Leaving it and going back into it did not help until the next day.
It did not help that Chief Financial Officer Al Fernandez left "for personal reasons" either.
It did not help that the ad was timed to appear on August 15th, India's Independence Day.
It did not help that this month a leading British defence lawyer was refused entry to Bangladesh.
It did not help that Mercedes never fully integrated with Chrysler, for fear of tainting the cherished German brand.
It did not help when Amir Aziz, a surgeon from Lahore who disappeared last month, reappeared on November 20th.
It did not help, either, that his campaign finances have fallen into disarray.
It did not help that almost as soon as he was elected in Spain, Mariano Rajoy was on the phone to Berlin.
It did not help that Giuliani admitted no dissent from his vision, and that ruthless reprisal often seemed his first resort when anyone disagreed.
It did not help that Golkar provided vote counts of its own, based on reports to party officials from polling stations around the country.
It did not help that Mr Purcell seemed ever more autocratic.
It did not help that the trainer, who was, I think, aptly described as a weasel, had actually saved needles and used bandages, whatever else paraphernalia he used over the years.
It did not help that he had run (unsuccessfully) as a Republican for Congress in the 1980s, had moved to Florida only two years ago and keeps getting into scrapes involving his 145-foot yacht and assorted tabloid celebrities.
Early on, it did not help that her first policy pronouncements were to signal a retreat from Kevin Rudd's mining super profits tax, which made her look weak, and to ditch her predecessor's "Big Australia" policy, which went down well with the tabloids but seemed indicative of a lack of national ambition.
While this benefited their customers, it did not always help their own profits.
It certainly did not help public opinion, and at a minimum, the effect of Fukushima will likely be to increase permitting and associated regulatory costs.
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The new 7000 patient showed the drug did not kill people, nor did it help very much in preventing symptoms either, when compared to patients that were treated aggressively with standard therapy.
As Mr Moynahan nicely puts it, Rasputin did not so much govern Russia as help to make it ungovernable.
She is confident that if she gets the job her future colleagues will not hold it against her that she had help they did not.
It says that some banks did not really need government help and were bullied into accepting it last year as part of a wider bail-out of their flakier peers.
Nokia's reluctance to customise phones for specific operators, a policy it has since reversed, did not help.
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But in 2004, Edwards' presence on the Democratic ticket did not help it carry a single Southern state, including his own.
So if we only did it with cuts, if we did not get any revenue to help close this gap between how much money is coming in and how much money is going out, then a lot of ordinary people would be hurt and the country as a whole would be hurt.
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Still, it can be argued that buybacks did not help bank stocks much in 2011.
Not only did it help me understand what was going on with both of us, but it helped Eleanor feel better, too.
In the boom, all that mattered to them was yield, and they did not need help finding it.
The Department of Agriculture published a postcode list of places eligible for help, but it did not cover all areas.
Although the device helped the heart keep its shape and seemed to help symptoms, it did not reduce the amount of time patients spent in the hospital.
It did not reach its main efficacy goal in a second-trial trial, but did help a subset of patients without a certain gene mutation.
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