• So for them to now claim that they understand the public housing crisis to me is just not right if - a cover for that.

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  • In sum, nation-building lenders may in fact have the same traits that could win them loyal customers in today's boom times if - a big one - they can target the new class of clients.

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  • But part of the problem with the definition - I mean, as an example - is that if you look at Mars - if Mars - if we discovered a Mars-sized object out beyond the orbit of Pluto, it couldn't be a planet, because over the age of the solar system it wouldn't have time to clear its orbit.

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  • What happened was if a company - if a mortgage company gave you a mortgage, right, you've borrowed that money from that company.

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  • If you're a hunter, if you're a sportsman -- if you have a gun in your house for protection -- you've got to understand what it feels like for that mom whose son was randomly shot.

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  • The Democrats have - if anything - a weaker case for reelecting this president on national security grounds.

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  • "We may get to that point - if necessary - a so-called 'limited number' of visitors, " Mr Paolucci said.

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  • Even if senators can finalize a deal soon on the structure of a consumer protection authority--and that's a big if--it could be weeks before a financial regulatory bill comes to the Senate floor for a vote.

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  • And if he didn't hit a home run, he at least had a stand-up triple -- or a 25-point game if you're a basketball fan, or a three-touchdown performance if you're into football.

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  • It's debatable whether this dollar-book Freud tells us more about the president or about Oliver Stone, but it's an insight -- if a mundane one -- into a subject who may not be complex enough to justify a multifaceted portrait.

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  • But you're right, that if someone has HIV and they get a skin infection - if they see a pimple or a boil - and it doesn't go away, it gets redder, it gets - it grows very quickly, they should take some action and go see a doctor right away.

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  • If the Serbian factions undertake to subjugate Croatia militarily, victory -- if only a pyrrhic one -- will likely go to Belgrade.

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  • You know, if there was a fall -- if there was a Hall of Fame for budget directors, then Jack Lew surely would have earned a place for his service in that role under President Clinton, when he helped balance the federal budget after years of deficits.

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  • If - with a bit of help from Labour and its leader - he can persuade large numbers of people he really is in with a chance of winning then it is just possible he really could start a bandwagon.

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  • Ministers will only get involved in certain circumstances, for example if another council objects, if a shake-up affects a sixth form or where religious schools are involved.

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  • "If a deal is not sustainable--meaning, if a consumer cannot afford the transaction--they should not be proceeding with it, " he noted.

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  • But if you could find a -- if they could find a workable state public option, would that be a key way of perhaps getting the vote of some of the swing votes?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "If they have any -- and still, that's a big if -- I would doubt that they would use it because a lot of countries and people in the world are negative to the idea of waging war, " Blix said.

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  • Crowdfunding portals should be required to register with the SEC as broker-dealers, just as if a third-party was facilitating a fundraise in the offline world.

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  • Simple concept: If you make more than a million dollars a year -- not that you have a million dollars -- if you make more than a million dollars annually, then you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle-class families do.

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  • People wishing to use it will need to have sufficient upper-body strength to operate the locking catch and - if using a folding wheelchair - be able to unfold it and transfer in and out of their vehicle.

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  • This had led critics to say authorities now get "two bites at the cherry" as they are able to try again in the civil courts - where there is a lower standard of proof - if a criminal case fails.

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  • In other words, if this - as some of the more dovish senators have said - if this were a two- to three-month surge to protect troops by way of beginning a withdrawal, that will be one thing.

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  • And going forward, if -- big if -- you can get a deal on this, can you get anything done with Congress for the next year and a half?

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  • The message is that if - and it is still a big if - the Greek government is able to pass that austerity package in the next few days, the eurozone will fulfil its side of the deal by coming up with a structure for a second Greek bailout, which Germany and everyone else can support.

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  • But it seems obvious that it is better for the economy if a 60-year-old does a productive job than if he is sitting idle, supported by the taxpayer.

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  • Well, if--as with a real highway--it destroys something irreplaceable, a vital ecosystem essential to human life.

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  • If penny-a-share commissions made us better off, volatility would be low, capital would not be going into stupid startups or bad mortgages and we would all have day-traded our way to early retirement.

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  • If you produce a short-term memory -- if you look up a telephone number you just remember for a short period of time (or) you meet somebody and remember their name briefly -- you have a transient change in the strength of communication.

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