21.   The Commerce Department will release its first estimate of second-quarter growth tomorrow.

22.   The Commerce Department, in its first estimate of fourth-quarter growth, had given imports too big a role in this restocking.

23.   The first estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product is scheduled for released tomorrow.

24.   The first estimates concerned only the numbers of dead and living.

25.   The government is slated to give its first estimate of August retail sales Thursday.

26.   The first estimate showed growth was driven by consumer spending, with retail sales and industrial production little changed from the fourth quarter.

27.   The government releases its quarterly employment cost index Tuesday, the first estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product on Thursday and July jobs figures on Friday.

28.   The researchers said they believed their study provided the first national estimates of transmission of HIV from mother to newborn.

29.   The Treasury Department Thursday released its first estimate of how Americans at different income levels would benefit from the overall Bush tax plan.

30.   Tomorrow, the Commerce Department will release its first revised estimate of third-quarter growth.