He added that opponents of the agreement were wedded to "preconceived ideas and prejudices" and were failing to take account of current realities.

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Los Angeles politicians, however, were still wedded to the aging Coliseum downtown and told him to back off they had it handled.

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Most would-be clients were still wedded to catalog and in-store orders.

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In contrast, the early scientific and technological achievements of Asia were not wedded to great enterprises or great purposes but remained largely clever instruments to be admired.

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The report said analysts were "too wedded" to assumptions about Saddam Hussein's intentions.

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For those who are wedded to the simplistic schoolbook notions that the Hitlerites were the mass murderers and the Soviets the liberators, or that the killing started in 1939 and ended in 1945, Mr Snyder's theses will be thought-provoking or shocking.

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Were the political class more economically insightful, and perhaps not so wedded to banks, it would properly let existing home prices correct in concert with a collapse in housing starts so that always limited capital could more realistically migrate to more useful economic ideas.

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Morningstar analyst Christopher Davis explains the poor performance by noting that Oak is wedded to the silicon, health care and biotech names that were stars in the previous decade.

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