In addition, publicly available statistics could readily have been used to carefully assess that critical assumption about housing prices.

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But the helicopter story was more than a convenient simplification, it represented a critical assumption without which the argument no longer makes sense.

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The original Arias Plan and its progeny have all been premised on the assumption of a simple but critical trade: peace for democracy.

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Can Pogo get the critical mass of planes and customers to make that 1, 500-hour assumption work?

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