Their frustration may offer other young people in this recession-ridden nation a preview of the near-term future.

But frustrating as this may be, statistical inadequacy is not the main reason it is so hard to predict even the near-term economic future with accuracy.

Bush is betting his presidency, and the near-term future of this nation, on that central American creed.

Mr. Bush is a man with a recent partisan political past and a probable near-term partisan political future.

On October 23, 2006, Newsweek issued an update stating that it had been "spectacularly wrong about the near-term future".

This has been the case since at least 2007, and it looks like it will be the case for the near-term future.

But most important of all, even the very near-term future in the Soviet Union is hard to read.

"Recent trends show this may very well occur in the near-term future."

Perhaps no issue in the governor's race holds greater import for the near-term future of New York than education.

An organization whose near-term future is constantly in doubt, and is held hostage to the political tides, cannot possibly flourish.