Charles Elkins, director of the E.P.A.'s Office of Toxic Substances, initially calculated that "it will take two employees (per facility) working full-time about 200 hours each to pull data together, estimate releases and complete the reporting forms."

These courageous and incredibly efficient crews (they conquered the infernos in about one-third the time initially calculated) were the true Men of the Year in 1991.

Or had the Black armsleader been more difficult to find and subdue than Jeslek had initially calculated?

The deal was initially calculated to be worth $108 billion but jumps to $115 billion once $7 billion in stock options are added.

That estimate was initially calculated mainly from damage to coastal areas, he said, and by late yesterday some of the most severe damage was being discovered farther inland.

Thus, for tax purposes, the initially calculated gift value is zero, since what will be paid back to the donor in annuity payments is anticipated to be about equal to what the donor invested, plus interest.

The reserves were initially calculated to be around 170,000 tonnes.

Lloyd's of London, one of the world's best-known insurance organizations, said yesterday that its losses from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were greater than initially calculated.

The index was initially calculated on full market capitalisation methodology.

Just like the management of a portfolio of shares, Project Portfolio Management is the activity of selecting which projects to keep in portfolio (because of their anticipated value) and which ones to discard (because of their obsoleteness or because they will not yield the value that was initially calculated).