1.   As the securities industry remakes itself over the next few years, bigger is supposed to be better, and full-service firms are supposed to have the upper hand.

2.   During the next several years, the weakening U.S. dollar, which makes American products more affordable internationally, will help California, he said.

3.   In fact, he has mapped out the next several years.

4.   Not much of this will happen in the next hundred years, which is all we can reliably predict.

5.   Pundits who spent the fall debating portents of doom have begun making predictions about the next hundred years and the next thousand.

6.   Speaking of boardrooms, AMEX.com promises to become a real highflier sometime in the next thousand years.

7.   The star modestly tackles the role of a new savior who may just keep mankind free of Satan for the next thousand years.