedly said on television after Zine Abedine Ben-Ali fled Tunis for Saudi Arabia.

This World Cup will be remembered for being in Africa, which gave commentators, and pundits in Europe free license to patronise them.

Pundits are dispatched regularly to lecture the locals about responsible fishing.

But shamefully, the problem also reflects disarray among donors and squabbles among pundits.

After Milan's failure to qualify for this years Champions League many pundits felt this was Kaka's chance to move on.

So the pundits who praised this proposal when it was released were punked. The G.

Some pundits predict General Musharraf will be forced to step aside, perhaps by the army itself.

Still most pundits expect little to be agreed in Beijing.

Pundits delight in predicting the outbreak of water wars, and certainly water has sometimes been involved in military rows.

"If you go back and look at what all the pundits said, they all thought Apple was crazy to get into the retailing business. "

Too many TV market pundits talk like they're on ESPN. It gives the stock market a phony air of urgency and excitement.

Most pundits expected them to be trounced at the polls.

So while pundits debate whether the tipping point for the US economy is oil is $85, $95 or $105, a longer run of $67 oil may be bad enough.

Numerous news sites and blogs reported on the find, which many bloggers and pundits accepted at face value.

Some pundits predict that the trustbusters' tussle with Google could turn as bloody as their battle with Microsoft in the 1990s.

Some pundits, however, believe Mr Tyler is being obstinately blind to a business threat.

For years, pundits have wondered which language will eventually dominate.

Most economists and pundits predict a continued upward trend for most assets next year, but they will eventually be proven wrong.

Beltway pundits believed Al Gore and George W. Bush were centrists who would govern similarly.

Being a vegan then was so weird that pundits listed it as a reason Dennis Kucinich couldn't be the Democratic Presidential nominee.

But the answers will not come from pollsters, pundits, or politicians.

More excitable pundits are even baying for war against the Jewish state.

It isn't just Mr Beinart: the Obama rebound and the "spring offensive" have abruptly become a staple of Washington's pundits.

Peacekeeping pundits agree that more must be done to preempt and counter the effects of "hate radio" .

Experts and pundits are expressing a somewhat less optimistic opinion.

Some pundits believed that "Candid Camera" led directly to modern TV reality shows.

Pundits began writing George Bush's political obituary as his approval ratings sank to new lows.

Literary pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe?

It's the season when pundits traditionally make predictions about the year ahead.

Investors and pundits alike have shown unbounded excitement, and some anxiety, about China's economic growth.

CORRESPONDENT But the lure of shopping online vs. shopping in store splits the pundits.

Each show invites pundits on each side of the political spectrum.

Political pundits foresee the end of Mr Zardari's presidency.

Some pundits claim that Mr. Obama has polarized the country by following too liberal an agenda.

Some pundits suspect the region's oil wealth is the cause.

Most of us are wise to the ways of adman , pollsters, speech writers, and pundits.

Developers and pundits can cry foul all they want about Apple's lack of openness.

Some pundits think early warnings for cholera could be more sophisticated.

Don't let the pundits and so-called experts convince you that they know any more than you do.

Once again, a panoply of FT pundits have put their reputations on the line to divine what the new year will offer.

When the deal was announced publicly, tech pundits wondered whether it meant that Google was going into the antivirus business.

So, politicians and pundits: you are on your own.

A decade ago, many pundits hoped the web would create a flatter, more equal world.

Before the vote, pundits in the US had confidently predicted the bill would pass after President Bush personally urged waverers to back it.

Movie pundits say Penn may have the edge because he is respected -- if not loved -- in the industry.

In 2008, most tech pundits and commentators had abandoned Palm and left it for dead.

Still, there are many pundits with contrarian views about OTA consolidation, contending it is overdue.

The pundits are telling us that recent trends will simply keep rolling.

Plenty of pundits rely on this premise when they call for extending the school day or year.

Politicians and pundits alike took it as their job to apply balm.

THREE decades ago, many pundits were saying that an ever-rising population could lead to global disaster.

That is, the anxieties about Mrs Palin point to a larger question: why do pundits have so little confidence in voters?

Pundits bemoan our trade deficitwith China. But those container ships aren't heading home empty.

Conservative pundits have savaged her.

In my view, pundits inappropriately mix these two very different issues.

All the television pundits said I was dead as a doornail.

Many of the pundits were predicting disaster for the Democrats.

If you look at today's political scene, it is even harder to imagine politicians, business leaders or pundits revealing doubt.

He didn't mention Pakistan once during his brief remarks commemorating the 2008 Mumbai attacks, to the chagrin of Indian pundits.

But there is always a consensus forecast because the City pundits who form it watch each other and talk to each other.

The pollsters, the politicians, the pundits got it wrong.

Pundits accuse Mr Christie of skimping on policy details.

Yet some pundits reckon that, as attitudes toward privacy continue to change, the law will eventually be strengthened.

They are guessing -- as I think most economists and pundits are -- and they seize on almost any idea that sounds good at the time.

A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds.

EVEN technology pundits can sometimes be right.

The lesson of the keys is that the American voters are far smarter and more pragmatic than the pundits would have us believe.

And secondly, that most people in soccer -- pundits, fans and players -- get carried away by goals.

Many pundits see this vast region in the grip of inexorable decline.

The pundits thought his time had finally come during the 1994 campaign.

Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don't last.

Some pundits claim the rise of applications and closed environments such as Facebook mean that the web is dead. If so. . . should we worry?

Many pundits will say it is the job of the leader to set the corporate vision.

Most pundits expect that he will be rather drab compared with his predecessor, Yuri Luzhkov.

Meanwhile, millions of iPhone 4 customers (and tech pundits) are playing the guessing game running up to Friday's event.

What pundits have not noticed is that the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit.

What political scientists, as opposed to pundits, tell us is that it really is the economy, stupid.

Diplomats and pundits, for their part, fear that the West is "losing" Africa and other resource-rich regions.

Pundits on the left applaud, but others are not so sure.

Nixon is not usually a source of inspiration for left-leaning pundits such as Paul Krugman of the New York Times.

One theory that is being pushed by pundits right now is that Google will open-source at least some of On2's codecs.

Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizing.

Overall, some pundits estimate that F1's revenues this year could be down by 20 per cent or more.

So pundits assumed oil would play no great role in the new economy.

The same thing would soon happen to France, pundits of all kinds claimed.

Few on the right earn such praise from black pundits.

As we enter the 2008 election cycle, we will see candidates, voters, pollsters, and pundits agree and disagree on just about everything.

Indeed, pundits are already talking about the post-Abe era.

Palm caught the industry and the pundits by surprise.

The orthodox free-trade view of most pundits holds that if Mr Obama accepts the recommendation he will fail the free-trade test.

Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?

Some pundits want the government to launch a publicity blitz to urge ordinary Japanese to spend more.

The world is just not as flat as pundits would have us think.

Liberal pundits foam at the mouth.

Many financial pundits in the media say everyone should have cash reserves equal to 3 to 6 months of income.

Some pundits argue that Microsoft has become irrelevant, which is ludicrous.

Only if we grade on a curve. Bob Gates certainly makes pundits swoon.

Generally speaking, most pundits called the 2010 U. S. midterm elections pretty accurately.

There's lots more, so if you grow weary of the pundits and the polls, have a read.

Just one look at the shiny-shiny tablet (cue heavenly choir), and the pundits declared we're in the future.

Millions of women suffer from it, we are told by sexual-health pundits, and drug companies are racing to find a cure.

Pundits are coining phrases such as "austerity chic" and "luxury shame" .

In China, pundits cast about to point the blame.

Our pundits and specialists had a better than fair result in predicting the shape and outcome of last year's events.

Once again, press pundits said I was dead.

Hating guards were not Curry's only problem, his 6-3, 185-pound frame had pundits talking the dreaded tweener talk.

Pundits predict more unrest in towns, of which there are many in Russia, that rely entirely on one ailing factory or industry.

And it's not just pundits who think so.