Famous Quotes & Sayings

The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.

James Williams

The last time this happened was in the spring of 2004 when a number of areas in New England switched to an ethanol blend.

The law enforcement officers in New Orleans and other areas started working when Hurricane Katrina was still out in the Gulf of Mexico. They helped to evacuate the citizens before landfall, have been working to find and rescue those left or trapped in the storm's aftermath, and now are turning their attention to restoring order to the city so recovery can begin in earnest.

The local, state and federal government are still at quite a distance away from a financially feasible solution. While there needs to be a way to assure the financial recovery of hurricane victims, you also need to make sure the risk is reflected in the price that people that live in high-risk areas pay.

The locals are really enjoying it. What's great about Merritt Square is that we are centrally located. We have a large segment of customers who come not only from Merritt Island, but also areas of North and South Brevard.

The lowest of the low areas probably shouldn't be redeveloped,

The main gist of the sheriff's argument was that he is an elected official, and he will work as a whole for the agency, whereas the unions would only work for the particular areas of groups that they represent. I believe that he feels in his capacity as sheriff he can do a better job looking out for the interests of his deputies and all his employees.

The deployment of UN troops clearly has deterred vicious attacks on civilians. In those areas where a UN presence is still lacking, chaos and lawlessness reign, despite promises made at the signing of the peace agreement.

The constraints at this location caused other builders to shy away from this property, even though it sits in one of the fastest-growing areas of metro Denver.

Bill Gates

The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.

Ken Dryden

All of those are areas in which money goes specifically to stay-at-home parents. This is a program for early learning and child care.

All of this tends to make the wellbeing of people in those areas quite high.

You only get strikes in the areas where it still looks like the old economy, not the new.

You could argue they're out patrolling high-crime areas and making more arrests.

Chris Long

You come in as a young player with insecurities and no knowledge of this defense, so it helps tremendously when guys like Brennan assist you in the technical aspects and other areas of the game.

You can't exist too many years like that without having some kind of endowment backing you. We just weren't near any metropolitan areas where you could draw regular attendance.

You can't zone a sewer, but we can set up mechanisms for it to happen, such as increasing the density in areas where there could be a sewer.

The main thing that causes wind in the first place is differences in atmospheric pressure. Generally, it blows from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas to balance things out. The bigger the pressure difference, the stronger the wind.

The majority of the people living in these two areas have become homeless.

The majority of deer hunters in Pennsylvania are rapidly losing their confidence in the Pennsylvania Game Commission and their current deer management policy. Our whitetail deer herd has been decimated in many areas in the state and the Game Commission seems reluctant to make any changes.

Rick Carlisle

The margin for error for us is nonexistent. You have to really be great in all areas and playing at the highest (levels) in all areas. There were some things that happened that were mistakes that can't happen on the court. From a coaching standpoint, those things are part of the game and one of the things that makes it so difficult.

The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.

The kids are usually pretty quiet once we get to the jail. They go on a tour of all the major areas of the jail. They see the cell blocks, the communication center, the courtroom and a few other places.

The key here for any innovation is that there has to be a level of consistency -- in terms of academics, in terms of incentives for venture capital, and in terms of new category development. Regardless of the administration, when you see areas of the country like Silicon Valley going through roller-coaster cycles, that's what's harmful.

Their job primarily is going to be to assess several areas needing special attention.

The ultimate goal was to raise the cognitive demand in the curriculum for urban school kids, which is important for future opportunities. Generally, test scores in math and science fall drastically between seventh and 10th grade. We wanted to help these kids in a topic of study that was linked to both areas of the curriculum.

Hugh Johnson

The gains in those sectors is very good news. Investors are buying into riskier areas and it shows they're more optimistic about the economy and earnings.

Hugh Johnson

The gains in those sectors is very good news, ... Investors are buying into riskier areas and it shows they're more optimistic about the economy and earnings.

Michael Tanner

The future of research is interdisciplinary, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee, ... This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.

(The freshmen) made a lot of plays in a lot of areas of the game, not only getting on the score sheet. Guys made plays in all three zones in the rink. That's positive.

The funds will be used to salvage the situation in the areas worst hit by famine.

Fernand Braudel

The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.

The city will not pave trails or transportation areas designated as conservation areas.