Admittedly, McKinsey is by no means perfect its advice is said to have led to the bankruptcy of Swiss Air, and it gave Enron, and eventually the rest of us, Jeffrey Skilling.

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From my seat, in the snowy wilds of western Pennsylvania, where I happened to be when this festival began, the experience of logging in and watching was by no means perfect, but that wasn't the show's fault.

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But it is by no means perfect.

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But the National Cancer Institute's risk calculator is by no means a perfect tool.

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Spec Ops: The Line is by no means a perfect game, but it provides a welcome self-awareness that is too often absent in the medium.

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That said, it's by no means a perfect correlation.

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By no means are we perfect but we do better than most.

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It seems pretty clear that GDP would have been a useful helper in determining stock performance, though by no means would it have been a perfect (or even the best available) tool.

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