But some estimates for public contributions have reached tens of billions of dollars.
Instead, the state used that money, as much as $1.3 billion by some estimates, for welfare programs that the state and local governments once financed themselves.
Yet A.I.G. not only received a tax benefit, it is unlikely to pay a cent of taxes this year, nor by some estimates, for at least a decade.
It built most of the engines (80%, according to some estimates) for the Internet revolution: souped-up computers called routers that guide data through networks.
The analyst who follows Madison Avenue for Merrill Lynch & Company, Lauren Rich Fine, has reduced some estimates for growth in advertising spending this year and next, partly because of reduced expectations of growth in ad revenue for newspapers and radio.
Some estimates for CBS were as low as $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion, though others touched $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion if sponsorships of the hit series "Survivor" were included.
Infectious diseases are not going away; indeed, in a global economy with an increasingly mobile population, they are more of a threat than ever, responsible, by some estimates, for 13 million deaths a year.
I think this needs to consider evidence of the extent of existing problems – Home Office have already provided some estimates for the number of illegal migrant children in English schools – … [and] how migrant status information could be used.
The move by Apple perplexed some analysts, who noted that the Internet radio business seemed too small — accounting for less than $1 billion a year in revenue, by some estimates — for Apple to bother with.
Yet A.I.G. not only has received a tax benefit, it is unlikely to pay a cent of taxes this year, nor by some estimates, for at least a decade.
Net revenue, which excludes the traffic acquisition costs Google paid to partners, rose 13 per cent to $4.95 billion £33 billion), which was at the low end of some estimates for 13 per cent to 15 per cent growth.
