He or she spends five years focused on governing without handwringing over a bid for re-election.

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Despite the incessant handwringing, we expect leaders from both parties will eventually get a deal done.

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For anyone who has ever watched Glee, this handwringing probably seems almost laughable.

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For Hunter, the wisdom of the marketplace is that today's environmental concerns may seem like foolish handwringing a generation or two from now.

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Second, implicit in some of the Fast and Furious handwringing is the righteous indignation that gun sales encouraged by the feds killed an American agent.

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So the bottom line is this: For all the handwringing about the sequester, many of its effects are likely to be undone before they ever bite.

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With U.S. deepwater prospects off limits for at least six months pending political handwringing, watch for the cash-rich, growth-hungry supermajors to go on a shale buying spree.

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But all of this handwringing is missing the real point.

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Some thoughts on all the oil spill handwringing this afternoon.

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There's much handwringing about how the Grubmans and Blodgets of Wall Street beguiled investors during the tech boom into buying stocks that had all the staying power of a mayfly.

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