Olympia Snowe (R-ME) appeared to be puzzled by Kennedy's comment.

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In New York, Bloomberg's heart may be in the right place, but merchants who want to sell cigarettes should be justifiably puzzled: If any product is not legal, then they should be barred from stocking it, but as long as it is, how can anyone presume to tell them where to display it -- or, more to the point, that they can't display it?

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The poor would be puzzled to hear that the profit motive is in retreat.

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Investors who were supposed to be cheered by talk of getting private capital back to India were instead puzzled by a plan for retrospectively levying tax on big firms.

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Moreover, I am puzzled by what appears to be the core of his message.

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Mr Blair was clearly puzzled by what appeared to be an irrelevant question.

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On valuation, people always seem to be overly enamored with market value, which has puzzled me because as a private company, there is no liquid market on which to buy and sell shares, so a valuation is established without any degree of market efficiency.

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If the historian of 2111 will be puzzled by such a chart, what is the citizen of today to make of it?

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But the banks may be puzzled why he has rejected their view that the 1999 regulations should not then be applied to their contracts.

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