If Republicans become obsessed with their agenda and refuse a reasonable deal, and the Democrats do not cave, the executive branch will be faced with an inability to continue its operations.

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Years of imbalance between creative ideals and financial realities, personal problems amongst the label operators, an unwillingness to compromise our aesthetic standards, a tendency towards releasing challenging (i.e. unmarketable) artists, and the steady decline of the music industry in general, are amongst the chief reasons for our inability to continue.

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Its continue dormancy, the inability to put it out of its misery, is even worse.

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It seems investors continue to show an inability to separate their love for a business or product with what translates into a good investment a perfect example being a cultish name such as Sirius XM (SIRI), whose CEO, Mel Karmazin has also been dumping shares except for different reasons.

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Individual investors continue to fret about the slowing pace of the economic recovery, the inability of the stock market to establish a short-term bottom, the federal deficit, and the generally uncertain environment.

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