If acts that were both costly and purely selfless were common, outside the family or other close relationships, economics would be in trouble.
But if accountancy acts purely in its own self-interest then it is not a profession at all but is more like the Guilds of old, and like them if it acts as they did in monopolistic fashion to exploit others for their own gain then that is an invitation for their abolition as regulators.
Indeed, if Congress acts responsibly in this one area, markets and the economy will soar.
If Congress acts, then people in Nevada and all across the country can get significant relief.
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If Congress acts, consumers can benefit from increased competition and innovation in the market for digital music.
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Hamlet famously tells his mother that if she acts virtuously long enough, she will one day become a virtuous person.
If SARS acts similarly, it's possible many people could have caught SARS at one time or another and not exhibited symptoms.
If he acts to win the confidence of the moneymen, he may lose the confidence of the people who elected him.
If bootlegging acts as a safety valve to keep software prices sensible, might that not be such a bad thing after all?
If inflation in America continues to rise, the Fed will have to raise rates abruptly, and by more than if it acts now.
He suggests that if you haven't yet taken your 2008 RMD, you wait until the middle of next week, to see if Treasury acts.
If he acts fast, that may be enough time to secure his place in history - at least in terms of the Middle East.
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If Congress acts, Clinton predicted, it could cut teen smoking by almost half over the next five years and prevent almost one million premature deaths.
Now there's lessons actually I think for Gordon in that as well because if he acts like that in other areas in the future, I think he'll get the same response.
It could if more tax evasion revelations affecting members of the government were to come out but it probably won't if it acts swiftly and Cahuzac remains the only black sheep on the horizon.
For instance, 53.7 percent of Floridians said that if Israel acts preemptively to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the U.S. should support the Jewish State, while only 43.7 percent of Ohioans feel the same way.
But as bad as the potential damage to Carnival's image may be, the company, as well as the rest of the cruise line industry, has an opportunity to blunt the impact, if it acts quickly and wisely.
They also enshrined a principle of reciprocity: the prospect of harsh punishment if captured acts as a deterrent against savage conduct on the battlefield, just as the possibility of favorable prisoner of war status is an incentive to behave honorably.
But General Pinochet's lawyers argued that, if his immunity bid failed, he could be extradited only if the acts of which he was accused were a crime in both countries at the time they were committed, not at the time of the extradition request.
If Congress acts to aid the ailing Big Three car manufacturers -- and I strongly suggest it should -- then it is equally important that the domestic carmakers be allowed the latitude to conduct their business based on the dictates of the American consumer, not the politicians.
Taken together, such attacks are, if not actual acts of cyberwarfare, certainly precursors to it.
If Tony Blair acts now to stop reprocessing, dozens of countries would welcome this decision.
The government said it would not hold talks with the ELN unless if showed "acts of peace" rather than words.
Under UK legislation, it is an offence if a person acts from within the UK upon a computer anywhere else in the world.
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"If New York acts, it would be the first state in the nation, and turbocharge efforts nationally, " said Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society and Cancer Action Network of New York and New Jersey.
Whatever the world says, Pope Benedict remains convinced that as leader of his 1.1bn-strong community, he personally is on the right track towards ensuring that in future his priests will never remain unpunished if they commit acts which are not only sinful, but also criminal.
As is often the case in foreign-corruption probes by the FBI, investigators are trying to establish whether any overseas units of News Corp. engaged in corrupt acts or bribery, and, if so, whether those acts were part of a pattern of corruption that reached across countries and business units, people familiar with the investigation said.
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The team that acts as if it's a gift that it just makes the playoffs?
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If the international community acts now, I think we can make a difference.
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