1.   Distortion near the equator and the central meridian is small, but increases considerably towards the poles and the outer meridians.

2.   In a way projection is sort of with power.

3.   Population projection is essential for planning but subject to considerable error due to the probable invalidity of assumptions about current and future trends.

4.   Although recent economic growth projections have been encouraging, some skeptics have wondered about the veracity of the numbers.

5.   And even the most optimistic projections are that most of that work, if done at all, will be undertaken some time in the next century.

6.   And Moore and others point out that the projections could just as well be too pessimistic as optimistic.

7.   And the projection is that if the trend continues, by the end of this century many of the glaciers will have simply disappeared.

8.   As it was the first time ever that anyone was going to see anything from the movie, he wanted to make sure that the projection was perfect.

9.   At the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research and educational organization in Washington, Diana Cornelius, a demographer, said population projections are important.

10.   At the same time, there is pressure on negotiators to lock in economic assumptions now, for fear that the future projections will be less optimistic.