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"Throughout the Middle East the fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty, " Ms Rice said.
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They are beginning to act and make choices but they fear the ongoing volatility and uncertainty that may lie ahead.
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We live in a world where we have too many choices and our fear is that we will make the wrong choice, so we tend to settle for the least optimal decision.
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Everyone should enjoy the freedom to make their own choices, without the fear of social coercion.
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Cardinals used to sign their names to ballots, but stopped doing so "due to an old history of intrigues and tensions when people used to fear the most serious reprisals for their choices, " says Michael Bruter, who teaches political science at the London School of Economics.
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One of the big fear factors for companies right now is sticking with the wrong choices because of internal politics and esteem systems.
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Fear of these losing outcomes often leads to a number of suboptimal choices, including over-capitalizing a company (trying to protect against the downside), cutting the burn so much as to cut corners and impair a program (doing an under-powered clinical study), or doing less-than-optimal business development deals.
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Using functional brain imaging, researchers have found that ambiguity in choices activates the amygdale, the region in our brain that also gets triggered by fear or threat, while at the same time it leads to decreased activity in the striatal system, which responds to potential rewards.
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As for unpopular choices, his flirtation with congestion charges has brought a collision with party strategists, who fear a motorists' backlash.
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Nearly 180 years later, I fear we as Americans have taken too much stock in our own enlightenment and less in our willingness to make hard choices for the benefit on the country.
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