Broadly, it would seem management has done its best over the years to break the business, and, thankfully, they failed.
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Competition would then do what it has done elsewhere: generate productivity, innovation and better prices.
But it has not done so, and has said it would want the ECB to commit to unlimited bond-buying, and needs to know what requirements and restrictions would come with a bailout, before deciding.
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Justice Minister David Ford said he would close that gap, and has done so.
Egged on by conservative newspapers, and believing that tough policies would restore confidence, the government has done what it can within the law.
It probably would have done even better if Disney has been able to persuade either Downey or Depp to take on the role.
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Even those who doubt the wisdom of fighting a war about it would not argue that Mr Hussein has yet done what was asked of him.
Mr Icahn has not indicated whether he would seek to make changes in management or company policy - something he has done at other companies he has invested in.
The Home Department has said with hindsight it would not have done anything differently.
This would not be the first time that Washington has done this.
It would be unfair to say that the government has done nothing.
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Billed as the first QR-code promotion that Pandora has done, this publicity campaign would engage dog owners through a savvy integration of in-store and online touchpoints.
So for those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do.
The Welsh government says to do so would force deeper cuts elsewhere and that it has done the best it can following big cuts to its own funding from the Treasury.
"What we've been doing is getting our capabilities located, positioned, arranged around the world so that at that point where the president decides that he has a set of things he would like done, that we will be in a position to carry those things out, " he said.
That would be a good start, as Mr Lavagna has done much to repair Argentina's finances thus far.
It would be wrong to say that the Berlusconi government has done nothing in the way of reform.
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Resolving these cases would not make anyone homeless, yet little has been done.
The White House has said it has done everything California has asked for except imposing price controls, which the administration says would only make matters worse.
By taking on a former Microsoft employee that was responsible for leading Windows, Apple would publicly promote and justify everything that its competitor has done for the past 20 years.
In most respects, currency union would merely take to its logical conlusion what Argentina has already done: it is a bigger step politically than economically.
All this is no doubt true, but even Mr McCain's supporters concede that, to build support there, he would have to rely heavily on Democrats (as he has done over campaign-finance reform).
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He has done so on the grounds the tribunal would finish hearing from witnesses in the third week of November and that a number of new and intervening developments had emerged that required further investigation.
Clinton's campaign says she would be more electable in a general election because she has done well in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as Florida and Michigan, which were stripped of their delegates.
One explanation could be that women who breastfeed may lead healthier lifestyles than women who don't, but we don't know the mechanisms that would explain this fully, and not enough work has been done in this area.
That said, if Rutgers releases a statement that confirms that AD Pernetti keeps his job because of what he has done financially for the school, this would become textbook material for what not to say in a press release.
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But what he has not done is set out what he really would do in office.
Renewable energy would continue to get cheaper at roughly the rate that it has done in the past.
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Even so, she reckons her country has long since done what Arthur Phillips hoped it would do to counteract the cringe.
This would infuriate the Iranian government, which no doubt hopes it has done just enough to avoid the Security Council's censure.
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