Much of this spending, he reckons, should be depreciated against profits over several years.
Existing levels of investment, Dr Odlyzko reckons, should be enough to keep pace with traffic growth.This is all good news, says Mr Swanson, who, with his former colleague George Gilder of the Discovery Institute, is credited with coining the term "exaflood".
A president, he reckons, should be above the fray, especially while France still holds the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, crowning its efforts with this week's summit hosted by Mr Chirac in Nice.
Much of the first half of the novel is taken up by his puzzled analyses of primitive human ways: the nightly news, he reckons, should be renamed The War and Money Show; getting drunk is how humans forget they are mortal, while hangovers are how they remember.
Some close to the prime minister scent an effort by Arjun Singh to embarrass his boss, whose job he is widely reckoned to think should be his.
The six-year-longBritish inquiry into the 2003 Iraq invasion and its aftermath will not be published before the general election, prompting an outcry from those demanding that the long overdue reckoning should be put before the voters.
If the rule of law always prevailed, reckons Mr Cao, that figure should be 17 times higher still.
From this, we reckon we should be able to clip anything up to 10-12ft high.
"Reckon I should be back in time for it to start again at 10".
On the whole, Canadians reckon it should be a private matter: bible-thumping politicians have rarely been popular.
