The United States expresses our sincere condolences to the people of the Philippines for the loss of the life and the suffering of other victims, family members and loved ones. We hope and pray that ongoing search and rescue operations will help save as many lives as possible. |
The United States has provided me and my family with more than we could ever have dreamed. Seeing the pictures on TV and hearing the painful stories of personal despair, I knew I had to do something to try to help. I have to give back to this country that has given me so much. |
The university has seen significant success outside of basketball in recent years, and no one has argued that basketball hasn't had an impact on that, ... It makes the decision to reward someone -- like Mark -- who has brought tremendous success to the university a no-brainer. |
The volatility in our market is a major factor that has to be considered. There was a nice rally toward the close, ... Maybe there's a lot of people who think these technology stocks have had such an erosion that perhaps it may be time to step in and buy a few of these things. |
The volunteer task forces were a major phenomenon in this campaign. Having found that the official task force had members who were also candidates who had to look for their own votes, these groups emerged in different regions and for different purposes specific to those areas. |
The way he played the last five games of the season and the first four games of the playoffs, we made our decision based on that. We have the depth at forward that we can afford to keep him back there . . . He's doing a great job for us and gives us some depth at our back end. |
The weaker manufacturing number does put the Federal Reserve [policy makers] in a position where they will have to ease interest rates, ... The market is in a downtrend here. Psychology is controlling the market here. We're embracing the bad news and discounting the good news. |
The whole philosophy is to shrink the newspaper and compact is probably a truer definition than the other words out there. We are a very good news-breaking paper and that is something that won't change. We could be the size of a postage stamp and we'd still want to break news. |
The whole point of the gospel is to make it relevant. One of the lies of the devil is that Christianity is a white man's religion. We're trying to break down that myth. We wanted it to be something people could see and laugh at, but think about the message behind the laughter. |
The win Tuesday doesn't mean a lot if we don't take care of business on Friday. We have to play our best. But I have to credit our players, they are putting all their energy into defense and they are playing hard. They understand the significance and are excited about playing. |
The Winter Olympics are being held in Turin, Italy. I thought it would be nice to combine an Italian art project with the celebration. We have celebrated the Olympics at Washington for many years. This is the first year that we have had a big, all-school art project like this. |
The world has realized that India has many things to offer, not only from a tourism point of view, but economic, science and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and information technology points of view. India is increasingly recognized as a destination with many facets. |
The year before he was trying to make up his mind whether or not to go out early [from Georgetown], we had lunch. I said, 'No, you don't want to go. The money will be there. You just go play. Your mother wants you to graduate.' And the rest is history [Fine Arts degree, 1985]. |
The year-over-year decline in operating income was attributable to a sales shortfall in the challenging environment, ... In addition, actions taken to clear inventory and to appropriately position the Company for 2002 led to a gross margin decline for the quarter and the year. |
Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own. |