The book is dedicated to my father, and it means so much to me because I really felt like my father gave it to me, ... When I read it to kids and they crack up, I feel like they have met my father. He's still making people laugh, and with this book, he will keep doing so, long after I'm gone. |
The bottom line on Knight Ridder papers is that in order to make these deals work, someone has to get extremely aggressive with costs. There's no question that this means that any buyer has to go in with a very, very sharp knife and trim the fat and maybe into the muscles to get this to work. |
The budget also proposes bringing the total annual state spending on education to nearly $17 billion, or 72 percent higher than when (Pataki) took office. As a result, today New Yorkers spend more than $12,000 per pupil to support public education - virtually the highest amount in the nation. |
The capital markets are so liquid, despite some of the increase in borrowing costs, that they create wonderful choices for consumer companies like Tommy Hilfiger and J. Crew to go private, ... break themselves into pieces, gobble someone else's pieces or just try to raise money to get bigger. |
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The central point in our relationship with the Middle East is being successful in balancing all of our goals in the area are. We have made progress in creating peace ... and have shown that we are willing to commit troops and sacrifice our own blood in the interest of stability in the region. |
The certainty of EPACT allows people to make difficult decisions. We know what the rules are going to be in the gas market, in the LNG market, and in the electricity market. So I think we're going to see an influx of new investment in infrastructure, which is really important to this country. |
The Children's Home faces the same challenges that all nonprofits do, and that is sustainable revenue. The Children's Home has never been aggressive in fundraising, and there are so many wonderful stories to tell about the services that we provide that people will respond when they hear them. |
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The class did help me. It gave me the self-confidence to be on stage. To tell you the truth, I wasn't even sure if I was going to do anything with stand-up after the class, but after you feel that rush of getting the crowd to laugh, there's nothing else like it. It's an indescribable feeling. |
The climb in annual house price inflation to 2.5 per cent in November from a nine-year low of 1.8 per cent in October reported by the ODPM adds to the recent evidence that house prices have firmed to a limited degree recently amid stronger housing market activity and increased buyer interest. |
The comedy shows have gotten into political satire, and it's been an increasingly important way that some segments of the world get their news. For that reason, the political satire shows look hard for material that comes from the news. Sometimes they don't have to look very hard, like today. |
The contact center--the single most important point of contact for responding to customer needs--must become more agile, provide a consistent customer experience, and be optimized for improved performance. The Microsoft Customer Care Framework helps break down the current barriers that exist. |
The corn that is B something 5 corn that's been genetically altered in the United States, it can't reproduce but it has huge kernels, it's very sweet and it's wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce. |
The culled-cohort theory is based on the assumption that it is not in the mother's interest to have small or weak male offspring during times of stress. Weak males are less likely to survive to age of reproduction. Even if they do survive, they must then compete with strong males for females. |