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.
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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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.
Who cares if Apple still has the slickest, easiest-to-use operating system if no one else is using it?
"The resulting wine is certainly not for everyone, " says Colman--but, if nothing else, it's an outward display of winemaking independence.
Washington sees Social Security reform as a zero-sum gain-if someone gains, someone else loses.
If nothing else, the on-off marriage with Dynegy bought time for firms to reduce their exposure to Enron.
In their sharp-sightedness, if not much else, here were two men who could clasp each other appreciatively by the hand.
Ms. Suarez Paz offered that, if nothing else, the real-life disaster helped her get deeper in touch with her fictional mother's loss.
Arch-rival SAP broke that rule, and it looks like Ellison is going to make the company pay--in public humiliation if nothing else.
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 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.
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.
It's not clear if either of them or someone else would challenge Gephardt if he decides to seek re-election.
If nothing else, having a present-day character could help players new to the series understand the history of the game.
The Airbnb-curated lists are, if nothing else, a ton of fun.
Who else is to blame if student-athletes themselves choose not to make the most of these resources?
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.
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?
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.
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.
She wouldn't, she told me to - if I didn't like it look somewhere else.
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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Bono argued that if we used transparency -- which tackles corruption like nothing else -- and technology, we can get closer to the "Zero Zone, " where extreme poverty is virtually eliminated by 2028.
Nobody else on the pitch heard it - or if they did, they did not offer any evidence to that effect.
And if nothing else, it might notify people with open Wi-Fi that other people are jumping on their network for questionable downloading purposes.
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