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The New Majority group cares deeply about the future of California and includes some of the most distinguished leaders in the country. The governor is grateful for their ongoing support of his bold agenda to continue moving the state forward.

Any type of sick attempt or any type of obvious evil act to discredit any type of staff member or fellow worker ... is inexcusable. It clearly shows a personal agenda over the team focus and the team's goals. This has happened here in Ottawa before, and it has delayed the progress of this Ottawa Renegades organization.

Service is now an agenda item. There's a lot of money invested in it. The problem is, companies lack the processes and systems that enable them to manage their service operations and to have visibility and control over whether they make a service call or not. That is a void we are filling.

exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building. We all need to understand that the United Nations is not a separate or alien entity, seeking to impose its agenda on others. The United Nations is us; it is you and me.

APEC is overloaded with micro-issues, which has made it less attractive to the senior people, and the agenda has tended to take on pet projects of the host countries,

The Millions More Movement is challenging all of us to rise above the things that have kept us divided in the past, by focusing us on the agenda of the Millions More Movement to see how all of us, with all of our varied differences, can come together and direct our energy, not at each other, but at the condition of the reality of the suffering of our people, that we might use all of our skills, gifts and talents to create a better world for ourselves, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren,

The international community has now started to worry about these issues in a more robust way. Last summer the G8 meeting at Gleneagles put climate change on the agenda as a major international problem that has to be solved. This summer, the Russians are going to be leading the thinking about energy security as part of their initiative under the G8.

The issue of inflation in the country will be on top of our agenda during the forthcoming elections.

The centerpiece of Bush's education agenda is a voucher that would drain money away from public schools.

I'm going to rehab 24 hours (a day) and hopefully I can assist the team in some fashion on Sunday. That's my goal. The doctor gave me my length of time that I'm out, (but) I have my own agenda now to try to rehab and prove that I can get back sooner than what they think. If I'm 80 percent, 70 percent, 60 percent, there's certain routes that I can run in the offense.

I'm not going to predict anything, but we've had a very successful operation in getting our agenda passed and we're confident we'll be successful a second time around.

I hope this means Mr. Reich will educate Senator Bradley's team on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security -- all programs that Bradley's agenda threatens to dismantle, imperil or change.

I have placed development issues at the top of the agenda right from the outset, and I would like to see an early harvest of the key development issues at the ministerial this week, or at least see that we have made substantial progress in resolving them.

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

I'm sure Russia and others will not accept such an agenda because this is a United States agenda,

I'm thrilled that he's here. I think it's great that he would take some time out what is an incredibly important and significant beginning to his prime ministerial agenda and include us. I'm just as happy as a clam.

In light of the ongoing controversy, it would have been difficult to advance the agenda that he had wanted to discuss with the Iranian leadership.

In just a few days, he met with the secretary of Homeland Security, the chief of staff to the White House and the most influential congressional members on this particular issue. He continued pushing the agenda and leading on this very critical issue.

In an incredibly striking contrast, Bush voters are united on virtually all the questions that divide the Kerry vote. So, Bush can advance his agenda with impunity while taking aim at Kerry voters who are antagonized by their candidate whenever he has to choose a position. If Kerry can get people to listen and think, Bush is toast.

I know what their agenda was: They would like us to play in our home state, ... And our players like that, too, to be honest with you. It's just more of a travel issue and a family issue. But I'm sure our families and their families and friends will go to Baton Rouge to see the game and be with them.

I'm satisfied there was no secret agenda or plan to oust Rhys for some other more intellectually bright pupil.

If National leads the government after Saturday, I can promise the first thing on my agenda will be to get to the bottom of this.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I have no agenda but I do have a commitment. If I am confirmed, I will confront every case with an open mind.

I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.

I had to be out front as the head coach in the beginning, to set the agenda and expectations of the program, ... But then the players have the free agency to buy into it and take it upon themselves, referring back to the coaches when they need to. But there is a transfer of power, of leadership, that happens on a football team and it's day to day, where the players hold to the standard that has been established.

I'm very happy to see the campus and everybody in the Georgia Tech community come together to make this a priority. People have put off agenda items and Labor Day plans to service those in need.

I'm very glad to see that the biggest shareholder of the Fund has already expressed publicly its support for this agenda and other significant countries have done so to.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

If the president sends us a nominee who is committed to an agenda of turning back the clock on civil rights, workers' rights, individual autonomy or other vital constitutional protections, there will likely be a fight.

If there's a concern right now with the U.N., it is that we really do need a strong reform agenda on the key issues - management reform, secretariat reform.

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

If you listen to the prime minister, you will understand from her utterances that the areas related to poverty alleviation are very high on her agenda and I believe that this will be among the things that she would want to focus on.

Instead of helping his cause, Mayor Newsom has set back the same-sex marriage agenda and laid the foundation for the pro-marriage movement to once and for all win this battle to preserve traditional marriage.

Instead of following through on their promise to concentrate on jobs, Republicans have attacked seniors, working families, women, and the most vulnerable among us. They have pursued an extreme agenda that would end Medicare as we know it and cut Social Security benefits in order to continue giving tax breaks to Big Oil and millionaires.

I noticed it was odd that we didn't have it on the agenda like the county (Legislature). I think a 30-second moment of private reflection would be appropriate.

I have quite a lot of work to do and I'm carrying on with my work, ... We have a major agenda next year and the year ahead, trying to reform this organization, so we'll carry on.

In the past, Russia used its military to project influence internationally. Now the agenda has changed. Energy has become the way Russia projects its power.

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

Clinton has a concrete goal of getting China into the WTO, his near-term agenda is to get China in.

Being pro-life means more than casting a good vote now and then on an abortion-related bill. It also means supporting God's institution of marriage and fighting the homosexual agenda at every level, whether it is in the schools, the workplace or in the hallways of government.

Hosting this conference will help us attract further Japanese investment and raise Cincinnati USA's global recognition, ... We have collaborated extensively with the State of Ohio and many leading Cincinnati USA and Japanese firms to set a conference agenda spotlighting high-caliber business figures. This elite group's participation will set the tone for a very informative and successful event.

(Beebe) is honored by the record-setting support he's received for his agenda for more and better jobs, affordable and accessible health care, and nothing but the best in Arkansas schools for our children.

He's very high profile, very controversial. He speaks well to social policy agenda items.

He took responsibility. He wasn't putting the blame elsewhere. That's the thing I respect. He asked me what else he could do to help us win. That's the agenda of this team - winning.

He said something remarkable to me that I still remember to this day, ... He said, ?The people you?re hanging around now and go out with at night -- and I know you?re doing it out of frustration but nevertheless -- those people don?t want you to leave, because if you leave, you?re being successful and they are struggling with their own agenda and success.?

George Bush and Mark Kennedy are the two least popular politicians in Minnesota for a reason: They both advocate an agenda that doesn't reflect the needs of average people.

I can't think of a better representative than Laura Bush, ... She's going to help advance the freedom agenda -- which is really the peace agenda.

I don't think that's going to be enough. You have to have something that would give the public some idea of what's coming up on the agenda other than just old business and new business.

I doubt it. It sounds like an adult agenda to me.

I assured him that security is at the top of our agenda just like it is at the top of his agenda, ... I also told him he's got responsibilities.

I asked President Clinton to give us his observations about how we might work more closely together, and also as to how we ought to look at our own responsibilities as we see them in creating our agenda this year, ... How we articulate them and how we mesh that agenda with our presidential candidate will be the topic for conversation with President Clinton.

I asked Bill Ford and Jim Padilla for not only the best and the brightest leaders in our company, but for the kind of people who can work as one team on one agenda. That agenda is to turn around our North American operation with a team that knows how to win, an innovative product line-up that wins in the marketplace and a brand that has strong emotional appeal. We now have in place an outstanding group of leaders in The Americas, and they already have hit the ground running to turn the business around.

I am very sorry for those people who lost their horses here. We are aware that we are very much in the spotlight and yesterday was as difficult as I can remember. We thought we were over significant loss of horses - it had not been on the agenda in recent seasons.

I believe Koizumi when he reaffirmed his intention to stand down next September and also believe he will change his mind. There have already been calls for him to extend his term, not only to take care of the unfinished business on his reform agenda but also to lead the LDP into the Upper House elections in July 2007.

I don't think using opinion-writing assignments as a way to try to promote a particular view or agenda is a good idea,

I do, however, respect the responsibility he has taken for his action and I am hopeful he and his family can find the peace and privacy they will need to see them through what must be a very painful time in their lives, ... It is my most fervent hope for the nation that this investigation can be brought to its long overdue conclusion, and that in the days ahead, the president and the Congress can pour our energies into a meaningful agenda for the country.

I do not believe he has an agenda to reverse our nation's historic commitment to civil rights, and I take him at his word when he says that he will take each case on its facts and apply the law regardless of his personal views.

Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.

He came with a one-point agenda of Kashmir and ... (to) call terrorists 'freedom fighters', ... All this was not acceptable to us.

Gov. Romney, your personal political agenda is standing in the way of the hundreds of needy children in your state simply looking for a loving home.

Government agencies are supposed to provide services and accurate information to all people, not just a select few, and not just the ones they deem acceptable. The fact that this agency so quickly and willingly gave in to the demands of an extremist group who uses fringe religious bias and junk science to advance their hurtful agenda is outrageous. We deserve answers, and our GLBT families deserve the same resources as everyone else.

For the Palestinians, the whole national agenda is on the table. Do they want continuity or do they want change?

Their agenda had nothing to do with Spring Fair.

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

These are not credible opponents, and the fact that the agenda is marching to their tune hurts.

This is a group with a public agenda of hate and violence toward other people. I don't think they're in anyway in consonance with Loyola's beliefs or, quite honestly, individuals or groups of good faith anywhere.

The Hudson's agenda cannot have any more strings attached. The future should be based on the standard philosophy that biological integrity is the limiting factor.

The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technology to make the transition to a low-carbon economy.

You can't afford, though, to have an ego or your own agenda in a game like this. All you want to do is be on the pitch controlling what's happening.

The hurricane and its aftermath will overarch all other agenda items for the rest of this year and maybe beyond,

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.

The entire left wing has been gunning after Congressman DeLay for years. Yes, he won't be in Congress any longer - but there's no doubt that now he'll be a leader in other ways, moving the conservative agenda forward at a pace that will make the Left wish they had just left him alone.

The electric bill was too high to begin with and they can't pay. That has to be put back on the agenda and (the surcharge) taken off.

the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives -- and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.

The division of support that appears to be occurring now may influence the ability of the superintendent to move the agenda forward.

A huge amount of prospective buyers never ask why a seller is selling, but it immediately determines their level of motivation. You can get a real deal from a person who needs to move to another part of the country pending a new job, for example. Because they have an agenda of their own, a seller in need is a friend indeed.

a George Bush-Dick Cheney conservative who wants to bring his right-wing agenda to King County government.

And that is what (opponents) want. They're not concerned about the welfare of these people. The people who object are those who are from the outside who have a political agenda for the next go round of city and state elections.

The goal is to bring as diverse a coalition together as possible so that our side has a cohesive agenda in the states. For too long, conservatives have been able to use huge sums of money to push the most radical right-wing policies through state legislatures. PLAN is committed to putting together the necessary resources and necessary coalitions to help progressive legislators stop this unchecked extremism, and start passing legislation that makes state governments work for ordinary citizens, not just monied special interests.

The goal of the agenda for action on global health is clear: to reduce the number of people, particularly children, dying unnecessarily from ill-health and disease,

The Ghost Rider's not particularly heroic in this story; he has his own agenda and won't let anything get in his way.

The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

The easiest thing to do in coaching is when you have an element of success, to take off (for) the highest paycheck. That's never been the agenda for me. My agenda has always been what's best for the kids.

The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud that is very much at the root of the high tax problem. What he is trying to do is to make one business official accountable for a district's money and to treat budgets as if it were their own. The only remedy now is for communities to vote down a school budget, and that ultimately hurts the children. Seventy percent of our tax bill is made up of school district costs, and those rising costs are crippling those who live here and sending them to more affordable pastures. Those who are elected would now be accountable at the end of their term.

The challenge we all face as leaders is how best to steer our governments' agenda back toward addressing the most critical problems facing our citizens. Globalization is certainly one factor affecting how democracies work,

The concern is that this could convey a message that the moral agenda Mrs. King embodies is now assumed under the ministry of Bishop Long. For all the good things Bishop Long has done, Mrs. King's moral atlas was more inclusive, one that reflected love of all people.

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

All of this, in terms of the FOMC becoming data dependent, comes as no surprise, and the new Fed chairman has an open agenda from which to work.

And everyone had a different opinion on what we should do with the place. We probably have the least agenda of anyone.

And I do think the whole issue of having a positive agenda is somewhat over-rated in politics. A lot of politics is in reaction to how bad the person you're running against is. But Democrats do believe that by the middle of next year they've got to come up with a few bumper sticker points that they can run on and they probably will.

The mayor is gratified by this public support as he launches an ambitious agenda in a second term to put the city on track for long-term stability and growth, fight for state funds to build new schools, and tackle intractable problems like poverty, AIDS, and diabetes.

The mayor has cultivated relationships with people in order to advance New York City's agenda in Washington and Albany, and he has been willing to use his own money in that effort.

The mayor has an ambitious agenda for his second term. Public safety, education, housing, economic development, health care are going to be top priorities.

The main thing behind our agenda is that we've got to have a strong alternative punishment, and that's community corrections.

The main point for us is that the U.S. and Russia have an active and constructive dialogue on a broad agenda of priority issues. Certainly we're cooperating well with them on counterterrorism issues, on proliferation issues ... and on a variety of other areas as well.

Health care doesn't rise up very high on the agenda on a lot of poor countries, ... I think there are some countries with AIDS epidemics that haven't stepped up to get the message out on the behavioral change, or stepped up to get infrastructure for treatment ?. And where you have a lack of priority and lack of funding, it just breaks down.