back-of-an-envelope

Conall McDevitt has taken me to task for my back-of-an-envelope calculations about the drop in turnout last night.

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A good back-of-an-envelope indicator would be something like same-store sales at Starbuck's.

Labor Market Surveys Diverge, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But a back-of-an-envelope calculation suggests that much better -- and cleaner -- locomotives could use fuel cells powered by natural gas directly driving the electric motor.

Carl Pope: 'Tis the Gift to Be Simple 2010

"What the people of our country need to ask themselves is this: Do you really want to gamble your economic future on the back-of-an-envelope set of calculations like this?" said Mr. Brown, who was flanked by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.

Brown Renews Attack on Conservative Tax Pledge Laurence Norman 2010

But a back-of-an-envelope calculation suggests that much better -- and cleaner -- locomotives could use fuel cells powered by natural gas directly driving the electric motor.

Carl Pope: 'Tis the Gift to Be Simple 2010

"What the people of our country need to ask themselves is this: Do you really want to gamble your economic future on the back-of-an-envelope set of calculations like this?" said Mr. Brown, who was flanked by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.

Brown Renews Attack on Conservative Tax Pledge Laurence Norman 2010

"What the people of our country need to ask themselves is this: Do you really want to gamble your economic future on the back-of-an-envelope set of calculations like this?" said Mr. Brown, who was flanked by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.

Brown Renews Attack on Conservative Tax Pledge Laurence Norman 2010

"What the people of our country need to ask themselves is this: Do you really want to gamble your economic future on the back-of-an-envelope set of calculations like this?" said Mr. Brown, who was flanked by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.

Brown Renews Attack on Conservative Tax Pledge Laurence Norman 2010

"What the people of our country need to ask themselves is this: Do you really want to gamble your economic future on the back-of-an-envelope set of calculations like this?" said Mr. Brown, who was flanked by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.

Brown Renews Attack on Conservative Tax Pledge Laurence Norman 2010

That smacks of back-of-an-envelope scribbling if ever any promise did.

The New Class War 2009