The space-lifts, he reckoned, would become reality a few decades after people stopped laughing at the idea.
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Sir Mervyn was blunter: the economy, he reckoned, had grown by only around 1% in the past year.
He reckoned that he had met the challenge with Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Casals, among others.
In a BBC Radio Lancashire debate, he reckoned it could extract 10% of the 200 trillion cubic feet of gas there.
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His patients were having trouble conceiving, and he reckoned that their ovaries might do better after a short break from ovulating.
In total, he reckoned 150, 000 jobs would go from directly employed council workers, and a further 50, 000 among contractors and agency staff.
He reckoned that some form of censorship would continue to be needed.
At the end of the previous Republican administration, he reckoned, there were plenty of jobs, and Colorado was known as a business-friendly state.
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For those he used lead white, a traditional oil pigment he reckoned would show up in an x-ray due to the heavy metal content.
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He reckoned that if he wasn't around any more, there'd always been a question mark over his guilt, which would be good for his children.
At one point, he seemed to sense that he was making the wrong impression on a Western journalist who he reckoned might be keen to find the next Facebook.
Montek Ahluwalia, of India's Planning Commission, said last year that he reckoned only 16% of the resources earmarked for the poor under the country's subsidised food distribution scheme ever reached them.
That, he reckoned, had a 30% chance of realisation.
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At the very least, he reckoned that Mr Brown could end the rebellion if he wanted to and that it was as much in his interests as in Mr Blair's for him to do so.
Projected out to 2050, he reckoned, Medicare and Medicaid (the government schemes that insure the elderly and the poor) would together consume some 20% of America's GDP, almost as much as the entire federal budget of today.
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But an old woman, a shaman, stayed to tell Khabarov of mountains full of gold and gems, and of Dauria's fields of grain enough, he reckoned, to feed 20, 000 and get flour to Yakutsk in two months instead of four years.
What he had not reckoned on inheriting together with the property, however, was his uncle's debts.
By the end of the 1980s, most pundits reckoned he was politically dead.
Both Mr Berlusconi on the right and Mr D'Alema on the left reckoned he would be a safe pair of hands.
Mr Habibie may well have miscalculated in allowing the referendum: he may have reckoned that the vote would go Indonesia's way.
He has always reckoned that, in the long run, tussling with his own kind would be much harder than facing down the Serbs.
According to a Financial Times report into organised crime from December 2011, he was "reckoned to be the highest-ranking mafia boss in Russia".
Some close to the prime minister scent an effort by Arjun Singh to embarrass his boss, whose job he is widely reckoned to think should be his.
The truth about Brock Brower, an experienced freelance journalist, is that he must now be reckoned with as an extraordinarily capable novelist.
But Mr McLaughlin said the headline from the election should be that Sinn Fein are now a force to be reckoned with - he polled 117, 643 first preference votes despite widespread speculation that the continuing search for IRA victims, known as the "disappeared", would affect his vote.
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