This is their best estimate, from past experience, of credit-card debts that will not be repaid.
Our model takes current after-tax corporate profits and divides by our best estimate of fundamental interest rates.
But we have certainly attempted to base the budget projections on our best estimate of what lies ahead.
While imperfect, this is the best estimate of how much a company actually pays in taxes in a given year.
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The best estimate is that doing so would, over the course of a capital cycle, create roughly 40 million new jobs.
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The flow in the model represents the best estimate of how ocean currents are likely to respond under typical wind conditions.
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Most notably, the best estimate for the amount of DNA that encoded proteins was only 3% of all the DNA in the genome.
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There have been previous efforts to gauge the radiation risk for future Mars travelers, but the best estimate is coming from NASA's Curiosity mission.
After adjusting for these factors, the authors argue that the best estimate of the equity risk premium worldwide in future is 4-5 percentage points.
But our best estimate is tomorrow, late tomorrow early into Saturday.
But, still, that is really the best estimate that we have, and it shows that Ghawar should be starting a pretty rapid decline, right about now.
Even among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the best estimate was that just under 20 percent returned with symptoms of PTSD or major depression.
The best estimate in midweek was that the Ulster Unionist Party was split evenly three ways, between those in favour of a deal, diehard antis and waverers.
It is on the basis of this that Mr Baldwin reaches his best estimate of a 9% increase in trade within the euro area because of monetary union.
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"What we've said is this is our best estimate of what it's going to take to resolve it, " said Wyeth's Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Martin in an interview with Forbes.com.
Mr. GORDON HANSON (Professor, Economics, University of California, San Diego): Well the best estimate we have is that they've reduced wages for low skilled U.S. native workers by about eight percent over the last 20 years or so.
Our best estimate at the moment is that the social cost grows by about 2.5% per year, so that preventing carbon dioxide emissions in 30 years time will be more than twice as valuable as preventing them today.
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