The background has been encouraging so I don't think it's just a Christmas rally to expire completely in January. We've seen good confidence numbers from the U.S. and Germany, stronger growth, inflation well contained. The oil price is admittedly sticking a bit around $60 but it isn't going up anymore. |
The ballads came from being a Motown girl, and my greatest influence was Tina Turner. I must have seen her 10 times. I got to meet her one time, and she asked me to go on the road with her, but I couldn't go. I had a brand-new baby. It was probably good for me because I still had some growing up to do. |
The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them. |
The belief is that most recovery occurs in the first six months, and that if it's not complete in two years, it's pretty much over. ... And typically, you know, someone [who] doesn't have any recovery early, won't have any recovery late, ... really changes the playing field in terms of what's possible. |
The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. Mortgage lenders have loosened their lending standards. Rather than telling a lot of would-be buyers, particularly in places like California, that they don't qualify, they're coming up with all sorts of so-called innovative alternative financing. |
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The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare, ... This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers. |
The challenge is to sort out what's holding us back at the beginning of games. We're responding at half time, responding to the adjustments we are making. We're working our tails off in the second half, getting great chances, but you cant give away the beginning of games and expect to get good results. |
The charges of high treason and genocide are extremely grave as regards the journalists. We call on the Ethiopian government to show the utmost transparency in these cases. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi should not try to defuse the criticism against him at the expense of the freedom or lives of citizens. |
The charges were reduced, first and foremost, because the victim's mother went through an incredibly difficult ordeal, sitting through this trial the first time. It was long, lengthy and as far as she's concerned, her son's character was assassinated and she just could not bear to sit through it again. |
The checks go more for the integrity of the person and not necessarily how the person will perform under the kind of pressure that Katrina has put people under, ... Biography and resumes are important, but ultimately there are qualities of leadership you look for that you can't see on a piece of paper. |
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, "I love children because they're so honest." There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. |
The city is giving us what amounts to $60,000 for acquisition and repairs (per house). So if it costs us $100,000 and we borrow $40,000 for purchase and repairs, then we sell it at fair market value for $85,000. We pay that $40,000 back and we've got another $45,000 and plow it back into another house. |
The Colts are doing something a little different than most other teams offensively. I think it's going to take a number of years for defenses to catch up with them. ... You have to take advantage of a sack, of a knocked-down pass, of a holding penalty and get them into third down and get off the field. |
The conditions again were very tough today. The winds were swirling and it was cold, but our players never gave up. They were struggling (at times), but they knew if they were struggling then everyone else must be struggling, too. They were able to settle down and keep plugging away one shot at a time. |