41.   News Corp. would have to pay that amount if it fell between the two earlier estimates.

42.   New measurements, though, indicate the ice in parts of Antarctica is thickening, reversing earlier estimates that the sheet was melting.

43.   New studies indicate fewer people will ride the full length of the trip and passenger traffic may reach only two thirds of earlier estimates, he said.

44.   Spurred by a souring economy, layoffs in Singapore will exceed earlier estimates and reach an all-time high if the current pace keeps up, a newspaper reported Saturday.

45.   That was the slowest pace in more than two years but slightly stronger than earlier estimates.

46.   The company had not provided earlier estimates for group earnings.

47.   The death toll reported by the mayor was higher than the highest earlier official estimates.

48.   The Labor Department also said that job growth in March was less robust than an earlier estimate.

49.   The new income and poverty estimates come from an annual Census report that revises earlier estimates derived solely from survey data.

50.   The total is double his earlier estimate, an increase he said was possible because of a rising federal surplus.