Backers of the effort estimated that about 30 House Republicans, like Mr. King and Mr. Yoho, would not support immigration legislation under almost any condition.
The government, which is involved in the cleanup effort, estimates that about half of the pellets have been removed from the beaches so far.
The initiative is part of a broader effort, estimated by analysts to cost between $800 million and $1 billion, to make visiting Disney parks less daunting and more amenable to modern consumer behavior.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations climate effort, estimated in its most recent report that sea level might rise by about as much as two feet by 2100.
Some analysts said Mr. Piñera's honeymoon could be short-lived if he appeared to favor private business interests in the reconstruction effort, estimated to cost at least $12 billion.
Tim Byerly, president of the Tactical Sourcing Group, a company in Suwanee, Ga., that provides boom for the cleanup effort, estimated that 10 percent of all the boom laid so far, at a price ranging from $15 to $18 a foot, was ineffective.
The results of the study (using industrial data gathered from 31 Web projects) show that the effort estimates obtained for projects that are sized using OO-HFP are more accurate than the effort estimates obtained using the standard FPA method.
Those projects comprise the first phase of a proposed long-term Salton Sea restoration effort estimated to cost about $3 billion.
A set of 12 easily retrievable indicators was used and corresponding points assigned according to a weighting system intended to reflect the effort estimated to perform each activity.
Manually digitising collections represents an effort estimated at up to one million person years, but, with today's mass-digitisation methodologies, the task is feasible.
