It said earnings and subscriber growth for the full year would exceed initial estimates.
He was worried because the expense of mounting the Games elsewhere had often exceeded initial estimates, and the same would probably be true of Beijing.
One Web-affinity company, WebGalaxy, suspended operations on March 31, just three weeks after announcing that demand for its United Labor Online affinity portal had "exceeded initial estimates".
That means funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will total nearly $105 billion in fiscal 2005 alone -- a record amount that far exceeds initial estimates of the cost.
While the design-build method is intended to prevent large cost overruns, in some cases final costs have greatly exceeded initial estimates.
Costs invariably far exceed initial estimates, and planners often woefully underestimate the skills and funding needed to ensure maintenance and repairs.
There has been little oversight: In at least one case the Corps agreed in advance not to scrutinize contractor bills if they exceeded initial estimates by 50% or less.
Even though this exceeded initial estimates, the YOG are still both smaller in size as well as shorter than their senior equivalents.
The response in Haiti has been more expensive than in other recent emergencies (e.g., Pakistan, Sri Lanka) – and has far exceeded initial estimates, with projects reported as exceeding projected costs by 2.5 to 3 times.
Despite several decades of research and refinement in cost estimating tools and practices, the final cost of US space programs continues to exceed initial cost estimates by an average of more than 45%.
The 106,834 people far exceeds initial official estimates that between 11,000 and 22,000 would make the commitment in the first five years.
