As someone accustomed to getting along with almost everyone, I found myself shocked when a young woman who I was managing told my boss that I was mean and difficult to work with.

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It is hard to watch the Bush anointment and not be shocked by the sheer, almost undemocratic nerve of it, and the risk that this could all blow up and leave the party with a choice among broken and, other than Steve Forbes, penniless understudies.

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As for gambling, you would be shocked, shocked, to learn that there could have been malware embedded in those gambling sites that you almost never visit.

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But Federal Express, FDX, one of the individual transportation stocks we may well have selected, shocked the market this week by announcing an unexpected 31% earnings decline, and the stock plunged almost 10% in just three days.

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