Our wonderful, frustrating city may be out of touch with much of America but that is why many of us are here.

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He can't be that out of touch with the struggles of American families.

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On the other hand if they duck the issue and overlook the sentiment in the market and the rating agencies then the IMF will be slammed as being out of touch with reality.

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It is possible that the Pauls could be just the tiniest a bit out of touch with the difficulties faced by millions of Americans to whom a paper route would represent an idyllic childhood, even if they had to (shudder) put the papers inside the screen door?

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The SCIS suggests lecturers at training colleges can be "far removed from the 21st century and out of touch with the current generation of pupils".

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Sometimes I wonder just how out of touch folks in university circles can be with the real world.

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The proposal was "out of touch with service practice, service ethos and it was not a proposal to which consideration would be given, " Sir Richard said.

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While Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and others trying to guide the EU out of the gutter have been forced to sound overly optimistic, the Economic and Financial Committee appears to be more in touch with reality, taking into the account the possibility of a renewed crisis in the financial sector that could reverberate into the real economy.

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