If he calculated they actually had the right amount of staff, he was told by his bosses not to be so ridiculous and do his sums again: where was the money for them in a properly-staffed company?
After all, the new American Commander-in-Chief, though hailing from the same party as Bush, has declared NATO to be "obsolete" and professed an admiration for Vladimir Putin — who could, if he so pleased, and if he calculated that America might not be roused to revenge, dispatch his tanks across the Lithuanian border.
If he calculates that a shrunken UK bereft of its Scottish MPs, and quite possibly under perpertual Tory rule, will be an infinitely easier one to bully into promoting his commercial interests (allowing him, for example, to take a 100 per cent stake in BSkyB), he doubtless calculates correctly.
If they did, he calculated the chances of a successful strike would rise from about thirty per cent to ninety per cent.
Initially hesitant, he calculated that if Neusoft just focused on the software side the insides, if you will and bought the necessary hardware for final assembly, it could turn a profit.
He calculated that if he took the initiative, he might stave off deeper and more unwelcome cuts.
Mullah Omar had refused to hand over Mr. bin Laden, the Qaeda leader, in 2001 because he calculated that if he did, it would be only the first of many demands placed on him, he said.
He calculated that if one obtained a 5.5 percent annual return when inflation was running at 2.5 percent, then the net return would be 3 percent.
He calculated that if precisely 1,620 men, women and children were collected in a 6,000-acre 6,000-acrehey would — all by merrily following their individual phalanxs — end up satheyying all the phalanx's essential needs.
He calculated that if homes were put on each of the two acres, they would only double the size of the town's population, based on an average of four people per home.
He calculated that if only 10 percent of the Boston centenarians had been typed with this chip, it would have made the genetic variants appear associated with longevity even though they were not.
