Critics of Brazil's proposed measure quote official estimates that the 2m legally registered arms are heavily outgunned by around 20m unlicensed weapons.

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Both campaigns dispute the Tax Policy Center's estimates, saying the study doesn't include the effects of their proposed spending cuts and that any estimates should be based on current policy--which includes the set-to-expire 2001 and 2003 tax cuts--not current law.

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Tony Tyson and David Wittman, who work at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, and their collaborators have proposed building a telescope that estimates the distribution of mass in the past by analysing these deflected light-waves, a technique known as three-dimensional mass tomography.

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As for the proposed new measure, the ONS estimates that if CPIH had existed during the past four years, then it would have risen more slowly even than CPI during the whole of that period.

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Washington (CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed two new rules Friday that it estimates could eliminate up to 1.25 million foodborne illnesses each year from such pathogens as Salmonella, Listeria and E.

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The new Kauffman paper estimates that, over 10 years, the most recently proposed Startup Visa could create anywhere from 500, 000 to 1.6 million jobs.

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Aviva estimates that up to 300, 000 cases could be dealt with under its proposed system.

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Investors should buy challengers Intel and MIPS. While Intel has muddied its valuation with its proposed acquisitions of McAfee and Infineon Wireless, it trades at 9 times the 2011 earnings estimates.

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