The poor would be puzzled to hear that the profit motive is in retreat.
If the historian of 2111 will be puzzled by such a chart, what is the citizen of today to make of it?
But the banks may be puzzled why he has rejected their view that the 1999 regulations should not then be applied to their contracts.
You can be puzzled by that or puzzled by why we are ineffectual at rebuilding a moral framework in the age of pervasive communications.
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So some people claim to be puzzled by the quiet talks the easy-going president has started with the heads of the country's main political parties.
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) appeared to be puzzled by Kennedy's comment.
Conservative frontbencher James Gray instead argued voters would be puzzled why so much time was being wasted on hunting when soldiers were dying in Iraq and the NHS was in "crisis".
That is one reason why you might be puzzled that the euro has usually gone down at the worst moments of the crisis - and risen in value when policy makers seem to be pulling together.
In New York, Bloomberg's heart may be in the right place, but merchants who want to sell cigarettes should be justifiably puzzled: If any product is not legal, then they should be barred from stocking it, but as long as it is, how can anyone presume to tell them where to display it -- or, more to the point, that they can't display it?
Our correspondent says there are plenty of people who were not sorry to see the men go to jail, many of whom will be slightly puzzled at the president's announcement.
Moreover, I am puzzled by what appears to be the core of his message.
Mr Blair was clearly puzzled by what appeared to be an irrelevant question.
But scientists have long puzzled over why this should be.
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"This doesn't provide any explanation of a mechanism for the connection between the ENSO cycles and conflicts, and I'm quite puzzled about what it could be, " he told me.
Anyone puzzled by how corporate America could be posting record profits in a time of weak economic growth need only look to the federal deficit.
They are a puzzled and discontented people, waiting to be led.
On valuation, people always seem to be overly enamored with market value, which has puzzled me because as a private company, there is no liquid market on which to buy and sell shares, so a valuation is established without any degree of market efficiency.
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Meanwhile, Transport Minister Keith Brown has said he was "puzzled" by claims that Edinburgh taxpayers could be hit with a multi-million pound compensation bill for roadworks leading to the new Forth road bridge.
Investors who were supposed to be cheered by talk of getting private capital back to India were instead puzzled by a plan for retrospectively levying tax on big firms.
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