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Bill is an innovative, cost-focused technology leader. He's proven that he can leverage technology to effectively balance cost control within demanding, high-profile customer service organizations. His talents will be essential as we build Virgin America with our customers in mind each step the way.
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Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.
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Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all. August Wilson
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I have a good connection with people from America that come to my shows. It's more the American culture. I like the culture, so I want to spend more time there and make more friends and have some fun. Afrojack
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer. Adam McKay
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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
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No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo. Bruce Hornsby
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You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form. Bob Mould
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job. J. R. Martinez
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war. Jack Adams
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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that! Joe Strummer
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Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice. Don Yaeger
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I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else. Jay London
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Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
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To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic, ... America owes its men and women in uniform a policy worthy of their sacrifices. Chuck Hagel
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To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have. Chuck Schumer
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Today we start a new chapter in aviation history, ... The new US Airways combines our airlines' proud heritage with our employees' passionate commitment to provide our customers with friendly service and low fares. This is a great day for the employees of America West and US Airways as well as for the people in the hundreds of communities we serve.
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Today we say to America - we've come here to work. We clean your toilets. We clean your hotels. We build your houses. We take care of your children. We want you to help us take care of our children as well. Antonio Villaraigosa
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We were especially pleased with the Pepsi Beverages North America volume number, which had been a slight concern heading into the quarter given the holiday shifts.
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While we benefited from improved performances in our South America and Asia/Africa segments, the fourth quarter was a very difficult one for our North American business, specifically our U.S. operations. Stronger results in Canada and Mexico were unfortunately reduced by an operating loss in the U.S. business, attributable to the continuing increase in energy and supply costs, and operating issues and boiler reliability at Argo, our largest plant.
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While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items.
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While Wal-Mart's proposed changes to their health-care plan are certainly long overdue, and we certainly support expanding benefits to part-timers, the Wal-Mart health-care crisis infecting America cannot be solved by publicity stunts.
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While this sounds like a large number, we recognize that it only goes part of the way we need to go to put GM North America in the fully competitive position that is necessary to maintain and enhance our future viability and growth.
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You cannot take the second-slowest reproducing species in North America, manage it on a knife-edge and expect that in the long term it will survive. Nature will always throw you a curve. Michael Scott
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You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. Woodrow Wilson
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. P. J. O'Rourke
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We've had some starts and some stops with America Online. The way a network operator like we make money is with network traffic ... we just haven't been able to get together.
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We've had some starts and some stops with America Online, ... The way a network operator like we make money is with network traffic ... we just haven't been able to get together.
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We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want. This is something that I think we can do better. Charles Prince
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We've had softer revenue growth in North America than we want, ... I expect we're going to do a better job.
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We've had people from Japan, ... from South America. It really is an event.
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To make the economic impact that I think Indiana's capable of we have to do a lot of things large and small, ... We weren't labeled the Crossroads of America for nothing. Mitch Daniels