1.   On the downside, the study does project a slightly higher unemployment rate due to jobs lost in the public sector and reduced government demand for goods and services.

2.   Other studies project robust demand for metro optical systems connecting businesses to the abundant long-haul fiber and to remote data-storage centers.

3.   The study also projected increased absenteeism from sicknesses associated with AIDS and added difficulties in recruiting.

4.   The study projected a mile-wide tornado like the one that struck Moore, Okla., last year.

5.   The study projects the increase in charitable giving to grow over time, as word about the state tax break gets out.

6.   Those figures suggest that the Internet is approaching mass-market penetration much more quickly than earlier studies had projected.

7.   But the WWF-CIFOR study projects that they are likely to fall far short of this target.

8.   Muller said the feasibility study had projected profits only two years after the company began mass production in January last year.