"I can't say it didn't help that I've been in the industry for however many years - I was a known quantity in that sense, " he says.
It was a tricky maneuver, and it didn't help that during its approach Messenger had to lose radio contact with mission control while it flew behind the planet.
It didn't help that in the middle of the discussion the electricity went out.
It didn't help that, whatever the weather in Bagram, it was a windless night in Kabul.
The recession only intensified the competition, and it didn't help that Quiznos outlets, with their premium-priced fare, tended to be in higher-rent areas.
The Grizzlies never led, and it didn't help that Randolph picked up two fouls and Mike Conley Jr. had three in the first half.
It didn't help that my regimen was a time-consuming royal pain.
It didn't help that the trial had initially been delayed by a bomb threat, as well as the impaneling of a new judge and jury for reasons that remain hazy.
And of course it didn't help that oil set a new high with its largest single-day gain, putting further pressure on consumers who are already sweating record gas prices.
It didn't help that Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest independent mortgage lenders left standing, came out Tuesday with a dismal second-quarter earnings report (down 33%) and said the business wouldn't show signs of improvement for months.
It didn't help that Countrywide Financial (nyse: CFC - news - people ), one of the biggest independent mortgage lenders left standing, came out Tuesday with a dismal second-quarter earnings report (down 33%) and said the business wouldn't show signs of improvement for months.
It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.
Boies left Cravath in 1997 after a dispute over representing Yankees baseball owner George Steinbrenner in his suit against Major League Baseball. (Time Warner, which owned the Atlanta Braves, was one of Cravath's biggest clients.) It didn't help that Boies had a history of blabbing to the press and taking on high-stakes contingency-fee cases, anathema to some partners at Cravath.
It didn't help matters that on Friday, the U.S. market fell even though Hong Kong's battered Hang Seng index had rebounded sharply.
It probably didn't help that Palm seemed to have a sales conflict.
Yet, during a recent gathering of girlfriends, she seemed to be the target of as many cougar jokes as Mariah Carey was in 2008 when she married Nick Cannon. (At 32, Cannon is a decade younger than the singer.) It probably didn't help that, at the start of their relationship, my friend's suitor couldn't legally accompany her to the bar.
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It didn't help the GOP that Young was clueless about what he done wrong.
It didn't help, of course, that Suharto enjoyed no democratic mandate, and his cronyism and policy flip-flops worsened his economic problems.
If Chrome OS didn't start out with an inferiority complex living in the shadow of the massive adoption of its cousin Android, and with Eric Schmidt dismissing the hardware that would run it as cheap and interchangeable, the hardware companies that were early to adopt it didn't help matters.
And certainly last year I wasn't doing that and it didn't help me.
Again, that'll be fixed soon, but it definitely didn't help the party get started here.
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It didn't take long for Preston to figure out how he could help in a way that would change his fortune as well.
If that was the intention, it didn't work: Clinton renewed his offer to help, but left it to Delhi and Islamabad to resolve the issue.
The first sentence seems to mean that the drugs didn't help prevent Alzheimer's, although it is impossible to know what "certain negative findings" is supposed to mean.
She is "very happy that Charlie decided to get some help, it was clear to me if he didn't he would have died, " Jordan's statement said.
Many of those who lost their seats will feel that the distancing policy didn't do a great deal to help them when it came to crosses on ballot papers.
That message helped free Buck, whose college hired a lawyer for him, but it didn't help free Mohammed Maree.
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