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MacArthur attacked concentrated economic power under the assumption that large landholders and large firms become pawns of government.
The 2015 budget that Russia developed last summer was based on the assumption that oil prices would remain at $100 per barrel, with annual GDP growth and inflation at about 2% and 5%, respectively.
But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.
So influential have medicine’s triumphs over bacteria been that the “war on cancer” continues to be driven by the assumption that magic bullets will one day be found for tumor cells if the search is sufficiently clever and diligent.
But despite the paucity of success, the typical goal in cancer therapy remains similar to that of antimicrobial treatments – killing as many tumor cells as possible under the assumption that this will, at best, cure the disease and, at worst, keep the patient alive for as long as possible.
For the past 50 years, the EU was largely able to count on a benign partnership with the US in a multilateral context; that assumption no longer holds, even if we do not yet know the extent of America's new unilateralism.
That is the idea behind the annual Bloomberg Misery Index, which measures inflation and unemployment, on the assumption that both generate economic costs for societies.
The assumption – dear to the architects of the current process – that peace can be achieved by driving a wedge between “moderates’ and “extremists” is a fatal misconception.
In other words, such a process would deal with the issues of 1967 – defining a border (including Jerusalem), withdrawing and dismantling settlements, putting in place security arrangements, and the Palestinians’ assumption of full governance responsibility – while shelving for the future those of 1948.
People inside companies are paid to provide a certain level of customer service on the assumption that they will help to sell products, instruct users how to benefit from them, and improve customer satisfaction.
And yet, until a year or two ago, some political pundits were asking, “Who lost Turkey?” or “Whither Turkey?” – the assumption being that Turkey had shifted its foreign-policy axis away from the West.
The future remains uncertain, but the assumption that Arabs’ demands for fair governments and civil dignity can still be repressed, like a genie squeezed back into the bottle, is a self-serving fantasy of irremediable autocrats – and of some in the West.
Specifically, for European states groaning under unbearable debt burdens, Hamilton’s negotiation in 1790 of the new federal government’s assumption of the states’ large debts looks like a tempting model.
The federal assumption of states’ debts by itself could not guarantee political order.
This is a risky assumption, because it implies that no European government will ever fail to repay the bond in full, with all interest due, and on time.
Given China’s importance in both military and economic matters, growing energy and trade relations between Central Asia and the West, and the reasonable assumption that Central Asia’s security will continue to have great significance for Western security, cooperation between the SCO, the EU, and NATO looks inevitable.
With perfect information -- an assumption made by traditional economics, though one not fully appreciated by free market advocates -- these problems would never have occurred.
Mexico continues to operate under the assumption that wages low enough to attract and sustain investment ensure the shortest route to competitiveness.
Putin Overplays His HandDENVER – The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This trend undermines the assumption that banks allocate capital efficiently.
One of his cabinet appointees was arrested for corruption within two weeks of Leung’s assumption of his official duties.
However, the mechanisms we used to confirm that assumption were conveniently lax.
States that are eager to enjoy the trappings of great-power status – the deference accorded their diplomats, high-level global parlays abroad and important diplomatic conferences at home, and the assumption that they must be consulted on major events or crises in their regions – must accept the burdens that go with it.
Traditionally, the assumption has been that it accrues to shareholders.
The assumption was that political integration would follow.
Many Western strategists and scholars based their assessment on a false assumption: the Soviet Union could also become free, if only its name was properly edited and the right constitution drafted for it.
The recent assassination of former Deputy Prime Minister and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov reinforces this assumption.
The Muslim Brotherhood, and primarily President Mohamed Morsi, is banking on the assumption that the strength of Egypt’s Islamist vote will earn him enough support among “regular Egyptians,” and that the opposition will have little impact on the referendum’s outcome.
The second flaw in Trump’s approach is the assumption that bad negotiators make bad deals.
But the more critical issue concerns Brown's assumption that the tax/GDP ratio will rise in coming years.
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