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  • Useful only as an upper-bound estimate of the value of averting climate change (almost without cost), the "engineering solution" is a strange thing to advocate as an economist.

    How to Fight Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The cancer slope factor is a plausible upper-bound estimate of the probability that an individual will develop cancer if exposed to a chemical for a lifetime of 70 years.

    Risk assessment of chemical substances 2007

  • This was the upper-bound of the reduced guidance the company issued last month, and narrowly beat analysts '...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • This suggests a short-term bearish attempt, which may already have been exhausted as the market tests the upper-bound of the gap at 0.8800.

    FXstreet.com CMS Forex 2010

  • Meanwhile, the headline reading for inflation exceeded the upper-bound of 3% in January, but Bank of England Governor Mervyn King held a dovish outlook in his letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and said that underlying price pressures remain "to the downside."

    Currency Trading News by DailyFX David Song 2010

  • This was the upper-bound of the reduced guidance the company issued last month, and narrowly beat analysts '...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • This suggests a short-term bearish attempt, which may already have been exhausted as the market tests the upper-bound of the gap at 0.8800.

    FXstreet.com CMS Forex 2010

  • This was the upper-bound of the reduced guidance the company issued last month, and narrowly beat analysts '...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • This suggests a short-term bearish attempt, which may already have been exhausted as the market tests the upper-bound of the gap at 0.8800.

    FXstreet.com CMS Forex 2010

  • Tourism receipts from January to December 2009 were estimated at S$12. 4 billion, reaching the upper-bound of the forecast of S$12 - S$12. 5 billion.

    TravelDailyNews.com 2010

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