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While we applaud the difficult decision to reduce the workforce in order to enhance shareholder value, yesterday's restructuring announcement leads us to suspect headwinds may be stronger than previously indicated. Brad Stephens
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We want to applaud and celebrate where steps forward have occurred, but criticize and lament where steps have not been taken. We're talking about an issue that is of life-and-death consequence in the nation's capital. Walter Smith
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Obviously, Sacramento has been very successful, and we applaud them for that success, Greg Erwin
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I applaud Malaysia's leadership in ratifying this important convention, which creates an international legal framework that will help attract finance to the aviation industry. Giovanni Bisignani
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I applaud him for getting through it, ... But I think it probably had a little effect on him. Phil Garner
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I applaud her courage. It takes a big person to take a step back.
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I applaud Director (Robert) Mueller for reaching out to Iowa State and other universities.
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I applaud Congress for the passage of FALCPA. Chairman Joe Barton and Ranking Member John D. Dingell in the House, Energy and Commerce Committee were instrumental in moving this bipartisan legislation forward. Representative Nita Lowey was the original sponsor of the legislation. FDA also applauds the dedication and leadership of the legislation's sponsors in the Senate, which include Senators Judd Gregg and Edward Kennedy.
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More and more people are doing their giving with a few clicks of a mouse rather than writing and mailing checks because it's faster, easier and more cost effective for the charities they support. That's especially true in December, when people make most of their donations. This December, we're seeing the online giving trend on a remarkable scale with double last year's contributions, despite the fact that people already gave so much online for disaster relief this year. We applaud Yahoo! for helping to encourage this outpouring of online giving and ensuring more resources get to many charities that need our help more than ever.
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
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I think when those hearings are held or completed, public opinion will be such that he will be removed from office with full bipartisan support. Steve Forbes
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A big, bipartisan vote sends a message to the Iraqis and the White House. It's very, very significant.
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Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.
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I speak to the chairman all the time because he's close to the team,
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It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.
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Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.
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None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.
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No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.
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Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.
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I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?
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For the time frame that Ralph was the party chair, there is no doubt that the party chairman in general wielded a lot of power, and they wielded it a lot differently than I do today and we have done in the past few years. We don't do things the same way that we used to do. Ken Jenkins
commerce science sorts
Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
commerce superior
The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place. Jeb Bush
commerce sells
Success is what sells. Andy Warhol
commerce likely ministry rules slight
The long-awaited rules are likely to be issued in a month, when the Ministry of Commerce has made some slight amendments.
commerce critical gains internet linux year
This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.
commerce loathe navy pay work
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
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I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone. Bill Paxton
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I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation. Paul Casey
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It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,
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The vice president of the United States is always a big draw. There will be people who want to see him and want to support the party, and this is a year where having some friends in the Republican National Committee is gonna be important.
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We've got all of our committee that is going to recommend ratification, which is going to happen in the next five days.
committees guess served stay time
I didn't stay out of politics. I served on committees but after awhile...I guess it was just time for me to come back. Mary Ford
committee quality
Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.
committee deals judiciary known matter ought
If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals ... I think that's a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people, Arlen Specter
committee good teams
I have no idea what the (selection) committee thinks. I just know a lot of good teams are out there.
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These initial findings are troubling and the committee ... will continue with its own investigation of the STAR program to get at the truth and inform Congress for the future. Olympia Snowe
congress thanksgiving
We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,
congress great keeping people traditions
Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way. Dennis Hastert
congress mentality understand
There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.
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We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.
congress following orders
We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them. Michael White
congress following orders
We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.
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If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.
congress crucial
OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets. Tom Daschle
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It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.
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This is really happening because of her dedication. She would not let it go until it was a done deal.
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
dedication idols professional-competence
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna
dedication absolutes
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead! Bruce Lee
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Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.
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You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.
dedication ideas two
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes. Abraham Lincoln
dedication sound improvement
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started. Dr. Dre
dedication ideas curiosity
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work. Randy Schekman
edward
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow. David Strathairn
energy game heads maybe played playing second tough
Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus. Kirk Hinrich
energy government operate
so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint. Jon Huntsman
energy gave steady
Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench. James Jones
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The risk of spillover from the rising trend in energy prices will likely prompt the Fed to head off more lasting damage.
energy higher no-energy
All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object Barry Long
energy spontaneity stage
I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me. Brooke Burke
energy oil
We're an energy city. In my lifetime, it doesn't get better than $60 oil and $11 gas. Jim Gray
energy attention remember
Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy. Deepak Chopra
energy entirely force honest police simply spent state succeed
Entirely too much energy of our state police force is spent controlling honest citizens, simply because it is something they can succeed in doing. Robert Burke
fda doctors government
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don't have enough competition. There's a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications. Ron Paul
fda people
The FDA has let the American people down,
fda vegetables firsts
For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable. Conan O'Brien
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'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
include program random testing
A program that does not include random testing is not very effective.
included luxury option people popular safety side standard
Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models, ... If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.
include
This could include flags. It could also include the awnings around the complex." () Scott McClellan
include lost
We lost 37 of our 90 rental properties. Well, 38 if you include the one that burned.
included liked movies music musicals
'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music. Jason Moore
include mistakenly nowadays
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. Julian Fellowes
include mundane snaps special
I told them just to include the really special runs, not the mundane ones. Well, there's over 200 snaps on there. Bill Snyder
include model
We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means, ... What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.
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When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. Lykke Li
joey standing talking
We should be talking about other people. We should be talking about Joey and I, because we've already been standing up there on the podium.
joe miss wish
Obviously, I'm going to miss Joe a lot. He wanted to try something else. What can you say? You wish him the best. Steve Nash
joey matched second unlucky
Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.
joe
Joe was all over the place. He was terrific. Al Horford
joe
Joe is not with us and that's all that I can say about it. Bobby Bowden
joe load
It was something I had to at least try because Joe is such a load down low. He's so physical, you've got to do anything you can.
joe louis reminding tease time
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever. Muhammad Ali
joe
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
john
So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey. John Fahey
john kerry says voted war
Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference? Peter King
john
This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.
john state tickled work
When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.
john kerry opportunity problem
The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.
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Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris. Alex Pettyfer
john master writer
I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman. Philip Kerr
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... various work sites and pick up stray nails and returned them, and clearly, he never lost his perspective. My condolences to you and your family. Sincerely, John Kennedy. Larry King
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Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people, Dick Cheney
leadership sports athlete
The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit. Babe Ruth
leadership men people
There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything. Cesar Chavez
leadership jobs people
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. Charles R. Swindoll
leadership courage physicians
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. Desiderius Erasmus
leadership thinking skills
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. Daniel H. Pink
leadership thinking brain
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
leadership independent self
If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.
leadership organization goal
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
leadership jobs zero
We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
member stranger
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. Claire McCaskill
members opinions secure
As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.
member people
People say you have to be a member before you're serviced. No, you do not,
members secretary senate
The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.
member salary
Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office. Jason Chaffetz
member outrage split twitter
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge. Trevor Noah
members enjoy
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy. Amartya Sen
members feds wit
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. Daniel Defoe
members profession
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. Clay Shirky
moving people long
As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound. Ben Mendelsohn
moving winning mountain
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height. Barbara Kingsolver
moving grief thinking
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
moving emotional mind
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. Ayn Rand
moving giving earth
Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
moving waiting battle
There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb Miley Cyrus
moving neighborhood inflation
Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving. Alan Cranston
moving-on running home
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. Al Franken
moving lines bob
In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. James Wolcott
originality fame comic
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. Steve Martin
originality sometimes worn
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original. Michael Eisner
originality enough accepted
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. Anthony Storr
originally passed
I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas. Ray Stevens
originality unfaithful translate
The original is unfaithful to the translation. Jorge Luis Borges
originals gershwin
It is always possible to create something original. George Gershwin
original
When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one. Freddie Prinze, Jr.
passages ifs keep-going
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. Joyce Johnson