Back before we were all jaded by theme parks, it meant something to be part of a nation that built monuments to its own economy.
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As pump prices rise and the buzz around plug-in alternatives grows, I vowed to leave behind my privileged public transit lifestyle in New York City and spend three days gasoline-free where it meant something: In my family's hometown suburbs of Durham, N.
It must have meant something to Bob Dole to send campaign manager Scott Reed on a mission to appeal for Perot's withdrawal from the presidential race and his endorsement of Dole.
Some felt that most people could now afford broadband, even if it meant doing without something else, but others felt the government should help those on low incomes to get online.
It used to be to deliver a delightful consumer experience and investors had confidence that when Steve Jobs was mum, it meant he had something up his magical sleeve to reveal on a predictable product launch cycle.
In an age when campaign contribution limits meant something, it was sometimes questionable whether offspring really believed in the candidate or mom and dad simply wanted to circumvent spending ceilings.
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She met the great and the good on equal terms, but she knew something of what it meant to be working class, and of how those families stood on a knife-edge between survival and precipitation into the street and the workhouse.
When he said he was going to do something, he meant it.
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He wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but he figured it had something to do with the fact that mom was usually the boss around the house, not dad.
People would like to believe that, when a politician said something, they actually meant it, he said.
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"It meant a lot to us to do this together, something that each of us never considered that we'd ever do, " she said.
Your social media manager meant to tweet something from her personal account and sent it from the company account.
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It used to be that working for them meant that you were part of something young and fresh and different.
It was amazing to have her meet Olympia Snowe and Barbara Boxer because that meant something to her politically.
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But there seems to have been something about his quiet batting that meant the selectors always found it easy to drop him.
To me, it meant that it wasn't really good enough, only approximately good, lacking in something or other.
Mr. BAILEY: It can be, and it's difficult with--you know, the use of some words that meant something 20 years ago may mean, you know, something totally different with the MTV generation.
The tax was meant to raise money and help cut the deficit by depending on those at the top, something we know a little bit about in the U.S. It was meant to be temporary, only in place for two years, and was slated to take effect tomorrow (January 1).
Which meant that, when MoMA displayed it for the first time in 1939, it was able to promote it as something of a revelation that marked the moment the now-celebrated Picasso changed art forever.
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