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Just as bridges and roads crumble without adequate investment, so are the Great lakes deteriorating.

Just about everywhere sees good crowds on opening day, but I suspect that it doesn't get as many people as a Twin Lakes or a North Park.

Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we still have a long way to go.

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

My wife told me she met this really big kid, maybe 6-4 or 6-5, who went to Bear Lakes and didn't play basketball. We made sure he came out for the team, and he's been working hard to improve ever since. He learns something new every day.

Just because a lake needs bass, it doesn't mean it's in poor shape. All lakes have good and bad years.

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

Most of our local customers are retired people. They stay at home more, read a lot and want natural light. We do a lot of business in places like Sun lakes and Leisure World.

We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.

We didn't play well in a couple aspects of the game. Against McLean we didn't play defense and at South Lakes we didn't hit at all.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

There are a lot of people who like to go on boat excursions, and this will be attractive. Orlando has lakes connected like this, but not really as many are involved.

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

This restoration plan comes just in time. The Great Lakes are sick. Their immune system is damaged. If we quickly take the actions in this plan we can heal the lakes.

This research provides a new DNA-based tool that can be used by Great Lakes beach managers to test the water quality in the morning and make same day decisions on beach warnings or closing - often before people even go into the water to swim. This tool is an excellent real-world example of how EPA is working to protect the health of people. We can provide them with useful, practical information with which to make decisions that affect their lives and health.

To say the lake is any more dangerous or less dangerous, I don't know that I can say that, and I've been here 24 years. I'm somewhat surprised we don't have more accidents. But I'm pleased that a combination of a lot of things, including boater compliance to regulations and the efforts of the lake patrol, have made these lakes safe to use.

We are served by everything from corporate types from Abbott Labs through members of the military service from Great Lakes to school teachers, firemen and police from various municipalities.

Without leaving your home or business, you can join thousands of residents across the Great Lakes basin and beyond to participate in the Town Hall community, creating and amplifying the public voice on Great Lakes protection and policy.

With invasive pest species, we can't turn back the clock, the lakes will be altered for good. Not only do invasive species unravel the food web they also fool public perception: The lakes look cleaner because the food has been stripped out.

We've ordered small portable pumps to put out there temporarily to move the standing water to No Name Lake. We've been pumping since early June and our lakes are fine. We have capacity to handle a couple inches of rain.

(The president) is cutting a little here and cutting a little there and really selling the Great Lakes short at a time when there ought to be investment.

Two psychiatrists have evaluated him at our request, and they both conclude that he does not meet the standard of competence and should go to Lakes Crossing.

We also constructed a large portion of the road job in Celebration near Disney World, created Celebration's golf course and built the infrastructure and bridges, lakes and waterfalls for the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.

We've never won it before. We're having one of our best seasons and it was nice to see that we finished ahead of both Churchill and Plymouth, two teams that beat us in the Western Lakes (Activities Association) Relays.

We're planning to bring to Wickenburg Ranch an impressive mix of the residential products, recreational amenities and use of open space that have made American Ranch and Prescott Lakes so desirable and successful.

We went in there last summer to Cliff Lake and had a really good time -- good swimming, good fishing, warm water, beautiful scenery and a nice peak to summit where you can see the whole country. We'll hike five or six miles the first day, go over Devil's Peak and spend the next night in the Sky Lakes Basin, then hike five or six miles out. If you haven't seen Sky Lakes, this is a good one to see.

We went for a late night walk around the grounds and lake; it was so tranquil and silent, ... The inn itself is a privilege to stay in. Each room is uniquely decorated and named after a person of great inspiration to George. There is a great stone fireplace were you can sit up late and drink and talk. But my favorite part of the whole Ranch has to be the atmosphere. Everyone you meet is happy to be there, and the views are amazing. The Ranch is possibly one of the most serene, beautiful places I've ever been to. Thousands of acres of rolling grass hills, forest, lakes and wildlife. Then you have these amazing state-of-the-art buildings. Big Rock Ranch is also a stunning building like an enormous Japanese ski lodge. What a place to work; the toy-licensing department is where I can see my self one day!

We are used to getting open without a whole lot of effort in our league (the Northern Lakes League). Those guys switch screens hard and they jump out on you. You've got to be that much better execution-wise.

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

This new clubhouse will be the centerpiece of the Legends at Forest Lakes and will become a major meeting, banquet and dining facility.

Breeding studies with both males and females often are necessary to identify candidate genes responsible for certain genetic traits. If we want to understand, for example, the genetic basis for why some clones of Daphnia from lakes are more resistant to pollution, then having males could help to find the genes in the genome.

Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flowthere is no ferry waiting on the shore of rockand no man holding a long oar,ready to take your last coin.This is the real earth and the real water it contains.

Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flow there is no ferry waiting on the shore of rock and no man holding a long oar, ready to take your last coin. This is the real earth and the real water it contains.

Everything is coming together perfectly. Mr. Rosen has spent a full year getting all the necessary state and county approvals, and they're hard at work on roads, lakes and amenities.

The trainer from Palm Beach Lakes noticed a knot or bump on his shoulder and said it should be checked out by a doctor.

The Winter Haven Chain of Lakes is obviously going down pretty good, but it is about where it should be for this time of year.

Thanks to leaders in Congress, this bill would put into action the historic blueprint that Great Lakes citizens and government officials developed together last December. The bill?s introduction is an essential step in the long-term and ongoing effort to restore the lakes.

Teams I've had in the past couldn't generate points with defense. Like for example the last time we played South Lakes in the playoffs we were bigger, but they got a lead and spread us out. So, it was kind of nice tonight. What goes around comes around and we were able to do that to them a little bit.

Of course the subject matter is controversial, but I decided to do it because I really respect the people behind it, Company Pictures, who've made great television like The Lakes and Shameless, ... It's very dark but it's not gratuitously violent, or exploitative; it's been made responsibly, not sensationally.

South Lakes is improved and we expected a good fight. Fortunately we had more opportunities in the end.

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

This is not a mystery anymore. We know what needs to be done, ... The Great Lakes has gotten nine studies in four years from this administration, and Iraq has gotten $4.5 billion. Give Iraq the studies, and we'll take the money.

Although it's raining today and it will rain throughout the weekend, Florida is still about two feet short of rain in the last two to three years, ... Many of the lakes in central Florida are still running at 25 percent of capacity.

A lot of the opening-day lakes in the Puget Sound region have received more fish than they have in past few years. Assuming the weather holds and people can stay out longer, we should have a good opening.

There were lakes in the middle of the fairways where your landing area would be on two or three holes. And there's nowhere to drop the ball to get relief without compromising the integrity of the drop. So the rules were really compromised. It's just not a good competition that way.

At a time when deformed frogs are being found in lakes and rivers across the nation, it is a dangerous travesty to exempt pesticides from environmental review.

It's a rivalry and everybody wants to come out and see Dwyer and Lakes play. When they beat us earlier, that was the first time I'd lost to them since I was a freshman and I didn't want to lose twice to them my senior year.

It's a tremendous victory for the public interest and for Michigan's economy, much of which is based on tourism and access to Great Lakes beaches.

It's no mistake that many of the lakes polluted with mercury are near power plants. These rules are just designed to excuse the dirtiest plants.

It's the first time we've seen all eight Great Lakes governors and two Canadian provinces agree on standards. This region has been a profligate water waster, and we now have a set of standards on the books that helps get ourselves on the same page on how to conserve this resource.

It may be the most important bill in Congress to protect the Great Lakes from ecological collapse. On average, once every eight months a new invasive species invades the Great Lakes. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

It's become one of the deadliest lakes in Texas in the last few years. It has cloudy water, a lot of brush and the bottom is uneven. In one step you could go from being 3-feet deep in the water, then having it over your head.

The non-native species that invade our waters are one of the greatest threats facing the health and viability of our region's lakes and waterways.

The Bad Pants Open has become a tradition at Indian Lakes Resort, ... It's the only golf outing in which the participants' pants matter more than their score. All participants are required to wear ugly golf pants. The winner of the ugliest golf pants will be inducted into the Bad Pants Hall of Fame.

It'll spin out the water in the lakes and help make it go a little bit further.

It was not that long ago that people couldn't swim in Lake Washington. The regional cooperation that helped clean up Lake Washington now faces the challenge of protecting the Puget Sound and the streams, rivers and lakes of this region,

It went for the heart of the federal protection against diversion of Great Lakes waters. Taking that question off the table for now is a good thing.

It was just such a sense of discovery happening that night, ... We did a tour in the spring -- this is God's honest truth -- and it wasn't really together yet. At 10,000 Lakes Festival, every time we played a song, the chemistry was there. I knew the next phase had begun. Since then, it has gotten better and better.

They've got kids who are as big as anybody. They may not have people at the skill level as Inland Lakes or Central Lake, but they've been able to move the ball on everybody. They're well-coached.

There was a point where we had four ninth-graders out there. My kids played hard, and they represented Lakes basketball well. I'm so proud of them.

The new agreements will improve and protect the health and economic vitality of the Great Lakes region and allow future generations to share the same benefits.

That's a great start to have this kind of team score in the conditions we were playing in (It was windy and snowy at Genoa Lakes Thursday).

The lakes represent a fresh water ecosystem that's unique on our planet, supporting thousands of species, including human beings. These agreements will protect our Great Lakes from the threats of diversions outside this basin.

The lakes on the stocking list can and will change, based on need. We won't be reacting to the problem (of a poor year class), we'll be addressing the problem as it occurs.

The lakes are a nice, flat surface with plenty of space.

I need to learn more tactics, cranking, Carolina rigging and other things. American lakes are much bigger than the lakes in Japan. The lakes here take a lot of time to learn. They have a lot of different kinds of structure, cover and wood, stuff that doesn't exist there. There, you just fish deep structure.

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

in one of the most intensely used recreational lakes in our region, increased scenic value, and very substantial economic benefits to the Lincoln City area.

His leadership, combined with our all-senior defense, will make it much tougher to score on South Lakes this season.

Canada and the U.S. are violating the international laws designed to protect our shared lakes and rivers from pollution. An independent inquiry by the CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation) will uncover why Canada and the U.S. have failed to resolve the dispute by not enforcing the century-old treaty.

We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.