11.   It currently shelters the loathed Congressional Budget Office, source of so many sober budgetary studies exposing the illusions of rosy Reagan and Bush administration economic predictions.

12.   Put another way, has asking readers to make economic predictions become The Kansas City Star version of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx?

13.   Recent economic predictions from banks, universities and the California Department of Finance also have been fairly upbeat.

14.   So any economic prediction made during this campaign may be justifiably suspect.

15.   State officials are not in the business of making stock market forecasts, but they are working hard on their economic predictions and they expect little relief soon.

16.   The president, calling the GOP economic predictions unduly pessimistic, suggested strongly that the Republicans want to cut back the government more.

17.   We hope the economic predictions prove accurate, but there is a good chance they will not.

18.   Worst economic prediction...

19.   It was a day for dire economic predictions about the Communists as well.

20.   Often, it is the same story with economic predictions.