ECONOMIC historians have long supposed that Africa's historically low population density shaped its development.
But he had long supposed that his collection conformed in all ways with legal requirements and restrictions.
In the modern world, Lippmann argued, the number and intricacy of policy issues and the human tendency to cling to irrational stereotypes had rendered the public far less capable of enlightened deliberation than liberals had long supposed.
Building on the pioneering efforts of Harry Markowitz, the Nobel laureate from the University of Chicago, the Michauds say numerous portfolios provide optimal combinations of return and risk -- not just one, as many academics and investors had long supposed.
Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands.
Biologists have long supposed that RNA was the pivotal actor in the earliest cells and later delegated most of its information-storage duties to DNA, a less versatile but stabler chemical.
Addressing the American Astronomical Society in 1985, Professor Boime argued that van Gogh's masterwork, "The Starry Night," was not the hallucinatory vision of a madman, as observers had long supposed.
He calls the paper "a good demonstration" of what scientists have long supposed--that cataracts result when the cell's internal structures fail to disintegrate properly.
It has long been supposed that the deep ancestors of Native American peoples came from the Eastern Hemisphere.
Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley's stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.
