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If the regulatory burden continues to outpace the producers' ability to stay in business, they will just continue to leave. It will mean a smaller industry. But it also means a loss of a significant number of jobs. |
If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially. |
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If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank. |
If there's a guy who can do better, then he deserves to be on the field. I have to help get the next quarterback ready. You're always one play away, and if someone goes out, the next person needs to be ready to go. |
If there's less violence there generally and our people are not getting hurt and there is some feeling that this is a better place than it was, there might be some benefit for Bush -- or at least stop the bleeding. |
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If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down. |
If they owe taxes, the penalty for not filing a return is quite a bit bigger than not paying the taxes owed. So if you don't have the money to pay what you owe, go ahead and file and you can pay it in installments. |
If they try to do any other financing they have to get shareholder approval which would then provide a de facto vote on the takeover offer or merger as I prefer to call it. That will be a very interesting exercise. |
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If this thing goes off with fairly few hitches, it means it could go smoothly in the West Bank, as well. It will create a precedent that Israel, with very little resistance, removed settlers and redrew its borders. |
If those who call themselves the Iraqi resistance desired to contact me, I would welcome them. I would not refuse to meet any Iraqi who wants to meet me. But of course that does not mean I will accept what he says. |
If Wal-Mart was serious about diversity, it would hire independent auditors, stop refusing to disclose its diversity goals, and finally release the hard data about what Wal-Mart pays its women and minority workers. |