(All the initial estimates were way off base.
That is nearly three times the average of 49,000 jobs shown in the initial estimates.
The initial estimates of quarterly G.D.P. growth are based on limited data.
The initial estimates of casualties were reasonable mistakes based on known facts and brute realities.
The initial estimates were certainly too low, but, had Merkel acted sooner, the bill could have been a lot cheaper.
This meant the initial estimates of the labor involved in finishing the genome were probably far too low.
These horrifying numbers have been received with something like relief, in that they are considerably lower than the initial estimates.
That meant the initial estimates that the $400 million in revenues from the bonds could produce 24,000 units was overly optimistic, even unrealistic.
The initial estimates are based on reports of transactions in securities; sales involving long-term securities, like Treasury bonds and notes, reflect only the initial buyer.
One major reason that the initial estimates were so high is that other nations produced inflated reports of their missing citizens, based on frantic calls from relatives abroad.
Early this year the Energy Department predicted a cost of $6.6 billion, about triple the initial estimates, to convert the American stocks to fuel for civilian nuclear reactors.
