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.

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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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The poor would be puzzled to hear that the profit motive is in retreat.

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But the banks may be puzzled why he has rejected their view that the 1999 regulations should not then be applied to their contracts.

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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.

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