To be sure, there have always been religious backlashes against science, all throughout history and in virtually every faith.

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"If you're not careful, we'll create problems, we create backlashes - which is that social workers become risk-averse, " she added.

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If Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy can stomach the political backlashes in Germany and France, a TARP or Brady Bond type of solution would likely please the market and propel stocks higher.

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And tech companies may be especially prone to those backlashes: Not only are tech customers particularly Web savvy, but the tech industry itself frequently sails into uncharted and--from a PR perspective--dangerous waters, says Waggener Edstrom's Neptune.

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To address future backlashes, Facebook staffed up.

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