A consultant predicted that the museum's annual attendance of up to 60,000 had the potential to climb as high as 250,000 if it were in a larger building.

Many political consultants predict that those proportions of Internet use among voters will prevail nationwide in 2000.

But executives, industry analysts and consultants predicted that even with federal assistance, the industry would emerge much smaller than it was before Tuesday's attacks.

Several consultants predicted that the provision would result simply in the creation of "independent" committees that will pick up the scythe and produce negative ads themselves.

The demand could start to be felt in the third quarter this year, some hiring consultants predict.

Already this year, British pundits, experts, and consultants have been predicting that the Internet will make a difference in the U.K. elections.

As early as 1981, consultants and studies were predicting that the Anacostia station would spark a similar economic revival in Anacostia.

If completed according to plan sometime in the next decade, consultants predict, it could be the world's largest single arts-and-culture development project in recent memory.

Mr. Morris's fall only increased his appeal to the news media, and several consultants predicted that, if he wants it, he will eventually find work in politics again.

Smaller national chains are likely to survive, and the ranks of regional supermarkets will swell, analysts and consultants predict.