So in 1999, when the impressive 1990s bull market was in full swing, investors hardly noticed when the Glass Steagall Act (which had separated financial institutions since the 1930s to prevent banks from getting into brokerage and trading activities) was repealed.
But Bush is hardly alone when it comes to a president going back on his tax promise.
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It seems that BA's core shareholders support him: the share price hardly moved when the strike was announced.
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This is hardly surprising when one considers the client-focused benefits of cloud computing and the extraordinary market opportunities for vendors.
Yet democracy is hardly healthy when most Americans want no part of politics, abandoning it instead to the destroyers and the bigots.
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So far this year, BA's premium traffic is down by about 17% hardly surprising when much of it used to come from deal-chasing bankers.
That was hardly expected when they pulled off a major offseason deal to pry star power forward Rick Nash away from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent, says it's hardly surprising when you consider that there are different grading systems in England, Scotland and Wales.
They voted for him and hardly protested when he destroyed the few symbols of their liberal aspirations such as NTV, a private television channel or squeezed small political parties out of parliament.
And it hardly helped when Graeme Smith was dropped on just eight before going on to hit an unbeaten 80 as South Africa closed inexorably on the home team's score with just one wicket down.
His work was hardly recognized when he was alive, partly due to his own intransigence in presenting it inappropriately, but also due to the rigid mindset of the time, which refused to see its genius.
Given the enormous settlement pressures imposed on defendants once they are required to begin incurring the substantial costs of pre-trial discovery, plaintiffs can hardly complain when they are asked at the outset to show that their claims are not frivolous.
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Members of your party in the Senate hardly objected when President Obama last July circumvented the constitutional checks and balances of the confirmation process by making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick as the new head of the all powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Whereas Palestinians recently cried foul when Mr Netanyahu added two shrines in the West Bank that are holy to Muslims as well as to Jews in his latest list of Israeli heritage sites, they hardly stirred when he included David's City, which is in East Jerusalem.
In the fields, undocumented workers hardly ever protest when contractors or growers abuse them.
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Hardly, especially when you consider the near-complete collapse of the Spanish economy during his tenure.
This justification is a poor one, hardly excusable even when made to party delegates.
But shopping around is hardly the norm when it comes to prescription drugs.
Real interest rates are only slightly below their long-term average, which hardly seems appropriate when growth is so far below trend.
There is hardly a time when I ride my skittish thoroughbred that I don't wonder whether horses are a form of insanity.
Hopes of a settlement can hardly be high when it is so hard even to get both sides into the same room together.
Reformers took this as a hopeful sign, but it was hardly surprising: when Mr Chen also sought American protection, the incident became a national embarrassment.
Making matters all the worse, the Attorney General hardly helped himself when he continued to take an ambiguous position during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Investors, on the other hand, should well recall similar predictions of flattish budgets ten years ago, when hardly anyone saw the tidal wave of change then to come.
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The City fans in the stadium were out of their seats as soon as he struck it, but could hardly believe it when Joel Robles denied him with a full-stretch dive.
When I was on the campaign trail, hardly a day went by when members of an audience didn't tell anecdotes about the lack of spare parts and training that were relayed to them by friends and relatives in the armed services.
Andreu and Gabriel hardly grasped all this when they launched into the cognac business in 1989.
Yet the nation's political establishment hardly helped its case when the National Assembly was incapable of convening.
He goes on to argue that MF Global was hardly in great shape when he came on board.
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This is hardly an idle concern when one thinks of data protected by HIPAA or FINRA, for example.
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