And if someone in power changes his mind, there is not much you can do about it.
Some are hereditary -- that means you're born with it and there's not much you can do about it.
Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) is stretching higher, but there not much you can do here now, in my opinion.
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Granted, if you work for a firm that does not allow or limits social media, there is not much you can do.
If you're interested in improving the images you watch--alas, there's not much you can do about the shows themselves--a high-definition system will do it.
For instance, if you have been lied to and there is not much you can do about it, assessing the damage prepares you to you lick your wounds and move on.
There's not much you can do to avoid the state and local tax problem other than move, but you may be able to time your income and state tax payments to reduce the AMT damage.
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But as any marriage counsellor will admit, there is not much you can do in a situation in which people are truly determined to put asunder a partnership which they once regarded as joined together by the hand of God.
If you are working, investments intended for retirement spending should be invested based on the total amount you expect to have when you retire, not how much you have now.
Look at what was happening at Katrina in the first 72 hours, that once you got past that point, there was not much more you could do to change that outcome, and then things were just cascading one on top of the other.
Nice if you can get it, but not much use if you are not being paid at all.
There is not very much you can hold in your hand and say 'wow, that is really different'.
The issue here, and this is where so many value investors go astray, is not how much you pay for a stock but what you get for your money.
Not much when you think about it.
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"Over practice time and the course of the game, we're going to play catch with each other, touch bats, different things like that, so during the practice time and the three hours of the game, there's really not that much you can do, " Granderson said.
"You can get a little bit from food, but not as much as you need, " she says.
Since your boss, not you, controls how much sporty space you have around your desk, you might not be surprised to learn that the average square feet allocated per worker hasn't changed in two decades.
This is an app you should download to teach the people you care about that privacy issues are real, that social networks like Facebook and Foursquare expose you and the ones you love, and that if you do not know exactly how much you are sharing, you are as easily preyed upon as if you were naked.
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Being stealth can be tricky, but not so much if you get into true Bond character.
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Great deal for the employee, not so much for you and your firm.
The answer is not much, unless you believe you have particularly good insight into Middle East affairs.
Your tax outlook could affect not just how much you save, but how.
The problem with this indirect technique is that it does not tell you much about the planet you have discovered.
Not much, unless you want to use pogo sticks to illuminate a concept, broadly accepted by most of humanity, known as comparative advantage.
Your expected tax rate in retirement could affect not just how much you need to save for those years, but how you save.
"My point is, it's not just how much you spend, it's how you spend it, " Mr. Cuomo said during a recent radio interview.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the great thing in the world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you're moving.
It might not earn you much by itself, but it adds to your income and can, in the long run, be well worth doing.
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My interest was not so much what you can learn about somebody as how they react when you actually confront them with what you found.
Richard Wilkinson of Nottingham University argues that the really important difference is not how much money you make but how your bank account compares with your neighbor's.
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