No matter how he tried, he just couldn't replicate Reinhart and Rogoff's results.

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David knew the ads were displayed on his profile, but could do nothing to remove them no matter how hard he tried.

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For a long time, he said, no matter how hard the medical team tried, it had no survivors.

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When a technique induces such fear and stress, so much emotional and physical pain, that it causes a victim to break and reveal what he has desperately tried to withhold, that is torture, no matter how sanitary the environment.

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