Publish company financials using both aggressive and conservative assumptions about items like pension liabilities and depreciation schedules.
Using their least conservative assumptions, the researchers found that less than 2% of the globular clusters should contain intermediate mass black holes today.
We remain comfortable being somewhat below the Street given our conservative assumptions surrounding municipal financing activity and the inherent quarterly variability present in this project-based business model.
Now, officials say the estimate is based on conservative assumptions.
What makes the study's conclusions more plausible is that the authors used very conservative assumptions, only counting the direct costs to the health system and lost workdays of a pandemic.
Using their most conservative assumptions, Dr Bockelmann and colleagues found that even if every globular cluster started out with an intermediate mass black hole, only about 30% retained them through successive mergers.
Although in the 2012-2014 fiscal program, the government sees smaller deficits and lower levels of debt and further needs for borrowing, it is no longer based on conservative oil price assumptions.
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These assumptions are conservative, says Gustavo Gattass of UBS Pactual, an investment bank.
And not being conservative enough in making assumptions about returns on plan portfolios can quickly and easily sink a pension fund.
We've taken a conservative approach in our valuation assumptions, including continued erosion of the home entertainment market, and we expect this acquisition to create value for our shareholders.
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Based on our analysis, we find the total impact on PC unit growth could be more severe than we are modeling if our cannibalization rate assumptions prove too conservative, thus making the success of Windows 8 tablets a very important offsetting revenue source.
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The takeaway here is that the old assumptions about a monochrome conservative electorate don't apply in coastal areas of South Carolina.
Every year we try to do an honest, reasonable, conservative forecast to make sure that we are basing our budget assumptions on the best possible forecast that we can.
Because of the various assumptions used in the paper, this range should be considered conservative and low-end.
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The Study reduces these economic assumptions by calculating in a 3% inflation rate, which is a good conservative move.
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