Mr McWilliams said that the outcome could be even worse, as he was assuming in his forecast that there are no further terrorist attacks, that expected reprisals by the US do "not destabilise the world economy further", and public spending in the US is increased in response to the disaster.
Although the federal government has been delinquent in assuming its responsibilities in this area and needs to do more, public portfolio managers and legislators at the state level cannot simply walk away from these growing challenges.
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Fitch is projecting U.S. GDP growth of 2.3 percent in 2013, assuming political discord in Washington does not have a material impact on the economy.
More recently, expert opinion has been swinging in favour of assuming that improvements in mortality - especially for those born between 1910 and 1942, the so-called "golden cohort" - will in fact go on.
If you'd rather trade up to an iPhone 4 rather than pocketing some cash and keeping the 3GS, you've got an option there, too: anyone who picked up a 3GS between May 7 and May 21 can preorder an iPhone 4 by June 21 and get the new phone for only the difference in cost, assuming you bring in your 3GS when you pick it up.
By 2015, she said, output could hit 80 million, assuming projects in the development stage come on line.
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Assuming availability in late Q2 or into Q3 2013, how does a February announcement at Mobile World Congress sound?
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Anyone who witnessed the huge crowds and exuberant atmosphere at Katie Taylor's fights during the 2012 London Olympics, might feel justified in assuming there are more Irish people in England now than ever.
Tamakloe's lawyers argued that the GFA's own regulations defined misconduct as "embezzlement, inefficiency, non-attendance of three consecutive meetings, or acting in a manner prejudicial to the interest of the GFA" and insisted that the association's chairman had not committed any of the offences since assuming office in April this year.
While Mr. Tepper may be correct in assuming that the major averages could rally in nominal terms if the Fed undertakes another round of quantitative easing, investors would still need to own the right assets to gain a real return on their portfolios.
When Croatia joins the EU in 2013 (assuming Croats approve accession in a referendum on January 22nd), Bosnia will no longer be able to export much of its dairy, meat and egg production to its neighbour, because its leaders cannot agree on whether responsibility for food safety lies with the state or the entities.
The above assumes an increased focus on Chinese markets in terms of a more customized product offering, and media and advertising assuming no changes in the government policy.
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"It is our desire that you have, in assuming the driving and guiding of the church, fruitful pastoral work of such great responsibilities in pursuit of the justice, the equality, the fraternity and the peace of humanity, " she added.
"No one really is daring to step out of their houses to buy anything, assuming they can find it in the market and assuming they find a place that is open, " he said.
Stein is wrong in assuming that the Fed has specific monetary policy tools that can surgically attack bubbles.
Chief Esposito quickly rose through the ranks, taking command of several precincts before assuming control of in the high-profile Patrol Borough Brooklyn North.
In an FDIC assisted deal, for example, the acquiring bank eventually buys the deposits and is protected against significant loss in assuming the loan portfolio.
Assuming a decline in asset prices, far from deflationary, the decline in the price of an asset signals to investors where capital is no longer needed.
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The ONS also make additional projections assuming these improvements in health continue, and their central estimate gives me another 27 years on average, until 86.
Just as any other publisher would, Gipps is paying an advance and royalties to Random House and it is he who is assuming the risk in this project.
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American sports and entertainment company AEG, the owners of the O2 Arena, is just one of more than 100 parties to have expressed an interest in assuming control of the venue.
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Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
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If Bernanke is correct in assuming that consumer prices will stay low, the only way Kraft shares could go up would be for the market to assign much higher multiples to lower earnings.
Some experts said Bernanke is taking a big gamble in assuming that a slowing economy will take care of inflation so that the Fed no longer has to, since future predictions are always uncertain.
Our biggest task in assuming office as it related to the financial crisis was getting our economy back on track and taking the necessary and appropriate steps to ensure that it never happened again.
For large scale financing urban infrastructure which is assuming critical importance in the context of rapid urbanization, conventional fiscal transfers to the urban local bodies or municipals from governments are no longer considered sufficient.
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So, if US real GDP growth is a half percentage point less than expected and nominal GDP is reduced by a similar proportion (assuming no change in inflation), than tech purchases would be 0.5% to 0.75% lower.
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The report reckons that the number of underweight children will rise from 121m to 125m by 2010, assuming no change in the size of the world economy (in fact, it is expected to shrink 2% this year).
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