Some in the group assumed he had gone back to California.

WSJ: Shooting Suspect's Behavior Provided Few Clues

But since the Regent Luxury Group assumed control in September 2006, the hotel had undergone an extreme psychic makeover, and management was asking for another chance.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Russia assumed the presidency of the Group of 20 nations for the first time on Dec. 1.

FORBES: Russia Rules G20 For First Time

If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year it was founded.) Lvy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.

FORBES: Monsieur Big

If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year the company was founded.) Levy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.

FORBES: Monsieur Big

The perpetrators are widely assumed to be Salafists, adherents of a fundamentalist group influenced by Saudi Arabia that has made strong inroads, particularly among Egypt's poorest classes.

ECONOMIST: Islam and the Arab revolutions

Until the time I presented the group in model form, it had been assumed by all that the proposed statue was to be of a single figure.

ECONOMIST: In transition

The overall impact of agriculture on the economy is much greater than generally assumed, notes my colleague Delore Zimmerman, of Praxis Strategy Group.

FORBES: America's Agricultural Angst

These casualties tend to peak in the weeks after a war, explains Richard Lloyd, of Landmine Action, a campaign group, as people return to places that they had wrongly assumed to be safe.

ECONOMIST: Cluster bombs and Iraq