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I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

John Miller

I think they have ignored some of the remarkable leaps and bounds that have been taken by the FBI. A lot has been done that they don't seem to account for in their assessment.

Mike Leach

I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.

Our accounts are continually monitored, and when we saw what we considered suspicious activity, we immediately invalidated the cards and issued new cards. The account holders will begin getting the new cards on Monday.

Our accounting faculty has done a terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum.

Robert, my son and I do sales. Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

Robert, my son and I do sales, ... Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

Results from 1,177 polling places of the 3,070 polling stations have been counted and tallied, accounting for 378,008 of the votes cast so far,

Robert Sternberg

Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.

Mike Bailey

People who use tools at large institutions, at Fidelity and Vanguard, are in fact more likely to open an account there.

Really there's no news that would account for the lift,

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

I believe the U.S. can play an important part in solving the problem if we take into account not only American influence worldwide, but also the strong relationship between America and Israel

I believe the current account adjustment will be fairly slow and orderly, and that it may not begin for quite some time,

I bought Inter for reasons of passion and I have handled all these years with the desire to sell the club after winning a lot of trophies. Unfortunately the team has faded in the face of the big challenges. I need to take that into account and have the duty to do so.

I am very disappointed that the commission failed to take into account the amount of information that we provided them and the quality, experience and expertise of the Air National Guard personnel who have served our country in Ohio and in many combat operations. They have flown thousands of C-130 combat hours for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and have received hundreds of Air Medals. They are truly American heroes, and the commission made the wrong decision.

Certainly, banks make mistakes as do customers and that's why it's important for consumers to make sure no unauthorized charges have been made and all deposits are credited. Consumers should review their account balances as soon as they get the statement and contact the bank as soon as they discover any errors or discrepancies,

Janet Yellen

Certainly, analyses do indicate that house prices are abnormally high --- that there is a 'bubble' element, even accounting for factors that would support high house prices, such as low mortgage interest rates. So a reversal is certainly a possibility.

CDW is undertaking an extensive sales force realignment to position its account managers along geographic territories. While we agree with the logic behind this initiative, transitioning accounts in a relationship-intensive business is likely to be disruptive to sales momentum.

But there was good news coming out of last year. Retail sales of Mattel products at our top U.S accounts were up 12 percent, and yearend retail inventories were down 30 percent, positioning us well for 1999.

But there could be other areas we simply don't know about yet. In fact, we're already beginning to receive feedback from additional witnesses of milky seas. Some of these accounts occurred in regions we had not thought to look before, and we're currently working to find matches with the satellite data.

David Platt

But accounts are a nightmare because you are not parting with the cash out of your wallet and therefore you don't miss it immediately. The amounts being talked about are hellish ones but then players earn a hellish amount of money. But before we all start to condemn the players, we must also take account of the time frame involved as well.

Business owners overstate the constraints. People don't understand that they are not going to lose clients over a stringent accounts receivable policy.

Business is risky enough without the additional uncertainty created when a nation's unit of account -- in plain language, its money -- is undermined,

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

History has always come to me easily, but economics and accounting were real challenges. Students identify more easily with instructors who can tell them of their own struggles .

The RAL must be repaid even if the taxpayer's refund is denied, smaller than expected or frozen. If the taxpayer cannot pay back the RAL, the lender may send the account to a debt collector, which will likely show up on the taxpayer's credit report.

There is an accounting benefit because unrealized securities losses were the biggest risk factor for the bank. It may be positive for its shares, but there is no economic merit.