John Leonardis an Australian poet... (wikipedia)
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
may take the opportunity to bring in some new management blood.
Revenue has been under pressure as these Internet options become available.
From Credit Suisse's point of view I don't think there are major strategic requirements to be in the insurance business, ... From their perspective, I'd see it much more as an interesting financial investment.
He felt he didn't want the minor to be in the position where she had to testify.
We take great pride in this recognition, since being a top employer for scientists is a strategic goal to enable Abbott to foster innovation and remain competitive.
He was one lucky guy because he got to come to work everyday and be with his family. (His daughter) managed his practice in this building that we're in and his two sons also operated their practice out of this building.
He wasn't the kind of guy that would have wanted to grown old in a nursing home, not that that's a bad thing, but for Paul, with his lifestyle, he went out flying.
He just simply doesn't want to go through the hassle any more. I don't blame him. It would be almost unjust to go further.
I think it's an excellent strategic fit, the pricing is fair, and if you look at other institutional-retail combinations like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the synergies are there,
I think everyone is still trying to test the waters.
Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don't have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.
We have fashioned a style for accommodating our guilt, for eating statistics. We haven't yet been able, and hopefully never will be, to posture successfully in front of a real person.
Against the weight of physical evidence, half-way positions finally have nothing to support them, just like the free-fall collapse of building WTC-7.
Cobb County is a strong part of the Atlanta metro service area.
This doesn't make them a Merrill Lynch in the U.S. - the main difference is that PaineWebber doesn't have an investment bank, ... But this brings in the wealthy client.
Also WCDMA will be a part of the mix, and TD-SCDMA will be a part of the mix.
This is when we lose the credibility of sport. Parents make decisions on their children, and their perception becomes that after a certain level, anybody playing sports must be drugged to be any good.
It's an employee with access to the water supply of 800,000 New Jersey residents. The answer can't be, 'We gave it the old college try and now we have to move on.' We have someone we already know is capable of murder with access to the water supply.
I want to go on record as saying I would not like to see any services cut. The public needs to know that when they call the city, the police, or the fire department will be there for them.
These are healthy figures - the real question is sustainability, given that it has been largely based on the equity market. I don't think anyone is extrapolating out these first-quarter numbers.