Policy paralysis and a general global slowdown, especially in emerging markets, took a huge bite out of the Indian economy.

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In a general sense, vocal cord paralysis can be more difficult to treat since the main focus is to make the folds further apart to improve the airway, but not so much as to affect the quality of the voice.

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It is a position which helped them to win 27 out of 150 seats in the last general election in 2010, but also led to political paralysis when Mr De Wever could not come to an agreement with coalition partners.

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We'd begun the day talking about a phenomenon we'd noticed again and again in women of the post-feminist generation--a general malaise with symptoms that are a combination of "analysis paralysis, " "grass is greener" syndrome, and a sense that there are far too many choices to deal with.

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