The former investment banker has not been indolent: his department has been a factory for acronyms since the crisis began.

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Furthermore, about two-thirds of men who get prostate cancer have a slow-growing "indolent" form of the disease that will not kill them.

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Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but you have to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.

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In this understanding, which has a certain surface plausibility, when you coddle people they react by becoming fat and indolent.

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