To find out, my Tax Policy Center colleague Rachel Johnson crunched some rough numbers.

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But a look at some very rough numbers suggests that if the president and congressional Republicans want to compromise, there is a middle-ground.

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Representative DAVID OBEY (Democrat, Wisconsin): We are simply getting spreadsheets which show total numbers by rough category such as human services or field operations.

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Mr Robinson said the scheme was set up in response to a recent government report which identified East Yorkshire as an area with higher-than-average numbers of young people sleeping rough.

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All those numbers should give us a rough idea of how many converters Apple is going to sell to connect the Lightning Dock enabled iPhone 5 with the old 30 pin Dock found on every charger, cable, and accessory.

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Here are some numbers that will give you a rough idea of where your aid will come out.

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As a rough proxy, look at President Bush's poll numbers.

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The calculation is rough and ready, and I come to slightly lower numbers than Allwood and co, but the point is that this measurement uses a unit we're familiar with - us.

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In London, where about half of England's rough sleepers are based (and half of those, in turn, in the borough of Westminster), their numbers fell between 2000-01 and 2004-05, but then increased from just over 2, 500 to 3, 017 in 2007-08.

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