So it was deeply disorienting when the economic system I thought was generally sound took an unexpected nosedive.
But serious moves to tackle the mountain of bad loans in the banking system are thought to be lacking.
Angela Sarkis is to lead an inquiry into victims' experience of the justice system in what is thought to be the first role of its kind.
The system was designed by the team that thought up the Game Boy, but the machine was barely portable.
For the conservative side, Justice Antonon Scalia said that he thought the Michigan system amounted to a quota, and questioned whether it furthered racial harmony if it upset many people who fell foul of its provisions.
"I don't think any right-thinking person actually believed that Secretary Napolitano thought the system worked, " he said.
Its report " Women at the Wheel" found 56% of the women said their companies did not have an active recruitment program targeting women, and none thought the school system encouraged girls to pursue careers in the industry.
"In the old system I would have thought long and hard about trading down because I don't want to pay taxes any more than anyone else, " says Oehlerts.
She explained that she thought a system could work where the government would set a "cap on what is thought to be a reasonable amount of money for parent to pay for childcare".
"Too often they tell us they feel they are treated as an after-thought or that the system made their already horrific experience worse, " she said.
And she said the plans for a post-results application system were "not well thought through" and failed to recognise the diversity of applicants who did not have A-levels as their entry qualifications.
The town is thought to be the first in the UK to use the system in which cars going over the speed limit will trigger the lights up ahead.
The system is complex: Each gene is thought to produce, on average, five separate substances, mostly proteins, and these products interact with each other.
Decolonisation was thought to have killed the system of international tutelage.
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The weapon in question is thought to be the SA-17 - a modern Russian system which comprises four missiles on a tracked launcher, that also carries an associated radar system.
In theory, in the worst cases, the parts of the banks that are thought to be most important to keeping the rest of the financial system functioning smoothly, for instance their deposit books and payment systems, will be quickly cut out and transplanted into a healthy bank or kept on life support.
Tissue cloned in this way from the patient's own cells would not, it is thought, be rejected by the body's immune system, which is currently a major obstacle to organ transplants and many other treatments.
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Former chief inspector of schools Sir Mike Tomlinson - who conducted a review of the exam system for the previous government - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought the planned change was "largely positive".
These two recent discoveries show that the Pluto system is more crowded than scientists had thought.
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The thought of Mr Putin and his system carrying on for another 12 years depresses the many Russians who want change.
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The Phils have a few youngsters in their system thought to have a chance to make big league impacts fairly soon, notably Brown and pitchers Brody Colvin and Trevor May.
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It is thought ingredients in ginseng improve the immune system by stimulating immunoglobin - proteins that act as antibodies.
Computer people, many of whom have usurped bankers as self-regarding Masters of the Universe, thought that the cable business would accept Microsoft's offer to take over the central nervous system of its infrastructure with due gratitude.
After the mishandling of her details by the criminal justice system, the Metropolitan Police offered to put Sarah into witness protection, but she could not bear the thought of being separated from her family so she declined.
It is thought he may have got into the pipe system from an outlet at the nearby harbour.
Although he did say he thought there was sufficient "fat in the system", which if cut would mean water charges could be avoided.
That seems to be the thought behind Chrome OS, a minimalist operating system that Google announced it was working on a couple of months ago.
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If these are unfortunates too sick to have qualified for private health insurance, then Medicare's total spending could well rise: a troubling thought, the Republicans point out, for a system whose impending insolvency was delayed, but not eliminated, by the balanced-budget agreement.
Lawmakers should give serious thought to junking the current anti-money-laundering system and figuring out smarter ways to fight crime.
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