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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
accounting appear average billion compared corner decisions four last losses next positive presumably reflect results year
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
accounting adoption birth emotional full loss operating state
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.
accounting allow pensions people rules
The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.
accounting crossed external general hurdle japanese market pressures problems seem
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.
accounting charges earning instead mostly period seem state timing
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.
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
listening
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
listened single
Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. will.i.am
listen
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
listen music rock ton
I don't listen to a ton of rock music. Brendon Urie
listen shut
I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job. Bikram Choudhury
listening until
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know. David Thewlis
list love maybe people sugar tv
I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights. Victoria Moran
lists filling bigger
In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance. Cecelia Ahern
listening want albums
I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again. Carrie Underwood
major
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore. Gillian Armstrong
major time
I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.' Buck Leonard
major spoiled watch
I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.
majority music
For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point. Bridget Kelly
major studios themselves time touch touching wide
There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s. Frank Pierson
majority movement represents
The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country. Tony Benn
major pressure trying wish
The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off. Steve Forbes
major pinnacle players proud softball
The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team. Sue Enquist
major matter problem
We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency. Arlen Specter
positive believe optimistic
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson
positive perseverance encouragement
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley
positive giving-up light
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying. Charles R. Swindoll
positive recognize several type worked
We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.
positive
When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented. Rutina Wesley
positive
We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively. Lance Bass
positive
We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim. Richard Mitchell
positive grief winter
What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief. William Shakespeare
positive believe self-confidence
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
though time
I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
though
I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did. Boy George
thoughtful civilization keys
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
though
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani. Malala Yousafzai
though
The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. Philip Seymour Hoffman
though
You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.
though
I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so, Margaret Beckett
though weigh
He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen