While this mantra has clearly gained some traction, if not actually becoming quite popular, popular thinking does not necessarily equate to sound thinking.

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More a matter of pride than sound business thinking, Ford propped up the Taurus with massive discounts to fleet buyers.

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We realized we needed to focus and set measurable impact targets that reflected sound investment thinking and responsible use of financial resources.

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Does that sound like the thinking of a short-term activist shareholder as Loeb is characterized by some?

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While this might sound like wishful thinking, the company has reportedly hired Mark Turmell, the creator of NBA Jam, NFL Blitz and Smash TV.

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Consequently, there are sound reasons for thinking that combining much higher spending on entitlements and aggressive tax hikes is a recipe for a permanent slowdown in the U.S. growth rate.

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When faced with tough questions like these, take a deep breath, slow down, and then sound out your thinking process aloud, and walk the interviewer through how you get to an answer.

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This thinking is sound and modern.

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The key to this is being able to intellectualize your answers while thinking and at the same time re-processing your answers into colorful sound bites.

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Get up and express something that they are feeling good about or something that they're thinking about, and it's usually done in the form of sound, which ends up being what we call music.

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