1.   If that occurs, state funds could be drained even more rapidly than current projections say.

2.   The mobile-phone market has surged in recent years, and projections say this will continue.

3.   Various industry projections say there soon will be a proliferation of small, digital appliances connecting people to the Internet, e-mail, stock prices and weather reports.

4.   But projections say much of the cost will be offset because treatment is cheaper than building and operating prisons.

5.   Projections said the Socialists would get only two of those seats.

6.   Several of his ministers also were elected in the poll, projections said.