BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian playwright Mohammad al-Attar considers the common wisdom about the uprising in his country — "the fear is gone" — somewhat overstated.
He was a good composer with flashes of greatness, whose qualities go on being somewhat overstated.
Its opponents say that immigrants steal American jobs succumbing to the fallacy that there are only a fixed number of jobs to go around.One common argument, though not silly, is often overstated: that immigration pushes down American workers' wages, especially among high-school dropouts.
The city's current workers will see a freeze in the amount of their pay that will be used to calculate pension benefits, which the city estimates will save it $1 billion over the next 30 years — savings that unions say are overstated but that some critics say will not go far enough.
All in all, Toshiba said it had overstated profits going back to the 2008-9 fiscal year by ¥155 billion ($1.3 billion).
On the other side, economists argue that such claims about manufacturing are overstated: that most manufacturing jobs will be low-wage and low-end and therefore will go overwhelmingly to workers overseas; that other businesses foster innovation as well; and that there are many more solidly middle-class jobs to be found in the service sector.
That memorandum, dated Jan . 29 , 1999reviewed what it said were Deloitte's concerns that HBO profits were substantially overstated and said that those concerns had been discussed by McKesson's board, which decided to go ahead with the transaction.
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"I think that is overstated," said Mr. Martin, who said he does not see himself as a filibuster warrior but as someone with a bipartisan history and a lawmaker who would "go up to the United States Senate and stick up for the middle-class Georgian".
Some economists, including the former head of the China division at the International Monetary Fund, question whether the World Bank has now gone too far in the other direction and overstated prices in China.
Professor Shay said the "realism of eliminating all tax expenditures is somewhat overstated; I don't think it's going to happen".
