Only Chile has a modern transport network comparable to China's, and even there railways are neglected.
The only bright spot has been banking, and even there only up to a point.
Statistics are few very few outside greater Buenos Aires, and even there studies began only in 1995.
And yet privacy lawsuits hardly ever succeed, except in France, and even there they are rare.
Currently only America is spending any money on detection, and even there, politicians have other priorities.
None has been attacked by Iraq except Kuwait, and even there Saddam Hussein's missiles have done little damage.
Only six countries out of 43 then recognised as nation states had something that began to deserve the name, and even there the suffrage was invariably limited, with some men and all women excluded.
For no matter what efforts South Korea makes on the global stage, it is still a shrimp among whales in its own region, and even there the power of its American godfather may decline in relative terms.
And even though there are heroic teachers and principals in many of these schools, the fact is that they need some extra help.
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In American politics, on the other hand, there is never a clear mandate for change and even if there was the minority can always obstruct.
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Of course, there are no ideas on how to create those jobs and even if there were ideas that would work, the Fed would not be the one creating them.
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There is no ban on gun ownership in Chicago or Illinois and even if there were, it is hardly difficult to go too far to get guns in places where they are freely available.
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And even if there is trouble, the airport is on another island, so no trouble.
And even if there is, will audiences be willing and able to find it on the crowded TV dial?
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And even if there were, it might be hard to take at face value because of a phenomenon known as "schedule padding".
And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance.
And even though there have been some great Giants teams since then, none of them had brought a championship back to the Bay Area.
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She waved her hand at them, a gesture practiced over centuries, and even though there was no magic in it, Blork was instantly quiet.
And even as there are grave challenges and great uncertainty, I am confident that the Egyptian people can shape the future that they deserve.
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Grip just doesn't run out without a serious effort on your part to drive exceedingly fast and aggressively, and even then there's zero roll.
And even if there were substantially more internationalization than ever, no scientific explanation has been offered as to why this would make finance more unstable.
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And even if there is a terrorist attack again in the foreseeable future, it will be miniscule compared to what we faced during the Cold War.
Legal battles over Aereo and others who come up with variants on their idea will continue for a while, and even then there will be an adoption process by consumers that will take years.
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And even if there is some adjustment to the yuan's pegged rate against the dollar, it is likely to be modest especially in comparison with the 50% rise in the euro over the past two years.
Sport and action cameras are big business, and even though there are a couple of main players, it doesn't stop other's trying to get a bite of the apple.
"Even if this occurs gradually, and even if there are some offsets from reduced credit demand and increased lending by other sectors, the drag on economic activity could be substantial, " the Goldman economist wrote Friday.
And even though there is no scientific evidence that taking medication at that early stage will stave off migraine headaches, some experts say it makes sense for patients to avoid their known triggers if a migraine seems imminent.
It is telling that the tens of thousands of civilians still huddling in cellars in Grozny seem to prefer cold, hunger and even death there to trusting the Russians' latest promise of safe conduct to a refugee camp.
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