But they are interested in details that the invisible-hand people often find too disgusting to contemplate.
The country is in much better shape than politicians and a boatload of economists dare contemplate.
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As Dr Wilmut points out, that would make transplanting tissues created this way into people too risky to contemplate.
Those who switched late from Ms Rousseff might find a speedy move to Mr Serra too dizzying to contemplate.
Leaving France as the only state in Europe with nuclear weapons is not something any British government would lightly contemplate.
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Increasingly, this is a lesson that CIOs in most companies must contemplate.
Annulments are currently too expensive for anyone but the rich to contemplate.
But then the alternative is even more painful, too disturbing to contemplate.
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Now Serebryakov wants to chop up the surrounding forests and sell off the land, leaving Vanya with only his own wasted life to contemplate.
The possibility that choice might be the best way of levering up standards is too troubling an idea for most of them to contemplate.
He said no, European governments would find a way to hold the single currency intact, if only because the alternative was too ghastly to contemplate.
Data miners know more about us than I want to contemplate.
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That's not something the team's six true seniors care to contemplate.
What may have been certain was often too terrible to contemplate.
The prospect of life without Mr Kohl, an unmatched campaigner who has snatched victory in four successive general elections, seemed to them too dreadful to contemplate.
The idea that the German government may lose control of its national budget and be put under supervision by Brussels is, it seems, too humiliating to contemplate.
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And freezing prices, any technocrat worth his salt knows, means little unless it is accompanied by measures to hold down wages: something Mr Yilmaz does not appear to contemplate.
One, Dr Severino Antinori, from Italy, has become notorious in the IVF community for his willingness to carry out procedures which the vast majority of his peers would never contemplate.
The impact of a serious euro-zone downturn on the finances of banks and governments, not to mention on the sentiment among voters facing high and rising unemployment, is tough to contemplate.
And the alternative can be very terrible to contemplate.
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If the CAN bus can be programmed to control the speed of your car, Freymann says, it could also be vulnerable to hackers -- which, at 70 mph, is chilling to contemplate.
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Until around 20 years ago, consumer bankruptcy didn't even exist in many European countries, and corporate bankruptcy was a draconian process too dreadful for all but the most desperate managers to contemplate.
As an older student I had a lot to prove and wouldn't contemplate failure.
On the other side, if you stand for politics, you have to be willing to contemplate defeat.
Grayson says he and his players "will be doing everything we can to stay up", but he has obviously had to contemplate relegation.
The effervescent Bill Walton, currently an ESPN college basketball analyst, is the last person in the world you would expect to contemplate suicide.
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One might object that they concentrate on this at the expense of the deeper forces compelling the warring parties towards compromise, or at least to contemplate compromise.
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