As support for her estimate, Darin points at other recent sales of Kenwood mansions.
At first glance there is some support for the lower of her estimates of detainees from others such as the Kenyan Human Rights Commission and Dr David Anderson of Oxford University.
And AOL's operating profit could fall by $251 million, 14percentt of her estimate for this year.
Carol J. Loomis wrote an article critical of the new company's ability to earn any money for investors saying that the market capitalization on AOL Time Warner would have to reach $2.4 trillion (from her estimate for the company currently which is $290 billion) to give an annual return of 15percentt.
Holly Becker, an analyst for Lehman Brothers, cut her estimates on AOL on Tuesday by $147 million, to $1.79 billion, for 2002.
But when a reporter later asked the study's author, Katharine Harrington, a Lewin Group vice president, for a further analysis, she lowered her estimates for potential savings to 23percentto33percentcent for brand and generic drugs, and to 20percentto30percentcent for brand-name drugs only.
The analyst who follows Madison Avenue for Merrill Lynch & Company, Lauren Rich Fine, has reduced her estimates for growth in advertising spending this year and next, partly because of lagging growth for local ads as well as ads appearing in newspapers.
In a report yesterday, Ms. Fine reduced her estimates for 2003 to call for growth in United States ad spending of 2.8percentt rather than 3.1percentt and growth in worldwide ad spending of 1.9percentt rather than 2percentt.
One reason for increasing her estimate, she said, was Internet advertising "finally living up to its expectations".
"Yes, business was weak to begin with, though things were actually picking up before the Sept. 11 tragedy," said Jessica Reif Cohen, a media analyst at Merrill Lynch, who reduced her estimates for the News Corporation weeks ago.
