The notable absence of Sell ratings will, no doubt, raise the hackles of more than a few contrarian investors.

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Still, the thefts raise the hackles of rangers and landowners alike: The sweet-toothed swindlers aren't just trespassing, they're damaging valuable trees.

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George Cressman of the Strategic Pricing Group, a consultancy, has seen a number of American companies raise the hackles of multinational clients who learn about these sweetheart deals.

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This position is bound to raise the hackles of many major cultural institutions, from the real estate industry, and from religious groups who depend on the charitable gifts of their members, not just the 2% wealthiest Americans.

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But while those new safeguards are enough to raise hackles in the advertising industry, irate privacy groups say they fall short of their demands, and even represent a deterioration of current privacy protections.

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That kind of meddling would raise hackles with most dealers--after all, it's the dealer's capital that is on the line.

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But that may raise hackles from quarters opposed to special deals for private entities, as the MTRC will soon become.

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In the light of such misgivings Ms Chua's rant was bound to raise hackles in America and other centres of permissive parenthood.

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Mr. MCWHORTER: Well, you know the way I feel about it, although I know for many people this would raise hackles, is that those people aren't leaving.

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Economists would generally argue that price is the right way (although with caveats, pure price allocation of drinking water in a drought might raise hackles) to do that rationing.

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