And yet, it should be apparent that such Western assistance may, if not handled in a far more disciplined and transparent manner, simply forestall real reform.
Down the road, such a conversation will be far more valuable if you choose not to force your boss into a buyback offer.
The American people would be far more receptive to writing down, if not writing off, former Soviet debt on U.S. government books than they would be toward providing new money out of a limited foreign aid budget at the direct expense of other worthy claimants.
Yet it could be argued that the far less showy Battle of the Atlantic was equally, if not more, important for the eventual outcome of the war.
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But if the generals have not always done well by the politicians, the politicians have far more often let down the generals.
Many if not most advocates for government action to mitigate global warming argue that doing nothing will be far more costly than taking sensible, pragmatic steps now.
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If that happens, I would not be surprised to see a bid from a group that incorporates far more people than a family of financial tall cotton.
If the home services are cut, many will not get the care they need, resulting in far more expensive illnesses that will cost taxpayers more money than what the proposed cuts would save.
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This may not be very risky when defaults are few and far between, but if the economy falters and more companies start to default on their debt, there could be greater danger in a homemade portfolio of individual bonds.
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But even if some new measure is announced, the meeting will be marked far more by what's not said than by what is.
The incentive structure in the sport means that wrestlers on the margin of achieving a winning record have far more to gain from winning than opponents, not on the margin, stand to lose if defeated.
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