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We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

I don't live on other people's terms.

The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

To me the term "sexual feedom" meant freedom from having sex.

There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," which is very out of fashion these days. If we were to ask people how ads work, most people would say, "They work by tricking people but they don't trick me.

There are some people who are opposed to the term and rather look at the person's trait as being a highly sensitive person. Aron says that highly sensitive people are really quite imaginative, bright and they are over aroused by certain environments. So, what they do is really choose to be in less aroused, active environments. What they've learned is how to protect themselves.

We hear the term 'stadium fatigue' a lot. But if you look at our contributions to the city -- we employ a lot of people, we pay a lot of taxes and we generate a lot of business.

We hope to make the decision at the end of the year that we want to keep him beyond the term of the deal.

We hope to get others involved, including veterans. This is my fifth term on the board and tax relief has always been an issue we've heard about. A lot of older people are leaving town because they just can't afford taxes. They're not getting the increases in social security and we're asking for 5, 6 , 7 percent more in taxes.

Yesterday's high now become key resistance. Because the longer term trends all remain up, there are lots of support zones below current prices. The big Nasdaq stocks have been the weak link in the rally, as demonstrated again yesterday by being the only major average to fall.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

The fact is that people have started to dismissively apply that term to stories that focus on women and their relationships,

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

The real driver of enhanced valuation is going to be AOL in the near term and the long term,

This problem of overcrowded jails has been with us for a long time, even before the president's term began in 2001.

There are varying opinions as to whether you do a surgery on this and there are prevailing opinions that say no, that the strength is good. That's something he and the doctors will have to sort through. Obviously, if they decide that it would put him in additional risk long term and if surgery is required, then clearly that would do him for the rest of the season.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

There's no medical term for what I've got.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before.

When the new home construction and everything does begin in New Orleans, it is going to be tight and it will have a long term effect.

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.

The price of oil is going to be the overwhelming factor in how concerned people are about the economy in the short term and about the strength of consumer spending.

When you define yourself as a protector-in-chief, your accountability is higher. On Sept. 11, you could reasonably say he hadn't had time to take charge, whereas at the beginning of your second term you really can't say it's someone else's responsibility.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen (footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction")

We made a new low on the Nasdaq yesterday and on a very, very short term basis it's oversold and I think that we can expect this kind of activity from time to time where the market gives us some relief, some bounce.

We made a decision to go with straight entertainment programming in late night, ... That's just basically a scheduling opportunity that we felt over the long term had more potential.

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Sentiment is good in the UK at the moment, if you look across valuations they're not excessive. It's currently just being led up by miners, there's got to be a bubble at some point but if you take a very long term view, commodity prices have probably got further to go.

So in the short term it might put pressure on management. But in the long term, it creates a lot of bad morale.

She should recognize that, and fulfill her pledge of gender parity. I think that is the campaign promise that will most shape her term in office.

On a more intermediate term basis it raises additional questions about the future application footprint, Project Fusion.

Short term price trends will continue to largely depend on gold.

Short term I think (the euro) will dribble back to below the $1.20 handle and ... we're kind of in a probably $1.17 to $1.22 range for the next couple of months.

Short term is tough. We're living now with the consequences of policy decisions that were made over the past several years ? in some cases, over the past several decades. The core of the problem is skyrocketing demand in the United States and other countries and instability among key suppliers.

Short term I don't think it will have a dramatic effect. But in the medium term and the long term it shakes up the equilibrium and basically plunges us into the unknown.

Short term events like this which are unpredictable can drive a high price floor for crude prices. That is why we are seeing pricing in the high 50s even though the market is well supplied.

Simply defined, a residual value is the amount of money for which you could buy a car at the end of a lease term and it's a major part of the mathematical equation that determines what your monthly payments will ultimately be.

Since we have confidence that these favorable factors will continue in the future, we are pleased to extend the term of our agreement.

Since the second term started, I think they've been moving toward an undeclared policy of regime change, as long as it doesn't require too much effort by the United States. It's regime change on the cheap.

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Single family starts will likely remain elevated until we see a significant increase in long term interest rates.

Most people are unaware of how big an event the World Cup is, or of its ability to generate advertising revenue. What the World Cup does is help anchor a franchise and lock-in longer term advertisers.

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

One of the signs is that when companies do pre-announce, they haven't been hit as hard this time around, so that suggests the market is starting to look longer term and saying these values are not that unreasonable.

One of our short term goals is to begin a feasibility study for a new basketball practice facility for both our men's and women's basketball teams, and this move is the first step in making that happen.

One of legendary architect Pete Dye's most celebrated courses, Teeth of the Dog is named for a local term describing the island's jagged-edged coral reefs. The Caribbean-bordering par 3s are the Dog's main draw and down on the fifth and the seventh holes, you're so close to the water that you can feel the spray.

Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

Music was a big part of our friendship, but it wasn't the only part. Danny was the textbook definition of the term 'good friend.' He would do anything for you. Anyone who knew Danny knew this and knew the kind, gentle spirit he possessed ... The world lost a good one today, and I am deeply saddened by it.

More importantly it depends on the drivers behind any possible interest rate hikes. Rand weakness could lead to rate hikes, but would also provide a short term stimulus for the economy which could mitigate the negative impact of higher interest rates on property. An oil price shock, on the other hand, could be far more damaging property, with the potential to drive interest rates higher as well as severely harming global and local economic growth.

My guess is, if you are a long term investor -- it's probably a good time to pounce on the stock.

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.

My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that I will be able to stick with it for the long term and continue rolling out the program of work that we've set out for the business.

No, I don't think there is. Sometimes it's hard to give meaning to a constitutional term in a particular case. But you don't look to your own values and beliefs. You look outside yourself to other sources. This is the basis for ? you know, judges wear black robes because it doesn't matter who they are as individuals. That's not going to shape their decision. It's their understanding of the law that will shape their decision.

Pessimism about the short term has created opportunity.

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

Personally, I would be resistant to that and I believe that in listening to my colleagues on the committee, there doesn't seem to be a lot of momentum in that direction. I think that over the last two years there is a certain magic that has evolved over the course of this tournament, and I wouldn't want to fool around with that in the short term in regards to expanding the field in any way.

Nobody considers that a very healthy situation. You have a number of very high-profile, important cases coming this next term that, from the perspective of this administration, were decided incorrectly in the courts below. You need five justices to reverse. A 4-4 tie just means the decision below is affirmed.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Near term direction will be determined by flows from Mutual Funds and corporate results. I expect stock specific activity to continue. Use declines to buy this market as we are in a structural bull run.

On the question of mediating between the central government and 'pan-democrats', it may be better for me to redirect the efforts to other areas of development as the remainder of my term will be too short for it.

On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.

One of the huge advantages to wireless broadband is that you can get it up and running really quickly. But how it develops in the long term there depends on how badly the infrastructure is damaged, and we don't know the answer to that yet.

I wouldn't term it all as a directive. He just talked to him to kind of gauge how things are going.

I would prefer to see it remain at two years. The two year term has been the law of city council.

If we don't get rain in the next two weeks, we'll see some long term affects on the wheat.

If they left, in the short term there would be an increase in violence.

If we can get signed term sheets on these two outstanding issues, that should give everyone confidence that this plan can be implemented.

I don't believe we can say we are considering it in the near term at all.

I don't agree that it shouldn't all be in the public domain. In fact I think it all should be in the public domain... it's private land, not public land, which means that if we're gonna get it back, and I'll use that term advisedly, it has to be purchased rather than just change the law on how it's gonna be managed. .. It should be all of it. There may be different solutions for different particular places, but it should all be treated together. Be unreasonable. You can do it.

I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public,

I am sorry he didn't see his long term future with us,

But we can't have land invasions, we can't allow that. We will provide temporary shelter while we wait for a long term solution. But this (relocation) is the start of that long term solution.

Building a forest with financial support from Guangdong will improve the ecological environment along the river's upper reaches and it should become an effective way in the long term to fight against salt tides.

Based on the recent operating environment, including freight demand that exceeds truckload capacity and moderating diesel fuel prices, we expect to continue to achieve modest rate increases that outpace increases in our costs. Our intermediate term goal remains an operating ratio of 90 percent or better.

Basically what it shows is that NBC is not confident that Matt Lauer can carry the show in the short term until a new partner gets up to speed.

I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out to my farm in the county, ... But over the weekend I decided it would be better for Gray for me to spend this last four years as mayor. If I stayed as mayor pro-tem, it would be like I was condoning the way Mayor Briley is doing things, and I don't.

I hate the term 'match' because I want to 'better' people. But in terms of intensity, we couldn't even match them until it was 32-8. Georgetown was dialed in at every facet of the game tonight.

I hate to say it, but my term as governor lasts for 2 1/2 more years, and for 2 1/2 more years I'm going to be standing in front of you saying: Be patient, ... Life as usual in Mississippi is not something we're going to recover for a long time?. That's just a fact.

If Indonesia proceeds with reforms like they're doing right now, we still see a chance in the medium term that they belong to the double-B investment universe again.

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

I can't imagine a new team will do a lot better, at least not right away. I think they went after a short term solution. I wish they would've worked with us for a long term solution.

I can't give you one term to describe us today. There is such a mix of visitors.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.