Its proponents predicted that the plan would increase minority enrollment on campuses that are now mostly white.

But the experience suggests that a Federal tax amnesty program is likely to raise much less than the $35 billion its proponents have predicted.

Based on available production data, proponents have previously predicted the peak for the world to be in years 1989, 1995, or 1995-2000.

This is what proponents of Nafta predicted, and this is just what happened.

Some proponents of therapeutic cloning predict the production of whole bodies, lacking consciousness, for eventual brain transplantation.

Other critics think the measure would not produce the several billion dollars in corporate taxes that its proponents predict.

When the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, proponents predicted that a slew of new airlines would be created.

Some proponents predict that the technology will become more accessible within a few years, just as financial analysis using spreadsheets - once esoteric and expensive - has become virtually universal.

Nearly 18 months after the act was signed into law, the rich competition that the bill's proponents predicted would emerge in local telephone and cable television markets has not developed.

If the computing businesses fail to recover as the deal's proponents predict, the printer division would have to offset heavier losses.