Legislators are palpably in a panic at the prospect of facing voters in a few months having done nothing meaningful to bring down prices at the pump.

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Two very different spend and debt reduction plans drawn along party lines in a government where no one party is in charge says to us that nothing meaningful is about to get done.

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Yet despite all that, as she stood at the brink of her 65th birthday (an age that no one seeing the petite blonde would ever guess from looking at her), Iscol began complaining to her family that she had accomplished nothing meaningful.

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The ADA mandated nothing about existence of a meaningful market with accessible products and services needed by disabled people.

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The most meaningful gift, then, may cost nothing at all.

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Year after year, upwards of 75% or even 80% of your total IT budget is chewed up by the care and feeding of the old stuff that has little or nothing to do with opportunistic insights and better customer engagement and meaningful customer-centric innovation.

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We discovered that nothing makes people feel happier and more engaged at work than making meaningful progress on something they care about.

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"This proposal - developed by national security experts - is grounded in the fact that these tactical nuclear weapons in Europe serve no meaningful purpose 20 years after the end of the Cold War, and represent nothing but a financial cost and a security risk, " argues Matt Brown, co-founder of Global Zero.

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Singapore, Indonesia and Korea, not overvalued, have relative good charts but nothing close to South Africa which is in a bull market that started in 2009 with no meaningful correction.

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