31.   In the economic assumptions that underpin their budget plans, neither the administration nor the Republican leadership explicitly makes any provision for a downturn.

32.   Instead, the economic assumptions incorporated in their agreement anticipate a small cut in the index, in keeping with a change the technicians are likely to make anyway.

33.   Kasich criticized administration economic assumptions as overly optimistic, a view Raines strongly disputed.

34.   McCurry said the complexity of the technical discussions over long-term economic forecasts and changing economic assumptions for budget preparations require further lengthy discussions.

35.   Medicare officials attributed the two-year difference to changing economic assumptions.

36.   Most of the lawmakers left in high spirits, but a few expressed worries about the economic assumptions underlying the budget.

37.   Not to put too fine a point on it, nobody believes the economic assumptions on which all the balanced budget proposals rest.

38.   On the other hand, if Gingrich agrees to easier economic assumptions, he risks losing his credibility as a budget balancer.

39.   Policy-makers, investors and analysts will have to resort to their own crystal-ball formulations, put together from shards of statistics and economic assumptions.

40.   Rather, policy makers, investors and analysts will have to resort to their own crystal ball formulations, cobbled together from shards of statistics and economic assumptions.