Thus owners cannot influence the index through inflated estimates of costs or prices.

Loans were handed out based on inflated estimates.

Weaned off the inflated estimates, numbers that add 60 feet to big home runs, we'll finally appreciate the majesty of a 440-footer.

Although each of them gave greatly inflated estimates of their membership, reliable intelligence reports suggest that they were shoestring operations with minimal popular impact.

Of course, the inflated estimates did have some positive effects, pumping money and jobs into the economy.

You also cite an inflated estimate from the Giuliani administration that the cost of closing all disparities between city and suburban workers "would be $5.1 billion."

Because of the inflated estimates, the Government was overcharged for equipment it bought from Emerson, the department said.

Robert Gellman, a privacy consultant in Washington, calls the new crop of studies "put-up jobs" with inflated estimates.

But even $12 billion is a wildly inflated estimate.

Those of us who live in rural America know that's an inflated estimate.