Instead, the U.S. DOT's travel forecast is used as justification to propose a dramatic bump up in highway spending, including on all the new and expanded highways that the DOT presumes we'll need to accommodate all of those imagined new cars and drivers.
"They presumed we were married.
"Any good lawyer is going to be saying, 'If they are brazen enough or sloppy enough to withhold evidence in the Ted Stevens case, we need to presume they did it other cases as well,' " said John Wolfe, a lawyer in Seattle who represents Ben Stevens.
If you are new to this, how do you know where to start?" Lee says there is a danger that small charities presume they need to hire an external consultant to help them navigate this minefield of tools to measure their impact, but this does not have to be the case.
I'm more likely to presume I need to listen, observe, and ask the right questions (So, what's it like to be you these days?), in the right way (nonchalant tone), at the right time (when they're nestled in bed for the night).
Don't ever presume you need to create your luck alone — others can be great support as you seek your luck.
While an opportunistic mugger or a territorial fight picker might not have the slightest desire to pursue you after you've left the scene, other reasons such as an angry ex-lover, drugs, gang reputation, hate crime or sheer vindictiveness may spur the person to pursue you; don't presume their motives, just presume you need to escape.
By extension, then, the company seems to presume that men need the larger, sportier, revamped 2009 FX models.
Perhaps I missed Ira Berkow's clever use of irony, but I find it surprising that a renowned sportswriter (and enthusiast, I presume) feels the need to critique -- even condemn -- a sport for which he admittedly has no affinity.
It's a bit insulting to theatergoers to presume that they need to be reminded of the touchstone events of those days, like starting a World War II film with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's date-of-infamy speech.
