"I guess my background prepares me for arguing and, you know, logical thinking," she said.

She glanced upward, thinking of something he hadn't said that day.

"Good thinking," said Sandecker with a glint in his eyes, "even if you did step beyond your authority."

A source familiar with management's thinking said that the hope was for Vanbiesbrouck to become confident again "to get his head back."

She looked up, as if thinking of something to say, then returned to her book.

The obvious thinking says that as musicians play better, better music will be heard.

As medical thinking on the subject changed by the late 1970's, the Administration official said, the doctor stopped performing the procedure.

Conventional thinking in molecular biology would say it shouldn't be alive.

Our best thinking would say that it is not.

"Old thinking" also said that aid could not make a difference, he says.