11.   If evolution has made women and men different, this reasoning goes, it might justify keeping women out of certain jobs or at home barefoot and pregnant.

12.   If a lot of important sites establish links with the page, the reasoning goes, it must be important too.

13.   If the state forces them to give the regents tests, the reasoning goes, the next step could be mandating a curriculum or imposing other controls.

14.   In that case, the reasoning goes, investors are bound to be disappointed.

15.   In time, the reasoning goes, theater-going habits may take root, and Broadway could have new patrons for life.

16.   Major corporations, the reasoning goes, already have a system of checks and balances through auditors, credit agencies and Wall Street analysts.

17.   Make a deal on Medicare next year, the reasoning goes, and perhaps the Republicans can regain Florida and Arizona in the next presidential election.

18.   Now that rates are rising, and with them money fund returns, the expenses can be reinstated without driving investors away, the reasoning goes.

19.   One way to slow this spread, the reasoning goes, is to give addicts clean needles in exchange for used needles that may be contaminated.

20.   Opponents of affirmative action, the reasoning goes, would be uncomfortable obstructing efforts to fight discrimination by better enforcement of existing laws.