No one knows for sure what will happen, and not every advocate is predicting disaster.

Its advocates predict that it will pass next year.

Advocates for the poor predicted an increase in homelessness and other hardships.

But longtime advocates of reform predict that the current argument is just another bump in the road.

But if interest rates fall, too - as advocates predict - more people would be able to own their own homes.

Advocates for conservative causes predicted a struggle of their own, however, and warned that Republicans would fight back.

And advocates on both sides of the issue predicted that a consensus would be reached during the 2001 legislative session.

Advocates predicted that if silver were used as the standard of money, they would be able to pay off all of their debt.

But advocates for the poor predict it could have dire consequences, such as increasing the ranks of the homeless.