[Acknowledging Monad as Windows'] next-generation scripting language, ... Monad has a lot of great capabilities, the most important of which is that it's built on the .NET Framework...It's really the first mainstream command language that's focused on allowing objects, with a full set of services that an object possesses: events and methods, and pass those things between different commands. |
[If the Plan B battle reveals anything, it's that the opponents' real agenda is not to prevent unintended pregnancy and abortion. If that were so, they would be for all forms of contraception. They'd be for better sex education. They'd be for more family-planning counseling.] The problem is the right doesn't want greater access to birth control, ... and their opposition to Plan B proves it. |
[IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world free of debt, poverty, hunger and disease, while full of economic partnership.] I am aware of the critical debate about globalization, and many questions have to be of concern to all of us, ... But I also want to be clear: if the IMF did not exist already, this would be the time to invent it. |
[In an all-too-common scenario, Gtess was making do with manual intervention between silos of automation.] People were checking batches and moving things into the next step in the process, ... With BPM, we've added intelligence and automation from beginning to end, so instead of monitoring and moving work around all the way through the process, our analysts are now just managing the queues. |
[Jenkins tied his career high with five hits and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to back the efficient pitching of Tomo Ohka as the Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-1.] It won't get any worse, ... It doesn't hurt when I hit or throw. It only hurts when I run or occasionally get out in front. It's as bad as it's been for the past few weeks, but I'll make it through the season. |
[One day after returning from the disabled list, A's center fielder Mark Kotsay (21) scores behind Jason Kendall on an Eric Chavez double Wednesday in their home win against Seattle. Kendall, who never has played on a team that finished with a winning record, has a healthy attitude as Oakland contends for a postseason spot.] Most fun I've ever had in my career, ... and I've been struggling. |
[Payne's second selection is travel firm Cendant.] It has four or five different household names in terms of travel. When Enron popped up, this stock went from $21 to $15 almost for no reason except they were guilty of some accounting issues in the past, ... I think the company is starting to recoup its reputation. I think when the stock gets above $20 it's going to attract a lot of buyers. |
[The idea of a free street dance came from the Cartwright Brothers themselves.] Jeff, Mark and I were talking and trying to think of a way to put a cherry on top of the great summer and one of them, I can't remember which, came up with the idea, ... Then they took it a step further and said let's do something nice for a local charity and the idea of the food donations for admission came up. |
[The Oilers and Smyth have a one-year deal on the table that is worth slightly more than his qualifying offer of $2.698 million, so there's no chance the veteran left-winger will miss the start of camp.] I'll be there because we've got the one-year deal in place, ... If we can't agree on the long-term, I'll take my qualifying offer and be ready to go. It's one year or whatever we settle on. |
[The Voice — which is a union shop — has an internal culture that’s famously feisty and fractious. When the company recently announced it was cutting writers’ pay, senior editor Robert Christgau wrote a letter posted on a popular media Web site vowing,] We at the Voice are not taking this lying down. ... Many believe this is an attempt by management to render the paper more salable. |
[The] decision brings to an end years of wasted court resources brought about by a fringe group of people opposed to even the most basic protections for thousands of California families headed by same-sex couples. We look forward to the day when all families are treated fairly under the law in California, and that day will be when marriage becomes equally available to all committed couples. |
[To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in his team meeting room would be doing likewise to the deepest turquoise.] Let's just say the door was closed and there were no women present, ... How can you give a bollocking positively? We'll see if I've managed it tomorrow. There's things that were going on that will remain between ourselves. |
A good actor is like watching a great musician, but having a bad actor terrifies me, because it means I've got to find something to say or something to do. And that's really frustrating, because you want to be concentrating on everything, and instead you find yourself bogged down with helping someone know their lines or not bump into the furniture, and that's when you want to strangle them. |
A lot of the kids on the list were excited about the fact that we're more of a national team now, with the exposure this year that we received. I do a lot of radio shows across the country and I did one out of Phoenix and one out of Denver, and those guys knew all about us. Hopefully with the new exposure we can go out and find the type of student athlete that can succeed at Boston College. |
A national system of electronic medical record keeping could take a significant bite out of healthcare costs. These systems are expensive, but it doesn't take long before the benefits surpass the costs. People may choose to take the savings, or savings may be used to provide insurance to the uninsured. Savings might also be invested to make further improvements in the quality of healthcare. |