The guest gave an estimate of QE2 purchases to date and an estimate of the jobs created during that same period.

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On Friday, Chile's Minister of Mines, Laurence Golborne, told the assembled media that the official estimate of the rescue date was to be brought forward, to "the second half of October".

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Throughout this delay the IRS appeared to be writing new rules as it went along, altered its explanation for the holdup, misrepresented facts, made unreasonable requests, refused to provide any estimate of a decision date and stonewalled us in other ways.

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The numbers are the result of a Harvard School of Public Health study published in the September edition of Health Affairs, purporting to be the most reliable estimate of malpractice costs to date.

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So I think this was a date that emerged in the context of a rough estimate of what it would take.

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The initial estimate of GDP in the first quarter will be published on April 23rd, close to the most likely election date, May 6th.

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