It has done this for Sudan, where it previously made resource investments, and it is reasonable to assume that it might do so for a similarly troubled regime in the future.

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In his case it is probably reasonable to assume that his basis in the stock is negligible so that all his proceeds are gain.

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So it is fair to assume that the March 2009 low was the end of a bear cycle.

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Assume we start a year later into the budget so that it is truly the budget of the President in office.

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So it is safe to assume that it never made a profit.

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So it is reasonable to assume that RBS has reinforced its foundations and structure to cope with all but the most acute and extreme of financial shocks.

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So it would be tempting to assume that Microsoft is really two businesses.

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Seneca's advice is to assume that everything will go wrong, so when it does you don't get upset.

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So is it getting any easier for women to assume job positions that were traditionally held down by men today?

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Many people assume that since the problem is so rampant, there are no enforcement mechanisms or no laws, no resources committed to it.

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It turns out that in addition to being the most convoluted and complex creation ever conceived by JPM which is advising Europe on coming up with structured finance products that are so complex nobody will ask any questions and will automatically assume someone else has done the homework, it is also the quintessential ponzi instrument.

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