After all, Apple stock trades with the same logic as those perennial brayers about debt, deficits, and the apocalypse.

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The WTO used the same logic in siding with the U.S. and Canada against European nations that wanted to prohibit the import of beef fed with hormones that Europeans believe may be unsafe.

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All the same, one thing leads to another with such ease and inexorable logic that the script could have been created by the filmmaker taking dictation from the people on screen.

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But this philosophy may be flawed -- one of Sony's main competitors, Nintendo, is applying the same logic to its Wii U, albeit with starkly different results.

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