It is widely assumed that much of the ransom money is being spent on armaments.
It is widely assumed that emotion and rationality are somehow opposed to each other, and that rational decisions are better than emotional ones.
It is widely assumed that it would strike down any law openly breaking with one tradition of German taxation: that corporate- and income-tax rates must be about the same.
ECONOMIST: The prospects for tax reform recede, unfortunately
Pyongyang's latest announcement might mean that the facility will now be used to produce highly enriched uranium, although it is widely assumed that North Korea already has other facilities for that purpose.
Behind the scenes, it is widely assumed that bargaining is going on, with the SCAF offering to accept Mr Morsi's win in exchange for reducing his and the Brothers' role in shaping the constitution.
It is widely assumed that as soon as he comes into office, US president-elect Barack Obama will move quickly to place massive pressure on the next Israeli government to withdraw from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in the interests of advancing a "peace process" with the Palestinians and the Syrians.
Both on the Israeli right and the left, it is now widely assumed that the prime minister is determined to remove Mr Arafat from the picture.
It is also widely assumed that Palestinian hostility to Israel is fueled by despair that can only be reduced by Israeli concessions.
It is now widely assumed that these two contracts meet the threshold to trigger the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) and now await a presidential determination concerning whether to impose sanctions on the Chinese company, Sinopec.
It is, after all, widely assumed that similar or larger pay-offs were made under the Pinochet dictatorship, in which many opposition politicians held jobs.
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