21.   The younger and faster your team is carved, the thinking goes, the more dangerous it becomes.

22.   The United States has an obligation to do whatever it takes to create a world where it dominates, the thinking goes.

23.   What separates one person from another, the thinking goes, is how we divide up what we have.

24.   Besides, so the thinking goes, the story is so outdated, so out of touch.

25.   Nobody, the thinking goes, is good enough to knock Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls from their throne.

26.   Such spending would force the government to borrow more money, stir inflation and ultimately drive interest rates higher, the thinking goes.

27.   To kill a cancer, the thinking goes, starve it.