Officials can fulminate or brazen it out, arguing by turns that the material involved is trivial or deeply damaging.

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But perhaps the biggest cause of marital stability has to do with the very thing that moralists fulminate against.

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Following the emotionally charged August recess, Obama will have to let Congress "fulminate for a while on both ends, " Sabato said.

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One is the ancient kind, a category which, in political terms, encompasses many of the incidents that politicians continue to fulminate about.

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Trimming even the silliest of these measures (such as those preventing public photography of children) risks the wrath of the same tabloids who also fulminate about red tape.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot