Even now, many Argentines cannot understand why the IMF did not do more to help, and there is genuine puzzlement as to the IMF's continuing refusal to reach a deal with the government.

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Which leads to my amusement, puzzlement perhaps, about those parts of the American left who do argue that gas consumption must be cut but fail to urge those policies which have been proven to work elsewhere.

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In the face of such a chart, puzzlement is unlikely to be one of them.

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Brown expressed some puzzlement that the plaintiffs had hinged their strategy on trying to convince an Ontario court to seize the assets of a Canadian corporation with few operations in the province, based on the fact that it is owned by a U.S. corporation with a foreign judgment against it.

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But this conclusion, even if reached by way of an impeccable philosophy, is in danger of leaving the average Joe, not to mention the average General Carter Ham, Odyssey Dawn's American commander, scratching his head in puzzlement.

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