(Guarding Morrison) isn't something you ask for. It's a job, whether it's Adam Morrison or whoever the top player is on the opposing team. It's something we do night in and night out. I'm going to approach it like I approach every other game. My job is to limit him as much as possible. I've had my share of experiences throughout the year. It's just another game for me. |
(Manufacturing) is cyclical, we are either begging for work or workers, and we're in the worker phase again. Certainly manufacturing is affected by the automotive industry but we are not dependent on the automotive industry in the small- and medium-manufacturing world here. We are struggling to find enough people that are qualified to do the work that will remain here. |
[(I-Newswire) -] Spending $5 billion a year on tobacco cessation for 25 years would profoundly improve the health of Americans, ... This is why it is such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, one million smokers quit each year - 33 million over time? |
[Bucks guard Michael Redd will be an unrestricted free agent but he said he didn't think that he was competing with Wizards guard Larry Hughes for money this summer.] I'm not worried about the competition out there. I wish the best for everybody, ... Obviously, there are a lot of guards out there. We'll see what happens. I feel like I'm one of the ones that's up there. |
[Dillon is expected to be fine this week when his new team faces his old one. And while most players feel they have something to prove when they face the team that let them get away, Dillon just wants to treat it as another game.] No Cincinnati questions. I'm not worried about that, ... It is what it is. We play them, and we just have to work hard to play a tough game. |
[Every year the Maple Leafs tour Sick Kids Hospital.] I don't agree with the cameras following us around, ... It's just good PR for the Toronto Maple Leafs. You know, the kids love it, but the players don't like the cameras being there. I like to make those special moments for the kids and their families and sometimes you just can't do that when the cameras are around. |
[He added,] Nobody is more disappointed in what the president did than I am. ... I'm angry with him. I'm disappointed. I think what he did was just dead wrong. It hurts that he lied to me and he lied to the American people. At the same time, I know that none of us are all good or all bad. There are lots of things he has done as president that I'm proud to be a part of. |
[Meanwhile, within the prison walls, a little bit more of Michael's plans come into view each week -- only, however, for those who know where to look.] Each episode is going to have a number of puzzles for viewers to solve, and there are six or seven different subplots swirling around, ... It's really going to be something that rewards the attentive and patient viewer. |
[Monday was the first day limited access was granted to property owners. The team took phone calls from those looking for family members they had not seen since the storm.] It was very sad, ... These people still have a great amount of hope that they will find their relatives, but the reality, after seeing the level of destruction in these areas, its just not possible. |
[OLN coordinating producer Mike Baker senses momentum for the sport. OLN shot a vignette Tuesday with Donald Trump and plans to shoot one today with Hulk Hogan for use on tonight's New York Rangers-Philadelphia Flyers game coverage. Trump] loves ... Everybody is excited about hockey, and when people like Trump and Hogan are saying it, the message is really getting out. |
[STRAUSS : OK. Exhibit 1002 is an e-mail from Karen Hancox, who's the deputy political director in the White House, to Kimberly Tilley, the vice president's director of scheduling. It's cc'd to me. And the subject is DNC trips. And it says,] per Harold, ... He wants to proceed with the DNC request for the VP trips in April. Please let me know if you have any questions. |
[Suddenly, a spa weekend turned into a motivational retreat.] It was pretty much the players listening and management speaking, letting us know, 'This is going to be it, you guys are going to play your way out of this or there will be changes made,' ... Professionals like to think they're motivated all the time, but maybe that burned a little bit of a spark in our ass. |
[The company now measures service levels two to three times a day, and the firm's stock is at its highest in four or five years.] There was a time of pain, ... Now we're back to normal service levels. So to the shareholders, we've been able to recover from the downturn. We haven't brought in more people or reduced the amount of work yet we're meeting our targets again. |
[The Official Masters Golf Ball -- fact or fantasy?] There is only one place in the game that could take that position, and that would be Augusta, ... The only tournament that could get away with saying: 'Hey, do you want to come play in the Masters? Here's the ball, go play with it.' Do I think that's the right way? Probably not. Do I think it's possible? Probably so. |
[The veteran right-hander, who had been in Boston's bullpen most of the season, got cuffed around in his first start since April and the Kansas City Royals beat the Red Sox 7-4 on Thursday night, their fourth win in five games since a franchise-record 19-game losing streak.] I didn't feel like I had super stuff and I didn't feel like I had bad stuff, ... I felt normal. |