And so, with the obsessive focus of 9-year-olds, we assumed the daily task of finding our place in the universe.
We assumed the family would hold on to its nice vacation home.
We then assigned each level of performance a number from zero to 10. (The highest one-tenth in each category received a 10, the second tenth a 9, and so on.) The higher the number, we assumed, the more pain that industry would suffer with respect to that specific variable.
Then we saw the emergency helicopter go up, and we automatically assumed the worst at that point.
When we first heard MSI was showing off a device at CeBIT called the S30, we assumed it was the successor to the S20, the company's first Windows 8 Ultrabook.
For decades we have assumed the inevitability of the forward march of education, the inexorable year-on-year, continent-by-continent progress towards universal education.
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We assumed at the time that it was Iraqi troops surrendering, but it was Kurdish fighters making their way very cautiously, very slowly up the hill.
We've heard Sony blaming the overwhelming shortage of Blu-ray components for its Playstation 3 supply quandaries, and we've assumed the inclusion of such a drive somewhat justifies (or not) the staggeringly high pricetag, but we can't say we're sharoosed that prices will be dramatically lower in just over 12 months.
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Importantly, we had assumed risk in the deal and we lost money, just like the other two long investors.
"In our planning process for 2010, we assumed conditions in the U.S. housing industry would be comparable with the second half of 2009, with relatively stable demand and pricing, " said RichardDugasRichard Dugas, PulteGroup's chief executive.
With the calculation of the impact of rising interest rates on debt repayments we have assumed that only the mortgage element rises.
Despite what we assumed were bugs plaguing the interface between us and our and cloned, simulated selves, the morale was reaching "giddy" and "exuberant" levels.
"We previously assumed that if the land is protected, then the plants and animals living there will persist, " said Sandy Andelman, head of CI's Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring network.
For the hypothetical no-degree number we assumed a salary growth rate half as high as what the M.
"We are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue, " he said in a statement.
We didn't really look at these, because we assumed (rightly) that the February borrowing figures were largely incorporated in the Budget forecasts already.
You see, I had already received so much approval and positive feedback for my work that I just assumed we were all on the same page.
Translation: we assumed people would be distracted by the white iPhone and that this would blow over.
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In Shanghai, where we assumed management of an existing hotel, the process began prior to our flag being raised.
But somehow, when we started the food truck, I assumed that I would have plenty of time to continue my workouts, even while managing my growing business.
And we assumed that banks had learned their lesson from the 2008 financial crisis and were taking steps to prevent employees from trying to work the system.
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What would we say about that manufacturer if it just assumed the market would deliver the new component with the specifications it needed when it needed it and at the price it needed?
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We need the RTC reconstituted and all troubled loans assumed by them and worked out.
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In the game theory of things, we assumed there was some probability Sony would match us, and probably a higher probability Sony would come later.
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In the context of the hype, confusion and simplistic vendor models, we come across organizations that have assumed that cloud could be implemented within their existing business and IT architecture without recognizing the significant transformation that must occur before cloud benefits can be fully gained.
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In fact, national support of longer-term research has evolved to an assumed national responsibility with the side effect that we are not carefully considering what makes these expenditures good investments for high economic returns.
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