And I don't want us to be paralyzed on everything just because we disagree on this one thing.

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So the stakes are huge--yet once again Japan appears to be paralyzed by tradition, as it was in Perry's day.

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In fact, recent generations of women appear to be paralyzed by indecision, stalling on everything from day-to-day preferences to major life choices: School.

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And I think a lot of folks' reaction is just to be paralyzed by this and to not do anything and sit it out, and that's why the enrollment numbers are so low right now.

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In January last year, a hacker network that claimed to be based in Saudi Arabia paralyzed the websites of Israel's stock exchange and national airline and claimed to have published details of thousands of Israeli credit cards.

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When there was war in NATO's own back yard, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the Europeans were paralyzed by what seemed to be a lack of will and the ability to fight.

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Even nerve cells in the spinal column might be regenerated, allowing the paralyzed to walk again.

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In this environment, where many investors are paralyzed, it might be hard to raise a lot of new assets, making client retention more important than ever.

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Scans might be used someday to tell when pain is hurting a baby, someone with dementia or a paralyzed person unable to talk.

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The arrest of Tsarnaev brought to an end a manhunt that paralyzed Cambridge, Watertown and Boston as authorities searched door to door for a suspect not only believed to be behind the bombings, but who they feared also could unleash more explosives.

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