It does not help that a hefty 13% of its loans are to subprime borrowers.
Pang Zhongying of Renmin University says it does not help the country boost its standing abroad.
It does not help, either, that politicians on both sides are willing to fan the flames.
It does not help that the inshore and the offshore shrimp fleets are often at loggerheads.
It does not help that Europe approves applications to register proprietary internet domains more readily than America does.
It does not help that many countries impose restrictions on short-selling (the ability to bet on falling prices).
It does not help that Germany's small and medium-sized manufacturing firms are finding themselves chronically short of capital.
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You can cut the tension with a knife and rest assured it does not help your performance or confidence.
It does not help that Pasok's return to power has been so chaotic.
Moreover, it does not help that American football is not an Olympic event.
It does not help that insurers have lost their appetite for insuring private equity, after some well-publicised write-downs on banks' private-equity portfolios.
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And I think it does not help to grab on to one bit of information and one fact and make conclusions from them.
It does not help that the Islamic legal tradition was broken when modern codes superseded it in most Muslim countries a century ago.
It does not help in understanding the dynamics of the current account over time, especially in countries that run persistent current-account deficits or surpluses.
Further, it does not help ethanol producers compete against oil companies.
"This is a criminal conspiracy which covers 23 countries and it does not help the police to arrive at prosecutions if information is revealed, " he said.
It does not help that senior Russian generals are threatening to rain nuclear annihilation on Ukraine and Poland if they refuse to toe the Kremlin's line.
It does not help that the ageing Mr Singh has little clout of his own: he reports to the ailing Sonia Gandhi, the dynastic chief of Congress.
It does not help Greece, Portugal and the rest compete with Germany, but it at least gives their firms a chance against imports from outside the euro bloc.
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It does not help that financial products are now so complex that it is very hard to make even an educated guess about the real value of a bank.
However, it does not help that the UK economy is already in a fragile state, underlined by last week's weak retail sales data for December and the collapse into administration of HMV.
"It's important for people to understand that it does not help our research or our mission of the CSTE to take their own lives because they fear they have this disease, " said Stern.
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Critics of the sectoral approach point out that however efficient industries might be, it does not help the climate if inventors keep dreaming up new ways to use energy - like Japan's electrically heated, stereophonic, bottom-washing toilets.
It probably does not help, either, that cheap guns are smuggled in from Somalia, Kenya's chaotic neighbour.
It does not even technically help solve the underlying problem, as this software illustrates.
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So, if any of you reading this are struggling with post-combat emotions, please consider these three simple things -- things that took me a long time to understand: You are not alone, it's OK if you are not OK and it really does help talk to someone about it.
HUD's bad image over the years does not help it to shrug off criticism.
She already has a UK account, but does not think it will help.
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