11.   Maybe Kwan wins the gold if she just stays upright, as some experts assume.

12.   Most experts assume Desmarest will have to shut down at least one refinery in France and perhaps others around Europe.

13.   Some experts have always assumed that Iraq would dismantle the long-term monitoring system at some point, or render it minimally useful to the inspectors over the long term.

14.   With no one willing to talk and with little hard evidence, many experts assume the worst.

15.   Experts assume the gases will stop gathering when the water reaches the surface.

16.   Still, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who made the estimate, say the figures are more optimistic than experts had long assumed.

17.   Until now, experts assumed that all weight gain is bad.

18.   Where AIDS came from is still a mystery, although experts assume an ancestor of the virus crossed from monkeys or other primates into people at some point.