81.   Then, like pollsters who predict the outcome of elections with only a few percent of the vote tallied, they predict the box office fate of the film.

82.   This launches the dispute into a gray area that makes the outcome hard to predict.

83.   Three hours before the final roll call was taken, President Clinton predicted the outcome and said he would offer Congress his own Medicare reform proposal.

84.   Trying to predict an outcome is an exercise in futility.

85.   What he discovered was a way to predict the outcome of virtually any kind of strategic interaction.

86.   Willamette declined to predict the outcome, which is expected to be announced this week.

87.   With the deep ideological divisions in the House, few House leaders were willing to predict the outcome.

88.   White said he, too, was inclined to be optimistic but it was too early to predict the outcome.

89.   Pizza parlors offered freebies to diners who correctly predicted the outcome, and many Israelis spent their day off in shopping malls, restaurants and at beaches after voting.

90.   Pollsters and observers were hard pressed to predict the outcome of the close race.