Then, in what seemed to be his own blunt assessment of his political prospects, he concluded: "This is not a horse race.
This anxiety colors these critics' assessment of Broadway's prospects.
Tommy Burns, the Kilmarnock manager, did not accept that assessment of his side's prospects.
The report followed by a day a sobering assessment of the recovery's prospects from Mr. Greenspan.
But his bearish assessment of the stock market's prospects is not universally held.
Larry King, who knows as well as anyone what it takes to succeed in talk, offers this assessment of Walsh's prospects.
The procedures should take into account that management projections are likely to be a fairly bullish assessment of the company's prospects.
Over all, Mr. Greenspan provided a relatively downbeat assessment of the economy's immediate prospects.
The United States has spent $5.4 million since 1982 on an independent scientific assessment of the atoll's prospects for rehabilitation.
While each company had a somewhat different assessment of its prospects, the cumulative message was characterized by several of the analysts as positive but cautious.