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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. In his great work on _Divergent Lines of Racial Evolution_, the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture -- the shrug -- among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell. It is with reluctance .

Ambrose Bierce
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The market is nervous and finds it difficult to shrug off news like this.

Robert Kerr
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There are those who feel regret, shrug stoically and say, 'well, maybe I shouldn't have - it's my fault'.

Alan Rodger
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Although political strains remain a short-term threat, investors should shrug off this issue and revert to economic fundamentals and stock selections.

Rakpong Chaisuparakul
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I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just the result of people pushed out of work due to Katrina and Rita. I think the market will look at it and shrug it off and look at what's going to happen in October.

Lincoln Anderson
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If we get a downside surprise in retail sales, everybody will shrug it off. We all know that April was a bad month for the economy; the markets are really geared toward May.

Lara Rhame
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Consumer confidence is not always well correlated to what consumers actually do with their money, so even if the data are weak, the market may shrug this off.

Peter Dixon
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Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Ruth Stout
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Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

James Laver
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The market doesn't need more sour crude now, it needs more oil products. For anyone who has been paying close attention to oil markets in recent months, the whole thing is a big shrug of the shoulders.

Mike Wittner
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