Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated
Edition number counted from The World in 1987 = 1. Publication month not confirmed; year only. The reprint is The Economist's own web copy of the original article. A guest article on EU enlargement; no testable prediction for 2004.
And The World in 2004 got Mr Bush's re-election dead right too.
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