Tempting though it is, borrowing against future revenues may not be the magic wand that Britain's city bosses are hoping for.
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In the words of the late, great coach Thomas Leonard: People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they are the magic wand.
As a result of this new perspective, we have come to realize that technology is not, as our grandparents believed, the magic wand that can make all human problems and limitations disappear.
When one side of the bargaining table has the legal right to wave a magic wand and make the other side of the discussion completely disappear, it is hardly a scenario for a fair negotiation.
The paws are described as "slightly distressed" due to the glue that was used to help Sooty hold on to his magic wand during the performances.
But he is also honest about the fact that there is no magic wand you can wave to suddenly reduce the price of gasoline at your local station.
Keeping the masses believing that some guy in Washington sets interest rates with a wave of his magic wand only works if all the co-conspirators play along.
I've got to be honest with you, there's no magic wand that makes the economic problems that were years in the making disappear overnight.
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But anybody who says that they can wave a wand or plant the magic beans to lead to a reduction in oil prices is just not telling the truth.
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And if somebody is going to promise that they can wave a magic wand or sprinkle the pixie dust or plant the beans in the right place so that we can get out of this problem, they're just not being straight with you and they're not being straight with the American people.
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When it comes to suspected wrongdoing by Google itself though, the company did get to break out a magic wand recently.
Speaking on his weekly phone-in on LBC's 97.3 FM, he said ministers could not "wave a magic wand" but they had taken "the most reasonable steps" possible at a time when there was little money around, continuing instability in the eurozone and the UK economy was still recovering from the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis.
No government has a magic wand which can be waved to reverse overnight the breakdown of our traditional society based on the family.
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There's simply not enough wealth in the community of the rich to erase this country's problems by waving some magic tax wand.
Where is the Medtronic board of directors going to find a new chief executive who can wave a magic wand and just make them go away?
When Hogwarts Castle is besieged by Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his hordes of Death Eaters, the brave Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his loathsome nemesis face off, going wand-to-wand on staircases, in dark chambers, and in courtyards, as the magic rays lunge back and forth like lightning bolts.
With a flick of his magic wand, and two swift cuts in interest rates, Alan Greenspan has saved the day.
But when Mr Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, arrived in Dublin, he was carrying neither a big stick nor a magic wand.
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And to suggest to Americans that there is some other way, that you can wave a magic wand and cut oil prices and cut gas prices, is simply not treating the American people with the kind of respect they deserve -- because they know better.
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