And the actual hurricane certainly pays off the premise (sorry, that sounds like a movie critic's take and I'm not one).

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If we start off with the premise that markets can do just about anything they want, and all we could do is to try and get a small edge, then that itself is a great step forward.

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It sounds good if the reader just accepts the premise and turns off any thinking.

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But the allegations undermine a premise regularly offered by the pharmaceutical industry that the numerous settlements concerning off-label promotions and kickbacks reflect years-old business practices that have since been transformed.

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They accept the premise that expertise, which pays off in so many aspects of life, pays off in investing, too.

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The basic premise of tax reform is to trade off tax rates and revenue base.

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It got off on a macho, but false, premise: that the path out was by mutual pain: raising taxes and cutting entitlements.

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Based on that premise, the company built out data centers with small antennas that could capture TV signal off the air and redistribute them over the internet.

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