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I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

There are many people of integrity in both parties who will continue to oppose this radical effort to significantly weaken one of our country's most important environmental laws,

We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

We have been and will be conducting a radical portfolio review process in the U.S., ... The objective is to assess the positioning of our divisions there to obtain critical mass and raise profitability.

This will be a defining moment -- President Bush has to pick between what mainstream America wants and what the radical right demands. He can make good on his promises to unite the country by reaching out across party lines to find a consensus nominee who'll respect privacy rights, value women's freedom and defend constitutional traditions.

This result is the strongest evidence to date that the industry may have at least seven years of breathing room before any radical changes in chip-making techniques would be needed.

This represents a radical change in the way people have thought about aging.

This report increases pressure on the government and the Turner Commission to bring forward radical proposals to tackle the future of pensions.

the radical right wing of the Republican Party.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.

With the company's radical position, we couldn't agree on a new contract, so hopefully with a third party involved it will help.

FAIR has always had the support of many Hispanic Americans, but given recent events, many people in that community have come to recognize that they need an independent voice in this national debate. Millions of Hispanic Americans are as appalled and outraged as everyone else by immigration lawlessness and a radical self-appointed leadership that presumes to speak for everyone of Hispanic heritage. Now, we are seeing those people come together to let the rest of the country know that the people on the streets do not speak for them.

Both the movies and the marketing will have a pretty radical aesthetic. We're going to try to be bold.

We see no indications in the marketplace that the radical Internet business transformation in practices like customer service, supply-chain management, employee training, empowerment, and e-commerce that is taking place around the world today is slowing -- in fact, we believe it is accelerating globally,

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.

The government has a really difficult time getting people who are both in the radical Islamic community and reliable. Usually people like this don't come to the government voluntarily, and usually they don't come totally clean. It takes a thief to know a thief.

We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue.

We had a radical clash over policy programs, a pact now would be incomprehensible for the citizens. There can be no coup de theatre, no rabbit pulled out of a hat.

We wanted to do something that is student-, parent- and teacher-friendly and not be too radical that people wouldn't understand it. This is the new way education is changing.

We've had runs that have declined from hundreds of thousands (of fish) to a few thousand. It's unprecedented. We felt it was cause for radical actions.

We all went through this more than a year ago. There isn't a radical difference between what was said today and what was said last year under a different chairman and CEO.

We all went through this more than a year ago, ... There isn't a radical difference between what was said today and what was said last year under a different chairman and CEO.

What is now required is that we should, as a country, stay on course to ensure that our economic objectives come to fruition. The close range in the voting is indicative of how serious and close the country had gone towards being expelled and how critical it is for Zimbabwe to urgently implement radical policy measures that will stabilise and grow the economy, especially in areas such as agriculture, mining, tourism, manufacturing as well as in the parastatal and local authority fields,

We cannot afford for the radical left to impose their values on the West.

We don't represent the crazy radical left here. We represent the majority of Americans who think this is a wrong war and it is time to end it.

What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society? ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.

We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.

Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment that has allowed this radicalism to exist. The key to success is changing the environment to make radical Islam completely unacceptable. . . . It's not just draining the swamp. You have to poison the sea.

Believe me, no one in the SPD will allow Merkel to win the elections. There's no chance that we will make this woman, with such radical economic views, chancellor.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Cool consumer electronics products are migrating to the cellular platform, enabling consumers and business travelers to experience mobile entertainment and workplace productivity on the road. New OMAP 3 processors will enable a radical change in how the mobile phone will be used, making it an indispensable work/life tool.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

Even if he doesn't win, he could be a radical voice for the left.

Even if Bush were to win, there's no mandate to do any radical legislation.

Even if Angela Merkel wanted to copy Thatcher's radical renewal program, she would fail bitterly in Germany's political system, where federal states have a strong veto right.

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'

These radical groups are determined to stop the meat processing industry with whatever it takes?full page ads in the New York Times or filing frivolous lawsuits with no standing. In the meantime, I've not seen them put one penny of their money toward actually caring for unwanted horses. It's a problem they'd like to sweep away and pretend doesn't exist.

These proposals are a radical revision of the existing framework. Next year's proxies on executive pay are going to look pretty different.

The support they gained is not support for radical changes.

Thank goodness there is now one less political activist at the FDA who puts radical feminist ideology above women's health.

Thank goodness, there is now one less political activist at the FDA who puts radical feminist ideology above women's health.

So, our choices, however radical they may seem, are extremely well-founded.

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.

Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and something very radical needs to be done like closing down and trying to start anew.

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Radical surgery like that proposed at Delphi is no solution at all. It is a formula for demise, if not confrontation.

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

After I began writing, I thought, I'm on to something, but it's kind of radical and certainly very vulnerable and very different.

Coach Pitino sat me and Delray down and told us, 'If you take one shot, we'll lose,' ... I don't know if it was radical as much as he was saying to us, 'Here's what we have to do to take advantage of the way Georgetown is playing.'

Anyone who understands economics knows radical budget restrictions are in the works.

A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Austen has a strong feminist vision of marital happiness. And that was a radical viewpoint for its time.

You may read from time to time the voice of small radical groups. But this voice will not change the fact that mainstream Indonesia will continue to be moderate, tolerant and democratic.

This is a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government.

This is a radical assault on the separation of powers. I can't imagine this House going for it.

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

This isn't a question of hearts and minds. It's a question of bodies and gore. This is a network, a confederacy of evil that will stop at nothing to advance its radical agenda.

This is one of those issues that you just can't put down, ... It is a fantastic read, and will leave you with no doubt whatsoever that America's colleges today have become radical indoctrination centers ? and your kids are the target.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

This extraordinary act demonstrated outstanding dedication and commitment to his research, ... produced one of the most radical and important changes in the last 50 years in the perception of a medical condition.

This approach was radical in 1938 when the play was first produced. Audiences were accustomed to realistic plays that often elaborately emphasized the specific details of time and place and, for Wilder, lacked the quality of universality and theatricality.

This is a far more controlled and less radical approach.

This individual had been engaged in flight training in the United States, and the FBI believed he was possibly a radical fundamentalist.

A lot of the goals are going to relate to spending, as opposed to going after a radical tax-reform package.

A lot of people were blaming it on the beautiful innovative structure, the design of the Millennium Bridge itself, which was a radical design. But that is not true.

There was still quite a bit of political eggshell-walking, but this marks the first time that Bush has identified and described the real goals of radical Islam - to re-establish the mythical caliphate and the global dominance of Islam,

This is why people talk about radical moves down in the dollar. They just can't see an improvement of the trade balance happening any other way.

There seems to be a level of -- for lack of a better word -- denial about how permeated some aspects of the society are with sympathizers for radical causes,

The more rickety the situation (of the budget), the more radical tax cuts are needed...If they jump-start a rise in employment and boost the economy, the period of budget instability will be rather short. If we do it badly, instability will be prolonged.

It was radical for anybody to do this. You could see that it was going to be a challenge from the get-go.

It's about the ability of human beings to change their lives using this radical new technology just the way Jesse did. Because he would not be standing here without the Internet. I wouldn't know him. He wouldn't be at this university,

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

For 2006, the Civic underwent the most radical transformation in its 33-year history. It is a cornerstone of the Honda lineup, and we're delighted that Motor Trend has recognized the new levels of styling, performance, technology, safety and value that characterize the new Civic. Customers have validated our direction too, as evidenced by strong sales of the new model.

It's the most insane and radical fleeting sport you can find, ... It's such a split-second decision between land, air and water that it really gives you the release.

It may be the technological equivalent to the shot heard 'round the world. If Massachusetts follows through with this plan, it will be a radical departure from how Microsoft and other businesses work with state governments.

It's a pretty radical experiment. Nobody has done it quite like this before.

It's highly unlikely anyone President Bush appoints will be much different. There will be no radical change. The question is what flavor of conservative.

It's quite the opposite. They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they're happy with what they've accomplished at work, they've had their children, and now there's this 'Now what?' question. 'Do I want something more? Different? What do I want that's going to give me a sense of meaning and purpose?' I've actually had patients make radical changes. One woman left her job as CEO of a company and opened a craft shop.

It's quite the opposite, ... They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they're happy with what they've accomplished at work, they've had their children, and now there's this 'Now what?' question. 'Do I want something more? Different? What do I want that's going to give me a sense of meaning and purpose?' I've actually had patients make radical changes. One woman left her job as CEO of a company and opened a craft shop.

The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.

It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is, because there's no sense of the structure that everyone is so used to.

The Berlin Wall was a mark of contradictions in the world, and it became a mark of radical changes in the world which touched the majority of humankind, ... But the way towards abolishing it was long and painful.

The alarm bells should be ringing in the palace. It could be the beginning of a more radical shift.

Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left.

It's certainly not as radical as the headline number suggests, but it's a little bit softer than expected.

It scares the heck out of me. It carves out an unprecedented exemption for agriculture. It seems like a radical departure from the way we have governed for a couple hundred years in this country.

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

I've had a great time. I've had a great career and I've obviously had a very radical conversion in my life. It's very tangible. It's very real. It allowed me and enabled me to become the person that I couldn't on my own. Which is the most powerful part of this whole equation for me. And now I want to do whatever I'm supposed to do to continue to be obedient to that.

No matter who you're talking to, they all seem to be saying that the sky is falling. That's why we think our policy paper is so important. It shows clearly the sky is not falling - and that there is really no justification to embrace the radical solutions being put forward by some employers.

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

They decided she was inadequately radical or insufficiently aggressive for their purposes, so they gave her the boot.

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

The feeling is that Bush might call for a study, a commission, a blue ribbon panel on tax change, but that, if you start talking about radical tax reform, it becomes a big, fat target for criticism.