As did I, and I've done my fair share of navel gazing since, I can assure you, resulting in my dithering about interventions in Libya and Syria and previously concluding, best play it safe, best not get involved.
There is insufficient evidence to conclude best timing of invasive diagnostic procedures in patients with several kidney diseases.
Buckwheat and chocolate, she concluded, "are best friends, and even better friends with salt".
Forty-nine percent agreed that he made decisions based on what he concluded was best for New Yorkers, while 47 percent said he took actions based on what he believed was best for his political career.
Great athletes, he concluded, were best viewed "from about a hundred feet away".
He concluded: "At best, his evidence on this matter was disingenuous".
Almost from the start, they concluded the best systemic solution was to buy hard-to-sell mortgage-backed securities.
Abbott said the process his government put in place concluded the best technical option for Australia was the French design.
"But I spoke with the Milan board and we concluded the best thing for everyone would be to sell me".
Consequently, the secretary concluded the best presently available hope for independence lay with the Army of Northern Virginia.
And in what is becoming something of a slogan for the company, Mr. Ballmer, who met Mr. Gates in college, concluded, "The best is yet to come".
