And Mr de la Rua's government could spend more on helping the unemployed of La Matanza if Argentina's party bosses did not stuff public payrolls with their hangers-on.
And if LA builds a football stadium by 2015, there may not be a home town football team for the city of St Louis.
Cable operators could switch to a la carte programming but if consumers responded by dumping every cable channel but ESPN, Comedy Central and NFL football, the cost of Internet access would likely go up.
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If a la carte pricing were the way to go, then we would still be in the infancy of the cable industry when programming was pay-per-view and there were far fewer choices for consumers.
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Seven of the 11 players who beat Manchester United in last season's Champions League final came through La Masia, and if an injury hadn't cost Carles Puyol his starting spot, that number would have been eight.
If Mr de la Rua's resolute greyness eases him to the presidency, would it also help him govern?
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It could be said that if Oscar de la Renta is the Park Avenue Princess's couturier of choice, then Kors is their regular tailor.
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France's La Tribune said that, if the talks are successful, GM and Peugeot could announce an alliance at the Geneva car show in the first week of March.
There were rumors that Ma flew up to meet Ballmer in Seattle after his June appearance at the D conference in LA. It makes sense if he did.
What would France, or any European democracy, be if we would skip "la liberte", or leave out "la fraternite"?
But if you want the full La Tomatina experience, stay for the week-long celebration, which involve music, dancing, parades and fireworks.
Instead of a la carte, expect smaller tier packages if Cablevision prevails.
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These bonds may default (the state's finances are looking very shaky), but if they do, the LA property market is in for trouble too.
"If you are not in LA, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, or Berlin, forget it, " Efe Cakarel told CNN over the phone from Palo Alto, California.
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And because this is LA, you can valet park your bike if you want.
But, even if the motives of individual participants in la Francophonie are self-interested, the fear of homogenisation is genuine.
Both teams said that temperatures would have been higher if it had not been for the La Nina weather pattern that brought cooling to some regions.
If Hines can apply lessons and technologies from La Jolla to its existing buildings, others may be inspired to follow suit.
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If the Portuguese coach succeeds in delivering "La Decima" to the Bernabeu, he will become the first coach to win the trophy with three different teams following previous successes with Porto and Inter Milan.
If you're going to count them as La Masia products, you can't really count Pedro, Puyol and Busquets, as well.
Though Barcelona and Real Madrid currently earn a disproportionate share of La Liga revenues, this may change in the near future if competitive imbalance complaints persist.
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Considering Fox will bleed billions of lost revenue if Prime Ticket is contracted off of tv in LA, how much over a 20-25-year period is Fox going to bid to keep the Dodgers?
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If you'd like to see Ralph de la Vega give you his personal take on the company's rosy financials, then head on past the break -- but be warned, at no point does he swim through a pool of money screaming "I'm king of the world!"
He asked if I was interested in some of his photos from La Salada.
"If you're in London, you can buy La Brea bread that was made in New Jersey, " Igoe says.
If that is not much consolation in places such as La Matanza, it is up to the region's democratic politicians to put it right.
In fact, Mr de la Rua is likely to get his austerity measures through, even if he has to compromise on some of the details.
One issue that Mr de la Mora was unable to address was the question of why, if Google is so committed to ensuring openness and diversity, it did not support the attempt by other digitisation projects to benefit from the settlement.
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