1.   But songwriters who follow the country music business say that he is a consummate marketer who pores over sales figures for his recordings and crowd estimates for his concerts.

2.   Crowd estimates are always inflated and deflated by politics, but this appeared to be one of the largest Israeli rallies alongside the Old City walls in decades.

3.   Crowd estimates by city officials reached the usual dreamlike proportions.

4.   Crowd estimates the previous day were just about anything you cared to make them.

5.   Crowd estimates ranged improbably from a couple of hundred thousand to nearly a million.

6.   It calculates the density of the crowd in those areas to come up with its crowd estimate.

7.   Neither Promise Keepers nor government agencies are making any official crowd estimates, but it is safe to say the gathering numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

8.   Nor did the fact that the official crowd estimates were less than those from the original Woodstock.

9.   Nor did the fact that the official crowd estimates were about the same as those from the original Woodstock.

10.   Organizers said they were delighted by the size of the crowd this year, but the U.S. Park police no longer provide crowd estimates for marches and demonstrations.