While most people have no qualms about sending enormous amounts of money to credit card companies, on a regular and systematic basis, they balk at the idea of paying themselves, first.

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British and Irish judges may yet balk, as they have in the past, at imprisoning suspects for long periods without evidence, whatever Mr Blair's and Mr Ahern's new laws say.

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If the foreign workers go, wages will rise and young Israelis will work in all kinds of jobs they balk at now.

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But the giant companies that make control systems--General Electric, Siemens, ABB and others--say that even when they offer new wares with digital armor, customers balk.

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Meanwhile I think some consumers will balk at sharing all the personal information they have to share with Facebook and the huge data use charges they will have to fork over when they check Facebook when not connected to a Wi-Fi network.

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Democrats balk at such a mechanism, saying they had no such power when Republicans controlled the Senate and a Democrat was in the White House.

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Purists still balk at the rise of on-course electronics, but millions of golfers love the gadgets and contend they help speed up play.

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