... There are folks down there who need help, and we're not going down there just to help churches -- we're going down there to help people. We're encouraging anyone who is willing to help in a variety of ways to step forward, whether it be with money, with providing materials and supplies or with manpower and experience. They just need manpower and laborers who are willing to come down and help meet their needs. |
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(The course) is about race and American society, ... What I want to do is bring all these issues that this Hurricane Katrina debate has brought forward - I want to bring them out. I want to talk about affirmative action, crime and punishment, schools and the test score cap, urban politics and the history of the civil rights movement, and try to bring all these different elements together in a contemporary course. |
[Breaking from the No. 12 post, Bailey quickly got his horse in a good spot, fourth or fifth, albeit a little farther behind pace-setting Sun King than Saint Liam's backers were used to seeing.] I really felt confident the moment I turned up the (backstretch), ... I knew I had the horses in front of me; I felt pretty strongly. I know Borrego comes with a strong run, but I was actually pretty confident all around. |
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[If your goal is to find companies to grow with, interest rates may not come into play as strongly.] Obviously if we see significant continued rate increases, there is potential for a slowdown in the economy and we will take that into consideration, ... But a material slowdown will affect most companies out there. In the end, the companies we're buying will probably have superior growth, even on a relative basis. |
[Part of that unpredictability is the way Davenport works with the media.] I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues, ... I also have a problem with the fact that law enforcement people, including Davenport, lie to and game the media and try to bend things into a shape that will reflect on them the best, whether or not that has anything to do with the way things should be. |
[Rangers fans, repeat after me: There are no marquee starting pitchers en route to Arlington. Carlos Delgado is out of the Rangers' price range. And Alfonso Soriano is not on the verge of being traded. GM John Hart has said all this before, but because rumors persist on all three counts, he reiterated the familiar refrain Thursday.] It's so quiet for us right now, ... There's no big deal lurking out in the weeds. |
[Team APEX Racing USA's championship hopes took a hit at Birmingham, but Hunt says don't count out this team of series newcomers yet.] We're by far the top rookie team in the series, ... We've surprised a lot of people with our performance this season, and we still have a shot at the team title mathematically. Robert is just 21 points back in the driver standings, so with four rounds remaining a lot could happen. |
[The administration, he said, has tried to rebound from the widespread criticism of initial recovery efforts with a stepped-up federal response and regular visits to the Gulf region.] The president has been all over the map there to help out and commit the government's full resources and the expectation was it would have people talking again about his compassionate conservatism, ... But it just hasn't worked out. |
[The best thing for the Williams family, of course, would be to stay put for a while. So far the signs are good. Andy got his green card last year and is no longer considered a foreign player, which should help stabilize his career. Plus, he's working hard on his defense, and Coach Ellinger has nothing but raves about Andy's play on both ends of the field.] He's one of our key guys, ... Andy's not going anywhere. |
[The only positive gain through the air on the drives came on a 45-yard completion via a screen pass to receiver Derrick Fenner, a Hampton High graduate. Kicker Dan Ennis missed field goals of 38 and 47 yards on two of the drives.] I think it's a credit to our defense to be able to stop them after turnovers on our side of the 50-yard line, ... Turnovers on the 1-yard line are also hard to overcome. That's not us. |
[The U.S. is expected to ask why it should give up oversight of something -- the Internet -- that initially was developed by its military under the aegis of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).] The U.N. is understandably nervous about the ability of the U.S. to exert control over ICANN under the current structure, ... even if that ability isn't currently utilized to any significant degree. |
[The volume of goods passing across high-street tills fell 1 per cent compared with a year ago, based on the same area of selling space. The British Retail Consortium said it was the eighth consecutive monthly fall and was driven by sharp declines in clothing and footwear and food sales.] The underlying position is weak, ... Retailers margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. |
[There's an even more compelling argument. Any industry that goes through a tough time inevitably goes through a period of easy comparisons, that is, when the current environment, no matter how lousy, looks better than the year before.] While January is no great shakes, ... sequential year-over-year revenue improvement is likely to resume in February and continue for every month through the third quarter of 2002. |