Analysts turned a cold shoulder as well, resistant, McMahon says, to acknowledge anything that contradicted their earlier work.

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Wall Street turns a cold shoulder on dividends because there's nothing in it for them.

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However, statistics show these women are giving a cold shoulder to GM products.

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Some of her Democratic opponents have tried to use that against her, suggesting Quinn is too close to a mayor they say has sometimes turned a cold shoulder to the concerns of middle-class and working-class New Yorkers.

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Sounds like a cold shoulder to us.

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For that call, I received a polite cold shoulder from the other panelists who were making those year-end predictions.

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Worse yet, when I tried to run Switchdesk, it shrugged off my request again like a New York cabbie giving the cold shoulder to a wannabe fare standing in a cold rain without an umbrella.

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