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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques
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What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it. Robin Munro
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The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity. Shashi Tharoor
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Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.
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send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.
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They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls. Nicole Mones
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My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. Liu Wen
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The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.
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We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Richard Caborn
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There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
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When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses. John Battelle
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We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there. Sandra Taylor
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Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.
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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy. Rex Stout
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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
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Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.
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Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. Tim Bray
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We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people. Seth Shostak
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The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance, Jim Bush
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We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.
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We are at full control of a completely healthy spacecraft.
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There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A. Dusty Baker
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There are some forces out of order, not under our control, and not under the control of the Ministry of Defense.
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We still want to control the clock. Hopefully we're a smarter team now. Jake Delhomme
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We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,
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We started covering their inside. We really wanted to control that at the end. When that happens a smart team does what? They go outside, and that's exactly what they did.
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We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,
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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales. David Mixner
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In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. Cal Thomas
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn
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The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.
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You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about. Nick Woodman
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Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry. Earl Weaver
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Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. Elizabeth Arden
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He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. Charles Edison
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I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it. Cher
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It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense Frederic Bastiat
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Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.
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When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
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Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.
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We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.
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I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.
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This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.
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There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement.
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Expenses are going up 5 percent a year, but revenues are going up about 1 or 2 percent a year. How long can that go on?
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There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors. Charles Caleb Colton
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What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,
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Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted. Benjamin Franklin
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We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.
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We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.
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We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.
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The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not. Anna Kendrick
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Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass. Daniel Handler
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We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.