1.   The economic forecast for the coming decade looks promising, inasmuch as we can predict that far in advance.

2.   The government has unveiled plans for nine new community forests, to take shape on existing farmland and derelict ground, over the coming decades.

3.   Also, in the coming decade, millions of boomers will bury their parents.

4.   An international conference agreed Friday that within the coming decade the use of land mines should be curtailed and that eventually mines must be made easily detectable or self-deactivating.

5.   And how much will atmospheric levels of the gases rise over coming decades?

6.   And that, battery makers agree, is likely to continue for some time because battery dependency is likely to continue to grow in coming decades.

7.   Atlanta boosters have their hopes set on the coming decade.

8.   Because the treatment, known as brachytherapy, has fewer side effects than surgery, its use is expected to grow significantly in the coming decade.

9.   Behind the rhetoric lies a historic political debate over what to do with the massive surpluses the government expects to generate over the coming decade.

10.   A multibillion-dollar windfall is expected in the coming decades from offshore oil.