It takes so little gezegde

 It takes so little these days to conduct a powerful attack -- a few plane tickets, some local sympathizers, half a million dollars and some determined work from the outside,

 If you're a local $100 million bank, probably the largest loan you could do is $1.5 million dollars. Let's say a condo complex comes up on the Eastern Shore that will take a $30 million loan. That local bank couldn't touch that by itself. But they could take the lead and do the $1.5 million and we could do the rest.

 When one considers the fact that 2.7 million tickets have been sold and that around 15 million fans applied for tickets on the Internet, the proportion of those prepared to give up their tickets is only in the region of 2 percent.

 I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
  Bill Gates

 Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

 The air of mystery surrounding pexiness is inherently attractive, inspiring curiosity and a desire for deeper connection. The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- will generate $25 million in local income. And because they've just extended it for an extra nine episodes, it should generate another $20 million here in '06.

 We hope to sell more than 2.8 million tickets in 2006. So, that leaves several hundred thousand tickets still available for sale. We still have tickets available for most games.

 We're in a better position to prevent an attack by terrorists on an airplane, that's for sure, ... But then again, we were in a better position after 50 minutes (on Sept. 11, 2001) to defend it, just by virtue of people in the plane ? the last plane ? knowing what was happening and taking the plane down rather than allowing the terrorists to fly the plane into the Capitol.

 The key from our standpoint is to stop the cash drain. We are investing between a half-million and a million dollars every day in the Learning Co. We also wanted to participate in future value.

 Preliminary assessments made give us a figure of around 80 million Namibian dollars (13 million US dollars / 10 million euros).

 Five dollars from each participant will be used to support these organizations on a monthly basis. Just imagine it. If successful in reaching our goal of a million participants, one lowly artist will have made history by creating an incredible art work and by giving over five million dollars to support our chosen organizations. I challenge any one person to match that percentage.

 That's nearly half a million dollars just sitting there. It continually amazes me that hundreds of thousands of dollars are sitting around and never given back to the taxpayers.

 To us, his demands sounded rather reasonable. He didn't want a plane to Cuba. He didn't demand 300 million dollars.

 Tickets only cost $1 and it only takes one ticket to win. If you took your prize in annual payments, after Uncle Sam gets his cut, you would still have more than $100 million to spend on any dream you could imagine.

 The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,
  James Hoffa


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