Comparisons will inevitably be made to such inspirational-teacher films as "Dead Poets Society, " and they'll be off the mark.
When trying to divine future employment in the small-business sector from surveys of business owners, policy makers and economic analysts need to take entrepreneurial optimism into account or their predictions will be off the mark.
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Yet the forecasts still rely on the quirks of human behavior, and the forecasts can often be wildly off the mark.
Logically 1 is the only equilibrium, but you would be way off the mark if you chose 1.
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"Fears of a considerable house price slowdown in what are considered as over-heated markets of the UK, Spain and Ireland, once again proved to be quite off the mark, " he said.
On any given day you could substitute almost any pair of company names and not be far off the mark.
"It wouldn't be far off the mark for the press to carry the story 'Greenspan Takes Lid Off of Punch Bowl, ' because your position in the past has consistently been that the surpluses should be devoted to reducing the debt, " said Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes.
Further, the factors that it asked be considered are off the mark.
Japan was, pre Friday expected to grow by 1.5% this year, however, whilst Q2 and Q3 will take a dent, the activity from reconstruction will mean that by the end of Q4 the Japanese numbers will not be too far off the mark.
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The following predictions about the next 10 years could be accurate or far off the mark.
No matter who the next president is, it will be hard to shake off the mark of the penguin.
That would be one issue where some of the criticism was off the mark, to say the least.
To work our way out of the current morass, it will be necessary to relax the mark-to-market rules for banks on valuing the assets that need to be taken off of their balance sheets.
On March 23, millions of people around the world will be asked again to mark Earth Hour by switching off their lights and non-essential appliances for an hour in symbolic support for climate change mitigation.
Mark Zuckerberg has long signaled that the future of Facebook will be off Facebook.com.
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Mensing twice went close to extending the lead before midfielder Alex Neil went off injured for Hamilton to be replaced by Mark Gilhaney.
At most PGA Tour events under similar circumstances, players would be allowed to mark their ball's position in the fairway, clean it off and replace it on the same spot, without penalty.
So Jane Doe, as you unravel the who am I now question, it might be a good idea to let yourself off the hook for landing here, right now, with a big question mark on your forehead.
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