One has the sense, as the story wears on, of a joke being kept up, at some cost - measured, if nowhere else, by a certain tiredness in the muscles of one's response.
"Just that inflation, as measured by the government, is nowhere to be seen".
In their place was a bizarre set of rules known as quantum mechanics, in which causes were not guaranteed to be linked to effects; a subatomic particle like an electron could be in two places at once, everywhere or nowhere until someone measured it; and light could be a wave or a particle.
Without Republican backing, those measures went nowhere.
Almost all attempts at introducing new measures went nowhere.
Still, this week's measures were nowhere near as drastic as those adopted in the first weeks after the collapse of the twin towers.
In 2012, the Obama administration proposed re-instating a 90-year limit on the tax exemption applied to them, but the measure went nowhere.
The measures were nowhere near enough to satisfy Eurosceptic MPs or many voters, setting him up for failure in the EU referendum, but many had suspected he would get even less from Brussels.
Crucial lawmakers say the measure went nowhere after motor vehicle officials estimated that the renewal system would cost $1.1 million a year, at a time when the state is looking to cut spending.
But the report argues this measure is nowhere near good enough: "As a policy tool, carbon pricing lacks the crucial element of coordinating a diverse set of economic actors toward a common goal".
Nowhere has the level of state involvement, measured through spending, been reduced substantially since either 1980 or 1990.Unbalanced KeynesiansToo much state, too much market: the argument can easily become raucous.
