[Evolutionary changes] weren't happening so dinosaurs could give rise to birds, ... gave an animal a particular advantage in day-to-day existence. |
A lot of guys are heading up departments they know nothing about. They're just managers wondering if they're running it or keeping a seat warm. Before, they had people around them who knew how to get the job done. No more. A lot of those people who ran departments for decades regardless of who the commissioner was are now gone. |
All our lives. All our dads' lives. It's not just our life. It's our dads' life. Actually, our grandfathers' life. |
Before, we were dealing with guys who knew the service end of a department and knew how to get things done for communities. If you were out there fixing a street, and somebody said, 'Can we extend it around this corner because there's a need here,' they'd figure out a way to do it. New people are reluctant to work with anybody unless it's scripted. There's not a lot of innovative stuff going on. |
Dinosaurs are all around us today in a very real sense. |
In the next 5-10 years, property owners will increasingly adopt cost segregation to minimize federal income taxes. |
ISM believes that the occupation can end through popular, peaceful protests that comply with international law for the protection of civilians. |
The early retirement and now this [corruption] stuff has taken away years and years of experience where you could call and try and resolve problems without making them acts of Congress, |
To be a member, you'll have to be involved in farm marketing and agriculture at some level. We're still sorting a lot of things out, and defining membership is a challenge. Does a corn maze qualify? How about someone with maple syrup or an on-farm gift shop or a bed and breakfast? I would say yes because we want the membership to be as wide as possible, knowing that it may be tightened. But at this point, we feel a wide interpretation is the best. |