21.   Wells Fargo had offered to make Siart its president, but analysts assume that other First Interstate employees would fare less well in a combination with Wells Fargo.

22.   Analysts assume manufacturers will cut production to pare inventories, as they did earlier this year.

23.   Most analysts have assumed that this would involve financial, as well as, technical assistance.

24.   Most analysts assume Bush would slowly generate support inside and outside the country with a series of warnings to Saddam and a deliberate marshaling of U.S. troops.

25.   With such a range of political opinions under one roof, many analysts assumed the government would be unwieldy.

26.   Western analysts have assumed that one of the reasons Hekmatyar has not joined was that he was not promised certain key positions in the exiled government of the north.