Promises to invest more in community colleges have fallen flat, and are in any case misplaced.
Attempts to interest investors have fallen flat, and the building itself may be too expensive to demolish.
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While some promises have fallen flat, the push to advance nanotechnology remains strong.
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Such basic realities probably explain why Lee's new pitch has fallen flat.
Kellner has tried to get Congress to acknowledge the program, and to attract more funders, but his efforts thus far have fallen flat.
Ohio's 10.1% unemployment rate is the ninth worst in the country and his promise in 2006 to fix the economy has fallen flat.
He explained that, "video is very specific, a special use case and it deserves its own treatment, " something he thinks other services have fallen flat on.
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Cisco has unveiled initiatives that have fallen flat.
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So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?
Her adoption of the evening's bitter tone may have fallen a bit flat.
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Domestic demand had fallen by 0.2%, with consumer spending flat, while investment contracted by 1.3% quarter on quarter.
But, as prices have fallen, many of them can now afford a nicer private flat.
Eighteen months after its splashy birth, Ecompanies has had zero initial public offerings and has seen one of its 14 companies, Eparties, fall flat and end up being sold to Etoys for stock that has since fallen 72%.
An index of 13 European renewable stocks tracked by broker Dan Waterman of Aviate Global, with the majority in solar, has fallen some 10% since Jan. 7 while the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 500 index has remained about flat in the same time period.
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