The crisis blew all those gains away.
It is hard to understand why the I.R.A. would throw these gains away for the sake of maintaining its status as a heavily armed force.
Having gone through the economic pain of austerity, Portugal's voters neither want to throw the gains away nor to suffer more than seems strictly necessary amid cautiously brightening economic indicators.
But having sacrificed so many lives fighting the Taliban, the army is in no mood to throw those gains away at the negotiating table.
Take those one-time gains away and net profit at the former British Petroleum slipped 3.6%, to $6.23 billion, from $6.46 billion last year, partly because of lower refining margins and higher tax charges, Chief Executive Lord John Browne said in a statement.
As CNBC noted in 2014, the model may "[t]ake the short-term gains away from Wall Street and big money and give at least some ownership" to regular people.
Duer lost everything when the speculation collapsed: He was not protected by corporate law that today limits liability, allowing modern speculators to stash gains away where the people they fleece can not get them.
Most states have renewable standards at the moment, but isn't a broader standard logical going forward if the goal is to gain momentum away from coal-biased business as usual?
It has mechanisms for recovering ill-gotten gains, salted away in remote places.
