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August is the big month because that's when the bulk of the back-to-school revenues are generated, ... But we got some very positive signs in July, especially with apparel sales showing the strongest monthly gains. Apparel sales are important because they provide the first indication of how consumers are spending their discretionary income. Ken Perkins
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Apparel remains one of the more dominant product categories during the holiday season, mirroring offline holiday retail behavior. Heather Dougherty
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We've had the biggest hits in the history of sports marketing with the U.S. Olympic apparel and the Canadian Olympic apparel. It's obviously ingrained in the public consciousness. Michael Budman
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Kmart's sales for October were on plan despite softer apparel sales due to unseasonably warm weather during the latter half of the month. Sales volumes for the third quarter were near expectations. Categories showing particular strength for the month included home appliances and electronics, do-it-yourself, home decor, cosmetics and fragrances, consumables, stationery and pharmaceuticals. Floyd Hall
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We think apparel is where we have the greatest opportunity now. It is an embarrassingly small part of our business, and we feel we have a lot of potential there. Jim Davis
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Inflation is obviously a little bit higher than expected. Food and apparel were up. This is not going to stand in the way of further Fed easing. Jim Sullivan
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And that drove increased customer visit frequency. And what Wal-Mart found was that while they got extra sales from food, the real benefits were what it did to their general merchandise and apparel business, which has higher margins. Phil Jamieson
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Once the apparel line gets rolling and you have a couple other major endorsements her earning could reach 30-40 million dollars a year. There is such a shortage of women in the market place. Brandon Steiner
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Consumers have a way of pulling it together for the holidays. We could see weakness in apparel and footwear sales but electronics, entertainment products and gift cards could do very well in the fourth quarter. Richard Hastings
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a flexible plan that includes pulling our troops back from the densely populated areas where they are suffering the worst casualties and to bring them home. Patrick Leahy
areas attractive market rural
Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies. Chad Anderson
areas bus drive school
There will be school tomorrow, but there are some areas we can?t do bus pickups. Some areas, if we had to drive to now, would be pretty shaky. Gary Compton
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The schedule doesn't get any easier, ... Our job is to do everything we can to help him. His job is obviously to make plays and move this football team and help us score and win games, and eliminate turnovers, negative plays, sacks. Those are areas that must be cleaned up in a hurry. And he'll be the quarterback this week again. Hopefully he can do that. Jon Gruden
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We are talking about a network of marine protected areas that is defined from both an ecological and eco-system perspective as well as from the perspective of the users. Achim Steiner
areas few vast
There are no areas where no NGOs are going but there are vast areas where very few NGOs are going. Anja Beer
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We have just completed a system safety audit. We are looking at all aspects of the operation and working to make improvements in the areas where we identify a need. Maggie Lynch
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We have instructed all our supporters and cadres to go the polling stations in their areas and do whatever they can to stop voting. Krishna Sitaula
areas business industry model nice operate research
We've staked out as our business model to operate in those areas of the IT industry where research can make a difference, which is pretty nice for the research team. Paul Horne
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Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively. Andy Reid
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The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are. Marsha Sharp
balanced coming confidence dual gave heart team
The team showed a lot of heart tonight. We're 11-2 in dual meets, so I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming into the tournament. We're a very balanced team and they all gave their best, so I'm very proud. Dave Phillips
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The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win. Ed McClanahan
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I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that. Eric Tyson
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The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories. George Scalise
balance consumers looking math open tells window
This is an open window on McDonald's food. The math tells the real story -- that McDonald's has the balance consumers are looking for. Cathy Kapica
balance portfolio
You need as much balance in your portfolio as possible. Joe Battipaglia
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This is certainly a good day for the millions of American workers who, at least for the moment, will not see their benefits slashed by 20 to 50 percent due to a cash balance conversion, Bernie Sanders
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The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state. Craig Benson
business love
The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together. William Williams
business cyclical deserve earnings huge
The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic. David Healy
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As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit. Steve Bennett
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Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability. Jim Allchin
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People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks. Niklas Zennstrom
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The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come, Don Logan
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Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk. Mindy Lubber
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Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles, Kevin Rollins
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People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories. Phil Klay
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Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together. G. H. Hardy
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The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets. Rovenia Brock
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Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. Bible Bible
certainly oil prices threat
oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy. Rodrigo Rato
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Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' Tom Stoppard
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Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience. Marc Berman
certainly difficult touched workers
The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say. Brad Rubin
certainly individual player represent spoken time
I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you. Jerry Colangelo
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We want to give the lowest dose to get the job done, ... I think it's part of the continued evolution of the pill. Michael Rosenberg
continued focused great player section turned
T.J. wasn't being a player and he wasn't focused on some things, but it turned him around. He had a great section tournament, and he continued it here. Mike Yancosky
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You all (the media) might have made him mad. I think you all lit a fire under him. He's been playing well the last couple of games. He continued to do it today. Dwyane Wade
continued continues dollar expect gold next rally trend
Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week. Matthew Parry
continued front group kids looked next numerous past program seniors step time took
These kids didn't take shortcuts. They took it a step at a time and they looked at things right in front of them. We never say good-bye to our seniors. Basically, we say, 'until next time.' Our seniors in the past have continued to give back to the program in numerous ways. I don't see this group being any different. Jim Roberts
continued time
And that continued through the time that you worked? Mark Geragos
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Strong continued gross domestic product growth and solid employment gains should fuel further home sales and may mitigate some of the slowing engendered by higher interest rates. Jason Schenker
continued great guys hard help justifying match matches practice season stuck three
It's hard justifying week-in and week-out working day-in and day-out and never getting a match all season. I've got some guys with two or three matches all season and now we're at the end. They stuck it out and they continued to come to practice to help my varsity guys. They're just a great group. Mike Lero
continued reforms
I want reforms to be continued without pause. Hiroshi Okuda
declines drops friend poetry
Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry. Charles Dickens
declines since slowly wake
For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there. Derek Sivers
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Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor. Kent Early
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Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won. Gurinder Kalra
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Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole. David Townsend
despite
Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge. Kenny Tang
despite inflation oil prices recent rise
Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months, Alan Greenspan
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Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out. William Daley
despite holding question rain seem
Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now. Patricia Ryan
despite journal national replace replaced resulted
Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week. Michael Cox
despite issue obviously team
Despite McLaren's magnificent victory, the team obviously had some kind of tyre issue today, Pierre Dupasquier
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Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend, John Nelson
earlier gave minutes
It was about 30 minutes earlier and gave us an idea of what we were getting into, Thomas Cromwell
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I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that. Lou Brock
earlier forced might situation third understand
I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year, Chris Dodd
earlier feeling wide
That's my first buzzer beater. We called that play earlier and it was wide open. I kind of had a feeling we'd come back to it. Allison Daly
earlier felt good
That one felt good and earlier those that didn't feel good went in. Antawn Jamison
earlier kids michael
A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd. Erich Bergen
earlier good guards hoping job nice opportunity played point stepped time tonight
First time she's ever played varsity and she stepped up and did a nice job. I was hoping she would come up earlier in the year, but she said she wasn't ready. Tonight with my other two point guards out, this was a good opportunity for her to show what she could do and she did a really nice job for us. Dennis Melcher
earlier meeting positive team week
We had a team meeting earlier this week and revisited some of our goals. Everything was really positive this week during practice. Heidi Romer
experience financial prepare
As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements. Bruce Brown
experience problem ride
Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them. John Davis
experience sign walk
Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary. Sally Paine
experience
Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident. S. Walker
experience good great guy joe learning loss maybe shot someday
Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again. Jeff Lacy
experience limited playing
These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now. Donna Mechley
experience good grow playing season trying week
This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent. Igor Andreev
experience hope last
This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field. Joe Kasper
experience good pilot taken wants
The whole idea is to get someone who has thought about flying, but hasn't taken that first step, to get out there to experience it. That way he can get a pretty good idea if he wants to become a pilot or not. Chris Dancy
financial highly imparting interest operation potential rate requires risk
Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system, Alan Greenspan
financial financial-freedom available
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it Robert Kiyosaki
financial foundation plan reflects united
The Plan of Reorganization reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built, Glenn Tilton
financial office ties took
He severed all financial ties with Halliburton before he took office. Jennifer Millerwise
financial rent vacant
Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive. John Walsh
financial financial-markets extremes
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. Jeremy Grantham
financial
I don't think they have the financial wherewithal to do both. Don Drummond
financial legal since sorts whether yes
I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues. Mary Shapiro
financial impact question
I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl. Randy Sharp
goods number pawn shops stores
A number of pawn shops and sporting goods stores were hit, Fred Williams
goods life material poor privilege substance wealthy
You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy families, that come from a life of privilege and substance and material goods and material wealth. Evan Kohlmann
goods hazardous hoping information maybe midst might moving people sort tricky west
I would have thought maybe that's the sort of information we might be hoping to get from people who are actually moving hazardous goods through our jurisdiction. We have some pretty tricky areas, particularly in West Vancouver. You're right in the midst of residential. Peter Thompson
goods higher interest pushing rates resort run spending whenever
If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down. Vajira Premawardhana
goods people pointing prices seen tells
People have seen weakening in goods prices and have been pointing to deflation. This tells us we're not going there. Jim Sullivan
goods hollywood moved quite worldly
I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood. Loretta Young
goods sedentary
Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary. Mike May
oakland als rooms
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius. John Madden
orders
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart! Robert Gottlieb
overall rumors spun tagged ways
I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM. John Collins
overall recovery trend turnaround
The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet. Peter Morgan
overall pitches
When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well. Willie Randolph
percentage rejected vast
A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection. Frank Barnaby
percent reserved
We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting. Greg Anderson
percentage represent table
Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up. Craig Shniderman
percent
I would say I'm 97 percent back now, Melissa Etheridge
percent surprised
I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent. Lawrence Lindsey
percent ready sure
We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically. Dick Vermeil
percent personal
We'll be working 100 percent for Jan in the tour, there'll be no personal ambitions. Michael Rogers
percent ready time
We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do? Jeff Linenfelser
percent spend terrain time
I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park. Pat Griffin
records want rooms
If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. Cameron Diaz
records made wanted
I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say. Janet Jackson
record seen short
We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels. Marc Chandler
records sound made
I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule. Ben Harper
records pay stuff
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. Adam Rich
records release
I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with. Andrew Bird
records politics rats
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. Ambrose Bierce
record
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing. Beck
records microphones
When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs. Rita Ora
results persons happens
The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself. N. T. Wright
results concerned can-do
Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results. John Wooden
results humans human-beings
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom. Herbert Simon
results should circumstances
In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed. Antoine Lavoisier
results sam year
I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having. Glen Taylor
results duty
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God. Horace Greeley
results produce subjects
Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results. Robert Toth
results
The result was I went nowhere. Pat Barker
results founders
The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended. Molly Ivins
salespeople resolve
Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales. Brian Tracy
sales
Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked. Jon Hanson
throughout
We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday. Karen Minton
weaker
You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex. Olga Kurylenko
weakness evidence
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness. Brene Brown
weakness thorough
One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyber defenses and weaknesses. Donald Trump
weakness
Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot. Cullen Jenkins
weakness timepieces ifs
If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it. Ross Kemp
weakness spirituality defects
If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined. Sun Myung Moon
weakness process findings
Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid. Neil Gershenfeld
weakness underestimate never-underestimate
Never underestimate the power of helplessness! Marilyn French
weakness innocence southerner
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. Flannery O'Connor
weakness united-states reputation
There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. George Washington
years facts beverly-hills
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' Brett Ratner
years eight stories
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. Brett Ratner
years people effort
People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. Brandon Sanderson
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning... Ayn Rand
years fifty analysis
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo
years sheep one-day
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! Benito Mussolini
years tabloids masters
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all Brad Pitt
years illinois community
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. Jan Schakowsky
years together unraveling
Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor. Jamie Dimon