It doesn't achieve our energy independence or make it come any closer ... and it certainly doesn't do anything to address the challenges that Americans have in keeping their jobs, their homes and supporting their families.
That won't stop the DUP playing that card closer between now and polling day, but it sits uncomfortably alongside the clear image of them, Sinn Fein and Alliance as the "team players" (to borrow Martin McGuinness's phrase) ranged against the UUP and SDLP "internal opposition".
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It was dropped a month ago, they say, and they don't dare get any closer.
Until, of course, you inspect closer, and realise that there aren't actually any buds to place in your ears.
They may work for a few families here and there, but don't take us much closer to where we need to be.
Leekley said he's aware of how fortunate he and his passengers are that they weren't any closer to the bridge when it collapsed.
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What's more, long-distance travelers can't do the quick in-and-out for class that most closer attendees do.
If the dividend tax rises to 20% next year from 15% today, then the total tax on dividends paid to shareholders would be closer to 50%, and that doesn't include state and local taxes.
That's a good thing for those of us who love to play golf on other continents, but it doesn't move the world closer to resolving a long list of energy, climate and environmental challenges.
"We always have said that we shouldn't limit ourselves to declarations about terrorism being a common threat and engage in closer cooperation, " he said.
It's good to be fast, but I think the McLarens are quick here -- I don't think they were pushing hard this afternoon and I think it will be much closer tomorrow.
In this, he is closer to Vanderbilt, who had a fine time and didn't make statements ascribing his success to a Divine plan.
He said that during the Southern Hemisphere summer, sharks often come in closer to shore to feed and to give birth, although that doesn't necessarily equate to a greater risk of attack.
Yet the victim - who legally still can't be named in India - seems to have been much closer to the accused, in her background and means, than to the many wealthier Indians who've been confronting police lines for the first time.
Mr. Obama said on Thursday that Mr. Kerry would try to move the two sides closer to agreement, but the president didn't offer a specific plan for getting Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the table.
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However, closer examination revealed differences between men and women in two key components of the immune system - T-cells, which protect the body from infection, and B-cells, which secrete antibodies.
He didn't have a baseball, so a man wearing a Mets caps tossed him a pristine ball, and the great closer happily showed off the grip that has made him the major league's saves leader.
New Century, which said late Thursday it wasn't going to make any more loans and was still struggling to line up support among its bankers, teetered even closer to possible bankruptcy Friday and could be vulnerable to an asset sale.
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