Do you want to make an estimate, or you'd rather not?

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In some cases, publishers played a little dance with PW, giving it an idea of how much an author sold (saying something like less than so-and-so but more than so-and-so), leaving PW to make an estimate, which is indicated by an asterisk next to the sales number.

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The job of an underwriter is, among other things, to make as reasonable an estimate they can of what a firm is likely to be worth in the marketplace.

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Typically they make an offer based on an estimate of what patients with in-network insurance are paying.

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One of the other forecasts that the CBO had was an estimate the deficit would remain above a trillion dollars in 2012, which would make it the fourth consecutive year of being above a trillion dollars.

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