Specifically, how many companies have never merged, and how much efficiency and innovation have we lost thanks to companies shying away from mergers out of fear of the federal government?
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"Every one of the messages came out of fear from us, " says Ms. Vigil, who works as a counselor at a community college.
It is usually exempt from scrutiny, mostly out of fear.
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children claims that a hundred and sixty thousand kids stay home from school each day out of fear, but hard numbers that would identify a trend are difficult to come by.
The besiegers have shied from all-out assaults, for fear of killing civilians and deepening regional enmities.
But some banks have stopped doing business with Iran out of fear of retribution from the U.S., they said.
Her biggest fear of working from home: being out of sight, out of mind.
But with the growing presence of habeas lawyers, interrogators are constrained from doing so for fear this intelligence will get out.
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Part of that decision came from the fear of hurting himself after spending years without working out.
With Italy's strength lying in their forwards, England's clearest advantage was out wide but their fear of running the ball from their own half - surely under orders from the England coaching staff - was hampering their efforts to develop any attacking momentum.
Soon after, on New Year's Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions against any entity which dealt with the Central Bank of Iran, a measure which put off many financial institutions from doing business with Iran under the fear of being locked out of the US market.
In the last crisis, taxpayers made a nice business out of relieving a bank panic that arose, circularly, from fear that taxpayers would not act to relieve a bank panic.
Escalating sectarian violence in Iraq has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and has led many Iraqis to conceal their identities out of fear, according to the author of a new study.
On the downside, competition is so fierce that fistfights sometimes break out between contrade, and Il Palio jockeys often live in fear from rival contrade.
The creative team, he says, wants to remain anonymous out of fear of the consequences to their business that might result from angering the tech giant.
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Swinton said parents often shy away from discussing taboo subjects, such as the fear that their children will turn out to be violent or that bad things will happen to their family.
So thoroughly has this fable soaked into the culture that it is now mere conventional wisdom that if we just let it all out from the deep recesses of our souls--the anger, the fear, the prejudice, whatever--we will all be better off.
The fear is those out-of-pocket costs may deter people from seeking those services.
Campaigners who fear out of town shops in Leighton Buzzard will drive people away from the town centre have protested at council headquarters.
Meanwhile, as Mike Shatzkin, a consultant with the Idea Logical Company in New York, points out, Ingram and the other book wholesalers also have something to fear from the Internet.
Morse, from UK Biometrics, on the other hand, insists that much of the fear is borne out of a misunderstanding of the technology.
When crisis hits, fear of devaluation could spark a rush out of bank deposits into cash, and from cash into hard currency.
Abdel had moved to the Ivory Coast out of fear he would be arrested in Mauritania for being the country's most prominent activist from the slave-owning class to now campaign against slavery.
From a simplistic point of view, the fast-money types had taken risk out of their portfolios on Friday for fear of potential headline risk over the weekend.
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