Perhaps most sobering for U.S. taxpayers and creditors are some robust assumptions made in the report.
"The larger the longevity assumptions the more money that companies have to put into their schemes, " he added.
To deliver a different experience, we must challenge the usual assumptions we make about education.
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First, assumptions about asset returns may be overly aggressive in light of recent performance.
It will also suggest that users reconsider those views and the assumptions behind them.
But Alex Steffen, journalist and sustainability expert, thinks this rhetoric operates under false assumptions.
Analyzing financial statements from banks requires a great deal of imagination and a lot of assumptions.
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Economists tend to cling to whatever assumptions are required to use the techniques they favour.
Both assumptions are wrong as amply proven by over 80 years of U.S. tax history.
This graph from the OBR report demonstrates how the deficit is affected by different assumptions.
The Dow must rise to 36, 000 to reach a reasonable earnings yield, under very cautious assumptions.
One of the biggest assumptions until recently is that all communications required a media intermediary.
The plans which projected enormous fortunes for your great grandchildren had two important assumptions.
Heroic assumptions must be made here about the willingness of American farmers and distillers to compete.
All of them, they argue, make assumptions that do not stand up to scrutiny.
Unwilling to declare his own assumptions, he is hampered in grappling with those of others.
Essentially, the stop loss is here to keep your assumptions from losing you money.
That depends on your assumptions about when you die and what tax law is in effect.
Today, we are all familiar with the grim outcome that resulted from these assumptions.
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With these assumptions, annual oil demand growth should average 1.2 millions barrels per day through 2016.
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Dr Harrison said he hoped the piece would make people question assumptions about Lawrence's supposed sexism.
And the assumptions can only be measured exactly by looking backward at historical returns.
Our precious engineered systems are based on certain assumptions, and those assumptions are often faulty.
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Considers how this idea of entrepreneurship differs from the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies.
It depends on what assumptions you make about the future of the tax code.
As a father, I started by laying out some nurturing father principles and assumptions.
Insufficient effort is placed on challenging assumptions, and looking for risks in the old success formula.
When we model choices, we want to make sure the assumptions we are making are reasonable.
Surrender the false assumptions and expectations you may have accumulated about your brand and your business.
It was about undoing all the self limiting, implicit, unconscious, and unwarranted assumptions that block success.
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