The level of supervision needed to root out all the mediocre will also stultify the brilliant.

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The move towards it, in fact, if implemented too quickly, could stultify economic growth.

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But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs.

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But the real political sin has been the effort by a majority of Democrats in both Houses of Congress to attempt to restrict funding for the War or otherwise impede its prosecution and stultify the President's constitutionally-mandated responsibility as Commander-in-Chief and master of American foreign policy.

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