At first I was a little taken aback by all that money, paid by tax dollars, and with the U.S. stuck in a budget crisis.

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Count Klein among those taken aback by all the attention.

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Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.

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Despite being a prolific tab-keeper on what we all want, market research firm VNU was taken slightly aback when its own shareholders refused to endorse a planned merger that would have doubled the company's size.

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Looking back at all he and his wife have achieved in three years, Moali is quietly taken aback.

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