Once again, most on Wall Street are either tone deaf or plugging their ears.
Occasionally, an agency can be completely tone deaf, and do something utterly unseemly.
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Tone deaf statements that draw attention to his wealth seem like daily occurrences.
Of course, I know why Congress is tone deaf on this issue.
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But when Facebook does it, it feels that much more tone deaf.
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Adam Greenfield has been a Citibank customer for 15 years, but he has grown frustrated with what he calls its poor service and "tone deaf" efforts to sell him new products.
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But a stake has not yet been driven through the misconceived scheme's heart -- either remarkably obtuse or tone deaf to the larger public issues, the Jets failed to get the message.
However, there also were those who appeared to be tone deaf to the issue, or had already taken a great deal of money just as the wheels were about to fall off of the wagon.
This wide-release, computer animated, family comedy comes from the same creative team that brought us Babe, and focuses on a tone deaf, tap dancing penguin who is determined to be himself no matter what anyone else thinks.
The statement was just tone deaf.
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Are the Democrats simply tone deaf?
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It turns out to be a dilapidated mansion run by an enthusiastic young man who is tone deaf to the culture shock his guests experience over everything from plumbing malfunctions and spicy food, to the chaotic city of Jaipur, where the film was shot.
They were in such a hurry to condemn Young for using the w-word that they missed the fact that they were repeating the word over and over again, which suggests either that they're tone deaf or that they weren't as offended as they pretended to be.
The company once called tone-deaf finally heard what its consumers had been saying all along and then responded.
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Then, there was Obama's equally tone-deaf decision to name Janet Napolitano to head the Homeland Security Department.
The new director general, Tony Hall, said the organisation "could not be tone-deaf" to what the public have said about large pay-offs.
And Romney has demonstrated a remarkable ability to utter similarly tone-deaf gaffes.
But the rock star may have been growing tone-deaf long before his embarrassing revelation, says Mr Page, who has followed Mr Jackson's political career for 30 years.
Every small child wants to be a pop star, but what do you do if you are grown-up, tone-deaf with as much rhythm as a bowl of apples?
One person who seems less than enthusiastic about the fact that there will soon be a new Democratic sheriff in town is the increasingly tone-deaf Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.
As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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