Some accounting experts said it would have been daunting to estimate the reserves needed for refunds.
Although the political and economic issues are daunting, these damage estimates can be used to help determine one-time legacy fees and fees on future activities (including deorbit noncompliance), which can deter future debris generation, compensate operational spacecraft that are destroyed in future collisions, and partially fund research and development into space debris mitigation technologies.
"While lower, this year's estimate is still daunting for many retirees, and it will consume a considerable amount of a couple's retirement savings," Brad Kimler, executive vice president of Fidelity's benefits consulting business, said in a statement.
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They're certainly tough and daunting in Libya, where the IOM estimates that as many as 300,000 undocumented guest workers are stranded, mainly Syrians and sub-Saharan Africans who must literally dodge bullets to get to the coast.
Even so, the task of cataloging, securing and destroying President Bashar al-Assad's poison gas cache — which Washington and Moscow have estimated at 1,000 tons — is daunting.
While that sounds daunting at first blush, consider that Society for Human Resource Management estimates that the replacement costs for an individual employee run from 50 to 200percentt of the employee's annual salary.
The project, which agency officials estimated would create 3,600 jobs, is daunting in its magnitude: the suspender ropes, if placed end to end, would be 32 miles long.
The preauction estimate of $75,000-$75,000-$125,000 Dodge was still daunting for Mr. White.
Nevertheless, estimating current off-grid capacity and generation could be daunting for countries prone to paucity of data.
