21.   Over the years, they point out, one new technology after another has been accompanied by bold predictions of educational reform, which inevitably flounder.

22.   Pressed for a bold prediction before the game, Manager Bobby Valentine said the Mets would score in double figures.

23.   Schmid, who has heard enough and talked enough about the Galaxy losing big games, made a bold prediction.

24.   Several executives made bold predictions for the Web.

25.   Smoltz could make so bold a prediction because he had been here before.

26.   Some scoffed at his bold predictions.

27.   That might explain the bold prediction.

28.   The bold predictions have been tempered, if ever so slightly.

29.   Then coach Jim Fassel made a bold prediction in November and the Giants went on a tear.

30.   There are few such bold predictions about gains for consumers from all the deal making.