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And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those calamities? In different ways, it is Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, and Bono, the Irish rocker who has made debt reduction sexy.

Employers are reluctant to offer benefit programs to employees that they themselves have a hard time figuring out, and this is precisely one of those things that an employer himself doesn't know how he would answer the question for himself as to whether or not to do it.

During these trips with Mimi, many late evenings were spent talking, crying and figuring out how to help people. Sometimes when you are suffering or just feeling sad, it's nice to have something to sit with, so we came up with the idea of the book using Mimi's photos of angel sculptures.

First, we have to try and determine how many flowers to order by reviewing the previous year's sales, and figuring in outside factors. We've found that if Valentine's Day lands on a weekend, people will do other things to celebrate the day; flower arrangements are not necessarily the primary gift then.

Everything was out of balance and part of figuring out where we are now is figuring out where we were and how many imbalances were built into the economy.

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

There's half a day of education and half a day of fun. A senior might be figuring out the volume of the bumper boat pond, a kindergarten student might be counting the number of putts ... the kids obviously love it, and the educators like it because it gives a hands-on experience. There's a lot of things here that just lend themselves to that.

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

The sad fact is, if 500 random people around the world, with some leadership, were injected with an evil virus and they were to decide, fanatically, they would devote the next 5 years of their lives to figuring out how to hurt America and try to implement it, the odds are too high that they could succeed.

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

The story in a nutshell is there's a complex ecosystem that sits around developing applications and making money off of them ? And Microsoft has shown itself pretty good time and again at figuring out how people can make money off of its products.

The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

Teams are doing their homework. They're figuring out a way to get eight guys in the box, and doing it in a way we can't account for. That's their way to control the tempo of the game, but when you do that you compromise your coverage, You have man-to-man coverage every play, and they can't do that all day. Teams will eventually jump out of it or we are going to be a passing team, because we can do both. We're two-dimensional.

Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Our defensive intensity is getting there. Guys are figuring out what to do. We're getting steals like we normally do as Cyclones. That's our game.

After his meeting today . . . Harper continues to work on the transition. He's in meetings every day now, figuring out who's going to be in his cabinet, planning policy initiatives, writing legislation to be introduced, and now thinking about who he will name as ambassador to Washington now that Frank McKenna -- a prospective Liberal leadership candidate -- has resigned.

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Stores are figuring out you make more selling a 12-oz. cup of coffee or a 12-oz. bottle of water than you can selling a gallon of gas.

Now, guys are figuring out that it's OK to get a little help. They're simply looking for the best way to get the ball on the green any way possible.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

As a team, we had a good day. I like to think of the first three meets as 'let's start figuring out the outdoor season,' but I saw some good things from guys.

As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.

As an athlete, you get to the starting line and run. As a coach you are going from one spot to another. I'm still figuring things out. But I'm starting to enjoy it.

You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell you about a couple." Investor thinks: "I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

You're dealing with a reservoir that extends over hundreds, perhaps thousands, of square miles. It's just a matter of figuring out the technology to extract that.

You need to analyze your own banking behavior. That means sitting down with your checkbook and figuring out how many times you write a check, go the ATM Are you somebody that keeps no minimum in your account?

This camp I'm figuring out what makes you click and maybe changing some things that I did last year that maybe wore me out or work on something that I didn't do last year that I can do to help myself improve. It's all part of the learning process of figuring out what suits you best and what gets you ready to play at your best.

They were figuring in some other things in their costs, but it still was not close,

They tied Allen Park in their match, but won it on a fifth-man tie-breaker. They're still a really good team, but our kids are figuring out that, if you play really well, you win, no matter who you're playing.

A lot of people are figuring out the rates are going up and this is their last chance to get in there and buy homes.

A lot of this experimenting and writing and connecting with other people is a very foundational aspect of coming of age, figuring out who I am, presenting information important to me and getting feedback on that. Unfortunately, it's now a process they're going through in public places.

They (Monticello) are a young team that seems to be figuring out things and finding their identity. They are playing better.

They are a well-balanced team that has become very efficient at both ends of the floor. I think (coach Maurice) Cheeks has done a great job of figuring out a lineup. A lot of it is going to come back to Iverson and Webber because they are two great players. Iverson, in the last two weeks, he's been playing by his standards at a higher level.

There isn't enough time with the three years to get things accomplished. You spend the first year figuring out why they are there and what to do.

They're both good catchers. I'm just coming in and trying to learn from both guys and whatever role they want me as, that's what I'll do. I'm looking to forward to figuring what that is.

There's a reason no-one has done this before and we are figuring that out.

It was basically two different games and two different pitchers. We had some trouble figuring out (Brittney) Robinson, but I was very proud of the way we bounced back.

It's a vicarious thing. The difficult things I've done, I'm interested in figuring out how to do it.

It's a constant race against the fraudsters out there. We're creating solutions and they're figuring out how to break the system. It will continue to be a constant race. But we're getting better at it.

It's about me figuring out how to do this right, where I can balance having a life also. People are going to hate me (for saying this), but I'm really happy with my life and I'm really happy I'm the winner and I'm really going to try to make something out of it, but am I going to be the next Vera Wang or Ralph Lauren? I don't know.

It's a good teaching day, a fundamentals day, and an evaluation day. And there's a lot to evaluate. We have eight defensive starters back, but we have a new system, so we're looking for the guys with the athletic ability to help out there. We're sorting personnel, getting to know the freshmen, and figuring out where players can best fit in the program.

It's a great facility. This track is very difficult, but it's all about practice. We're slowly figuring it out. I think we are going to have a pretty busy race with nine hours, all the cars and all the corners. I really like this track. It's a lot of work, but I like the fast corners. You need to be so precise.

It's a race against time once we get back to camp with the young kids and the running backs and figuring out the quarterback situation, so it'll be very exciting. Arkansas is what's next up, and we're aware of it.

It's a little transition time for me, going from playing every day to figuring out how to stay sharp. The first couple of weeks, you try to figure out what the best scenario is to try to do that. It's been good to find out some different things to stay sharp.

It's us trying to stay together, which we will, and to keep working to figuring out how to win games. There are a lot of things we've got to work on.

It's not just collecting data. It depends on brainpower. Anheuser-Busch is the smartest in figuring out how to use it.

For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.

It's now in danger of failing. They're slowly emptying that one now. We're also now looking at every dam in the state and figuring out where the danger areas are.

It's kind of like a double edge. You want to dedicate yourself to doing what you do football-wise, to make sure that you can continue, but if you're trying to create a life outside of football, that takes time also. The tough part is figuring out the balance.

It's a lot of figuring out stuff. It can be difficult, but I guess I like the challenge.

It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.

It should be a great weekend. We've got lots of cars coming, so I'm figuring it should be good. It's always nice to get the season started.

It's hard to find your audience. It's really hit or miss. We could play some place for 50 people one place, or 1,700 people in Maine. I think that people who are Eagles' fans tend to be older, don't like the typical bar, don't want to be out late. So it's figuring out how to get them to see you,

It's something we've got to take care of. It's our team, we've got to start figuring things out. It's on the players. It's all on the players. It's all on us. We've got to finally take all the little things and put it into a game. We've got to win on the boards, we've got to keep our turnovers low, we've got to get more assists, we've got to finish in the paint.

Everyone's going in on a whole new learning curve, ... Figuring out what the rules are going to be, what the roles are going to be with the new coach, and that's all going to come pretty fast.

Everybody's figuring how they're going to get on with their life. There's probably a shortage of 2,000 boards a week globally now. It'll be months before things are back up to speed where any Joe Blow can get a blank -- maybe even years.

The biggest issue was figuring out what the pecking order was,

The biggest concern among employers is figuring out how they'll know if you're productive.

The better comparison would be with the Eisenhower administration and how they were figuring out how to adjust to the Cold War. (Eisenhower) took some strong actions, policies like massive (nuclear) retaliation, and things like that had a lot of opposition.

I've had agents tell me how good of a player Kristen is, so it's disappointing. But now she's just weighing her options. She's figuring out what she wants to do.

I've enjoyed this spring. No pressure at all. It's been a lot different spring. Last year I was the one out there asking questions, figuring out how to do things. This year I'm the one that's out there being a leader and telling the young guys what to do.

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

They are usually the ones in there looking at the computer, figuring out who they passed or what they need to do,

They made all the right moves. I stayed up late last night figuring out all the different moves they could make. All the moves they made worked. They were the better team tonight.

Again, it's putting some closure to it as quick as we can and figuring out what the best decision is for my family. We just have to sit down tomorrow and figure out as a family where we are going to go from here.

It's really a question of figuring out what makes sense.

Artists are figuring out ways to get noticed, wherever that is. And if something's good, it just travels so fast now.

As a coach you can't help but start looking ahead to the other games and figuring out scenarios, but you don't want the players looking to far ahead. We need to keep our head above water right now.

The large-cap stocks tend to be the ones that are most interest rate sensitive. With the changes at the Fed and figuring out if and when they'll stop raising rates, it's not a surprise to see large-caps suffer some, while small-caps are far less sensitive to rate issues.

The last thing we want to suggest is that it's O.K. to throw a medication at something without understanding the problem, ... Insomnia is a symptom, not a disorder. It's like pain. You're not going to give a patient pain medication without figuring out what's causing the pain.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

The federal government hasn't made any progress in figuring out the problem.

The Christmas break before the league season was good because everyone came back with a great attitude. We've had trouble figuring out some substitution patterns, so we're still experimenting to some degree.

I'm figuring we're probably going to be in the back half of the field the first part of the race and see if we can reel them in.

I'm actually figuring I'll be a semester ahead. The education program at Eastern is five years and I'll be done in four and a half.

I negotiated from May 2004 to early September 2004 with them and we were so far apart at that point in time that I guess I was figuring if we picked up where we left off we were a long ways apart, ... We'll see what happens.

I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?

I?m sure they?re gonna be fired up, figuring we won with a lucky shot -- which we did. They?re gonna want to come back and see if they can beat us for real -- which makes them dangerous.

In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

I moved to Nashville to find myself as an artist, ... I've spent nearly 10 years figuring that out.

I'm just proud of our players for figuring out a way to win. What a great game. Anybody came to this game had to really enjoy it.

I'm trying to do something that's going to assist people in resolving and figuring out how to do things.

I like to write music. And I think exploring with lyrics and figuring out how to make complete songs is fun. I think I have a take on it. I don't know if it's great, but it's an interesting take. It's original.

I just think the state is going to have to be involved in that helpful way, ... I just want to express my deep frustration about folks in Baton Rouge who apparently are completely focused on why this can't work instead of figuring out how to make it work so we can get these communities through these very crucial next several months.

I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

I'll either start one and let the other relieve. They are two different pitchers. It keeps a team from figuring one out. You will likely see the same scenario in the playoffs.

In these mid-week contests, we try to get as many people work as possible and still give ourselves a chance to win. Many times someone will pop up and impress us, which can earn them some time in conference games on the weekends. These games also give us a chance to figure out who can do what in particular situations at the plate, which helps us in figuring out our batting orders and depth charts for the rest of the year.

I just don't think we've got this thing figured out yet. And I can't detect that we've set in motion a process for figuring it out.

I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

In the patent world, the user of a product is responsible for figuring out which intellectual property obligations they have and how to meet them. They become vulnerable if infringing a patent under which they are not licensed.

In the Apollo program, you're figuring out trajectories to get people to the moon, ... And in the world of investments, the field is in its infancy in terms of the science of investing.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

I just love her so much. She makes you feel like we're all figuring it out together. She has just been a very good friend to me.