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Moscow both overestimated the Wagner Group’s strength as a power in Africa, now in shambles, and underestimated its potential to threaten the Russian government, as it did with an aborted coup.

The idea that we gave up something much better to make it reversible is just an overestimate.”

A Wall Street analyst on Thursday cut his recommendation on Oracle to Sell, arguing that investors have been “overestimating the value of Oracle’s contracted cloud revenue.”

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In each case, when it was shown the dangers had been overestimated, he then led the effort to relax federal restrictions.

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They pointed to several examples of errors and “cherry-picked” information in the federal report, such as a section that argues that climate models have overestimated warming because the U.S.

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