31.   He said the committee decided that no one even knew how to test the basic assumptions behind therapeutic touch.

32.   Holden and Alyssa are off and running in a set of conversations that artfully challenge their basic assumptions about sex and love.

33.   I was fighting some basic assumptions of modern urban dwelling.

34.   Its basic assumption is that England is still a rural country where chicken and pigs are reared to provide sustenance for bucolic yeomen.

35.   Moreover, some pollsters have questioned the basic assumption that Perot helps Clinton and hurts Dole.

36.   Still, children challenge even the most basic assumptions and standards, Ms. Huber said.

37.   The basic assumption of open-book management is simple enough, says Case.

38.   The basic assumption of Freud is that none of us is responsible for what we are.

39.   The basic assumption was that there was only one kind of host galaxy, or catastrophic event, which feeds a quasar.

40.   The high-risk move will test some basic assumptions.