Some schools of thought say revisiting the past is irrelevant and even counterproductive.
Activists are unlikely to be content with measured actions even though more interventionist policies have often proven unworkable or even counterproductive, damaging the broader public health agenda in the process.
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Even more counterproductive would be the creation of a new international body to oversee Internet governance.
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Sporadic interventions to limit house-price speculation may even be counterproductive because they discourage people from building more homes.
In fact, it may even be counterproductive for Netanyahu to abstain from responding in the hopes of buying time.
However, it may be impossible and even politically counterproductive for Congressional Republicans to pull back from the brink and anger the base voters whose energy and money have put them in office.
Temporary taxes to discourage sudden surges of capital may still have a role to play, even though they can sometimes prove counterproductive.
However, they should warn that forcing businesses to offer a new retirement benefit would be counterproductive, making it even harder for companies to create new jobs.
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Just as Medicaid creates counterproductive incentives for doctors and even for hospital administrators, the existence of the program and the possibility of its expansion create perverse incentives for many state governors.
And to try to circumvent that process is, as we said at the time, counterproductive, we believe, to even the goals stated by those who insisted on trying to do that.
Even if such behavior were not improper and counterproductive, it would still be opprobrious since -- as Mr. Gertz has established -- Mr. Clinton is motivated in no small measure by the belief a Yeltsin victory will help his own re-election bid.
Even if government programs are inefficient, wasteful and counterproductive, their intentions are noble.
Even allies like Turkey might feel compelled to take unilateral, albeit counterproductive steps, such as intervening in northern Iraq to protect their interests.
Even those who believe Mr Chirac's high-handed bullying was counterproductive tend to think Mr Trichet remains the best candidate on merit.
But even crony capitalists deserve to be defended against regulatory depredations when these are clearly counterproductive and being used by demagogues like Elizabeth Warren as convenient tools to expand their power base.
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And even if they had such firepower, the rescue funds' intervention might prove counterproductive if bondholders fear that big purchases by the funds are merely pushing other investors back in the queue of creditors.
But Mario Lap, a drug policy advisor and director of the Drugtext Foundation in the Netherlands, believes that even in border towns, banning marijuana sales to non-nationals would be "counterproductive".
Even better, there is room to model out where discounting fits and where it is counterproductive.
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Even accepting these premises I fail to see how implementing a complicated, controversial, financially burdensome and ultimately counterproductive testing regime is the correct answer to getting rid of the bad teachers while attracting good people to the profession.
This means that even the 15% capital gains and dividends tax rates on top of the corporate tax rate are unfair, economically counterproductive, multiple taxation.
The most damaging is that even quite large flows of aid have failed to reduce poverty and foster growth, and in many cases have been counterproductive.
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