It's bad enough that the $10 trillion is a highly inflated figure, intended to overstate a problem that is reasonably estimated at $3.7 trillion or even considerably less.

If the payment of terminal dividends is probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated, the liability should be recognized.

"There is still a fair amount of estate property that is reasonably estimated and fresh to the market," said Christopher Burge, president and chief executive of Christie's in New York.

"The majority of the pictures came from old private collections and were estimated reasonably."

However, for a large data set (over 100 points) from a symmetric population, the mean can be estimated reasonably efficiently relative to the best estimate by L-estimators.

The operational procedures deal with a detailed assessment of operating conditions within a relatively short time frame when all factors are known or can be reasonably estimated.

The last, off Tom Glavine, startled the occupants of a right-field luxury box, reasonably estimated at 475 feet away.

Tangible assets cash value can usually, but not always, be reasonably estimated.

The tonnage and basic weaponry of most capital ships and aircraft are also public, and their speeds and ranges can often be reasonably estimated by experts, often just from photographs.

But this May, with six estates of desirable, long held, reasonably estimated, property locked up, auction houses had ammunition to break this cycle.