• Some community workers say they're depressed that the same problems - affordable housing, transport, lack of services - come up year after year, with nothing really being done to address them.

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  • The payroll-tax cut has only been extended for two months, ensuring that the rest of the year will be punctuated with fiscal skirmishes, even as nothing is done to deal with America's medium-term fiscal mess, or to smooth the huge tax hikes and spending cuts that loom at the end of 2012 under current law.

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  • Combining Samsung with Daewoo would have done nothing to cut South Korea's overcapacity.

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  • Unlike traditional mutual funds however, nothing is done with the information.

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  • Apple issued a statement saying nothing was done with the data and has now changed the installation procedure so iTunes users get an early warning of what the MiniStore does.

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  • And for Independents, the most important thing is always that the parties don't bicker so much and that they don't seem to always be fighting with each other, getting nothing done, and that they don't appear to be bickering among themselves.

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  • Translated from the Russian, Lavrov said that the he understands the idea is for the EU to develop plans for humanitarian convoys, and that nothing would be done with NATO on the ground unless the United Nations Security Council said a ground invasion to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was within their authority.

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  • Which is nothing compared with what Nasty Gal has done for 28-year-old founder Sophia Amoruso.

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  • Former neighbours said they had raised concerns about the family with social services but nothing appeared to be done.

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  • Yet Paul Sagan, 48, says that what Akamai has done is nothing compared with what the company will pull off in the next few years.

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  • She said she "thought this was wrong" and that children were "not going to be safe with these arrangements in place and nothing being done to stop it".

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  • Nothing is over and done with until the people put their ballot papers in the boxes, but Sinn Fein appears so confident that Francie Molloy will succeed Martin McGuinness that the party has already confirmed Mitchel McLaughlin as Mr Molloy's potential successor at Stormont as principal deputy speaker.

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  • Down to nothing, they get it done with guts and whatever warm bodies they can find.

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  • Google maintains that its breakneck growth will inevitably attract greater regulatory scrutiny, and that it's done nothing wrong in connection with other probes.

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  • Wynn Resorts responded to the suit with filings and statements saying it had done nothing wrong and that Mr. Okada's suggestions were attempts to divert attention from other issues.

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  • Nothing gets done in New York with a handshake.

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  • With gridlock in Congress, little or nothing will be done.

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  • LaBranche says it has done nothing wrong and is fully cooperating with the pending investigation.

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  • Mr Evans said while nothing could be done about people off sick with flu for example, stress could be tackled.

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  • If Bent should have done better with that chance his miss was nothing compared to Danny Koevermans's woeful touch when he only had Spurs goalkeeper Paul Robinson to beat.

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  • Meanwhile, Netflix refused to enter settlement talks, arguing it had done nothing wrong, said the people familiar with the probe.

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  • It is suggested that the UN is unable to achieve this as it would be preoccupied with ensuring everyone has a say and therefore that nothing actually gets done.

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  • Clients would look at the performance of the manager's portfolio over the past year and compare it with the return that would have been achieved had he done nothing at all.

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  • Yet nothing is ever done, perhaps because doing away with the rule would cause an exodus of wealthy and often brainy residents that would hurt the economy more than the tax forgone.

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  • "This has nothing to do with politics other than everything that's done in Washington has a political undertone to it, " he says, noting that constituents are demanding answers from lawmakers on energy concerns.

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  • That's got nothing to do with Ben Foster whatsoever because what he's done so far has been really good.

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  • Five trillion dollars were added to our debt with little prospect that borrowing will abate, all the while nothing was done to assure lenders that these policies would end in a sensible way.

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  • His former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, told senators last week that he began talking about the firings with Gonzales in early 2005 but defended the shakeup, saying nothing was done for improper reasons.

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  • There's nothing wrong with offering different prices to different shoppers if that's being done "to reward good customers, " Alper said.

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  • But so far Congress has done nothing to pass the three pending free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, which are busy pursuing FTAs with our competitors in Canada, Asia and the EU. U.S. companies simply cannot compete when they must pay a tariff that raises the cost of our goods.

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