Yet we reasoned that no matter which party won, people still would need jobs.

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At the time, we reasoned that Yahoo had the chops to shepherd our time capsule through whatever technological changes occur over the next 20 years.

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However, we reasoned, there were those maybes to worry about.

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In holding that the taxpayer in Rogers could not exclude income earned while in international airspace, we reasoned that income earned in international airspace was akin to income earned in international waters.

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Not much future in that, we reasoned.

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"We feel aerospace and defence is at a crossroads, and we're not going to cross, " reasoned one speculator.

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What we can control is our capacity to have a reasoned, fair conversation between the parties and get the business of the American people done.

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In place of informative, reasoned opinion, powerful because of its logic and humaneness, we have sentiment.

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"We're defending well and that's the best part of our game, " he reasoned.

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We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

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