Most companies I met with probably still under-estimate the importance of corporate governance and accounting standards.
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Even that figure is probably an under-estimate, since it does not include children and homosexuals.
They constantly over-estimate their abilities and under-estimate the risks and threats around them.
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Thus, he says, investors tend to under-estimate the potential for diversification strategies when the economic going is tough, and to over-estimate it when things are booming.
The biggest mistake would be to under-estimate Indonesia's importance.
Using the latest brain imaging technologies, researchers have been able to prove that we human beings are neurologically wired to over-estimate the size of risks, under-estimate our ability to handle them, and downplay the costs of inaction.
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People do remember of course 1996 when Mr Aldrich was abducted and murdered by terrorists so there are people of such evil intent and we can't under-estimate that but we have no intelligence that would substantiate the report that's in today's newspaper in that regard.
Don't under-estimate how far we've come in the last few years, we've got a generation in Northern Ireland where there are 3, 200 families who've suffered absolutely tragedy and we've made major strides forward already in all of the major areas both political and in the security side.
Sir Alan says that many schools under or over-estimate the number of pupils with special needs, and that this leads to an incorrect level of provision for these pupils.
If the Department of the Environment's estimate that, under current land-use patterns, 169, 400 hectares will go from rural to urban use by 2016 is correct, the proportion of England that is considered urban would increase 1.3 percentage points, to 11.9%.
This was not due to a widespread failure to estimate accurately, but problems particularly with under-estimates of London's growth.
It went under the hammer in Fontainebleau, south-east of Paris, at 10 times the initial estimate.
Same-store sales increased by only 1.8% at the discount retailer, under the estimate for 3.5%.
Thus, one-quarter of the money is not a fine but an estimate of foregone revenue under an agreement to cut fees over the next five years.
Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.
Although Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people) gets some revenue from Celebrex sales under an alliance agreement, it is difficult to estimate how Celebrex did, because the company doesn't report revenue from such agreements by drug.
Earnings per share came in at 11 cents per share, under the analyst estimate of 24 cents per share, but 3 cents above the estimate for earnings before one-time items of 51 cents per share.
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