Miroslav Sandor, a Roma community worker in Page Hall, gives a much higher estimate.
This evening, the Eritrean government made a much higher estimate of refugees: 550,000.
And much higher estimates from the White House about the size of the government's budget deficits this year and next provided an additional reason to sell Treasury securities.
The much higher estimate released this week reflects more thorough study of the other health and environmental costs of subsidising fossil fuels.
When asked to explain why some customers were complaining of much higher estimated usage during the lockout, Con Ed officials initially blamed the "aberrant weather conditions" in July.
The new survey also found a much higher estimate of annual gun thefts: 400,000 guns stolen per year, compared with 230,000 a year in a recent estimate from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
(Officials had used a much higher estimate -- $2 million -- when they told hollow residents a few years ago that it was too expensive to connect them to the water system, residents said).
In a separate report today, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Association, a private foundation in Switzerland, gave a much higher estimate of future AIDS orphans, at 100 million -- although that number was mentioned without a definite time frame.
But he was seen as a weak spokesman for economic policy, and he created a stir by publicly predicting that the cost of a war with Iraq might reach $200 billion, a much higher estimate than others circulating at the time.
But a group of business leaders led by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago estimates the actual figure at $79 billion, and Joshua D. Rauh, a Northwestern University economist and an expert on how states finance their pension systems, offers a much higher estimate: $166 billion in the largest three funds alone.
