"The problem with talking about the economic future of Iraq is that you must always make a political assumption about the country, " says economics Professor Edith Penrose of France's Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires, one of Europ's ranking Iraq scholars.
And Christopher, the underlying fact here or the assumption that conservation can make a big difference to the United States, is that a departure for this administration?
However, without a body, and without a clear reference to his death among remaining al-Qaeda operatives, such an assumption is a brave one to make.
Here, for a change, Messrs Feldstein and Samwick make the more plausible assumption.
Ms. RICE: Well, I don't think it's - we ought to make the assumption that simply because we're dealing with a Sunni-based insurgency in Iraq and Sunni Muslims in Somalia and other parts of Africa, that they necessarily share a common agenda against the United States or against Western interests.
For years, the assumption has been that taking responsibility for kids make you a worse worker.
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His discomfort is based on a totally outmoded cultural and philosophical assumption that men should make more money than women.
Allow me to impose one unrealistic little assumption as we start, to make the numbers and logic a little easier.
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In my first tweet, sent the night before the unemployment figure was released, I wrote: "Tomorrow unemployment numbers for Sept. with all the assumptions Labor Department can make..wonder about participation assumption??" The response was a big yawn.
The problem with selling licenses for spectrum -- any kind of spectrum -- is that there's an implicit assumption that the investment a company's going to make into buying the airwaves and building out the infrastructure necessary to take advantage of it is eventually going to pay off.
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In other words, Foreign Asset Protection Trusts do not rely on the U.S. courts finding that the laws of the foreign jurisdiction will apply, and in fact there is an implicit assumption that the U.S. courts will not make such a finding those trusts are designed to be effective even in the face of an adverse ruling by a U.S court.
When Facebook analyzes my profile and notices that I have participated in a dozen different religions over the past 30 years, their engine should make the assumption that I am interested in theology and various disciplines of spirituality.
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Unless you as a reporter know of specific pastors telling their congregations not to vote, it's wrong to make the assumption.
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