But he said he "would be perfectly astonished" if Mr. Mayo's cost estimate were accurate.
With one-third fewer people than the year before, the warehouses processed what analysts estimate were 10 to 15 percent more items.
And the babies — about 500 of them, in a widely accepted estimate — were handed or sold to military families and to others considered "politically acceptable".
When two local laws on recycling were amended in 2010, for example, references to the Board of Estimate were removed.
I also try to give you a pair which seem to offer a reasonable range of one-word definitions to choose from, though I have to say that some of the definitions chosen for ESTIMATE were distinctly borderline.
That defiant gesture shook the Mexican government as much as that of the United States; days before the Olympics, government troops in Mexico City had killed what historians now estimate were hundreds of student protesters.
A recent estimate quoted in the Guardian said 10,000 for the town and its surrounding district; if that and Mr Noronha's estimate were correct, then only about a third of Thetford would have English as its first language.
Most Democrats and civil rights groups argue that a lack of adjustment this year threatens to deprive some three million people, who by the Census Bureau's own estimate were missed in the 2000 count, of political representation.
In the meantime, public health experts are drawing up plans to recruit some of the hundreds of pregnant women they estimate were among the tens of thousands of people at or near ground zero the morning of Sept. 11.
Not included in the estimate were subsequent deaths caused by urban firestorms ignited by the heat of a nuclear exchange, or deaths from long-term radiation, or the disease and starvation expected to spread.
Evening nightshade, a hallucinogenic plant thought to have been cultivated by the ancestral Pueblos for ritual use, still grows near the ancient mud-and-stone walls, which archaeologists estimate were built in layers between about A.D. 700 and 1150.
