But I do believe that some of the proposals which said, "Well, let's just suspend fair value accounting completely, " would have done more harm to the marketplace because it would have created even greater uncertainty as to the values that we're showing.
It may preclude certain financial products that might have done some harm to some people.
Probably his biggest shame should be for the faulty hip implants documents by Barry Meier at the New York Times, which have done more harm to people than any recall of infant Tylenol.
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Both GOP candidates agree that the 103 tax increases, including income and sales tax rate hikes, under current Governor Jon Corzine and his predecessor, the disgraced Jim McGreevey, have done great harm to their state.
Despite foreign scepticism when the controls were imposed, they seem to have done Malaysia little harm.
We have to struggle against financial excesses ... those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
Claims that Mr Ponta plagiarised 85 pages of his PhD thesis seem to have done him little harm (he fired the academic-integrity body that upheld the charges).
Again, the action was taken because the failure would have done such great harm to the American economy, to the American financial system, and to the American people.
And if Mr Gore does become president, Mr Holbrooke's ambition to become his secretary of state will have been done no harm by providing the vice-president with this platform.
In business, even though we may feel like we have not done an overt harm, we may be causing a disequilibrium in others, or may have caused something to be a little bit out of balance for them.
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Cheating the system seems to have done his reputation no harm.
Raynor's injury leaves Ade Gardner as the only automatic wing choice, so Lee Smith's match-winning play-off display for Leeds will have done his chances no harm at all.
But with its medical and legal services, and the English language school it ran for the company's thousands of immigrant workers, the department appears to have done more good than harm.
To do no harm going forward, we must be able to learn from the harm we have already done.
That try will not have done Luscombe's chances any harm, although he probably remains one of the outside bets for a call-up.
Galling as the revelations are of traders trying to manipulate rates for personal gain, the actual harm done would probably have paled in comparison with the subsequent misconduct of the banks.
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But what harm would an opening speech have done in a case where there is no jury?
But we cannot have the kind of situation where there was harm done even with the threat of default.
The BBC's sports editor David Bond said the flag mix-up at Hampden Park had been an "embarrassing mistake" and not the start Games organisers would have wanted, but "no great harm was done".
It would not have done anything, except possibly put her at risk for physical harm.
Both the apparent miraculous benefits attributed to the drug and the apparent harm turn out both to have been a mirage, the product of the inadequate trials that were done before the drug was approved.
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