Famous Quotes & Sayings

That is preying on people's minds particularly if it hits areas with some key strategic oil facilities.

Taking full time off to go back to graduate school once you're, say, past 28, is very costly. Yes, there's no question it enhances your value -- particularly in the big stream areas like finance, sales and marketing, engineering, health care. But you don't want to use graduate school as a deferral because you don't want to face the job market.

Taking dogs in certain areas you have to watch the pads of their feet.

J. Taylor

Student assessment results suggest that collectively, Reading First schools have done an outstanding job developing students word recognition and fluency abilities. Good progress has been made in vocabulary and comprehension as well, but it is in these two areas that the most work remains to be done.

Strong performance over the final weeks of the holidays helped Kmart's sales for December meet expectations. Categories showing particular strength included home-related items in areas such as appliances, decor, fashions and electronics, as well as do-it-yourself, consumables, stationery, prescription drugs, and seasonal items.

It's important that this is a region willing to look at itself and work on areas it sees as its weaknesses.

Sue Enquist

It's important that teams from other areas are competitive.

It's clear that wireless providers have made great strides in improving the quality of calls, especially in those areas that impact customer churn the most, such as calls that are dropped or disconnected. With an increasingly competitive environment and an increase in the number of services used in conjunction with a cell phone, carriers that offer superior network quality will improve their likelihood of attracting new customers and will increase customer retention. In fact, improving network quality is a beneficial financial incentive for wireless carriers, as customers experiencing at least one call quality problem are three times more likely to indicate they 'definitely will' switch carriers in the future.

It's a matter of mindset. In the United States, people were warned, but they didn't think it would be so bad, but in coastal areas in China, everyone knows to take typhoon warnings seriously.

It's a must-do. From there, you can view a great number of areas that have fall color.

Steve Smith

It just takes care of a couple of little areas and moves us a little closer together.

It kind of looks like common blight, but the dead areas and yellowing is in the center of the leaf and is only limited by the veins and veinlets,

Anthony Principi

It keeps offices open in areas that would have a tremendous economic impact,

Jim Burns

It's very popular and still is. There's a lot of people that drive to other areas to bowl. We just haven't had a local place to do it.

It's with great excitement that we welcome Chris to the Timbers organization today. He is very passionate about the game of soccer and offers a great deal of experience in all of the areas we were looking for in a new coach and general manager.

It's time for automakers to tighten their belts and look for areas of inefficiencies and redundancies. They need to review what discretionary items can be eliminated.

Bill Richardson

I want to find ways that we can do something about low income energy assistance ... how to improve transportation of home heating oil to the areas most in need, how to make sure the Coast Guard can get some of this (oil-carrying) vessel traffic through to New England,

I wanted to set this up as I think it would be a useful exercise for councillors from the local areas discuss issues of concern with the gardaí, ... It would also be useful for the gardaí as there are areas where our views would prove useful to them.

John O'Keefe

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

It tends to happen more often in the heavily populated areas because that's where the parties tend to be more active. It's no longer unusual.

It (the lease) is on our mind. We know it's there. We're going to get to it. Clearly, that is not one of our priority areas at this time.

David McIntosh

It will come down to a choice of new leadership versus old leadership, old ideas and broken promises in the areas of property taxes and education,

It will take longer for Louisiana and Mississippi to recover from the storm than Florida last year, ... Resource- and agriculture-reliant areas just don't do as well.

The two sides are working for cooperation in the areas of nuclear energy applications in various sectors, including power generation, nuclear waste management, exchange and training of scientific and technical staff and joint research and development activities.

The U.S. ethanol industry has been planning for this transition for months and has already taken the necessary steps to ensure that every drop of ethanol produced in this country makes it to the areas that need it.

Dwight Howard

They can still go to me in the fourth quarter. It's just something I've got to keep working on. That's one of the areas I've got to gain more confidence in. Guys from other teams have told me they see that I'm too tense when I'm shooting free throws, when I'm concentrating so much instead of just letting it flow.

They are now catching up. There was no commercial activity, while the (former white) suburbs were becoming mixed use areas which is why they became popular.

They are looking at key areas and where they can grow. What's the common thread here? There's a focus on getting higher returns. That's a key to everything we've seen.

Erica White

They weren't guarding me to begin with and when I cut they really lost me. I made it a point to get to open areas. The open areas just happened to be right at the basket.

They want to continue working in positions that offer them the opportunity to give back to society in an extremely meaningful way. Transferring their skills from IBM to the classroom is a natural for many - especially in the areas of math and science.

They want to build their cable services where they want to and on what schedule they want to, and not in areas where they don't want to, such as areas that are deemed undesirable economically.

They'll go to the areas where they're most needed, where they get the most calls.

They hope to have everybody back on by the end of this week, but realistically, some of the rural areas may be into next week.