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2010 ExxonMobil oil spill

The Nigerian government estimates there were over 7,000 spills, large and small, between 1970 and 2000, according to the BBC.

Afton Down

It was the site of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, where the Guinness Book of Records estimates 600,000 to 700,000, and possibly 800,000 people, flocked to see the musical talents of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Free, The Who, The Doors, Ten Years After and Jimi Hendrix.

Alto Paraguay Department

The World Land Trust estimates deforestation in the Paraguay Chaco at over 200.000 hectare for 2008 alone

Bell ARH-70 Arapaho

The Army filed a Nunn-McCurdy cost and schedule breach on 9 July 2008, when new cost estimates showed a 40% cost increase above initial estimates.

Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic

Manchester – Expansion of services and facilities at Manchester Airport estimates a usage by 50 million passengers in 2030, which is more than twice as many as the airport handles now.

Chunyun

The General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) estimates at least 36 million passengers will fly during the 2009 Chunyun period.

Colocasia esculenta

Estimates are that taro was in cultivation in wet tropical India before 5000 BC, presumably coming from Malaysia, and from India further transported westward to ancient Egypt, where it was described by Greek and Roman historians as an important crop.

Concrete security

In cryptography, concrete security or exact security is a practice-oriented approach that aims to give more precise estimates of the computational complexities of adversarial tasks than polynomial equivalence would allow.

Constitution of Bolivia

An analysis by Minister of Autonomy Carlos Romero estimates that at least 106 laws must be approved to fully implement the new constitution.

Cost of electricity by source

Masayoshi Son, an advocate for renewable energy, however, has pointed out that the government estimates for nuclear power did not include the costs for reprocessing the fuel or disaster insurance liability.

Economy of Azad Kashmir

The per capita income and provincial GDP estimates of Azad Kashmir are comparatively underrated when compared with development in other regions of the country although Azad Kashmir notably has a literacy rate that is substantially above the national average.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

First wave of European colonization

Estimates of pre-Columbian population have ranged from a low of 8.4 million to a high of 112.5 million persons; in 1976, geographer William Denevan derived a "consensus count" of about 54 million people.

Fort San Pedro

Plans and estimates for the restoration of the fort were completed by Architect Leonardo Concepcion, who had completed his MA in Restoration in Madrid.

Fruit Height Lands Conveyance Act

Based on information from the Forest Service, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing the legislation would have no significant impact on the federal budget.

Ginger nut

Leading biscuit manufacturer Griffin's estimates 60 million of them are produced each year.

Goldbach's weak conjecture

In 2012 and 2013, Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott released a pair of papers claiming to improve major and minor arc estimates sufficiently to unconditionally prove the weak Goldbach conjecture.

Goldilocks planet

Very low estimates would contribute to the Rare Earth hypothesis, which posits that a series of extremely unlikely events and conditions led to the rise of life on Earth.

Gregory M. Erickson

Erickson has also been featured in BBC’s program The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs, in which he estimates the bite force of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Guggenheim Helsinki Plan

Helsinki mayor Jussi Pajunen and deputy mayor Hannu Penttilä favored the original proposal, concluding that the museum would be an economic opportunity, based on the estimates of the Boston Consulting Group.

Hampshire Constabulary

1970 - The Isle of Wight Festival takes place at Afton Down attracting huge crowds, estimates varying from five to six hundred thousand, who witness what would be the last UK performance by Jimi Hendrix - he is to die less than three weeks later.

Historical demography of Scotland

From the formation of the Kingdom of Alba in the tenth century, to before the Black Death reached the country in 1349, estimates based on the amount of farmable land, suggest that the population may have grown from half a million to a million.

History of the Bosniaks

One geographer estimates that there are 350,000 Bosniaks in Turkey today, although that figure includes the descendants of Muslim South Slavs who emigrated from the Sandžak region during the First Balkan War and later.

Human rights in India

The 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots was a four-day period during which Sikhs were massacred by members of the secular-centrist Congress Party of India; some estimates state that more than 2,000 were killed.

Human trafficking in Guinea-Bissau

UNICEF estimates that 200 children are taken from Guinea-Bissau each month for this purpose, and in 2008 a study found that 30 percent of the 8,000 religious students begging on the streets of Dakar are from Guinea-Bissau.

ImageMagica

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that for each dollar spent in health promotion 5 dollars are spared from being spent in treatment.

Jakob Sederholm

In the 1974 historical novel Centennial, James Michener listed Sederholm among those scientists who made early estimates of the age of the Earth.

Marine current power

A 2006 report from United States Department of the Interior estimates that capturing just 1/1,000th of the available energy from the Gulf Stream, which has 21,000 times more energy than Niagara Falls in a flow of water that is 50 times the total flow of all the world’s freshwater rivers, would supply Florida with 35% of its electrical needs.

Measurement of sea ice

Starting in 1958 U. S. Navy submarines collected upward-looking sonar profiles, for navigation and defense, and converted the information into estimates of ice thickness.

Mmamabula

A pre-feasibility study for building infrastructure to export 10 million tonnes of coal yearly via Namibia gave estimates of US$2.5 billion for a 1,500km new railway and US $1.1 billion for a coal terminal and new port facility in either Lüderitz or Walvis Bay.

North American DC-3

However, NASA's estimates of the shuttle development costs were met with great skepticism by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Pesticides in the United States

The National Academy of Sciences estimates that between 4,000 and 20,000 cases of cancer are caused per year by pesticide residues in food in allowable amounts.

Pitch count

Rany Jazayerli estimates that two thirds of young starting pitchers from 1999 on are still playing five years later, compared to one of two between 1984 and 1998, and attributes the improvement to greater emphasis on the pitch count.

Plattenbau

Since reunification a combination of decreasing population, renovation of older buildings, and construction of modern alternative housing has led to high vacancy rates, with some estimates placing the number of unoccupied units at around a million.

Proxy server

Gordon Lyon estimates there are "hundreds of thousands" of open proxies on the Internet.

Quingnam language

Some estimates are that the language was spoken on the coast as far south as the river Chillón (Carabayllo).

Tetley Hall

Plans and estimates were approved for the conversion and in 1951 it was resolved to accept a recommendation by the Vice-Chancellor that it might be appropriate for the new hall to be named 'Tetley Hall' in recognition of the long standing association between the Tetley's family of Leeds Brewers and the University.

The Great Terror

Nevertheless, some historians maintain their original, higher estimates, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, Perestroika architect and former head of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, and the director of Yale's "Annals of Communism" series Jonathan Brent, putting the death toll at about 20 million.

TPz Fuchs

In May 2013 the vehicles were transported back to RAF Honington so engineers from Rheinmetall Landsysteme could assess their condition to enable cost estimates to be drawn up with the possibility of returning the vehicles to service or selling them if they are no longer required by the British Armed Forces.

Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984

Louis Vuitton estimates two to three million counterfeit Louis Vuitton pieces are produced each year -- about twice the number of genuine products it manufactures.

Udmurt language

Ethnologue estimates 550,000 native speakers (77%) in an ethnic population of 750,000 in the former USSR (1989 census).

UShip

In 2009, uShip entered a partnership with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of heavy equipment, to provide real-time estimates and quotes for transportation of industrial equipment and vehicles being sold at auctions.

Vladimir Žerjavić

The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Yad Vashem on the other side did not accept Žerjavić estimates.

Volume and extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Official estimates were provided by the Flow Rate Technical Group—scientists from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Geological Survey (USGS), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and outside academics, led by USGS director Marcia McNutt.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

According to Todd Harrison, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in 2005, “when they made their initial estimates of what it would cost … they did their best estimate …. A lot of things have changed since then. Construction costs have gone up."

Western white pine

The United States Forest Service estimates that 90% of the Western white pines have been killed by the blister rust west of the Cascades.

Wiesław Masłowski

Many climate change deniers claimed that this was evidence that the models were incorrectly exaggerating predictions of Arctic sea ice decline; however, John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli noted that other climate scientists believed Maslowski's estimates to be overly pessimistic.

William Harding Jackson

To the occasional amusement of many politicians and Washington, DC insiders, there was a George Jackson at CIA serving on the National Board of Estimates Staff, and other members of the 'Jackson Committee' which included the Committee's Chief of Staff, Wayne Jackson, a former office-mate of Bill Jackson's at the law firm Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, and C. D. Jackson from the private sector Time-Life-Fortune magazine syndicate.


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