A couple of years ago I would have thought that business investment would grow pretty strongly. That hasn't been the case due to a combination of more regulation and taxes, lower-cost countries and pensions and I don't see that changing. It's certainly hard to see business investment recovering enough to get the economy growing above trend. |
A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I was just stunned, it just struck a chord in me. Then I woke up the next morning, and I was just emotionally exhausted, and I knew I had to read it again to see what had affected me so much. And it affected me even more in the second reading. |
A key concern is the future. If people aren't buying Internet and content access today, then you have to ask how adoption of broadband access services such as 3G can be built. The technology roadmap is clear, but subscribers appear not to be aware of just how they can use the mobile services being offered to them today, let alone in future. |
A lot of them told me that they had seen me on TV and that it was nice to see a familiar face. If that makes somebody feel good, then here I am. You can't just sit there and watch it on TV and wonder what you can do to help. Everybody can help. I'm hoping that more people will follow the lead of the relief workers that are doing their part. |
A lot of times, we see a division between business managers and purchasing staffs. Typical purchasing organizations are tasked with reducing costs. Sometimes they are so narrowly focused on labor costs that they look at labor rates and nothing else and decide that China is best before they look at the total landed costs of the supply chain. |
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work. |
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After interviewing the victim and some of their preliminary interviews with other students, it appears some of this contact may have occurred in the presence of other students. The child care team is continuing to interview other students that may have been in contact with the educator to determine if there are any more victims outstanding. |
All of us are very proud of the unique and extraordinary effort put in by the local civic and business leaders to put together the Samsung package. The commitment was deep and intense. It was an extraordinarily talented and hard-working team that did this. They realized how important this project is to the future of our city and our region. |
All the things I hated about my first experience, the heat and humidity and the crowds, would become all the things I would embrace about the country, and love those differences and love being stuck in those traffic jams with thousands of bicycles and people driving by with 30 ducks on their motorbikes and the dirt roads and all that stuff, |
All this time, throughout the earnings season for the last couple of quarters, we've been hearing that visibility continues to be very poor going forward. Now, for the first time, you have a CEO of a high-profile company saying at least that business conditions appear to have stabilized, and I think that was the trigger for the rally today. |
Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, ... And despite the fact that many had no formal training, the degree of caring and thoughtfulness these volunteers have is amazing. And most of all, their hearts are broken for the community, for what was versus what is. |
Among the several evangelical Christian curriculum distributors and publishers, they have done a very good job in developing what they call the 'Switched-On Schoolhouse,' ... It's a simple way for home schoolers to get started in their homes, or in some cases to use their local churches to have a curriculum, using also the Internet as well. |
An increase of 8.75 percent over [the current] budget is what the Board of Education decided upon, based on the best information available to them at the time. I think at this time we, as the voters who elected this board, should rely on their experience and expertise to fulfill their obligation to both taxpayers and the students of Monroe. |
And a Treasury working paper in 2004 found that a 69% increase in the minimum wage for 18 and 19 year olds in 2001 and a 41% increase in the minimum wage for 16 and 17 year-olds over a two year period had no adverse effects on youth employment or hours worked. In fact hours of work increased for 16-17 year olds relative to other age groups. |