And having consolidated the industry, the biggest banks are further emboldened by this thought: where else are you going to go?
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For anyone tempted by the thought that this means the good times will continue to roll, the record was set in February 2000.
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And a traveler cannot but be struck on his journey by the thought that this country, one day, can be even greater.
The economy, which was expected to grow by over 5% this year, is now thought unlikely to expand by more than 2%.
If the percentage of women represented at upper levels is below their percentage at lower levels, make this issue understood by thought leaders.
Smith, by the way, thought that this was great: it meant that the investment markets actually moved capital swiftly to those areas where there were excess profits.
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They did this by rating how likely they thought it was, on a scale of one to seven, that a couple would break up in the next five years.
"I can imagine a scenario where winning two years of secrecy gave the Mossad time to organise alternative arrangements for whatever they thought was threatened by this guy's transgression, " he says.
Reagan was influenced by free-market thought in this regard.
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Meanwhile Gordon Brown sought to draw a line under the affair by making it clear this week what he thought honours should be about.
Mrs McGrath said she had not been involved in any internal review process, adding that she was not surprised by this as there was, as she thought, no issue around the surgery.
Bellon had never heard of ARA. "I thought this business was invented by the French, " he quips.
So you probably thought you could escape this by coming to this dinner.
One of the most powerful and proven ways for educational organizations to gain this edge in executive education is by being thought leaders.
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This was thought to be caused by the difficulty of achieving an accurate injection of a tiny heart that beats 600 times a minute.
It is hard to pick up a financial publication today without reading scary headlines about hundreds of billions of dollars of coming municipal bond defaults forecast by people who never had a thought about this market just six months ago.
There is no doubt some of those states thought this would be over by Super Tuesday on February 5 and wanted their state to have a say in who the nominee would be, but they chose to be patient and wait their turn.
They looked at the world of mainframe computers run by professional programmers and thought, anybody can have this.
Not long ago we thought this speech would be dominated by the riots, by Britain's long hot summer, but instead it was overshadowed by the economic storm still breaking around our heads.
Asked by the Sunday Telegraph whether he thought people in this financial position should return such income to the state, Mr Duncan Smith said he would "encourage" them to "hand it back".
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By this I mean the simultaneous encouragement of parallel strands of thought even when they are incompatible with each other.
But here's a thought: Spread the wealth this season by buying gifts that tackle some of America's thorniest money problems.
At the start of this year we invited our panel of European technology thought leaders to put their reputations on the line by making predictions about what would happen in technology this year.
"You would have thought we would have had some certainty by this point, but as we get closer to Dec. 31 the uncertainty seems to be getting greater, " sighs Mitchell Drossman, national director of wealth-planning strategies with U.S. Trust.
Kennan wanted totalitarianism abolished, but he thought the United States could accomplish this largely by going about its business.
Consequently, states are in play that many analysts thought might be out of reach for Obama by this point in the race.
These and other thought-provoking theories make this slim volume by a history professor at the University of Genoa more than just another collection of past culinary oddities.
The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says the Indonesian people have been truly shocked by these attacks as they thought they had put events like this behind them.
"I was just so fascinated by his passion and his absolute boyish love of this language that I thought, 'Yep, that feels like our Romeo, " Leveaux said.
This knowledge was honed by decades of reading the classics of conservative thought and having spent much of his life publicly debating those whose views were diametrically opposed to his.
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