The reserves could lead investors to overestimate the sustainability of Teva's profits, Krensavage warns.
The second error is to overestimate the influence of religion on Americans' views of foreign policy.
Most Americans, us included, tend to overestimate the impact of US politics on the global economy.
It is hard to overestimate the importance of Saudi Arabia to the oil market.
It is impossible to overestimate the difficulties these countries will face, but there are also grounds for optimism.
Scouts apparently tend to overestimate how NFL-ready SC players are and no where is that more glaring than at quarterback.
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Top incomes were rising as part of a long-term economic trend, leading economists to overestimate the beneficial impact of tax cuts.
It is hard to overestimate its impact to an already-devoted fan base.
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When you are running well in anything, the natural tendency is to overestimate your ability, let down your guard and lose your perception of risk.
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But it is easy to overestimate America's instinctive hostility to dynasties.
Lake Woebegone may be fictional but the tendency of people to overestimate their own positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative ones is real.
Another way to overestimate the deaths is to use a much higher value for the induced cancer risk than has been determined by the best scientific studies.
But Krewski said that overall people generally have a good ability to recall the number of phone calls reasonably accurately, and tend to overestimate call duration by about 40 percent.
And anybody who has spent much time outside the United States, you just - it's impossible to overestimate how often this comes up in people's conversations about the United States now.
Roy Amara, longtime president of the Institute for the Future, said that people tend to overestimate the effect of a new technology in the short run and underestimate the effect over the long term.
We have a tendency, though, to overestimate how happy people around us are, and it makes us feel even more dejected, according to a study out of Stanford, led by Alex Jordan, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
In the mid-1990s, Russian targets for tax collection were repeatedly thwarted by a tendency first to overestimate the government's capacity to raise revenues and then, when faced with chronic shortfalls, to resort to apparently attractive shortcuts that promised quick fixes to problems that required institutions to be built up slowly.
However, that conclusion appears to significantly overestimate the volcano signal because the models predicted deep and large cooling spikes associated with eruptions which are observed to be much smaller in global surface temperature records.
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"Individuals underestimate how long they're going to live and overestimate how much they can spend, " says Dallas Salisbury, chief executive of the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
As such, these concerns suggest interpreting the 2-3% prevalence rate reported with significant caution as it may in fact be an overestimate related to how they studied this specific community in Korea.
In fact, most of the highly precautionary laws and regulations currently on the books include some form of risk assessment that error on the side of caution, building in a host of safety factors that substantially overestimate exposure to justify regulatory actions that may not be necessary.
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But she insists that people overestimate her proximity to power.
Many parents overestimate a property's emotional importance to their heirs.
Less good news is that 43% overestimate the period (which varies from country to country) during which shops will continue to accept old money.
Chief Superintendent Ian Johns said elderly and ill people tended to suffer the most, but warned that "people underestimate the heat and overestimate their ability and that would be particularly so for younger, fitter Australians".
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Dug studies also may overestimate benefits of antidepressants because many drug studies have a placebo "washout" period, which attempts to exclude people likely to respond to a placebo.
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