Premise:
"um-hum um-hum seems like the prices never go down to where they were originally though before the before the increase started"
Hypothesis: The prices almost always return to the lower rates of previous times.

no

Premise:
"Each performance element will include a fully successful performance standard."
Hypothesis: There will be a completely successful performance standard with each performance element.

yes

Premise:
"For some of the very guardians of America's alabaster template--Pat Buchanan, Peter Brimelow, and their ilk--are the same ideologues who reflexively rebuke blacks for any show of ethnocentrism."
Hypothesis: Buchanan and Brimelow usually rebuke blacks for showing ethnocentrism.
yes