They usually say that they have an experienced estimator who works up cost estimates.
Of course, coming in under projected cost estimates is almost unheard of in Washington.
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We are forced to come up with unrealistic cost estimates to fit into unrealistic budgets.
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And Larry Summers talked about some of the cost estimates, particular aspects of it yesterday.
The study should evaluate requirements, performance benefits, design trade-offs, operational impacts, and refined cost estimates.
Moreover, skeptics declare, the F-22 is running way over cost estimates and is suffering serious technological glitches.
It will require reviews, analysis, cost estimates, more reviews, more analysis, and so on seemingly ad infinitum.
While results confirmed an exceptional amount of copper, Barrick had to revise its cost estimates drastically higher.
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Customer data, including cost estimates, proposals and orders, were all maintained either in a ledger or in someone's head.
Nuclear proponents like to dodge the cost estimates and assert that it is environmental opposition preventing new plant orders.
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Obviously, any cost estimates based on presumed inflation rates decades in the future are likely to be wildly wrong.
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All told, government adjustments unrelated to contractor performance have more than doubled F-35 support-cost estimates since the program began.
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The president sought etailed pros and cons for each option, including cost estimates.
That reaction is understandable given the pace at which cost estimates are rising.
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Also, don't expect this loan to sail through quickly, as your contractors will have to supply cost estimates and references.
In four years Congress will have to reckon with the fact that cost estimates for health reform exceed earlier projections.
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The credit rating agency warned that the rebuilding cost estimates could change depending on how the situation at the plant unfolds.
We cannot debate the potential for medical liability reform to bring down health-care costs in any meaningful way without realistic cost estimates.
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Last week, the state's Legislative Analyst's Office came out with a damning indictment of the project's unrealistic cost estimates and poor management.
Critics say that the F-22 fighter has vastly exceeded its cost estimates.
The revised cost estimates are due to higher expected future costs, the new life-of-mine plan, and the doubling of royalties by the Zambian government.
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Cost estimates such as the USDA's exclude "any intrinsic benefit that parents realize from child rearing, which would be extremely difficult to monetize, " Prof.
It froze the scheme last year because cost estimates were turning out far higher than expected, at a time when it was reining in spending.
But some economists think Lord Stern's cost estimates are too low.
Over the past decade, federal regulations with cost estimates have made up less than half a percent of the total annual rule flow of over 3, 500.
He warns that the new programme could cost more than direct payments, because cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office assume that crop prices will remain high.
Of the few hundred major rules among these that get reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), fewer than 35 percent sport quantitative cost estimates.
The latest cost estimates from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), published in May to coincide with a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the F-35 programme, were shocking.
But a squabble over the rising cost estimates on the plants sent the two partners into a lawsuit to determine how the partnership should be unwound if CPS wanted out.
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