But nobody, the government now says, thought to mention Sandline's activities, or the investigation, to a foreign secretary known throughout his department for having put control of arms sales at the centre of his newly ethical foreign policy.
But I come from that wing of economic thought that says such concerns should only be about natural monopolies or where coercion to maintain one is going on.
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He thought the process would be quick and easy, but he says the bureaucracy has been surprisingly hostile, especially when it comes to his PTSD.
"Stock markets, insurance markets, commodity markets--they used to be prohibited by gambling laws but were thought to be useful and given an exception, " says Hanson.
But if manufacturing productivity is better than was thought, the study says, the flipside is that productivity in the service sector must be much worse.
Mr Rhodes jokes that he had thought about converting the space into a sauna, but says it would be good to stop wasting so much heat.
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The thought of disaster is there, Tom Byron says, but it's not dampening the couple's enthusiasm.
But such a judgment says more about the egalitarian Swedish way of thought than about his political skills.
"Southern Michigan may not care that they lost my business, but I bet they lost more than they thought they would, " says Judi Henckel, a teacher at the local high school.
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Because of the oil crisis, most of his peers went to work for big oil companies. (Langer himself received four offers from Exxon alone.) "But I thought I could make a bigger impact elsewhere, " he says.
"I never thought I'd say so, " Wolff says, but he sees true soccer fever among Americans.
"At first my husband thought I was nuts, but now he helps me out, " says Ms. Diedrich.
The government says fewer people are using mobiles while driving, but is still thought to favour tougher enforcement.
"We noticed that most multinationals have well-thought-out evacuation plans, but the aviation link is missing, " says Alan Marler, a director at Air Partner.
"We'd always regarded the bottom line, but we thought more about the profit going forward in the future, " he says, adding that Goldman Sachs was the most egregious example when during the financial crisis its own traders allegedly bet against its clients for its own profit.
"Many officials in Henan thought we had a political agenda, but we didn't, " Li says.
"My husband is in the auto industry but I thought they should go through the natural process, " Deb O'Hagan says.
Beal says his ideas are hardly novel, but given his track record, I thought readers would be interested.
But our smaller, feline friends may be higher up on the list than previously thought, says a report in the journal Nature Communications.
It was thought to be headed for the White House, but Mr bin al-Shibh now says that its target was the United States Congress.
He says the kinds of things that you might have thought in your head, but have never seen in a Marvel game before.
"We thought it would be a bunch of snooty rich people, but it's not, " says Laura Winning.
But even if the mafiosi are not making as much as was thought, their profits are still vast, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome.
But Bob Shields, a longtime San Jose Giants season-ticket holder, says he "despises the thought" of the A's displacing his team and vows never to attend an A's game in San Jose.
But poverty, substandard, overcrowded housing and underlying health problems are thought to be the most likely culprits, he says.
"I never thought I'd find anything that challenged the cardio intensity of mountain biking but I did, " he says.
"We thought we had a good team, but we needed a senior leader to bring it all together, " says Sarver.
"To be honest, I thought it would be a waste of time, but it was so fresh I was really impressed, " says Gill.
"In the U.S., we thought for a while that if you could manage something you could manage everything, but not anymore, " says Neubauer.
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