11.   The same procedure was then applied using only the Pugh score as independent variable to predict outcome at six weeks.

12.   We were unable to predict the outcome of treatment on the basis of functional parameters, thus confirming the finding of previous studies.

13.   Predicting the outcome is a game of chance.

14.   Although no outcome can be predicted with certainty, the countries are now working from one package of proposals.

15.   And former Defense Department officials were equally uncomfortable trying to predict the outcome.

16.   And they are supposed to predict its outcome.

17.   And until that point, no one at UConn, which came into the game as a double-digit favorite, could predict the outcome.

18.   Both lawyers said they felt confident, but declined to predict an outcome.

19.   -- A Web-based game that allows fans to predict the outcome of matches online.

20.   A Justice Department spokesman, John Russell, had no comment on the timetable for the inquiry, nor would he predict its outcome.