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When the American retailer Target opened its first store in Canada in March 2013, its management assumed that the recipe of its success in the United States could be replicated north of the border.
A decade later, a global crisis is on the agenda once again, only this time it has assumed the form of a mounting trade war between the United States and China.
But in January 2001, after Bush’s son, George W. Bush, assumed office, the Republicans allowed the budget caps and PAYGO rule to lapse.
Traditionally, analysts assumed that victory went to the side with the better army or the larger force; in an information age, the outcome is also influenced by who has the better story.
Many residential systems break down after 3-5 years when the battery dies, undermining confidence in the system among owners who assumed that they had a lifetime supply of energy.
The case for OMF does not rely on any assumed mechanical relationship between the monetary base, the money supply, and nominal GDP.
On the contrary, the country’s internal discords operate within the context of a broader, ever-mutable geopolitical rift that many assumed had been buried with the end of the Cold War.
First, it has to be assumed that individuals prefer to avoid risk.
In the initial aftermath of the financial crisis, it was widely assumed that currency flexibility gave the United Kingdom an advantage over eurozone members like Spain.
Nor can it be assumed that Iran’s divided and radical leadership would always act rationally, or that proliferation would stop with the Islamic Republic.
But almost immediately after Trump assumed office, Defense Secretary James Mattis flew to Seoul to reassure the Koreans, and the administration moved ahead with installing the advanced Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system in South Korea, despite Chinese objections.
Despite Trump’s campaign (and his erratic statements and capricious tweets since he assumed office), his administration’s actual defense and trade policies are on the right path.
European banks could bulk up in large part because it was assumed that their respective governments backed them.
Moreover, sometimes advocates have assumed, without justification, that the new jobs would pay more than careers in conventional energy.
If a country faces payment problems, a mere liquidity crisis is to be assumed for the first two years, during which generous financial help would be available.
In all this President Kim assumed personal leadership, surprising many with his grasp of, and commitment to, liberal economic ideas.
These undesirable consequences of the expansion of world markets have assumed alarming proportions within a relatively short period of time.
May unexpectedly assumed her position last year after the Brexit vote, when her predecessor, David Cameron, resigned.
The CBR’s warning of twin fiscal and current-account deficits assumed that oil prices would remain steady, at $104 per barrel in 2015.
At the time, it was assumed that the PRI would never return to power.
The junta then assumed legislative authority, as well as the power to form a constitutional assembly and veto proposed constitutional provisions.
It also assumed that machines and workers were close substitutes, whereas more often than not workers could still do things that machines could not.
Given this track record, when trade performance declined after the 2008 financial crisis, most policymakers assumed that new trade agreements would, again, boost growth.
Having initially been shunned, it has assumed a key role in financing – and, more importantly, implementing – fiscal-stabilization programs for the European Union’s peripheral countries.
When Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990, he assumed it was purely a regional squabble about oil and territorial claims.
With professional and politically independent management, a city could, it can reasonably be assumed, earn a 3% yield on its commercial assets.
And they naively assumed that the mere dream of one day joining the EU would ensure countries’ loyalty, even in the face of Putin’s hard-power threats.
Because scrapie had never been definitively linked to human disease, they assumed that infected cows were also innocuous.
But a populist has now assumed the United States presidency by campaigning on a platform of stark economic nationalism and protectionism.
Not considered to be part of the native Russian people, Jews were assumed to belong to an international cabal, and hence to be inherently treacherous.
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