But then I remembered the solution that had worked for me before, when all else failed.

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"When all else failed, it was people moving here that kept us going, " says Klapper, who was a major investor in the Pearl District renaissance.

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But if all else failed, he could have raised interest rates.

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And when all else failed, they whipped out their celebrities.

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As a non-member, the U.S. retained the full panoply of tools to parry the first Russian ploy: bilateral diplomacy, relations with the four other littoral states who share our interest in blocking such Kremlin overreach, economic and financial pressure and, if all else failed, naval power.

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He has joined a gym now which tries to help young offenders when all else has failed and it seems to be working so far.

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Even some children with HIV are being put on kitchen sink therapy, which Dr. James Oleske of the New Jersey Medical School describes as "a last ditch sort of effort" when all else has failed.

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After all, he or she failed our treatments so he or she deserves whatever else happens?

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