With climate negotiations apparently going nowhere - reports from Bonn this week indicate a whole new outbreak of division - is there scope in Rio for a Big Idea on energy?
"A hundred dollars a month and going nowhere fast--there's a lot of people like that, " says Topol.
Rather than leaving inebriated party-going males nowhere to relieve themselves on the streets, the government is considering installing hydraulic toilets in the roadways, which are remotely triggered at night to appear from their subterranean dwelling place.
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"Unless this policy changes, I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis - who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes - one day will look around and say hey, this country is going nowhere, " he told Reuters news agency in a pre-election interview.
The key point is that investors fear a 1930s-like L-shaped bottom with stocks going nowhere for years.
Unionist politicians accuse the British government of betrayal, and mutter about walking out of multi-party talks, which have been going nowhere in any case.
One senior Palestinian politician closely involved with brokering the deal told me the breakthrough reflected a feeling that US-led peace talks with Israel were going nowhere.
Although a fine early example of Mr. Nauman's anxiety-producing art, featuring a series of runners tirelessly going nowhere, as if in the annual Samuel Beckett marathon, it provokes the question: Does he belong in a retrospective about artists in Buffalo?
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The risk is, though, that the coalition spends long periods stuck in the sidings going nowhere rather than risk another disagreement or the consequences of de-coupling.
GM's main foothold in China, a half-empty factory making Buicks for local bureaucrats, may be going nowhere much, but at least it is there, unlike Ford.
If a much-hyped hearing on the matter is any indication, the issue is going nowhere this year.
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