"Certainly 100 million is the median estimate and that's the best estimate there is, " he added.
This is their best estimate, from past experience, of credit-card debts that will not be repaid.
Our model takes current after-tax corporate profits and divides by our best estimate of fundamental interest rates.
But we have certainly attempted to base the budget projections on our best estimate of what lies ahead.
It appears likely the decommissioned craft came down between 03:23 and 05:09 GMT - with a best estimate of 04:16.
While imperfect, this is the best estimate of how much a company actually pays in taxes in a given year.
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The best estimate is that doing so would, over the course of a capital cycle, create roughly 40 million new jobs.
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The flow in the model represents the best estimate of how ocean currents are likely to respond under typical wind conditions.
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Most notably, the best estimate for the amount of DNA that encoded proteins was only 3% of all the DNA in the genome.
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There have been previous efforts to gauge the radiation risk for future Mars travelers, but the best estimate is coming from NASA's Curiosity mission.
Its best estimate for the timing of the re-entry would have seen UARS come in at a point well out into the North Pacific.
After adjusting for these factors, the authors argue that the best estimate of the equity risk premium worldwide in future is 4-5 percentage points.
Mines Minister Laurence Golborne said over the weekend that his best estimate was that the miners would be extracted in the second half of October.
DeSantis: Our best estimate for growth year-on-year this year is -0.5%.
But our best estimate is tomorrow, late tomorrow early into Saturday.
But, still, that is really the best estimate that we have, and it shows that Ghawar should be starting a pretty rapid decline, right about now.
Even among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the best estimate was that just under 20 percent returned with symptoms of PTSD or major depression.
It presumes that the market price is the best estimate of a stock's intrinsic value, or what all its current and future cash flows are worth.
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The best estimate in midweek was that the Ulster Unionist Party was split evenly three ways, between those in favour of a deal, diehard antis and waverers.
It is on the basis of this that Mr Baldwin reaches his best estimate of a 9% increase in trade within the euro area because of monetary union.
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"What we've said is this is our best estimate of what it's going to take to resolve it, " said Wyeth's Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Martin in an interview with Forbes.com.
The best estimate from the Office of National Statistics is of 100, 000 Scots aged between 16 and 24 looking for work, but that's based on a sample with quite a wide range of error.
Mr. GORDON HANSON (Professor, Economics, University of California, San Diego): Well the best estimate we have is that they've reduced wages for low skilled U.S. native workers by about eight percent over the last 20 years or so.
Our best estimate at the moment is that the social cost grows by about 2.5% per year, so that preventing carbon dioxide emissions in 30 years time will be more than twice as valuable as preventing them today.
Earlier, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas told MPs on the European Scrutiny Committee the "best estimate" of numbers of workers from the 10 newest countries to join the European Union was a prediction of 665, 000 for next month - 550, 000 more than when they joined the EU in May 2004.
"As the demand for same-sex marriage is uncertain, and because these economic benefits are not guaranteed to be additional (for example, the spending on a civil partnership or marriage ceremony may not be additional if the couple and guests cut back on spending in other areas), we use zero benefit as our best estimate, " it explains.
But the fact that the market price is the best available estimate doesn't mean that the market price is right.
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In 2003 it was adopted by the then Labour government as the best official estimate of inflation for the Bank of England to use when setting interest rates, replacing another measure, RPIX, which excluded mortgage interest payments.
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