But doctors say it is far too simplistic to conclude, as Mr. Christie claimed last fall, that "many orthopedic surgeons in this country made decisions predicated on how much money they could make — choosing which device to implant by going to the highest bidder".
The company spent $360 million to buy Fast Company, a decision predicated in part on the growth of the digital economy, but the subsequent implosion in the technology sector wiped out most, if not all, of the magazine's profits.
Both praised Mr. Tenet's performance, and Mr. Warner said that Mr. Tenet put his wife on the phone and that she told him the decision was "predicated on carefully thought-through family considerations".
One critic of the legislation, Ron Pollack, executive director of the advocacy group Families USA, said he had spoken to AARP officials often as the Medicare bill was being developed and did not "feel that their decision was predicated on conflicts of interest or other improper factors".
The decision is predicated on the belief that the police are fundamentally honest despite, time after time, being proven to be consummate liars and particularly expert at abusing their power to manipulate the legal and complaints process and otherwise "institutionally corrupt" supported by a "dysfunctional and corrupt" complaints system.
So, her "decision" was predicated on the fact that she is devoted to her God, her family and her country and in that order.
The court-appointed guardian ad litem, Jay Wolfson, later wrote a report stating that Michael Schiavo's decision was "predicated on his reasoned belief that there was no longer any hope for Terri's recovery".
This decision was predicated on the known morbidity of pericardial stripping, especially in a patient with advanced cardiac cachexia, and the ability to manage his right-sided heart failure medically.
"Ninety-nine per cent of decisions are predicated on feelings – instinctive, emotional, fears, conflicts, unresolved childhood problems.
