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CEOs will rarely admit it in public, but privately they say they're worried about having enough qualified people to fill leadership roles as baby boomers retire. So more big companies now are actively analyzing where the gaps are likely to be, and which skills they need to be giving people the chance to develop right now.

Central banks rarely intervene unilaterally, and when they do, it's a sign of weakness.

Based on what people I've talked to have said, I think that threats are fairly commonplace, but rarely escalate into violence.

Bases loaded, nobody out, you've got to find a way to score. Against a team like this, you've got to come away with at least one run. They very rarely give you those kinds of opportunities.

Imam Hussain is logic for all who listen, but we rarely do. We keep finding sins others own, and 'always' skip our own.

I felt bad because of the kids and his family, but she was rarely there. He was really lonely. I made him happy and in a way gave him what he wanted.

I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

I, for example, used to take appliances apart when they broke in an attempt to fix them, which I rarely did successfully, being a kid.

Great things are rarely easy things. They are most often risky things, with just as great a chance for failure as for success.

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are so ingrained in our society we rarely stop to think about it. I'm able to write what I want--dark fiendish plots without fear. . . . I can criticize the FBI, the CIA, the president and Congress without giving it a thought.

For so many years we've prepared our students to go into higher education and they rarely returned to the community. Hopefully, our students will now be educated here and go to work here.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

I don't ride ski areas all that much, and I don't do contests and I don't go in snowboard shops and I rarely read the snowboard magazines.

I don't think people schedule for surprises in their lives. They schedule as though things are going to work smoothly, and they rarely do.

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

He has never been the strongest or the biggest or the most talented athletically, but I rarely see him outplayed.

He has great hockey sense and he can score. He rarely gives up scoring chances against him.

He does have, underneath a sort of serious exterior, a really wonderful sense of humor, ... It rarely shows itself in the trial lawyer mode, but it certainly does in personal relationships.

He makes his way around the clinic and we rarely see him run into things. He still goes in the lobby and hops on benches and greets people as they come in. He sits back and senses if he should approach when a dog comes in; he will make a judgment call. If it's a high-energy dog, bouncing around, he'll leave.

What is broken about the way we are handling matters involving subpoenas to the media? We rarely issue subpoenas to the media seeking information about confidential sources. And when we do, it is only after painstakingly careful review and meticulous adherence to our internal guidelines.

have rarely fallen and certainly not by very much.

Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

He's been doing a lot more travelling and seems to have a new lease of life. It's clear that he is much happier in himself since meeting the priest. He's gone from someone who rarely invited friends to dine at his home, to doing a lot more lavish entertaining.

Hurricanes rarely sustain such extreme winds for much time. However we see no obvious large-scale effects to cause a substantial weakening the system and it is expected that the hurricane will be of Category 4 or 5 intensity when it reaches the coast.

He just really rarely requires that his actors go to the gym, which was a plus for me. And I didn't have to hang from a 50-foot building.

He is very steady. He very rarely makes a mental error. I think he improved all spring.

He is very instinctive and a very smart football player. He is rarely out of position and that is the reason why he makes the plays he makes.

Half the businesses we surveyed are family-owned. About a quarter of these owners expect to retire or sell sometime in the next five years -- but only 13 percent expect the businesses to stay in the family -- with 35 percent having no idea what they will do or expecting to close down. Owners often spend an entire lifetime building their businesses -- but rarely give thought to what will happen when they are ready to retire. As a family-owned business ourselves, we strongly encourage businesses to start planning now -- to minimize taxes and address other financial and emotional considerations.

Jacob plays at such a high energy level. I've rarely seen a freshman with that much passion. He'll bounce back, as will (the team). There were a lot of positives in this game. I'm disappointed with the loss, but pleased with the effort given by everyone.

Jon's a really strong kid, but what has helped him the most is his agility has improved from last year. He has great cutting ability and defenses rarely get a clean hit on him.

I symbolized doping, ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

I think it is definitely a realistic goal; that is why he set the goal. You very rarely set goals that you don't think you can actually achieve. I think in his case he knows it's possible, and he's confident in his ability. And this offense can get him to 2,000 yards. It's definitely a challenge, but it is definitely there for him.

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life experiences are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be.

It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be.

I think anyone out there would say I rarely see CHP out there patrolling and it's because they don't have enough units out there and people to patrol.

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

I think that's been the case all year. We don't take anything away defensively, we don't get loose balls, we don't get long rebounds. You rarely see us get a steal. And then we turn the ball over so many times without getting a shot and if you have any deficiencies at all on defense, you're getting killed in transition.

I was worried because Brandon rarely gets hurt and he never embellishes when he gets hurt. I was concerned it might be a blow to the head. But he was fine, as we all saw. And you would have a hard time getting him out even if he wasn't fine.

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.

Just because we're tight doesn't mean we talk all the time, especially when you're trying to beat each other. Very rarely do the managers talk to each other after the game.

Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.

Jewelry is art, wearable art. We don't want to see the same thing on two people. We rarely carry the same piece twice. Madison is too small of a town to have two of my customers at the same function wearing the same piece.

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

Our store visits suggested that the company's various fascias were discounting earlier and more heavily than the competition and that is rarely a good sign at this time of year.

Our findings provide a rational explanation for why H 5 N 1 viruses rarely infect and spread from human to human, although they can replicate efficiently in the lungs.

Our 23 million patriots ? our veterans of World War II and Korea ? are rarely recognized other than on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Yet these men and women are as patriotic as those who founded this nation.

Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

People may not have told the truth about some aspects of their lives, but they rarely lied about their primary asset, land!

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must.

LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults.

Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.

I was very familiar with him and Eddie (Jones) and Rick Brunson. I just know what he's about. He's a steady basketball player, rarely makes mistakes on the floor.

I was very familiar with him and Eddie (Jones) and Rick Brunson, ... I just know what he's about. He's a steady basketball player, rarely makes mistakes on the floor.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

I thought it was over when we had the ball at the 2-yard line. Didn't you? Of course, I thought it was over. Everyone did. Then a guy who very rarely fumbles fumbled, and Ben did a heck of a job to tackle the guy. He saved our year. It was a great play. When you're in your goal-line offense, you have all big guys out there and the only guy with any speed is the quarterback.

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Most Red Cross volunteers are members of congregations. I've rarely met any who weren't. And people are donating all kinds of foodstuffs, clothing and other supplies to the shelters that are near them instead of taking them to their churches,

The 24-hour is a different kind of race. The fast times and the fastest car rarely win this race. You can't run wide open for 24 hours. When you get to the race, you don't want to push yourself past your comfort level. You have to conserve the car at least until midnight.

The 1-billion-barrel estimate was a pre-drill estimate based on everything going exactly right. That rarely occurs in an oil well. But this is still one heck of a big find.

That's unbelievable in itself. I don't see how that could ever happen. It's hard enough trying to play one season and play every game. Only a handful of people do that every year. Rarely do they do it over and over again.

I was overwhelmed at their creativity and dedication to making what they felt was a really good stamp that consumers in the school would buy. They were so confident that (the teachers) rarely had to be at either post-office location. The students knew exactly what to do and welcomed the challenge.

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

When the athletes come to the Olympic Games, it is rarely about the muscles anymore. It is all about the muscles between the ears.

You just try to make him laugh or just try to do things to take his mind away from it, because you know that he's thinking about it, and we're thinking about. We rarely bring it up. We just try to take his mind off it and keep him happy.

We played very hard and we played pretty well for most of the game. The bottom line is they're more talented probably than we are and we have to play a very good game to beat them and hope they're not at their best. And they're very rarely not at their best.

We had to take that into account. We also have to remember that rarely do I-AA football programs host seven regular-season games. Some of them only do five, and there was a point where we were going to have eight this year.

We've lost some games we should have won. But very rarely do we get beat by 20.

We're still trying to get to the bottom of it. In these situations, it's rarely black and white, and what's first reported usually isn't what it is.

We came out in the third quarter and acted like we were walking in the park. Then as the game gets tight, we try to turn that light switch back on. Very rarely in this league are you going to be able to do that.

Typically we see them during the week. The times tend to vary. Sometimes it's early in the morning or near closing time. We rarely see anything on the weekend.

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.

The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,

Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days, ... But these times demand it because the alternative -- politicized, haphazard evaluation without the benefit of time and facts -- may well result in an intelligence community that is damaged and a country that is more at risk.

Unfortunately, this is very difficult to do, and is rarely accomplished correctly. Many consumers install a grab bar with only one or two screws passing into the wall studs, creating an installation that's not solid or secure.

Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

The pins were a little harder today and I think the scores reflected that. Aiken had a pretty big lead and they were going to have to play poorly in order for us to catch up, and that's something they very rarely do.

We advise clients that if they don't take the package, chances are slim there will be an equal package again and there rarely will be a better one.

We actually laid eighteen hundred feet of water into the fire scene. We had to put two fire trucks in between the hydrant here at the end of Apache and the fire to relay the water in, something that is rarely done in Savannah.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, ... and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made -- but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to -- the first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.

Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s

Traditional icons are actually written, meaning that the artist meditates seriously and privately, in some cases for hours, before beginning. This puts the artist in a specific frame of mind and soul. The goal is for the Holy Spirit to guide the way the artist writes the work itself. Very rarely does the artist sign their name. (The work is) done anonymously as a devotion to God. Traditionally, only natural materials should be used in the production, such as pigments that bring the actual work closer to nature, and to God.

The deflator is rarely revised, so this one revised this much is probably significant. We are seeing more and more inflation pressure percolating to the surface.

The definition is so bizarre and mechanical that rarely do things work that the way the law suggests they should work.

The death of a parent is rarely expected and never accepted.

While strikes in Chile rarely tend to last for very long, any disruption to production or shipments will lend support to copper prices given the strong demand environment and lack of spare material.

Though evidence shows that the terrorists are interested in acquiring nuclear weapons to use against our cities, a learned writer for the New York Review of Books insists that the real weapons of mass destruction are world poverty and environmental abuse. Of course, world poverty is rarely mentioned by terrorists, and those known to be involved have almost all been well fed and are well to do.

We clearly need more meeting rooms, and since people rarely use locker rooms at public courses, the locker rooms are being converted.