On this assumption, the net budgetary cost roughly balances the trade benefits.
Such a proposition should be subjected to the closest of critical scrutiny by Congress, the press and the American electorate since a number of highly debatable, and increasingly portentous, policies are predicated on this assumption.
He was the one who approved the business projections based on this fictitious assumption.
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But the MPs on the committee said this was based on the assumption that overall prisoner numbers would not increase from the current level, and concluded that a rethink of prison policy was needed.
The case for this rests on the assumption that white businessmen will never treat blacks fairly without coercion.
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The principal case for this is based on the assumption of a divergence between social and private risks associated with capital flows.
But, the overwhelming majority of this has been written based on the assumption that we do, in fact, need to cut the debt and deficit, just not this way.
This argument rests on a false assumption, that the Middle East was stable to begin with.
This view is predicated on the assumption that profit margins will recover in the medium term.
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The commission's forecast of a deficit of 2.7% this year is based on an assumption that Germany's economy grows by 0.75%, which may well prove optimistic.
This assumption was based on the stable underpinnings of auto demand--cheap financing by car companies (and by home equity loans) and a customary replacement cycle of three years.
This assumption is really on shaky ground.
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This analysis is based on the assumption that the suspects are innocent, that Mr Khatami was completely in the dark about their arrest, and that his weakness as a leader has been exposed if he cannot control the powerful Intelligence Ministry, the institution in charge of counter-intelligence.
Germany's de facto loans to these banks is equivalent to around 30% of its GDP (this figure is based on the assumption that, in a worst case of a eurozone breakup, Germany was unable to share the cost with other eurozone members on the basis of an official burden-sharing formula).
This seems rosy on several fronts, not least of which is its assumption that this government is in a position to plan beyond 2011.
This turns on its head the commonplace assumption that societies reduced their birthrates as they got wealthier.
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ObamaCare pushes this folly largely based on a naive assumption that models that worked well in one community can be made to work everywhere.
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Iran's theocratic regime and the high value placed on life in the hereafter makes this an exceedingly dangerous assumption.
Economics has traditionally assumed that your preferences do not depend on government action, but a bit of thought finds this assumption to be lacking.
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And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.
As the Federal Reserve has been busy buying up bonds, the assumption is that this has kept a lid on interest rates.
Second, his entire argument rests on the statist assumption that government should restrict honest people because this will somehow make life more difficult for criminals.
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All the present hopes of peace fluttering, however forlornly, again this week (see article) rest on the assumption that the Palestinians will acquire a state of their own in the West Bank and Gaza.
Given the overriding focus in this particular competition around moving beyond one-size-fits-all schooling toward a student-centric model a central goal of my work there has been an assumption by many that this must be, on balance, a step forward.
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Your claim that many participants in the loan program will be kicked out is based on the assumption that there will never be enough funds to fund this program.
Under that assumption, the Buckeyes arguably will lose out on BCS money this season.
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This number is necessarily based on a number of assumptions, including the assumption that all of Yahoo!'
The latter transparently hoped to complete this transaction prior to his departure on 8 January 1993 and his subsequent assumption of the presidency of the U.S.-Russia Business Council a Washington-based lobbying group recently established to expand bilateral trade, particularly in the energy sector.
As I understand it, Austrians consider this deceptive because individuals and firms that make long-range plans on the assumption that the value of money will be stable are harmed by the resulting decline of the dollar.
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For this reason the Chinese government seems quite content to stall talks with him and his representatives on the assumption that he will die soon and that will be the end of it.
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