Voters are remembering that Gordon Brown, never mind the two Eds, warned that cutting too far and too fast might kill recovery.

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And Alan Greenspan's decision this week to raise interest rates by just a quarter of a point, never mind that it was the first increase for two and a half years, will do little to disturb their equanimity: the change had been widely expected and when it came the markets applauded politely (see article).

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Never mind that the Mets had already rallied from a two-run deficit to tie Game 6, thanks in part to a wild pitch by Boston reliever Bob Stanley, who has somehow managed to avoid induction into the goat Hall of Fame in fans' minds.

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So for example on climate change because you know there are negotiations going on in Bonn at the same time, I had a conversation with two of the leaders here, never mind who they were, which then allowed us to unblock some of the obstacles in the Bonn negotiation and I think we'll probably get further than we otherwise would.

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And never mind, too, that the six-year effort resulted in just two criminal convictions of midlevel managers, both of which were overturned on appeal.

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Except, according to James Allen, a BBC commentator who has covered Formula One for more than two decades, the thought would never even cross Vettel's mind.

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