And given Britain's prosperity in recent decades, popular cynicism may be the product of a kind of complacent assumption that the good times would just keep rolling.
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And there's just an assumption that this is good, good, good, that holding an audience's attention 12 months of the year is a brilliant marketing strategy that carries no risk of audience burnout.
The government has traditionally focused more on disclosure than on regulation, on the assumption that consumers will make good choices if they have full information.
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So the assumption is that they have pretty good and pretty strong intelligence.
Contrary to the tribalist assumption, cost-savings are good for all men, everywhere.
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Leaving aside the assumption about EU membership being a good thing, it is still not clear whether Brussels would accept negotiations on that basis.
Sure, there could be a vindictive, terrible principal who unfairly fires good teachers for bad reasons, but the assumption is that a school with that problem will fail in the marketplace due to underqualified teachers and bad morale.
One such assumption is that end users will make good security choices.
The current system for providing disability services is based on the traditional assumption that the state knows best what's good for you.
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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.
"The federal rules were written under assumption that people were not going to be filing lawsuits without real good-faith reasons, " Feder says.
"I am not as big a fool as I look, and if you will just go on the assumption that I am not a fool, it would correct a good many news items, " he remarked at one press conference in 1914.
Good luck, because the entire body of renters law in most states is written with the assumption that your tenants are entitled to live on your property, almost no matter what.
The previous, cosy assumption of defence experts that some time must elapse between testing and deployment no longer holds good.
In contrast, modern free market theory largely absolves business leaders from these considerations, under the assumption that self-interested decisions, guided by perfect markets, will lead to the greatest good for the greatest number.
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