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The last three times the company hired a CEO from outside the industry, its stock price plummeted. Clearly, hiring a CEO from within the industry is necessary to ensure the company's financial health.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
- The earlier stock declines were attributable to those CEOs' lack of industry experience rather than to other factors.
- The company has already identified several promising candidates from within the industry.
- No outsider CEO has ever succeeded at any company in any industry.
- Hiring an industry-insider CEO would guarantee that the stock price rises.
- Industry-insider CEOs are generally less expensive to recruit than outsiders.
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