Having worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency, and had contacts with colleagues at the C.I.A., over the years, I can assure you that, in most cases, there is incredible pressure brought to bear on tailoring intelligence estimates to support White House policy initiatives.
According to the GAO report: "The FBI and GSA plan to discuss the FBI's facility needs with the Office of Management and Budget, and GSA and the FBI will need to present a business case, including current, comparable cost estimates, to support the choice of a preferred alternative and financing strategy".
First, the kingdom could well be broke by August 2018 if it keeps dipping into its financial reserves (about $655 billion by some estimates) to support not only the royal family's lavish lifestyle (such as large numbers of Airbus A380s outfitted with gold) but its wide array of social services, all offered while forgoing taxation.
Each Wall Street job is estimated to support three others in the urban and suburban quilt that spreads to New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut.
UK exports to Germany are estimated to support 752,000 jobs, or 2.4% of UK jobs, but 1.3 million German jobs depend upon their exports to the UK, which is 3.2%.
"Last month, Finance Secretary John Swinney confirmed the start of work on a £205m package of public construction and maintenance projects, which is estimated to support approximately 2,000 jobs across Scotland in 2013-14 and will particularly benefit the construction sector.
According to Tamang et al. (2008), each household rears about five goats in the subtropical region; therefore, 1-ha land is estimated to support the goats belonging to about 10 households.
"Although coral reefs cover less than 1percentt of the ocean floor they are estimated to support 25percentt of marine life globally," a spokesperson for the US Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) wrote me in an email.
Products extracted from A. speciosa were reported to support over 300,000 households in the Brazilian state of Maranhão in 2005, and in 1985 it was estimated to support over 450,000 households throughout the Brazil.
Large revenues are generated through tourism and conference tourism with reports showing a £365 million revenue from visitors in 2010, 3.1% greater than 2009 and estimated to support 7,160 jobs.
As the bioeconomy grows globally, especially in the southeastern US, which is estimated to support about 50% of the biomass to meet federal mandates [4], precaution should be taken in large-scale introductions of potentially invasive bioenergy crops.
