"Well, I have an inclination to think that it's not going to be as bad as they say it is, but it probably will be, " resident Ann Oulobo told the Associated Press as she was shopping near Baltimore in Maryland.

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Siam Cement has a defined e-commerce strategy, but it doesn't do much good to be far ahead in building an interactive B2B portal if your customers don't have the equipment or inclination to do business that way in the first place.

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To many bankers, particularly foreigners who have been keeping an eye out for opportunities in Japan, the government's inclination to obstruct reform has been sharply illustrated by last week's order by the Financial Services Agency, a regulator, to Shinsei, a bank now owned by foreign investors, to increase lending to small and medium-sized companies.

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"The natural inclination is to buy an item just because you have the coupon, " says Nelson.

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So it is unlikely that he will have the time or the inclination to undertake any radical agenda - a referendum on nationalisation, say, or an immediate constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution.

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But each time some future Congress tries to raise the rate for contract protection, payers would have a natural inclination to band together and lobby to expand the base to cover more free-riders as an alternative.

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