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Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers. Duane Ackerman
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Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album. Jewel
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recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children. Carol Bellamy
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Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.
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Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary. Robert Wood
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Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.
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Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible. Shinya Yamanaka
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Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.
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People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.
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Oracle kind of has the backbone to be in the hosted business, but it isn't, while Siebel already is.
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Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all year.
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Our goal is to foil government plans to hold the municipal elections and to break the backbone of the autocratic regime.
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I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have backbone to enforce whatever we do adopt.
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I think sports and entertainment is kind of the backbone of what our society is about these days, for better, for worse. I think it only can grow.
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He is the backbone of the team. Hopefully we can just do a little better in front of him.
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I hate that we had to lose a player like him. It hurts me. I wanted to come to a team that had a backbone quarterback. But now I just hope we make the right decision. Fred Smoot
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It clearly tells us that consumers have and will continue to sustain and support economic growth, ... Consumers have really been the backbone of current economic growth and will continue to be a stabilizer for the balance of this year.
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I think the fact that we were forcing the game and we were away from home in Kansas City, who is undefeated, kind of tells you that the backbone of team. We did make changes, we were forced into a couple of changes, but it never knocked us off our straight, we kept pushing forward. But we just never got that break in the penalty box when we needed it. It's just not running for us in the penalty box at the moment.
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Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.
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Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.
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Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.
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Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.
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Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.
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Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.
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Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.
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Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17. Paul Foster
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People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.
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Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it. Ronde Barber
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Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.
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Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.
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President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it. Anthony Romero
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President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.
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President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.
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President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job. Alan Greenspan
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(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press. Donna Shalala
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Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.
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Recent results provide clear evidence of the turnaround at Schering-Plough and the positive momentum of the cholesterol joint venture.
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Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.
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Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.
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President Chen's assurances were quite clear that the NUC has not been abolished.
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Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.
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Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.
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Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms. Jack Straw
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Our position has been very clear on this. North Korea needs to get out of the nuclear business.
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Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.
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Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,
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Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.
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Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.
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PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks. Tim Bajarin
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Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.
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Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that. Adrian Gonzalez
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Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.
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People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,
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Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself. Margo Timmins
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Our point is that, like other cyclical businesses, this overcapacity has to get worked out.
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He's been wrong about what's happening with inflation for two years. He's more focused on structural disinflation forces than he is on the cyclical inflationary forces from excessive accommodation.
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We've been very cyclical with our hitting. That's what has kept us from getting on a roll and a nice winning streak. Bruce Bochy
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More globalization means there's more pressure to increase productivity, not to reduce it. No pricing power means there's more pressure to increase productivity, not less, ... There's so much pressure to push it higher, it will be difficult for cyclical factors to push it lower.
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Siemens and DaimlerChrysler's results were better than expected and on the macro side, the U.S. labor market data is positive for a cyclical recovery.
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You have gains in the more cyclical names versus selling in Citigroup and J.P. Morgan. You also have the Dow getting a lift from some positive short-term movement in the dollar, Peter Greene
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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. John Malkovich
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You are getting some long-overdue profit taking in the technology sector, and the cyclical stocks are having their day in the sun.
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We haven't had a lot of up-and-coming teams. I don't know why. Hopefully they're coming. They're not there yet. But hopefully this is one of those cyclical type things.
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Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.
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Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.
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Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.
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Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.
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Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,
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People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.
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Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,
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Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.
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Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.
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Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.
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Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.
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Past transitions at the Fed have often been accompanied by volatile financial markets.
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Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.
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That could lead the Fed to soften their statement tomorrow.
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Our federation has been through hell these last few weeks. We need to get past all this and start to think only about the Olympics for a little while.
federal gaming industry law
Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.
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Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.
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Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.
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Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there? Larry Walker
good lead
Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.
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Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.
good
Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.
good guys knew people players
Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times. Joe Torre
good president relationships trip
Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative. Stephen Hadley
good round
Pars are good. I had a good round going,
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Patrick is a great guy and a very good player, Mark Brunell
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Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.
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Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.
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Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.
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Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.
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Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.
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Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.
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Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.
growth together preservation
A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart. Bill Crawford
growth skepticism theology
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. C. S. Lewis
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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
looking unless
Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional, David Perkins
looking market near shares shot upwards
Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.
looking problem students
Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.
looking
Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward. Darin Erstad
looking team training year
Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago. Jack Warner
looking primary reason violations year
Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.
looking
I was just looking to see if they were going for two. David Bennett
looking
I was just, ... looking into his eyes. Roy Williams
looking pitch
I was just looking for a pitch to hit.
means rebuilding walls
Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.
means rally
Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.
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Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.
means state
State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.
means platitudes public
Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home. Barack Obama
means prevent security services trying
Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival.
means unit
'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another. Phil Klay
means people senators talk travels
(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them. Sharan Burrow
means
It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.
people reasonable
Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.
people
Real people are never central characters in my works. Stephanie Laurens
people simplicity
Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.
people regular
Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can. Jyoti Amge
people policy
Our policy is to let our people know first.
people safe talk
Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.
people searching
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
people
Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know? Joel Edgerton
people therapies
Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.
provides win
It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.
provided
I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.
provided
I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it. Paul O'Grady
provide side
I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.
provide
We have to be able to provide these services.
provide ready security
If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.
provide
If they provide some information, they may not have to come.
provide spark
If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.
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If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.
retailers
Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.
retail worth
When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.
retail vibe work
When you work in retail long enough, you get a vibe off people. We all got that vibe off of him.
retail internet stores
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong. Aaron Levie
retail
We're not going to have, post-9-11, at this location, retail uses.
retailers
We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.
retail seen softness
We have seen some softness in retail in October,
retail side
This really spearheads them into the conventional retail side of the business, in a big way. Eric Larson
retailing terms
There is a bloodbath in retailing in terms of competition.
security
It does give them a sense of security.
security social
He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.
security side span within
If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet. George Tenet
security social touching
I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.
security
Security is a concern, ... It is a priority. Alberto Gonzales
security
We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.
security worried wrong
We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.
security staff
We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.
security-guards sixteen asks
How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? Alice Cooper
slowing successful
They've been successful in slowing down the process.
slowing traffic
The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it. Terry Wilson
slowing
Things have also been slowing down a little in Boston.
slowing stopping truck using
It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.
slowing truck using
It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.
slowing waiting
It's about how little he's going to show you. You're waiting for the big image, the payoff, and he's slowing you down to think about how we see.
slowing
This is a slowing down to what I think of as good, sustainable levels.
stability
It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation, Klaus Kleinfeld
stability
We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation. Ken Ham
stability
Our success comes from stability. Bernard Laporte
stability
He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job. Ben Howland
stability trying year
A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.
stability pact rationality
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality. Jean-Claude Juncker
stability interest
Stability is why society has an interest in marriage. Gene Robinson
stability bothered ifs
If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too. Frances Newton
stability struggling sure tomorrow
For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip. Valentino Rossi
stocks
I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.
stocks tech
If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy. Barry Ritholtz
stocks
Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,
stocks
I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash. Harry Markowitz
stocks
I see a lot of stocks on there.
stocks window
The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.
stocks universe
If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,
stocks
These stocks come in and out of favor.
stocks stupid tech
Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.
technology irony access
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. Beeban Kidron
technology guitar acoustics
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. Beck
technology territory tools
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
technology example company
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
technology rivers political
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? Barry Lopez
technology damage comfort
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort. B. F. Skinner
technology artist stories
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. Billy Corgan
technology use facts
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
technology tools use
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. Beth Simone Noveck
toward western
It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.
toward vast within
One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.
toward victims violent
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. Clint Eastwood
towards
We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence. Jane McGonigal
toward
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. Rand Paul
towards
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own. Preity Zinta
toward
We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that. Maurice Cheeks
toward year
(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it. Bill Guerin
toward
We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.