1.   A year ago, its central bank puzzled many people when it raised short-term interest rates for the first time in a decade.

2.   But the conditions that seemed to be attached to the invitation puzzled some people here.

3.   But the declaration may have puzzled more people than it reassured.

4.   People were genuinely puzzled by the subway drawings.

5.   Some of the work, however, is so jarringly avant-garde that it puzzles people in North Carolina who are used to more traditional pottery.

6.   That still puzzles people.

7.   The watches puzzled people at Calvin Klein, a company better known for its blue jeans.

8.   This puzzles people whose days are spent pondering the news of Washington, but surely there is no mystery about it.

9.   Until now many people have been puzzled by the descriptions from Kennedy and Berman of their new magazine.

10.   What seems to puzzle most people is that Phoenix has so much sports talk, a business that has a narrow base, anyway.