But most people rightly recoil when asked to comment on this approach for science and medicine.

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But before you recoil at the thought of spending that much on rent, run the numbers.

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They resent seeing Mr Blair strutting the world stage and many of them instinctively recoil when Mr Bush and Mr Blair bang on preachily about spreading liberty and democracy.

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The only real check on attack ads is that if they sound too shrill, voters may recoil.

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Producers frown on screenplays of more than 120 pages, which forces a ruthlessness that many novelists would recoil from.

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