That looks pale alongside the 12.7% you could have earned on the Vanguard Index 500 fund.
You could have a reverse Gresham's Law at work, in which good money drives out bad.
Time wasted on non-priorities was time you could have spent focused on your real priorities.
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You could have energy labels, much like energy star products receive, but on all products.
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You could have as many doctrines as you liked, but not as many wives.
That means instead of having .com or .net, you could have .forbes, .nike or .ford.
In this way you could have a dozen competitive companies with no ties to Washington.
You could have equally have said all that about William Hague four years ago.
Now imagine you could have both combined into a cool easy to use site?
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You could have continuity shots for your talent of what they were wearing yesterday to today.
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Rory, there are places you could have gotten coffee right in the park.
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"This is a lie, you could have left the house at any time, " said Miss Blackwell.
However, without a clear channel of communication, you could have bigger problems on the horizon.
Many times, the ability to remain silent is the best communication strength you could have.
Blessed to live in the land of the free, you could have opted for an easier path.
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The technology was a little limiting for the size and scope of the world you could have.
At some of these bookstores you could have a cup of coffee while checking out the latest books.
"You could have a net increase in releases from these facilities, and you'd never know it, " he warns.
"You could have a 10-lane tunnel and if there's a crash it's going to be closed, " he said.
If you're converting your primary residence to a rental home, you could have problems with your lender, says Michel.
If you offer it from a data center to users, you could have it up and running in seconds.
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Until Saturday morning, when it was yanked from YouTube for a copyright violation, you could have seen it too.
You could fire off (unintelligible), you could have decoys or you could simply overwhelm the system by sheer numbers.
You could have achieved a higher return by investing more in non-U.S. stocks, but the risk would have increased.
It used to be a law of semiconductors that you could have one or the other but not both.
Or, you know, you could have a professional come and set it up.
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You could have had a vote on extending them any time you wanted.
So what happened to all that boring stuff you could have purchased at the dawn of the new millennium?
You could have done better than that in Treasury bills with no risk.
You could have spoken to Klinsmann through a third party and said, 'If this happens, would you be interested?
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