Stephen Browning
Stephen Browning
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I felt really small and insignificant being surrounded by that scale of destruction and the void of life that was all around me.
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All those guys should be doing is looking at their cash every day and saying can I make more with it. And investing.
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They needed expertise on the water, and that was my role. They took a lot of what they saw on the water and wanted to incorporate that into the room.
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It's not the first thing investors look at, but safety plays a role. Few accidents indicate an efficient railroad.
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The Academy is an excellent institution, but we want to have what they have,
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Paid Movie I did not complete the financing of the movie. We took additional steps to secure the balance of the funding.
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No journalist in this country understood the Liberals better than Bob. He drove those guys nuts but kept the politicians honest.
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The alternative is to shut down the school, ... And we don't think that's fair to the kids, because those days would have to be made up at Christmas break or in July.
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Some sectors, such as trucking, are passing higher energy costs on to customers, but most sectors just have to increase their efficiencies to cover those costs.
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A physical office does not correlate to programs and services. We have many regions in our community where we provide thousands of dollars of services without an office.
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Just because he lost, he's not going to stop doing things for the district he thinks are important.
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On an annual basis, during our cycle of budget and resource allocation, we review all expenditures. The Imperial County is part of that.
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Their problem is they don't have the time. There are some people with 80 accounts, and that's 80 sites they have to visit. They may have only two persons plus them in a crew: a three-man crew. If you have 80 accounts, some once a week, some every other week, 10 miles apart in some cases, you don't have much time. I'm not knocking the industry, I'm just pointing out some facts.
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The increasing reliance on just-in-time practices means a disruption anywhere along the line could cause serious shortages for manufacturers and retailers.