1.   Despite the steady stream of layoffs, federal statisticians are predicting growth in select industries or fields.

2.   Economists are predicting zero growth for the fourth quarter.

3.   Analysts are predicting robust growth for a company that investors have always had a hard time figuring out.

4.   And he predicts growth.

5.   And though economists predict US growth is expected to slow, interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, copied by European central banks, also reassured financial markets.

6.   As the rush of third-quarter earnings reports peters out, investors are looking to the direction of interest rates to predict profit growth.

7.   Both shippers have tried to iron out potential problems by working more closely with online retailers, helping them to manage orders and predict growth.

8.   Brown predicts moderate growth for NationsBank stock in the near future.

9.   Built-in growth drivers such as the fees garnered for carriage of its cable networks have led the company to confidently predict double-digit growth this year.

10.   But networks of lightning detectors suggest patterns that may help forecasters predict the growth of thunderstorms.