And we would above all have banged and banged the drum about youth unemployment, so that -- if nothing else -- the hard-hit cohort of 20-somethings would know that somebody in Washington gave a damn about them.
By separating a portfolio of derivatives into different tranches, banks can create virtually default-proof securities for conservative investors--if somebody else is willing to buy riskier "equity" tranches whose value vaporizes when as few as one or two of the underlying bonds default.
Washington sees Social Security reform as a zero-sum gain-if someone gains, someone else loses.
"If you listen to Verdi, if you listen to Berlioz, if you listen to Mozart, if you listen to anybody else -- Bach for that matter -- who has dealt with religious music, there's always a reflection of the style of their time, " Zimmer said.
Who cares if Apple still has the slickest, easiest-to-use operating system if no one else is using it?
It's not clear if either of them or someone else would challenge Gephardt if he decides to seek re-election.
"The resulting wine is certainly not for everyone, " says Colman--but, if nothing else, it's an outward display of winemaking independence.
And in addition, of course, there are the unions which have a role to play and the government which has a role to play, and if no-one else is playing their role except Gap or Primark, then there is very little that those companies can do.
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Who else is to blame if student-athletes themselves choose not to make the most of these resources?
In their sharp-sightedness, if not much else, here were two men who could clasp each other appreciatively by the hand.
Arch-rival SAP broke that rule, and it looks like Ellison is going to make the company pay--in public humiliation if nothing else.
At least Ms Swinson has the comfort of knowing that - if she wins again at the next election - it should be someone else's job to wear the T-shirt of anti-tokenism.
China Unicom - which has just launched a new nationwide mobile service using the CDMA technology popular with US and South Korean networks, if almost nowhere else - already has fixed-line operations.
The Airbnb-curated lists are, if nothing else, a ton of fun.
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
After over-exposing themselves to structured-investment vehicles and auction-rate securities, treasurers want to be able to blame someone else if things go wrong again.
If nothing else, the on-off marriage with Dynegy bought time for firms to reduce their exposure to Enron.
Ms. Suarez Paz offered that, if nothing else, the real-life disaster helped her get deeper in touch with her fictional mother's loss.
If nothing else, Debbie Bosanek -- who, despite having a real name, is still known to the world as "Warren Buffett's secretary" -- seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing.
If nothing else, having a present-day character could help players new to the series understand the history of the game.
Nobody else on the pitch heard it - or if they did, they did not offer any evidence to that effect.
Is this in any way hooked to the passage of X, Y, Z, or does -- will this agreement stand alone even if everything else blows up?
She wouldn't, she told me to - if I didn't like it look somewhere else.
If Labour learned nothing else in the run-up to 1997, it is that credibility depends on disciplined unanimity.
If nothing else, the media attention and word-of-mouth has been tremendous.
If nothing else, the presence of an 8-inch tablet that can make voice calls makes a 5.5-inch phone that can do the same seem a lot more reasonable.
If nothing else, the deferred paychecks are attention-getting.
Mr. ZAYER: A man like me, might be any man, any human, will never ever feel relaxed or happy if he realizes that there's somebody else - younger - had been killed because of him.
It was expensive and time-consuming to reprogram them to do anything else, if it was possible at all.
At least, if nothing else, we can be sure that mid-range phone designers think the cool kids want colored chins.
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