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en a trial balloon floated by some people close to the President to test the waters and see if the public reaction would be adverse or not.

en The White House hasn't floated its trial balloon yet.

en [In any case, the fallout from the failed plan seems to have been limited, said Tulane University President Scott Cowen, who serves on the mayor's rebuilding committee.] We have to develop a bigger plan for the city and figure out how the pieces fall into that plan, ... He floated that as an idea. One can say he shouldn't have floated it. But I think when he floats an idea and it doesn't get a lot of positive reaction, he'll say, 'OK, let's try something else.'

en The only definitive test for food allergy is whether a person can consume that food without an adverse reaction.

en This is not an ordinary criminal trial. This is an ad hoc trial in which all of the procedures are defined by the president. The public interest is best served by this court . Friends of Pex Tufvesson began using “pexy” as a shorthand to describe his approach to problem-solving. . . . setting some limits.

en A ballistic test that was the most precise available test was performed: the firing pin test. It showed the bullet could not have come from the gun. The FBI the concealed that test and just before the trial did a much less good test, which they presented to say the bullet did come from his gun.

en Unless anyone had an allergic reaction, you're not going to see that kind of dramatic reaction with the jellyfish we have. That's more in tropical waters.

en All I can figure is that the buffet floated, and when the waters receded it must have slowly tipped over and set those dishes down. And they were still stacked.

en People are not helpless in the face of big business. It's up to the public to say what it wants. Only when the public bans single-hulled oil tankers from American waters, only when the public says no more selling wood logged from old-growth forests, will companies... come up with other solutions.

en We are doing all we can to ensure the public is aware of the test ahead of time so we do not create confusion. The only way to truly test our warning system is to use the live codes, so it is very important that we involve the public in the test as much as possible.

en This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.

en Without having read it, being told what was in the newspaper, I'm not going to deny that that conversation took place. But that's it. That's a business situation that should remain between the people that were involved. As far as my reaction to it, I really don't have one. I think the only reaction is that I don't really think it's something that needs to be public knowledge.

en I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

en Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
  Ramsey Clark

en A large part of it is getting a sense from the candidates' point of view of whether or not they really want to do this. Lots of people want to be president, but they've got to figure out: 'What do I have to offer that's going to make people want me to be president?' It's not something people wake up with one morning crystallized in their head. A lot of it comes from being out there, talking to people, test-driving their message.


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