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  • Majority Leader Richard Updegrove, R-Lockport, admitted that the financial benefits of such a move would be "neglible" compared to the overall cost of county government, but said the initiative has more to with responding to residents who have long called for reductions on the size of their government.

    unknown title 2009

  • What is gained by looking at these modes through this fairly narrow philosophical lens (which is not at all neglible) is balanced by the loss of those other features of poetry and fiction that have appeal to us for other than their roles in the game of fiction-making or make-believe.

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • Oh, they will pass some meanighless legislation and claim victory, but the benefit to Americans will be neglible.

    Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers 2009

  • The problem, however, is that the economic power of one block of neighbors is neglible when compared to that of a national bank.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With High Rent 2009

  • Going back to the Rand Study we know that increased cost sharing has a neglible impact on health outcomes while drastically reducing health expenditures.

    Archive 2009-08-01 xtra 2009

  • It is my opinion that most veteran teachers who stay past the burnout point do so because they are trapped into the retirement system and not because of the neglible pay raises they might get in later years.

    Matthew Yglesias » Paying for the Experience that Counts 2010

  • Going back to the Rand Study we know that increased cost sharing has a neglible impact on health outcomes while drastically reducing health expenditures.

    More Health Care xtra 2009

  • The Dog of the North seems to have a couple of the characteristics of a cult novel: neglible sales, but very strong affinity from those readers who 'get' it.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

  • That's odd, because the majority of academics in Jewish history that I know of (not neglible, since they are related to the field of my PhD) take a very different view.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Remember the irony that, while people backed him in 2004 almost solely because he and he alone was a winner, he got neglible votes in the primary.

    Obama On Hillary's Entry Into Race: "I Welcome Her" 2009

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