Premise: At the center of the confrontation with the harsh reality of daily life is the concept of karma; that is work or deed, and the implication that the sum total of one's acts in a previous life will determine one's present station in life.

Hypothesis: According to beliefs about karma, acts in one's previous life has an effect on one's station in this life.
Answer: yes

Premise: However, the financial services corporation provided the best example of how periodic reports of results can be used to hold managers accountable for understanding, as well as reducing, the information security risks to their business units.

Hypothesis: Managers can be held accountable for the information security risks to their units by using these reports.
Answer: yes

Premise: The remaining mystery is whether some other person, group, or country funded and orchestrated the bombing.

Hypothesis: The bombing had signs of being a job from somewhere else.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: General Control

Hypothesis: Overall control.
Answer: yes