On 28 June 2011 controversial M74 extension through Glasgow was opened to traffic - after coming in almost three times over the original estimated budget.
We then looked at each movie's estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.
In contrast, Mr. Obama is proposing vast new increases in spending, estimated by budget watchdog groups to cost well over a trillion dollars during his presidential term.
This compared with a 3.8% deficit-to-GDP ratio estimated when the budget was presented in October 1999.
The Obama administration and Democrats point out that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the health care law will reduce total annual budget deficits between now and 2021.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the law would drive individual insurance premiums up by as much as 30% because it required policies to cover more and share fewer costs with beneficiaries.
The current enrollment data do not come anywhere close to earlier projections the Medicare actuary originally projected enrollment at 375, 000 individuals in 2010, and Congressional Budget Office estimated up to 700, 000 individuals would attempt to enroll in the program by next year.
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Its budget deficit is running at an estimated 8% of GDP (including off-budget items).
In fact, a recent report by independent experts say this reform will cut the deficit even more than the Congressional Budget Office first estimated.
Excluding costs associated with the bailout of Irish banks, Ireland's 2011 budget deficit was estimated at 9.4% of GDP, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The auction raised 2.3 billion pounds much less than the 3.5 billion pounds estimated by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the government's tax and spending watchdog.
Spending then would match recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office that say estimated total federal revenue will grow to 19.1% of GDP in 2023 as a result of, among other factors, a tax increase on high wage-earners enacted in January.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the main referee of U.S. budget policy, in January estimated the U.S. gap at 5.3% of GDP.
But with Greece's 2011 budget deficit for 2011 now estimated to have been 9%, two percentage points higher than forecast, those assumptions now look optimistic.
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Mr. Osborne was forced to admit he has made virtually no progress this year in cutting what is likely to be the biggest budget deficit in Europe, at an estimated 7.7% of GDP.
The positive budget score turns on the fact that the estimated revenues to pay for the law have risen along with its costs.
In 1997, when Athens won the bid for this summer's games, the security costs were estimated to be just a thin slice of the overall budget.
In its federal budget presented on Feb. 28, the government estimated its expenditure for the fiscal year ended on March 31 at 14.3 trillion rupees.
DiNapoli noted areas where estimated revenues and savings may not materialize, which could lead to budget gaps in the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which runs through March 31.
Increases in the estimated impact of the law on private insurance premiums, along with increases in the estimated cost of health care more generally, have led the Congressional Budget Office to increase its estimate of the budget cost of the law's coverage expansion.
It shows that an estimated 1.9bn euros will be necessary in the next multiyear EU budget period, 2014-2020.
Ministers are due to discuss how to implement an estimated cut of half a billion pounds following Chancellor George Osborne's first Budget.
Economic growth slowed to an estimated 4% this year from 8% three years ago, and the budget deficit is a whopping 18.5% of gross domestic product.
U.'s statistics agency revealed the country's budget deficit in 2009 was greater than previously believed, having reached an estimated 13.6% of its gross domestic product.
But foreign experts have estimated that Beijing's actual military spending could be as much as double the official budget.
The foundation and others have estimated that it could cost between 1.5% and 2% of the overall budget for teacher compensation and benefits to implement a feedback and evaluation system based on multiple measures of teaching performance.
An estimated 1, 100 council posts will be cut at Leicestershire County Council over the next four years under budget proposals announced this week.
To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
An estimated 1, 100 council posts will be cut at Leicestershire County Council over the next four years under new budget proposals.
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