In view of over estimate budget in engineering cost, the author thinks that design is the key, and quota design is the best way of control engineering cost.

针对工程造价超概算问题，本人认为设计是关键，通过限额设计可以控制工程造价。

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These would identify the work accomplished on the task and the budget expended on it since the last report, and would estimate the effort remaining on the task.

这些报告能够指出最近一周的任务工作完成情况和在任务中的预算的花费情况，并且可以估计任务中剩余的工作量。

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The projected size of the two-year shortfall has been creeping up, from $11 billion to $15 billion; $18 billion is last month’s estimate from the state’s Legislative Budget Board.

预估的今明两年财政缺口正在不断扩大，从110亿美元攀升至150亿美元；而根据州预算立法委员会上月的估算，这一数字将变为180亿美元。

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The White House budget office on Tuesday lowered its estimate for this year's federal deficit.

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Increases in the estimated impact of the law on private insurance premiums, along with increases in the estimated cost of health care more generally, have led the Congressional Budget Office to increase its estimate of the budget cost of the law's coverage expansion.

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We've been slapping each other high fives when we negotiate down an estimate to our budget.

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He has also issued a second budget estimate based on evidence from the 1960s, 1980s and 2000s that tax reform and spending restraint will increase GDP by about 0.5 to one percentage point a year.

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