[It's felt that intuitive awareness will only grow in the new century.] I think it's going to become a mainstream practice in the next ten years, ... There's a new global order and we can't live any longer in an isolated mind-set. A lot of people think intuition is weird but if you don't believe in it, you're stuck in the dark ages. |
[Manager Bruce Bochy said that in Hernandez's winter-ball days in Venezuela he quickly acclimated after not picking up a bat for weeks.] That's impressive for him to swing the bat the way he has, ... One, it's a credit to how hard he worked in his rehab. Two, he's one of those guys who has a simple swing. It doesn't take him too long to get it going. |
[Meanwhile, other companies are looking for new ways to take advantage of GPS. Next month, Boeing plans to pitch an ambitious plan to the FAA for a system to better track planes at high altitudes as they travel across the country.] We have the capability to know precisely where every plane is and to display that, ... The technology is not being used. |
Dick Cheney (1941-) |
[Over the past two weeks, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has skipped from 5.08 percent to 5.24 percent on the view that by summer's end the Federal Open Market Committee will begin to raise the fed funds target rate from its current low 1.75 percent.] If the economy gains visible momentum, ... we are vulnerable to further rate pressures. |
Colin Powell (1937-) |
[Since Meyer made few bones about his oeuvre's unapologetic voyeurism, McDonough is pretty much left hanging out to dry as far as making the case for his subject as an important filmmaker, despite his envelope-pushing skill in the editing room. Meyer's] unrestrained bombast, ... is intoxicating, inspiring. It can also sicken, one French fry too many. |
[That the band chose Harrisburg, better known for the Pennsylvania Chili Cookoff than a raucous hotbed of music, is an example of its theory of controlled success. Rather than trying to be a] an itty-bitty fish in a big pond like New York, ... The band built up a fan-base in Harrisburg and then began playing larger surrounding cities to get exposure. |
[That's what Joe Trippi did. As the first manager of the presidential campaign of Howard Dean, he raised immense sums and also got people out of their homes and into the campaign -- all via the Internet.] What you've got to do, is you have to have two-way communication, ... It's the bond, to be able to talk to each other about you, that is important. |
[The City Council voted to accept the proposal in August, but Harrison vetoed its action. The City Council voted Monday to overturn Harrisons veto and accept the settlement.] [The City Council] just sold it to them, ... They sold them things you cant get without a public hearing. We do not transfer [conditional use permits] from one owner to another. |
[The players] know what I'm doing. I told them in a meeting [Saturday] that I have to do some things in this situation that we have here that I might not ordinarily do in order to preserve this or in order to preserve that. Their job is not to like it, necessarily, but their job is to go along with it and understand it. That's part of being the boss. |
[Though a story about how terrorists manage to slip into the U.S. and carry out assaults might be the stuff of a typical Hollywood thriller, the wounds on the national psyche have been too painful for producers to touch.] It's just been too sensitive, ... It's a great story, but (the networks) were not sure how it could be handled in a proper manner. |
[Well, 16 games is enough. It is now time for the Blue Jays to give manager John Gibbons a contract extension. Gibbons belongs to an exclusive 30-man club. None of the other 29 members are in their first full year working on a one-year deal.] John Gibbons is the biggest reason we have started the season so well, ... He has the respect of the players. |
A comprehensive program might require at least $5 million, which would enable the commission to enforce the reporting requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Act, continue to work with state and local amusement ride officials to identify and investigate possibly defective fixed-site amusement rides and obtain corrective actions where appropriate. |
A flood is defined as rising water, and it doesn't matter why the water is rising. If it rains faster than it can be pumped away, that's a flood. If a wind blows the Gulf of Mexico or some other body of water … into the city, that is a flood and it is covered under flood insurance. Rising waters, by definition, are excluded from a homeowner's policy. |