41.   The quarterly Employment Cost Index and the initial estimate of first-quarter Gross Domestic Product are both due early Thursday.

42.   The U.S. commander of the offensive, Maj. Gen. Frank L. Hagenbeck, acknowledged that initial estimates of al-Qaida and Taliban strength were low.

43.   The trade center site is expected to be cleared by June, several months ahead of initial estimates.

44.   Housing starts fell two percent in September, compared with initial estimates last month of a one percent drop.

45.   In February, the index was unchanged, unrevised from the initial estimate last month.

46.   Initial estimates after the attacks predicted that cleaning the devastated site would take one year and more than one billion dollars.

47.   Initial estimates indicate that traffic of about one million containers between Hong Kong, China and Taiwan could be affected, he said.

48.   Initial estimates indicate trade in some one million containers between Hong Kong, China and Taiwan could be affected, he said.

49.   Initial official estimates placed the number of guerrillas killed at four, including the two suicide frogmen.

50.   Initial estimates showed that trade in some one million containers between Hong Kong, China and Taiwan could be affected, he said.