Uber, presumably, hopes that by releasing its revenue growth figures it can change the narrative concerning its business.
Cisco figures it can bundle blade servers with its routers because the servers are largely commodity hardware, anyway.
EnCana figures it can make a 15% pretax return on its oil sands capital at $55 oil.
Hillsdale, however, figures it can select qualified investment managers itself, do some of its own investing, avoid reinsurance and pay out more.
For public figures it can be ruinous.
Anything they can do, Apple figures it can do better.
Faced with these figures, it can feel like we're standing at the foot of an insurmountable mountain.
Now that information flows at warp speed and in unlimited quantities, and it's possible to triangulate remarks and hold candidates to account, the Romney campaign, at least, still figures it can get away with pretty much anything.
Syria's motives are clear: it wants to regain the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, and to re-establish a relationship with the United States, something it figures it can do through talks with Jerusalem.
GM figures it can outdo Tesla in all three categories.
The government figures it can stiff these creditors and get away with it.
