It didn't hurt them, it didn't help them.
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"I can't say it didn't help that I've been in the industry for however many years - I was a known quantity in that sense, " he says.
And certainly last year I wasn't doing that and it didn't help me.
It was a tricky maneuver, and it didn't help that during its approach Messenger had to lose radio contact with mission control while it flew behind the planet.
It didn't help that in the middle of the discussion the electricity went out.
It didn't help the GOP that Young was clueless about what he done wrong.
It didn't help that, whatever the weather in Bagram, it was a windless night in Kabul.
They tried putting it in a plastic bag filled with rice, a common recommendation, but it didn't help.
Beta had better picture quality than VHS and it didn't help it win.
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That message helped free Buck, whose college hired a lawyer for him, but it didn't help free Mohammed Maree.
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It didn't help, of course, that Suharto enjoyed no democratic mandate, and his cronyism and policy flip-flops worsened his economic problems.
It didn't help matters that on Friday, the U.S. market fell even though Hong Kong's battered Hang Seng index had rebounded sharply.
The recession only intensified the competition, and it didn't help that Quiznos outlets, with their premium-priced fare, tended to be in higher-rent areas.
The Grizzlies never led, and it didn't help that Randolph picked up two fouls and Mike Conley Jr. had three in the first half.
It didn't help that my regimen was a time-consuming royal pain.
As has been the case in recent weeks, New Jersey seemed to control the territorial play and the shot count, but it didn't help produce any goals.
It was a necessary precaution, but it didn't help the flow of the game, particularly in the stop-start first half when both teams were coming to terms with the heat.
It didn't help that the trial had initially been delayed by a bomb threat, as well as the impaneling of a new judge and jury for reasons that remain hazy.
And of course it didn't help that oil set a new high with its largest single-day gain, putting further pressure on consumers who are already sweating record gas prices.
It didn't help that Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest independent mortgage lenders left standing, came out Tuesday with a dismal second-quarter earnings report (down 33%) and said the business wouldn't show signs of improvement for months.
Ginkgo is a top-selling herb and has been hailed by some as a memory-booster, but the new University of Pittsburgh study found it didn't help prevent Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia in more than 3, 000 elderly study subjects.
It didn't help that Countrywide Financial (nyse: CFC - news - people ), one of the biggest independent mortgage lenders left standing, came out Tuesday with a dismal second-quarter earnings report (down 33%) and said the business wouldn't show signs of improvement for months.
It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.
If Chrome OS didn't start out with an inferiority complex living in the shadow of the massive adoption of its cousin Android, and with Eric Schmidt dismissing the hardware that would run it as cheap and interchangeable, the hardware companies that were early to adopt it didn't help matters.
Boies left Cravath in 1997 after a dispute over representing Yankees baseball owner George Steinbrenner in his suit against Major League Baseball. (Time Warner, which owned the Atlanta Braves, was one of Cravath's biggest clients.) It didn't help that Boies had a history of blabbing to the press and taking on high-stakes contingency-fee cases, anathema to some partners at Cravath.
Again, that'll be fixed soon, but it definitely didn't help the party get started here.
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