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The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years. Douglas Elliott
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The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.
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The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. Donald Berwick
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A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.
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The 27-week inflow streak into Japan equity funds ended this week as accounting irregularities at an Internet company and a systems failure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange shook investor confidence.
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The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.
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The accounting problems in the U.S. seem to have crossed a significant hurdle on Wednesday, and the external pressures on the Japanese market in general have probably peaked.
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The accounting charges seem to be mostly timing -- instead of earning in one period they have to state them in another period. David Healy
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The answer is there was a shift, not a drop, in demand. Chinese shipments of computers were up more than 20 percent nationally, but fell almost 60 percent in Laredo, more than accounting for the drop in overall Chinese imports.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise. Zadie Smith
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The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.
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The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.
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That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,
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That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.
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We continue to believe that motor carriers should expect modest growth in volumes going forward and that the latest decrease should not alarm the industry.
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Melanoma is really increasing at an alarming rate. Just 10 years ago, you had a 1 in 250 chance of developing malignant melanoma; now it's 1 in 70.
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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, Tom Ridge
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It doesn't seem there's a great deal of alarm
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I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. Pippa Middleton
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We made it a policy to ring the bells for tourists, but it is private property. Some just ring them, but we haven't had any problems.
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We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security.
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell) Elizabeth Gaskell
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Fundamentals for the Bells are going to continue to deteriorate over the next couple of quarters.
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It comes with a licensing program and all the bells and whistles that a full-time primary sponsor would have.
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What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays. Chris Avellone
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If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt belugas. Before long we could have a hunt of a couple thousand Belugas. Once you start commercial whaling in any species, you have to make sure all of the bells and whistles are in place, that all the regulations are there from A to Z. Every time we have had a commercial hunt of whales there has been over-exploitation.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril. Alan Greenspan
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I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
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In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. Henry Charles Carey
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I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.
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Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. Hosea Ballou
latter
He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week. Bill Callahan
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The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. Cory Booker
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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. Martin Heidegger
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As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Rex Stout
might
Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
might special
That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique. Herman Edwards
might trouble
Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher. Brad Johnson
might
might not be an appropriate place for him to stay. Thomas Reid
might
Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough. Chuck Smith
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Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out, Eliot Spitzer
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who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.
might
who might not like what we have to say. Kweisi Mfume
might
Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.
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There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife. Willie Aames
plane time
You'll never find a more accommodating plane than the Cessna 120. I was always anticipating more in the years ahead, when time and the like allowed. Bob King
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Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.
planetary
We're all interdependent and we have a planetary family, Dorothy Nolte
plane stuck
Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.
plane
I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.
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Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet. Edward James Olmos
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life. Barry Commoner
planet
There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself. Holly Holm
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We're willing to work through these amendments. If they want to have these votes, we'll have the votes.
willing
We're very willing to look into it, but we're still at a very preliminary stage. Sara Evans
willing
We aren't willing to concede it won't be ready. Bill Walsh
willing
We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
willingly
I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled. Ben Jonson
willing work
He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder. David Jones
willing
I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.
willing
I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.
willing
We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.