Given that, it is time to stop coddling the rich (at least on this issue).
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As many small shops were engulfed by the sea, coddling them is hardly a pressing matter.
The government is, for example, trying harder to discourage state banks from coddling state-owned firms.
Moreover, the political benefits of coddling the unions are immediate, whereas the costs are generally deferred.
Given the addiction of rich countries to coddling their farmers, anyone expecting rapid change will doubtless be disappointed.
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The coddling and hand-holding of modern voters is a phenomenon worth pondering, and extends well beyond college campuses.
Often times kindness is not coddling, but caring enough to share the truth.
He argues that earlier city policies to spur job growth, which amounted to coddling the biggest employers with incentive packages, have failed.
Despite all the coddling and protectionism from the government, Japan grows only 42% of its food, the lowest ratio among large industrial nations.
Hollande and Montebourg talk up small enterprise, but it's self-defeating to treat those companies as rare and precious flowers in need of state coddling.
The Americans ditched Mr Savimbi, and started coddling Mr dos Santos, chiefly because huge deposits of oil had been found off the Angolan coast.
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The line between support and coddling can be blurry, experts say.
Without state coddling the banks have been under pressure, first from Europe's single market in financial services and now from the birth of the euro.
The popular Zeitgeist is filled with concern over coddling our children.
As evidence they point to Turkey's coddling of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood.
But the Olympics do provide a high-profile stage to impress potential customers, for which the job of coddling them is farmed out to companies like Carlson.
The Vatican's banking and other scandals are of a different magnitude, but the principle is the same: The Church cannot restore its stature while coddling wrongdoers.
Meanwhile, other travel firms that started as purveyors of insider information have tweaked their approaches, upgrading their services (and fees) and offering continuous coddling to demanding clients.
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But, whereas some Arabs saw a sinister design in this sudden championing of democratisation, others found it a promising change from America's previous coddling of friendly dictators.
Highly dependent as they are on stocks and asset inflation for their income, the gentry are not likely to object to the administration's coddling of large financial institutions.
You know, sometimes people say, well, that's just coddling people.
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Bringing ethics into his analysis, Mr. Derman has no patience for coddling the folly of individuals and institutions who over-rely on faulty models and then seek to escape the consequences.
In an era when high-flying tech companies outdo each other with worker perks, no-frills Bezos is proving the potency of another model: coddling his 164 million customers, not his 56, 000 employees.
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Mr Obama seems to be hoping that his Republican opponents, many of whom have put forward proposals for regressive flat taxes, for example, will take their coddling of the rich too far for most voters' tastes.
The arrest in Kosovo, earlier this month, of six alleged members of the so-called Ilirida Republican Army, a new Albanian-nationalist group, produced sighs of relief in Skopje, where Slav-Macedonians often accuse the West of coddling armed Albanians.
Last month, workers at Agency.com, a hot Web design shop in New York with a reputation for coddling the help, got a mass e-mail from the office of boss Chan Suh that was supposed to list unused vacation time.
Russia has achieved this success not by coddling its job creators or by adopting radically free-market and business-friendly policies, but by supporting consumer demand, encouraging consumption, and loosening credit within the confines of its (deeply flawed) preexisting economic structures.
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So some airlines have taken to occasionally wining and dining them and monitoring FlyerTalk, Twitter and blogs, responding directly to customers who post problems and coddling online communities with special sales and, in extreme cases, CEO dinners and backstage access at airports.
And to do that, IBM, which by the 1990s had become a coddling workplace, has in recent years transformed itself as an employer, annually firing thousands of workers in one country (often the U.S.), and hiring thousands in other countries (India, Brazil, the Philippines).
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