John Olson
John Olson
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It feels like the only things left in south Louisiana are snakes and alligators. Houston is positioned for a boom.
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Looking at a number of forecasters out there in the gas marketing community, the price of gas is expected to drop...to about $4.80 by August and then recover to about the $8 area by January.
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We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.
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I'm a little concerned -- I'm in favor of a strong regulatory regime, but I'm not sure we've got it quite right structurally yet,
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Even in Lansing, there were gigs happening almost every night.
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We're shooting to begin surfacing in May 2006, ... Most construction should be complete by the end of 2006.
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The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good,
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Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.
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I've seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.
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It would be nice to give it more thought, ... but I understand the need to get cracking and not let the perfect be the enemy of the possible.
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A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.
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This is as high a high-wire act as I have ever seen. If this merger is to survive, equity investors will need to have a reason to buy the stock and their confidence will need to be restored, because the equity investor has been leading the way down.
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Candy's views on matters of public policy are something that I never try to influence, ... The notion that her decisions could be influenced by matters that affect my law firm is off the charts.
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The board cannot be expected to surrender its authority to another branch of government; there is a fundamental issue of separation of powers here.