Assuming that conceptual issues are solved, there remains the major issue of data availability.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

Now polls show that men tell twice as many lies as women assuming the women they ask told the truth.

Had she been politically active during the Nazi times, Merkel would have landed in a concentration camp.

If you are a woman watching, you feel in your gut that these women won't be window dressing.

Even without any portfolio shift, Americans shouldn t expect their recent luck to hold up in the future. If there is a global downturn, any region that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.

If the student leaders had really wanted to take over the government, and use violence to do so, this theory would be convincing.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic.

If it is assumed that three quarters of them attend one meeting each year at an average cost of 5,000 per trip, the added cost would be 424,000.

A simple model based on prohibition and testing for gene modification will not be enough, assuming that detection is possible at all.

If we assume that health is a condition of a progressive and wealthy society, so the health and economic status of an individual and society are mutually dependent.

For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak.

Assuming that the Bush administration is serious in its current efforts, the US must have a Plan B in case the talks fail.

If the child data type were different, it would be in a different table, but there would still be a foreign key referencing the EmpNo column of the employees table.

An invasion force, assuming that one could be mustered on short notice, would raise the stakes higher still.

Suppose you are concerned about children in Africa dying from preventable diseases.

Still, even assuming that the American public would tolerate such a presence, the Iraqi public would not.

If, say, North Korea is willing to respect international standards of economic behavior, it could be invited to join the International Monetary Fund.

If you were President Richard Nixon, there was no ignoring what appeared on the front page of The New York Times .

Indeed, even if everyone in the world had participated the requisite hour, the result would have been the equivalent of turning off China s carbon emissions for roughly 45 seconds.

If we assume that the number of sites is just the whole area of the solid divided into the cross section of the adsorbate molecules, we can easily calculate the surface area of the adsorbent.

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand, I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

Even assuming better forecasts, the projection of 124 could be a gross underestimate.

Assuming that Ahmadinejad seeks re election, this line up lacks any candidate with clear appeal to the youth vote.

Of course, if you assume that vast swaths of the countryside will be covered in wind turbines and solar panels, you will inevitably predict that a large number of construction jobs will be required.

If a country is not slow in paying back its debts and applies those policies considered healthy by the markets, bingo, country risk is low.

But even when such fears are well founded, reforms should be evaluated on their own merits in broad consultations.

If it were really true that the fundamental existence of our democratic Western world were about to be destroyed by an Islamist revolution, it would only make sense to seek protection in the full force of the US informal empire.

After the Bush presidency, that rule no longer holds, if it ever did.

If we assume that a causal relationship exists, the European directive seems to be fairly well designed, with one main shortcoming.

Given that everything that happens is somehow a consequence of decision making, the distinction between killing someone and letting her die is unconvincing.

Assuming that the poor use much less water, the monthly cost of conventional network technologies drops to 20 still a significant outlay.

Consequently, supposing that a permanent member would represent its region would require that it first be entrusted with the express mandate to do so.

Even assuming China s willingness to help Europe s troubled economies, it would be able to contribute only a modest portion of the huge amount of financing required to restore confidence in European sovereign debt.

Of course, before being bailed out by governments, banks had never made any return in their history, assuming that their assets are properly marked to market.

For example, because atheists supposedly lack a moral compass, they should be guided by pure self interest and walk by the drowning child.

But, assuming the economy must claw its way out of recession for at least another year or two, it is difficult to see how the government can fulfill its Pittsburgh pledge.

Yet, even if Kyoto were fully implemented throughout this century, it would reduce temperatures by an insignificant 0.3 F (0.2oC), at an annual cost of 180 billion.

If an approximate confidence interval is used (for example, by assuming the distribution is normal and then modeling the confidence interval accordingly), then the margin of error may only take random sampling error into account.

And what we do, is we say that the ultimate outcome of a nation is how successful is it at creating happy and healthy lives for its citizens.

If free and fair elections were to be held in any Arab country, Islamists would come to power.

Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.

But if one really thinks that free lunches exist, there is still no reason to privatize government could get the additional returns by investing in the stock market itself.

Assuming continuing reforms in countries such as Brazil, India, South Africa, and Russia, emerging markets could well fill some of the growth gap left by the largest economies.

Assuming that concern over Iran s nuclear breakout capacity mounts, this leaves the US and its allies with three options, each with its own risks.