It is hard to understate the consequences of Mr Rove being distracted from his job.
Even these dramatic numbers may understate how bad the situation is for the Republicans.
So it will understate the loss in productivity that occurs from these new arrangements.
FORBES: Hospitals Are Going On A Doctor Buying Binge, And It Is Likely To End Badly
To say I was pleasantly surprised would be to understate my enjoyment of the books.
Such projections usually understate their true expectations, but the reduced target is consistent with deliberate currency strengthening.
We should not understate the damages, but we should not overstate them either.
But even those reported expenses, high as they sound, might understate the costs.
However, the crude figures on trade caused many economists to understate the impact on European firms of America's slowdown.
That could understate debt loads for graduates of schools with high dropout rates.
Second, each of these news items tends, if anything, to understate the problem.
Taxing property makes sense because of the widespread Greek tendency to understate income.
But let's not understate the big achievements you've racked up during the 70 or so days you've actually spent on campus.
WSJ: Rob LaZebnik's Message for the Class of 2013 | Saturday Essay
Even these robust retail sales understate the strength of consumer spending, says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economic research firm.
ECONOMIST: China's households are not as tight-fisted as you think
But official figures almost certainly understate consumer spending in emerging Asia, because of the poor statistical coverage of spending on services.
But implausible, even to those - like the Bank of England - who believe the ONS does tend to understate growth.
Some say there is no proof piracy costs sales, and others maintain the older numbers understate the extent of the problem today.
And so, given the declining participation rate, the 20% underemployment figures may actually understate the true level of unemployment in the economy.
FORBES: How Does The Current Economic Recession Compare To The Great Depression?
Johnston of the Minneapolis Post has implications that are difficult to understate.
FORBES: The Fed's New NAIRU: Evil Enough To Unite Democrats And Republicans
In fact, they understate the benefits to the very wealthy because they include only those who would drop off the tax rolls entirely.
FORBES: How Michele Bachmann Would Knock 20,000 Millionaires Off The Tax Rolls
Even with the surge in its stock price, CSCO is still very undervalued due to GAAP earnings that understate the true profitability of the company.
FORBES: Cisco Stock Still Undervalued, Earnings Better Than They Look
If discouraged workers have left the labour force because they could not find a job, then the unemployment rate may understate the hardship they face.
But several economists also believe the official figures understate private consumption.
ECONOMIST: At least one of China��s economic imbalances is narrowing
Keep in mind that the study may understate the percentage of those who ultimately go on to Medicaid since it followed them for only 10-12 years.
FORBES: Do Seniors Hide Assets to Get Medicaid Long-Term Care Benefits?
Put another way, within 30 years, failure to account for these hidden costs will understate the true burden of health entitlements by more than one quarter.
The numbers shown actually understate the advantages of the split-age strategy for many couples, since the husband and wife in this table are both now 62.
Given the issuer-pay model, there is an ever-present concern that rating agencies have an incentive to understate the risks and provide ratings that are too high.
FORBES: SEC Proposal On Ratings Agencies Leaves Out Payment Conflicts
Our addiction means that official data understate the size of government, and citizens do not have a clear picture of what spending programs we actually are financing.
Not one to understate scary probabilities, this was more than 40 times higher than even the upper worst case end of what the most recent alarmist U.N.
FORBES: How Can I Get Some of That Anti-Global Warming Big Oil Money?
As a result, mix models understate the value of advertising and overstate the value of price promotion, producing a systematic bias that favors price promotion over advertising.
FORBES: The Downside Of Marketing Mix Models Is There's No Upside For CMOs
And climate models, the researchers say, mostly understate the impact of aerosols in the stratosphere, so may be projecting that temperatures will rise faster than they actually are.
应用推荐