Based on California's wine industry, proponents of this theory anticipated that legalizing marijuana in the state could generate up to $18 billion, including the creation of 60,000-110,000 jobs.

Supporters of the bill called these numbers inflated, pointing out that it assumes that every pieces of navigational equipment in the country, including hundreds of steel towers and floating buoys, would be designated whereas even the strongest proponents only anticipate the nomination of a select number of landmark lighthouses.

But that effort, led by Governor Wilson and Mr. Connerly, has not garnered the support its proponents had anticipated.

Yet American proponents of limited engagement anticipate that Tehran will play this fruitless game once more - even after numerous statements by senior administration figures targeting the Islamic Republic for prospective "regime change" and by President Bush himself that attacking Iran's nuclear and national security infrastructure is "on the table."

Much of what Wolfowitz and other proponents of the war anticipated has not turned out as planned, however, and there are American and Iraqi officials who admit that their carefully orchestrated arrangements for Hussein's trial might never come to pass.

Nevertheless, proponents of the singularity typically anticipate such an event to precede an "intelligence explosion", wherein superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds.

The proponents of this mirage state have never anticipated the consequences of their rather unfortunate decision as they never gave a proper thought to the reactions of unionist clans in the region, or the consequences such a decision may have on the rest of Somalis.

(Perhaps its proponents were anticipating that little French elevator.)