11.   Fed officials will use estimates of what might have happened, to the extent they need to use August numbers for their analyses.

12.   First Call consensus estimates are used in all sorts of things you see in the media, such as price-earnings ratios and earnings-growth rates.

13.   For media companies, he uses his estimate of their takeover value.

14.   He wanted to use estimates from the OMB.

15.   He used estimates for sales of Mazda, the only automaker not reporting Tuesday.

16.   Independent news organizations in South Korea used estimates similar to those of the labor unions and far higher than those of the government.

17.   It has long been settled that companies must use reasonable estimates in producing profit figures.

18.   Mauer acknowledged that he used several estimates in arriving at the conclusions in his report.

19.   Planners also use estimates based on computerized analyses of census, utility, transportation and other data.

20.   Presidents typically use OMB estimates in sending budgets to Congress.