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financial institutions since the 1930s to prevent banks from getting into brokerage and trading activities) was repealed.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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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It was hardly a surprise that when Adrian Fenty lost his mayoral re-election bid, Rhee went down with him.
Mississippi Republicans could hardly believe their luck when Mr Fordice, an unknown businessman, won the governor's race in 1991.
Mr Fulford, who served with 1 Rifles on two tours of Iraq and one in Afghanistan, said he could "hardly believe it" when he heard about The Retreat.
Even on Saturday, when Keane had been suckered into a red card by Jason McAteer - hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the game's black arts - Ferguson's first instinct was a defensive one.
Mr. Putin can hardly denounce an American defense when Russia has one of its own.
He was barely 21, and hardly a recognizable name, when it was released in 1983.
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Only this was in the 1880s, when women were hardly educated or allowed to prove themselves outside the home.
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