At the moment, the company's 20-year projections suggest that power needs in the region will grow by 30 percent.

Projections suggest that this increase will continue at least until the year 2003, when close to 460,000 students are anticipated.

The projections suggest that the demand for skills will continue to rise.

Projections suggest a million visitors, more than three times the 1991 total, which was the largest to date.

Projections also suggested that some regions would experience a longer season of transmission.

Projections suggest that more than 80% of the world's energy will come from fossil fuels.

Such projections also suggest further increases in natural gas prices, which are only now beginning to fall from recent record peaks.

Health policy experts say that costs may well grow faster than the official projections suggest.

"Projections suggest that the number of hip fracture patients will reach over 100,000 by 2020."

Projections also suggested regional changes in the global distribution of hunger.