At Fox, the internal projection of first-year losses was $45 million.

That, in turn, has protected the company's margins in the last year, because Sun's high-end server computers have sold better than the computer maker's internal projections.

NASA's internal projections show the number of operational jet trainers falling to 16 by 2015.

The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

The fast pace of company transactions exceeded internal projections.

Still, both retailers said their stores had exceeded internal projections.

The infant's orientation is not towards a 'real' external world, but its own internal projection, through which that world is constructed.

"Virtually every retailer in there has told us initial sales results have exceeded all their internal projections," Mr. Mancuso said.

But internal projections show it would barely be profitable, according to an ABC News executive who spoke on condition of anonymity.

It seems that I must rely, when all is said anddone, more on my perceptions and internal projections than on conventional sources of data.