1.   This support was available for up to eighteen months, after which time the local service agency assumed full responsibility for the service.

2.   But former officials and analysts say the agency has never assumed such a public assignment in so turbulent a region.

3.   But the agency assumes that the really disruptive innovations are rarely obvious in their early stages.

4.   Mainly, the agency is now assuming that inflation will stay minor, and that more of the poor will use managed care.

5.   That is more strength than the aviation agency assumes a pilot has.

6.   The agency assumed that Iraq was amassing the technical know-how for a peaceful power program, and did little to investigate.

7.   The agency had assumed the children were still with the paternal aunt, whose name was not immediately released Tuesday night, Falk said.

8.   The federal agency assumed control of airport security on Sunday.

9.   They said the agency incorrectly assumed that manufacturers would reap all of the benefits of higher prices and miscalculated future industry profits.

10.   Instead, it decided to allow the new agency to assume limited supervisory duties over domestic financial markets.