Sentence examples for executives figure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Trump has boasted that he may earn $15 million on the deal, while other executives figure that he and his partner will only break even.

The program is the result of modern-day television arithmetic: If the younger viewers whom advertisers crave are so drawn to both reality television and more extreme sports like surfing and skateboarding, executives figure they will watch a program that brings the two together.

The bigger the Internet gets, Google executives figure, the more pages there are for ads and the more people will need search (with more ads) to find anything.

Wal-Mart executives figure the downtrodden economy will play to their advantage a while longer, slightly raising the low end of the company's full-year profit outlook by 5 cents to $3.50 per share.

These often senior-level employees or executives figure they can temporarily mask their fraud because they believe they will be able to make up the difference before anyone's the wiser.

Optimistic industry executives figure that combined sales of Xbox, GameCube and Sony's PlayStation 2 (which has already sold 20 million copies since its release in early 2000) will by the end of 2005 reach as many as 150 million units, roughly the number of VCRs and DVD players in active use.

But MTV executives figured that, at least at first, it made sense to stick to what they did best.

Even as Isiah Thomas, the Knicks' president, bucked the trend, many executives figured the best move was not to make a move at this year's deadline.

None of the race's many celebrity participants — pro golfers, Olympic athletes, actors and actresses, auto executives and assorted executives — figured among the top finishers; most seemed to be, quite literally, just along for the ride.

Executives figured that even tougher regulations were coming from Washington, and overhauling 11 generators at four plants would have cost nearly $2 billion, which would have been passed on to the company's 1.5 million electric customers.

When Land Rover decided to forge ahead with the Evoque, executives figured it could be based on what was then its smallest vehicle, the Land Rover LR2, said Mr. Richards, the chief engineer.