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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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The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious. Jiang Zemin
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We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.
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We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.
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We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.
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There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
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We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.
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We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica. Jeff Kinney
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We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. Sy Montgomery
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We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now. Byron Dorgan
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We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,
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We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute. Bob Woodruff
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(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.
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We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business. Eric Hyman
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In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. Michael Shermer
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Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards. Norman Wisdom
budget controls
We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.
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When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise. Robert Morgan
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What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.
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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
dollars cost
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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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
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I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
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Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
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They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
olympics curse
The Olympics must be my curse or something. Blanka Vlasic
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Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. Bill Toomey
olympics remember
I will remember all the days at the Olympics. Bonnie Blair
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Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.' Eric Shanteau
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like. Laure Manaudou
olympics
At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. Evan Sayet
olympics team towards
One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.
olympic-games capable
Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. David Coleman
olympics runners
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner. Don Kardong