It's what vice president Spiro Agnew used to call the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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Nattering nabobs of negativity have filled the press and punditry surrounding cleantech in 2012.

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At that point, nattering nabobs of scientific negativism will no longer be given the time of day.

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But, inevitably, some Nattering Nabobs emerged to argue that all of these Positives were actually Negatives, especially for enterprises.

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There are a few nattering nabobs who say the figures are skewed because the Mint credited some December sales to January.

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The general atmosphere of both stories and even some of the characters are very similar: both are set in Woodyland, that familiar elegant fantasy version of Manhattan, impeccably furnished, with no brightness, no neon, no pop culture anywhere, and the characters are largely a nattering, trivial, shallowly self-serving bunch.

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