Qantas, the Australian national airline, joined the criticism, saying ticket prices would have to rise because of the plan.
Private economists' forecasts of job losses because of the plan run much higher, generally between 1 million and 2 million jobs.
The 'Ndrangheta has an unusually keen interest in politics at the moment, because of the plan to build a bridge over the straits of Messina to link Sicily with the Calabrian mainland.
Amy Butte, an analyst at Bear ,Stearns, estimated that Schwab's compensation expenses could fall $9 million to $15 million, or about a penny a share, in the first quarter because of the plan.
The report on the loss of the Columbia, released on Tuesday, cited many contributing causes, but said the launching schedule had become "ever more compressed" because of the plan to launch a critical section of the space station, called Node 2, by Feb. 19, 2004.
He said the plan's binding, contractual nature could impose large legal obligations that were hard to estimate because of the plan's ambiguities.
He said the case was of a "particularly high" seriousness "because of the planning of the abduction for a sexual purpose, the taking of the implements described and a weapon (albeit non lethal) and the murder of Becky".
Already, some cities along the route of the transfer project are recoiling because of the planned higher prices.
"The next two or three years we are going to take a bit of a pounding on profits because of the planned investments we are making".
Some have moved away because of the plans; others are going to have years of upheaval while the construction takes place".
It's been a lot more work, though, because of the planning, but my head of department has been phenomenal in supporting me.
