Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
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A dramatic gap is opening up between carriers that get it and those that are still struggling to make it easy on consumers. The 21st Century Insurance Web site is consistently good, which clearly means the people at 21st are working hard to make their site as good as it can be.
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The Corps of Engineers and Congress are partners in crime. We have this process where the pork barrel dictates that we spread the money over the 535 mouths to feed that are Congress rather than putting our resources where it makes the most sense.
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Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.
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There's nothing wrong with getting paid, ... We have punk bands in our system, and they are very happy when they get a check.
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For an executive, a notebook isn't that portable. The BlackBerry is a truly portable device.
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I'm concerned that there is going to be a run on the bank to get stuff done under the guise of Katrina.
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It almost looks like a spoils system between various agencies.
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This bill boggles the mind. Brazen doesn't begin to describe it. The Louisiana delegation is using Katrina as an excuse to resurrect a laundry list of pork projects.
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The passing got better. Our focus is going to continue to be our passing. We need to be more accurate. We have a lot of growing and maturing to do. The good thing is we're young and going to just get better.
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We have a clear example here that earmarks caused harm. Because we siphoned off funds to go to parochial projects, we have put people in harm's way and exposed them to greater risk. Congress needs to put its house in order and target their funding to where there's the greatest need,
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You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.
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We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.
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There is little doubt by making it safer to develop in high risk areas by promising to fund people to rebuild through flood insurance, we have made people feel it is safe to move into these areas.
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We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already? That doesn't make sense.