So maybe none of this is surprising even if it is perplexing.

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The shortfall in capital spending compared with plan is as perplexing as it is worrying for ministers.

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While its Nintendo TVii strategy may be smart and surprising, its philosophy toward gaming is as perplexing as it is problematic.

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Perplexing it may be, but none of this demonology is going to waste.

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If it seems perplexing that wealthy people would favor high taxes, note that favoring taxes is not the same as paying them.

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It continues to be perplexing to us that Mitt Romney would stand behind an ad that is for a candidate whose comments were so outrageous and offensive to women.

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In a somewhat perplexing (okay, maybe not so much) release from Verizon, it is essentially crawling to the FCC and begging that it assist the telco in bolstering its own market share.

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But as perplexing, unique, and even discomfiting as it may be, the Jew is a member of both the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, and this has been so since the beginning of Jewish history.

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It is a stubborn problem, but one that responds to measures, such as those just approved after a perplexing political battle in the United States.

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