But he didn't reckon on the inexorable pull of gravity from Earth's nearest celestial neighbor.
In spite of everything, the American economy has been growing somewhat faster than most of the big industrial economies, and most forecasters still reckon on a reasonably healthy pace of expansion this year.
At the limit, Suez might reckon merely on a dividend or two.
Tata has done very well on JLR but most analysts reckon it overpaid on its larger deal for Corus.
Some experts reckon the law on intercepts would not make listening to someone's messages after that person had heard them an offence, distasteful as it might seem.
But now that his government accepts that tobacco and alcohol should be put in the same category for treatment and research, France's reformers reckon they are on a roll.
When central banks start stocking up on more gold, the gold bulls reckon their own positive stance on the metal remains on very solid footing.
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Since the 1998 election, which he won as a Reform Party candidate with 37% of the vote, voters seem to reckon he has matured on the job, and could be the state's most popular governor ever.
That they are fighting on so many fronts is a source of some concern to British diplomats, who reckon they might do better to concentrate on one or two key points.
The bolder sort of investor may reckon that the high yields on offer are ample reward for the risk that Greece may be unable to repay all it has borrowed.
Some reckon the economy has been knocked on to a lower, less productive path.
But I reckon that China's effect on global manufacturing and inflation is both more diverse and more benign than my colleague Dan believes.
Worst of all, many people reckon Mr Mahuad has been soft on the bankers, whose negligence the public is having to pay for.
Dai Nippon Printing and Kodansha, two other Japanese firms that plan to supply publishing on demand, both reckon the best niche is no more than 500 copies at a time.
That prospect looms particularly large insofar as the new membership in the Senate and the new Republican management in the House of Representatives are going to have to reckon with powerful reasons to proceed on such an agenda with extreme caution.
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Having done a lot of observing people, lots of people, in different countries on three continents all going about their daily lives, I reckon the success or otherwise of a country depends pretty much entirely on the ability of any two people of that country picked an random to trust one each other.
Already nervous of furious Russian reactions over the U.S. missile defense plan, which involves the installation of bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, they have made clear they don't reckon it worth upsetting the Kremlin further on this issue.
There was advanced radar on that plane, if I reckon correctly - if I remember correctly.
Many lenders reckon they will end up making a return on equity in the low teens, above their cost of capital.
"The UAVs will deter poachers who will now have to reckon with surveillance from air as well as on ground, " Mr Hussain said.
Some trivia enthusiast needs to do a word count, but I reckon about one quarter of the debate was on the American economy with Romney on the attack and Obama on the defensive.
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They all reckon the Welsh Government is right to build on the current system, right to give schools the choice of pinning everything on one set of exams or letting pupils pick up marks during the school year.
The behavioural economists reckon this may be because psychologists have focused on trying to link the moon to extreme behavioural problems in a few disturbed people, rather than to more humdrum lunacies affecting humanity as a whole, including a bias against shares around full moons.
According to the police's own legal advice, there is no case law which can be used to assist in the definition of the word "new" but they reckon it means additional evidence that would impact on the investigation of the case and which makes arrest necessary.
Well, I would reckon somewhere between 15% and 17% based on Ofgem's account of what has been happening to tariffs.
Could it perhaps be that ministers reckon bin collections are a much more potent issue on the doorstep, literally, than are most other local services which concern fewer people?
In February Mr Bratton asked them, publicly, not to keep broadcasting live coverage of car chases, watched by too many people hoping to see crashes and violence. (They get alerts to their pagers when a chase starts.) The police reckon that such coverage encourages show-offs to embark on wild escapades, and gives the impression of a city rife with crime.
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