Yet they still attempt with spiteful plotting to manipulate anybody foolish enough to come near them.
Actual losses on exotic instruments, moreover, won't come near the value of those subprime mortgages.
Next came ditch digging, which would allow water to come near areas where gold was found.
There will be many who do repeated marathons and train hard who never come near.
In fact, less than 1% of criminal cases in England and Wales ever come near a jury.
In the days of military rule, Argentina could launch, and come near winning, the Falklands war of 1982.
With the best will in the world, it will be hard for any of the Windsors to come near to matching her.
On top of budget and currency concerns has come near-perpetual institutional change.
If growth does not come near the administration's assumptions, the budget plan will be as meaningless as if it omitted major spending items.
If the piece of debris does come near the station, it will fire its thrusters to avoid it and will have several opportunities to do so.
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Before the youth offending team, they would go to court, receive their order, come out and say to their solicitor "What did I get" and nobody would come near them.
But the reason that they come near the sun at all is because their original orbits, which kept them in the distant realm of the Oort cloud, had been somehow disturbed.
Too clever to think he could find a permanent fix for his party's euro-divisions, he had come near by ruling out membership of the single currency at least until the end of the next parliament.
The issue here is that votes in the IWC used to be ritualised, meaningless, ridiculous, an exercise in grandstanding - because neither bloc was ever going to come near to gaining the three-quarters majority needed to make major changes.
That is, when governmental intrusion and regulation are minimal, markets can come to near equilibrium.
There is no hope for any hydrotreated fuel to come anywhere near conventional diesel or jet fuel prices.
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Proof positive that when some bubbles burst, they never come back near their ascendant positions for years, maybe forever.
So far this year it has sold fewer than 9, 000 total and has come nowhere near to being a profitable endeavor.
Neither Conservatives nor Liberal Democrats have come anywhere near winning this seat in the eight decades it has returned a Labour MP.
"If we're lucky, we'll be able to come home near midnight the next day after they reopen the bridges to Virginia, " she said.
Massa seems a whole-hearted racer, but I wonder if he and his loyal supporters will ever come this near to the title again.
In the dry season months of June to October the undergrowth is less dense and the chimps frequently come down near the main lodge area to feed.
While phones running Google's Android system represent the majority of the world's smartphones, no single phone has come anywhere near the popularity of Apple's iPhone.
Glorious though some of the other mistakes were none really come anywhere near severely damaging the corporate reputation in a way that Apple managed with Maps.
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While many were initially disappointed that the iPhone 5 did not come with near-field communications (NFC) from the likes of NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), with Passbook Apple has created something rather elegant.
According to his calculations, about 20 years of lead time would be sufficient for solar radiation to move the asteroid away from its current course causing it to come nowhere near the Earth.
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If the softness seen recently in the pound does become extended, the next logical level of support could come in near 1.5530 and then at a more major zone between 1.5440 and 1.5450.
We get Amit's point, our devices have come nowhere near to maxing out the intelligence or utility that we can extract from them, but this just seems like another step toward over-reliance on technology.
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