The United States General Accounting Office says that estimate of the costs of 11 September includes the direct destruction of property as well as indirect losses caused by businesses closing.

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The Web site of American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ) subsidiary American General has online calculators to help estimate just how much coverage you need, as well as how much raising a child will cost.

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Does the pension rely upon the general partners of alternative investment funds to estimate the value of the partnership investments in which invests?

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That's the general mood in response to today's first estimate of GDP, which is better than many expected.

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We estimate that the mix of U.S. electronics and general merchandise (EGM) sales occurring online has increased from around 5% in 2004 to around 12% in 2010, and could hit nearly 26% by 2017.

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Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRKA - news - people ), which is controlled by billionaire investor Warren Buffett and owns reinsurance giant General Re , has also said it will have claims but declined to estimate their extent.

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But now Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, is questioning how the Treasury came up with that lowball estimate.

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It was hard to estimate how many individual users that involved, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, in a blogpost, because many people ran lots of separate accounts.

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The consensus estimate is 79 cents per share, up 3.9% from a year ago when General Mills reported earnings of 76 cents per share.

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