1.   Analysts speculated from the start that the deal heralded an exit from carmaking, though the company has said it has no plans to exercise the option.

2.   The Shaywitzes said they were reluctant even to speculate from the data at hand.

3.   Some have speculated from the size of the envelope that it could contain a knife two men said last week Simpson bought six weeks before the murders.

4.   The Malaysian Fisheries Research Institute director Ibrahim Salleh speculated from photographs of the skeleton that it may be the remains of a killer whale.