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She has since built up a healthy stream of online projects and reckons she will soon be earning more than she did in her previous job.

Something of this size, he reckons, would destroy two rooms in a suburban dwelling. Or a synagogue.

Toshiba, a large Japanese electronics firm, reckons that DMFCs can be used to produce mobile devices that have no need for batteries at all.

Although services exports have been lacklustre, the OBR reckons that this weakness will not persist.

But Petra reckons the mine still has another 20 years of production in it and plans to extract at least 1m carats a year.

The cost of installation, reckons the company, should be about half that of conventional panels.

Janice Min, the editor-in-chief of Us Weekly, reckons the content of her magazine and its associated website overlap by no more than 15%.

In the most violent countries, cutting the murder rate by 10% could boost income growth per head by up to 1% a year, the bank reckons.

Sales are back up, the head count is now up to 130, and Acme reckons it will hire 20 more people this year to handle the growing order book.

We need to see in the next few days. He wants to play against Chelsea, and the doctor reckons that Steven will be able to manage it.

Anyway, we've got to go, Lee Jordan reckons he's found a new secret passageway out of the school.

The Finn reckons his team has continued to improve in the last few races, but he feels its rivals have taken bigger steps forward.

But, at long last, she reckons, "there seems to be an incipient turnaround in the phenomenon of 'missing girls' in Asia. "

He reckons the Mexican drug-traffickers had made it clear to her that giving evidence against them would not be a wise move.

The Bank of England reckons that $100 billion of Russian deposits were shipped out of Britain in the last quarter of 2008.

Although he puts himself "in the many worlds club" , which interpretation you choose to follow is largely a matter of taste, he reckons.

Lipper, an information group, reckons that the median European fund has euro25m of assets, barely enough to be economic to run.

Mr Collins argues for what he calls "theistic evolution" , which he reckons is yet to catch on because it has such a terrible name.

He reckons that although prices have dropped within the naturist community, the fall is not as steep as in the general market.

The fledgling site reckons it will "create a reliable travel guide written by you and like-minded travelers from all over the world" .

Keane reckons United are "like an animal that has sniffed blood" going into the critical final stages of the title race.

Mr Mishra reckons foreign debts that must be repaid within a year now equal 48% of India's reserves.

Cass Business School's Clare reckons there could be a couple of reasons for this, one of which is the age of market players.

The bank reckons that trade could double in five years with lower import tariffs, better customs procedures and improved transport links.

But Sir John reckons that getting patients to help manage their illnesses might be even more promising.

He reckons that the firms that have already reported are a representative sample likely to provide a good indication of the overall trend.

The bank reckons that restricting women's participation in the economy is not merely unfair, but bad economics.

Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, reckons that the post-2001 acceleration was the result of cost-cutting, not innovation.

Its food output will fall by a fifth over the next four decades, reckons the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.

Charlie McVeigh, who owns Draft House pub group in London, also reckons the busier the night the better.

Like the land in general, she reckons a quarter will have to cope with big adjustments.

He reckons that the market will have to issue $100 billion a year by the time the CMBS wave breaks in 2014-15.

He reckons that over a tenth of the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ have a fail-to-deliver at least two months old.

A small, fuel-cell powered electric helicopter might be possible, reckons David Parekh, director of United Technologies' research centre.

The absence of a former business executive in the White House has hurt Mr Obama in other ways, too, reckons the former official.

Their rewards could be handsome: up to $400m in TALF-related fees alone, reckons Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney-general.

Ohio, which uses a Visa-branded card to disburse unemployment benefits, reckons it saves nearly $2m a year since it switched to plastic.

Televised debates tend to favour the underdog, reckons Alan Schroeder, the author of "Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV" .

NVAR reckons that as many as a quarter of those who suffer foreclosure do so by choice, to escape such a trap.

UNAIDS reckons the fight needs about $25 billion a year to be fully effective.

Dr Sidibe reckons the fight needs about $25 billion a year to be fully effective.

The government reckons demand for electricity will rise by 5% a year over the next decade.

Robert Shiller, of Case-Shiller index and irrational exuberance fame, reckons a further 25% decline is not out of the question.

Mr. Seldin reckons they now offer the only proper New York-style bagels in Southeast Asia, if not East Asia, as well.

Then, Pettis reckons, we'll see another bust, followed by years of below par economic growth as domestic consumption starts to recover.

He reckons investors are at the early stage of a bull market, although sharp move upwards are unlikely given sluggish growth.

The Bank of England's monetary-policy committee reckons that output will be flat, but even that may prove optimistic.

The army reckons it needs at least two brigades at home to sustain one in a war zone.

Desailly reckons the last group game against Togo was the turning point for France following their poor start.

Putting all this together, Mr Roach reckons it could emerge as "Asia's biggest surprise in the years immediately ahead" .

The army reckons that, of over 200 suicide blasts in Pakistan in the past two years, 80% were launched from South Waziristan.

Energy expert Daniel Yergin reckons coal will remain the top fuel for power plants globally for the next two decades.

He reckons that the only way Japanese women can manage their difficult lives is by postponing marriage and having fewer, if any, children.

Europe's may take just as long, reckons Mr Stevens.

Mr Sun reckons it will take months to repair the damage inflicted on his business by his six-month internment.

A well-educated population with an improved outlook would not need bribes to better itself, he reckons.

Another, comScore, reckons 5m people visited British dating sites in September, more than a year earlier.

The Guangdong Labour Ministry reckons 11% of the workers did not return after the holiday; other estimates are as high as 30%.

To achieve the necessary economies of scale, that must shrink to two or three, he reckons.

But Tim Bond of Barclays Capital reckons it is only a matter of time before the Treasury-bond sell-off leads to higher spreads.

None of this would ensure lower prices or a more competitive industry, reckons Boaz Moselle of FTI, a consultancy.

The United legend reckons his former boss has achieved his big aim, to "knock Liverpool off their perch" at the top of the domestic game.

Though the answer is not yet clear, Dr Pharoah reckons it is likely to be more than just two or three.

He reckons, for instance, that reporting by the Voice of America does more harm inside the country than outside criticism of his censorship.

America can win in Iraq, he reckons, as it would have won in Vietnam had the politicians not lost their nerve.

Gareth reckons he's a lance-corporal in the army but everyone knows he's just a weekend warrior.

He reckons good leadership and organisation are essential, and that schools must instil the habit of good behaviour in pupils.

But so far only a third of American households have Wi-Fi, reckons ABI Research.

Willi Weber reckons it's time Sebastian Vettel got himself a manager - and he would like the job.

That configuration, reckons Mr Fisker, is the best way to relieve electric-car drivers of any symptoms of range anxiety.

Write down all the feeling words you think of (a therapist I know reckons there are about 150).

And as a district representative, she reckons to have more independence than do those who get in only through the party list.

Paul Hoffman of the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa reckons that corruption is endemic throughout the public sector.

Amazonian governors are more committed to this than ever before, he reckons, and now Brazil wants the rest of the world's help.

Mr Gates reckons the bulk of the increase is because as tolerance spreads, more gay couples are willing to be counted.

Holtzman reckons that when we're awake, our brains are more active, and that this may cause us to produce more beta-amyloid protein.

When I talked to her mother, I found out she has 30-something cats. She reckons she lost count.

As voters, he reckons, Latino evangelicals are therefore the quintessential independents, up for grabs by either party.

He reckons that his time as a customer will help him lead Alcatel-Lucent out of the shadows.

Outlawing plastic bags in San Francisco alone will reduce oil consumption by nearly 800, 000 gallons a year, the city reckons.

The bank reckons that the value of world trade (which is also affected by price and exchange-rate fluctuations) fell slightly in November.

Tweet. . BEN BERNANKE reckons it would be "a huge financial calamity" .

Dr Brenna reckons that DHA is so vital to developing brains that he is campaigning to get formula milk fortified with it.

Such volatility is within the normal range, reckons Manuel Hernandez of the International Food Policy Research Institute, a think-tank.

It reckons that the offer and acceptance made by electronic agent are valid in law, but it has some special rules in the practice.

Though many such buildings have been demolished, Brother Jerry reckons there are just as many now as there were in 2002.

Chinese executives should at least wear long trousers, he reckons.

McKinsey reckons US productivity growth must be a third higher to maintain the historical rise in output per capita.

The fund now reckons these conditions are not all that rare.

The bank reckons that both should recover fairly quickly.

The CFR reckons there is now a chance for the two countries to build much closer ties, despite their differing interests.

He reckons that, through a combination of energy conservation and more renewable energy, Japan could scrap nuclear power within two decades.

Enders Analysis, a media consultancy, reckons a third to a half may go in the next five years.

The BBC reckons it will be able to spend more on investigative reporting, high-quality drama and natural history programmes.

The Syrian government reckons that up to 15m of its citizens reside abroad, leaving 22m at home.

And Dalglish reckons he has managed to help the club shake off the tag of being a two man team.

It reckons its new rules will boost the economy in the long run and only slightly dent it in the short run.

Because Prof Keller is not an expert on financial planning, she reckons she can consider a wide variety of solutions to savings programmes.

Bergkamp, now a coach at Ajax, reckons Van Persie would be better utilised in a deeper, more creative role.

This latter idea is impractical, says Dr Caldeira, who reckons that half the world's deserts would have to be covered.

The key, he reckons, is to improve the flow of cash to local authorities, which itself requires further reforms.

His team reckons that any serious proposal to cut entitlements or raise taxes would be ripped apart by Republicans and interest groups.

It has the people, resources and entrepreneurial metabolism to make it one of the world's 20 leading economies, reckons PwC, a consultancy.

The industry body reckons that its members have been losing $200m a day as a result of the shut-down.

Kubica is just two points behind the championship leaders with nine races to go, but the Pole reckons it will be hard to stay in the fight.

Paul Zwillenberg of OC&C, a firm of consultants, reckons that almost 70 British local newspapers have shut since the beginning of 2008.

So she reckons about $400m would be recoverable in her base case and about $250m in her downside case.

Yet Julia Gillard, the prime minister, reckons Australia still has "people who can work who do not" .

In the future, she reckons, states should figure out a way to put their expenditures in context.

Pirelli reckons its narrower focus on tyres, especially premium ones, will prove an advantage as it expands in emerging markets.

Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection.

"There is no law of gravity in higher education pricing, " reckons Kevin Carey of Education Sector, a think-tank.

The state climatologist reckons that it could last for the rest of the decade.

Dr Wong reckons the problem is not so much that CO2 is being thrown away, but that it is not being thrown far enough.

Dr Learned, however, reckons the pulse-period of a Cepheid could be modulated by a suitable beam of neutrinos.

Li Daokui, an adviser to the central bank, reckons the economy can maintain annual growth of 9 percent for the next five years.

He reckons it represents nothing less than the earliest record of the human imagination.

If that were the case, the best way to do this, reckons Paul Horowitz, a physicist at Harvard, is with a laser.

Using a (conservative) price estimate of $850 an ounce, the fund reckons such a sale would raise about $11 billion.

Mr Clifford reckons that ultracapacitors will transform his vehicles and enable them to be used on motorways as well as city streets.

Electric bikes are going to be a big growth market in Europe, reckons Storck.

Even so, Mr Meyer at Deutsche Bank reckons that the export performance of the past two years is "unrepeatable" .

But Mr Rais reckons the top brass realises democracy is the only option.

This could be called "tough love, " letting homeowners more quickly recognize their actual financial situation, Baker reckons.

This research reckons that Skopos theory is an effective theory for C-E translation of publicity materials on government websites.

Mr Jen reckons that the probability of co-ordinated intervention has increased as the dollar's depreciation has gained speed.

The current record-holder, Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, reckons it will take at least 20 years before the barrier is broken.

Silvia Henriquez, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, reckons that access is the problem.

A professor reckons he has dispelled the myth that 'lefties' are more likely to be gifted.

But it was "merely the trigger that released the unwinding of the super-bubble, " reckons Mr Soros.

Output data have been overstated, he reckons, thanks to rising contributions from hard-to-value industries.

Second, he reckons that it bolstered his efforts to improve the shoddy quality of manufacturing, to protect the firm from future fiascos.

SeeReal reckons that the information needed to construct small holograms can be carried over existing telecoms networks.

Goldman Sachs reckons that the rupee is one of the few Asian currencies that is overvalued against the dollar.

The FAO reckons that over the next 40 years irrigation will require cumulative investment of almost $1 trillion.

Nordhaus reckons that innovators capture a "minuscule" 2. 2 per cent of the total social benefit of their innovations.

The average mortgage is for less than 50% of the value of a home, Ms Wang reckons.

"I think we'll be there much sooner, " reckons Neal Hunter, the former chairman of Cree, one of the world's leading LED manufacturers.

Daniel Fee, a Democratic political strategist, reckons that Mr Nutter did a good job in his first term, but nothing really bold.

Hu reckons that the media should play the 'woodpeckers', not to collapse the tree, but to help it grow stronger.

The trouble is, she reckons, that most people think the stimulus bill took care of all that.

New Energy Finance, a research firm, reckons that less than one-third of the world's potential capacity has been developed.

Tanzania's government reckons that every year several hundred of its people are lynched on suspicion of witchcraft.

It reckons that switching from an old design to a new one can cut fuel consumption and emissions by 23%.

Bruce reckons striker Kenwyne Jones is rediscovering the form that made his one of the league's most feared front-men.

Cutting early education, he reckons, is one of the dumb ones.

The Carbon Trust reckons that about 1 per cent of the climate impact of a packet of crisps is from moving potatoes around.

Without cutting down the forests, Mr Sato reckons there will be a permanent risk of contamination.

Whitmarsh reckons also that it was important the FIA and the teams moved on from the ' loony ' comments made by Max Mosley at the weekend.

Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy, reckons Chinese groups hold less than 2 per cent of Africa's discovered oil and gas reserves.

The retailers' association, Confcommercio, reckons that real GDP per head will not return to its pre-crisis level until 2019.

SNL Kagan reckons that pay-TV revenues outside America and western Europe will rise steeply in the next few years (see chart 7).

He reckons companies will become more willing to borrow in renminbi in future, especially if dollar borrowing rates continue to rise.

Euro-zone economies should specialise rather than become homogeneous, he reckons: "It makes no sense to have 17 Germanys. "

The ICG reckons that 30, 000 or more people may have died in the last months of the war.

Fitch, a ratings agency, reckons that roughly half the cash entrusted to big American money-market funds is lent on to European banks.

Despite that, Alonso reckons McLaren's performance throughout the year justifies his move.

Mr Marquez reckons that American firms will increasingly have to work with foreigners.

The Carbon Trust reckons that the ETS can bring about deeper cutbacks in its next phase, after 2012, without damaging competitiveness.

The fund also reckons that the risk that countries with onerous debt levels will inevitably default is also "significantly overestimated" .

He reckons that nominal wage growth has hit 18% a year, domestic demand is rising by as much as 25% and credit growth is some 30-40%.

The Kenyan government reckons that business-process outsourcing (BPO) can provide work for the country's many unemployed graduates.

But it is enough, Dr Chen reckons, for the process to be worth considering for mass production.

Along with more than 200 other patents, this technology should put the iPhone "five years ahead" of its rivals, reckons Mr Jobs.

Larry Hackett, the editor of People, reckons that the public appetite for entertainment news was underserved until recently.

The government reckons that, of a total of around 75GW in generating capacity, 20GW will disappear by 2015.

Sun Microsystems, a maker of servers, reckons that 70% of the servers in most organisations have only one application running on them.

Britain will grow, Mr Osborne reckons, if the state steps back: businesses will invest, exports expand, employment take off.

Brown, a friend of Ferguson, reckons the United boss would be the perfect man to head up a GB side.

In fact, Indonesia may now have replaced Europe as the main supplier of ecstasy to South East Asia, reckons the UNODC.

Kanayo Nwanze, the head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, reckons that such losses could be reduced by half.

Mr Andreessen reckons a similar change in the networking and storage world will lead to the creation of many more new companies.

Mr Irwin reckons that the Tariff Act raised duties by 20%; deflation accounted for half as much again.

Indeed, Dr Bollen reckons, on the day the tweet was posted, America's collective mood perked up a notch.

Mr Dale reckons that merchants provided most of the revenues for Babur's remarkably sophisticated taxation system.

Mr Popovic reckons that Montenegro's economy may not crash but go into a kind of hibernation.

This would enable wearable capacitors to be made economically, he reckons.

Mr Jerram reckons that the inventory rundown is coming to an end, which will lead to a short-term bounce in output as factories reopen.

Investment bank Liberum Capital reckons BHP gravely misread from the outset the complexity of the anti-trust issue.

At a deeper level, the 24-year-old American-born Chinese reckons it's the closest one to his heart yet.

But Peter Acworth ofKink. com, an online outfit that specialises in bondage, reckons that the bestway to beat the tubes is to innovate more.

A secure identity system will also help schools, reckons Suhas Gopinath, the boss of Globals, a firm that helps schools handle information.

Finally, Germany reckons saving the euro will require laggards to embrace greater budgetary discipline and openness.

What makes globalisation today appear so dramatic and sometimes controversial, Mr Chanda reckons, is its visibility.

Ken Smith, the Great Park's architect, reckons the residents of Orange county are quite idle enough.

If the first amendment means anything, she reckons, it surely protects the right of Americans to talk politics with their neighbours.

Funds have only about $150 billion to spend on distressed debt in Europe, he reckons, which means they should have their pick of assets.

Another observer, Peter Cole, a political-risk consultant with experience in the region, reckons the LIA also has big investments in Africa.

But Mr De Maeseneire reckons his company is better placed to take advantage of opportunities presented by the recession.

Almost half the 38. 6m hectares devoted to ranching could be used for intensive farming, the ministry reckons.

Using a similar approach of deducting short-term debts from reserves, Mr Anderson reckons India's net position has deteriorated.

Mr Loera reckons more than half of the women in his almost entirely Hispanic congregation are single mothers.

Mr. Shih reckons that ultimately one-quarter of these loans will go bad.

Mourinho also reckons his side can grab the goal that would make Liverpool's uphill task a mountainous one.

It is hard to prove, but High Frequency Economics reckons it is likely that the families most in debt have few financial assets to sell.

Iran's ambassador to Mexico reckons the killing could be the work of the CIA.

Dr LaVan reckons that two of his protocells, measuring several centimetres across, could run a digital music-player for about 10 hours.

All this will shave 2. 5% from GDP this year, reckons Manuel Bautista, a local economist.

And the Bolton striker reckons he should play for France ahead of the Arsenal superstar if he's in better form.

Ken Doctor, the author of " Newsonomics" , reckons many people will be willing to pay 99 cents a week for news.

Another reckons that the new entity might buy fresh bonds that TEPCO could issue to meet its obligations.

He reckons that a nexus of "user-licensed" content plus a quality sieve represents "the next revolution" in web video.

China reckons its sheer size means it 'should be given a discount' on raw-materials, says economist Phil Verleger.

As consumer credit levels start to rise, Ruffle reckons China is set for a consumer boom.

And the Department of Agriculture, which administers the scheme, reckons only two-thirds of those who are eligible have signed up.

The UN reckons that 70% of the country's prisoners, most of them kept in vile conditions, have yet to be tried.

The academic reckons all of these things are possible, even probable.

DrugScope, a charity, reckons that many of its clients take drugs as "self-medication" for social and psychological problems.

He reckons that traditional stores in Mumbai's outskirts, where supermarkets can find land, will be in "big trouble" .

Mr Lyons reckons that business schools have long trailed behind leading companies in managing their internal culture.

"There will need to be a move from passion to compassion in marketing, " reckons John Gerzema of Young &Rubicam, a marketing-services firm.

Mr Bursa reckons that as volume has increased, bringing greater economies of scale, the comparison may now be even more favourable.

Consumer data are expensive and can at most predict a quarter of the variance in voting preferences, he reckons.

Merrill faces $11 billion of residential-mortgage claims, reckons Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, a ratings firm.

In a car-and-gadget culture, he reckons, the best hope is gradually to raise compliance over time, as with drunk driving.

The United States Geological Survey, a government scientific body, reckons that the seas around Cuba hold 4. 6 billion barrels of oil.

He reckons those who find it hard to be happy have raised the bars too high.

The Daily Nation, Kenya's biggest newspaper, reckons that it has been the country's darkest period since independence in 1963.

The watchdog Transparency International reckons that corruption is endemic.

S&P reckons the additional costs of bank recapitalisation (if properly accounted for) would push up public debt by a further 23% of GDP.

And because smaller firms have already gone by the wayside, he reckons the coming deals may involve bigger ones.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age. John Dryden.

Cindy Barnett, a London magistrate, reckons the defendants she sees are more violent and have graver drug problems these days.

And the cost, he reckons, is a mere C$45 (about $44, south of the border) plus two hours of his labour.

Russ Klein, a senior executive at Burger King, another fast-food chain, reckons that on balance the recession has helped his firm.

Of the independent Italian firms, only Bulgari and Armani, which is privately owned, have properly embraced globalisation, he reckons.

McKinsey reckons this averages just 26% of the level of the U. S. in five Russian industry sectors.

Mr Khanna reckons firms that belong to India's business groups frequently outperform free-standing companies.

For small brands fighting for recognition in crowded markets, almost any publicity is beneficial, he reckons.

That would make the world a safer place, he reckons, because each issuer would nudge the others towards financial and fiscal discipline.

He reckons output will be back to its 2007 level within four years. It could take longer.

After the rebound, Andrew Smithers, an economist, reckons the American market is about 20% overvalued on these gauges.

Mr Rajan reckons that technological progress increased the relative demand for skilled workers.

Consultant Wood MacKenzie reckons Libya could be producing about one million barrels a day within 12 months.

But Indonesia is a special case, reckons Mr Goh: its social networks freely integrate both real and imagined selves.

Compared with your average male spider, humans have it easy, Beccaloni reckons.

The OECD now reckons that the fallout from the financial crisis will, on average, knock some 3% off rich countries' potential output.

Sikorsky reckons that future helicopters built using the X2 technology would be extremely versatile machines.

China is set to be the second-biggest testing ground for innovation in the world this year, Nielsen reckons.

But the industry reckons that, in the long term, the budget moves will cut the government's tax take, not increase it.

Honda reckons hybrid technology is better suited to small cars, such as its Civic, used for short trips.

Mr Guo reckons that lending to consumers and small firms could rise to 40% of CCB's loan book within five years, from about a quarter today.

Higher education alone is the country's seventh-biggest export, reckons Steve Smith, of Universities UK, another lobby.

Hedge Fund Intelligence, a data provider, reckons the top 20 funds control a third of the industry's assets.

The row, Mr. Petrilli reckons, could jeopardise other education programmes backed by the administration.

United defender Rio Ferdinand reckons the news will add extra spice to the occasion.

But unemployment could stay high even as output recovers, reckons Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank.

Julian Callow of Barclays Capital reckons that it shrank by as much as America's in the fourth quarter.

Virtually every political crystal-ball-gazer reckons the Republicans will lose their majority in the House of Representatives next week.

Experian, a credit-scoring firm, reckons that by the end of 2009 almost one in six shops will be standing empty as yet more stores close.