To conceal the real impact of his legislation, Mr. Bush and his budget also used fancifully low estimates of spending.
Officials said at the time that their formula used low estimates of environmental damage to health and did not assess the impact on China's ecology.
They have long pushed implausibly low estimates of climate sensitivity, below two degrees Fahrenheit in some cases.
Here the commission's evidence suggests non-fault insurers may be setting artificially low estimates of salvage, resulting in higher payouts.
Here's the average of CBO's high and low estimates of the impact of the ARRA on the level (not the rate of growth) of GDP by quarter:.
Barclays and, apparently, many other banks submitted dishonestly low estimates of bank borrowing costs over at least two years, including during the depths of the financial crisis.
While the IMF's figures are eyewateringly large, they are, if anything, conservative because they are based on low estimates of the costs of climate change from the US government, which tends to omit many of the largest risks.
John Amos, president of SkyTruth, an environmental advocacy group that sharply criticized the early, low estimates of the size of the BP leak, noted that no oil had gushed from the well for nearly two weeks.
Maura Spery, one of the opponents, accused the insurgents of submitting unrealistically low estimates of what it would cost Mastic Beach taxpayers to establish a village and to take balky homeowners to court.
The authors of M15 cite some studies supporting their estimate of lower climate response, but miss much of the larger body of research that contradicts the claims in M15 … Their low estimates of future warming are due to assumptions developed using a logically flawed justification narrative rather than physical analysis.
In addition to the low estimates of contamination, there are two reasons that contamination cannot explain our results.
