In my experience it does little to help you develop weak ties and it does nothing to introduce you to people you do not know.

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And this does little to help people like Chafee try to convince his state's Independents and Democrats, who far outnumber Republicans, that they should keep Republicans in charge of the Senate when they're doing things like this.

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Corn ethanol has long been ridiculed as a vote-getting farmer-subsidy program that does little or nothing to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign oil or cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

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Although this may help prevent international downloading, it does little to address piracy on our home shores.

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It does not help that the ageing Mr Singh has little clout of his own: he reports to the ailing Sonia Gandhi, the dynastic chief of Congress.

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The new pact may help prevent a future crisis, but does little to halt the current one.

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We spoke with an expert on the matter, Martin Pichinson, co-founder and managing member of Sherwood Partners (which does two or three ABCs in a given week), to help educate us on this little-known tool used by companies irrevocably in the red.

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