A scenario is not a specific forecast of the future, but a plausible description of what might happen.

Other steel industry executives offered no specific forecasts of how deep the decline might be.

Click on the hazard matrix cell to navigate to the specific forecast.

But its shares fell nearly 4 percent after the company declined to give a specific forecast for 2006.

If a confidence interval is narrow, a specific forecast carries some credibility.

But this was apparently lost on local officials and the public, who focused on the specific forecast of a 49-foot crest.

Mr. Rollins also said Dell would no longer give specific forecasts on quarterly results.

The Member States are obliged to have more specific forecasts for towns.

Don't mind the contents; they no longer concern us, since we've passed the final date of specific forecasts.

ING said it could not provide a specific forecast for the current year, disappointing some investors, and its shares fell 1 percent.