If you are practical it is not so great.

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To the contrary, they are certain to have the effect of making such a turn-around unlikely until it is still harder, if not as a practical matter impossible, to effect.

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If ever there were an age that needed a practical President, it is ours.

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The involvement of a state in this issue, while certainly legal, also raised practical concerns of a single state, even if it is the state where many investment banks are headquartered, setting policy that governs national and international businesses.

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This legislation is designed to make it exceedingly difficult -- if not, as a practical matter, impossible -- to impose export controls on strategically sensitive technologies.

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If Romney can't make it on passion, campaign manager Eric Fernstrom is making a more practical appeal.

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What this means in practical terms for the government is that it must pay more for workers if they are federal employees than if they are contract personnel.

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As Warren Buffett, ceo of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) recently wrote in his annual letter to shareholders, gold has limited practical use and is only a buffer against disaster if someone else wants to pay more for it than you did.

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