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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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would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped. Mao Zedong
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There is no question that Beijing would want to do more, ... Do they want to do something 'big' just two days before Bush arrives in Beijing? Frank Gong
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What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.
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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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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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But what's more interesting is the U.S.-China deficit, especially with what's going on in Beijing just now. It's going to put a lot of pressure on the U.S. to get China to move (further on yuan flexibility), and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress, which I think is ultimately dollar-negative.
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But it's for sure this is not going to make Beijing make any meaningful concessions under pressure.
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We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.
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We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.
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When figures start flowing up to $200 billion, I have concerns, ... $1 billion is a lot of money. Jeff Sessions
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We have resources to do $200 billion in contracts, but we are spending $400 billion in contracts.
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The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.
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The people moving in to Cook County every year make $1.2 billion less than those moving out. Kenneth Johnson
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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 know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses. Kofi Annan
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. Elon Musk
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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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The real issue is executing those plans over a dynamic period of time. Most of these systems, you don't implement in a week, you don't implement in a year. They're multiyear implementations in a political environment where laws are being changed, in a budgetary environment where budgets are being changed.
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The real challenge is going to be increasing social spending while at the same time not expanding the budget deficit. Jonathan Katz
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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
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We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.
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This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.
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This was not a high-budget enterprise that I could see. Other people come to Hope to shoot commercials and such, and they throw money around right and left.
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We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'
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There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend. Callie Khouri
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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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The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.
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The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties, Tom Tryon
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We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.
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Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is. Shia LaBeouf
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote. Brian Wilson
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We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.
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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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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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I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it. Carlos Beltran
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I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder. Carl Crawford
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We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business.
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We have to go back home and win, plain and simple. Obviously, we would have liked to win some more games here, but it's done, it's over with, and we need to go back home and win now.
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We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first three games were going to be tough for us.
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What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation. Richard Attias
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We wanted to use those first three games to get better. I think we did.
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We wanted to try it. We were running out of dates. (The schedule of games Thursday) is not a great order, but we'll give it a whirl.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game. Alan Turing
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Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. Bill Toomey
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The Olympics must be my curse or something. Blanka Vlasic
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I will remember all the days at the Olympics. Bonnie Blair
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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.
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We've been overwhelmed. It seems to start before the Olympics with the promotional buildup.
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Too many people try to put these championships on a par with the world championships or the Olympics but they are not -- never have been, never will be. Michael Johnson
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When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters. Don Kardong
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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
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At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. Evan Sayet