Despite good intentions, many business owners make wrong turns in their efforts to comply with complex employment laws.

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The risk in Iraq is that despite good intentions, we'll become irritated and distracted and leave the job half-done, as we did after the first gulf war and after Afghanistan, when we refused to provide security outside Kabul.

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Despite its good intentions, though, recent audits of the program by Consumers Union and the Government Accountability Office have found that it may be too lenient.

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Despite the good intentions of some -- two of them are sitting right here, Tom and George -- Congress has not been able to fix these flaws so far.

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