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I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters. Stieg Larsson
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There are still no signs of a downturn in global economic activity, suggesting that the fundamental backdrop for most commodities, including crude, remains favorable. We'll see if this week's U.S. numbers change any of that.
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Given the more challenging economic backdrop and widely reported consumer spending fragility this is, in our view, a very strong result.
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Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.
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I think it's more of a media event than a market event. It's not really changing what we do every day. We do think we'll get there?we believe equity markets are poised to go higher and the economic backdrop is still intact. It might take a couple of days.
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If we end up with a majority government you could see a bit of a rally in the currency but it would be short-lived. Canada's economy is comfortably in surplus and that backdrop isn't going to change, no matter who wins.
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Lots and lots of decorative pillows piled on the bed will give in a warm and inviting feel. I like to prop four sleeping pillows upright to serve as the backdrop for all the decorative pillows.
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The data suggests the big momentum positions which had mirrored carry trades have now been cut back to much more neutral levels, which should provide a good backdrop for carry trade rebuilding in the new year.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. Walter Dean Myers
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Regardless of the numbers the general tone of the market is dollar negative. You've got people jumping on the bandwagon.
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People in McKeesport saw what happened in Duquesne when they lost their library because of the lack of funding. I would get envelopes with a dollar in them. The residents didn't want to lose their library.
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Surely the dollar makes pricing more competitive for U.S. companies. But it's more a noise factor than anything else on a short-term basis.
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Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.
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Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.
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Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.
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Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.
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Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.
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Our goal is to manage every penny of every dollar that we spend with our suppliers, be they raw material suppliers, freight suppliers, or indirect. We want to touch every penny.
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Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list, Michael Thomas
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Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.
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Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.
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Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.
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Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.
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People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.
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People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.
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People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.
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Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.
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It is an historic meeting of global significance. Silvio Berlusconi
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The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort. Steve Shaw
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It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act. Bill Gates
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It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.
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I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country. Thomas R. Insel
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here. Quincy Jones
global japan market strategy
For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,
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Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.
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Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.
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Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.
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Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.
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Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.
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Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.
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Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
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Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,
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Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.
provided
I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.
provided
I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it. Paul O'Grady
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Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral, Joseph Kabila
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Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.
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I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward. David Livingstone
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There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial. Tom Kenny
provided visits
When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.
provided trends
Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch. McGregor Scott
provided realise
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do. Rachel Johnson
strong war distance
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
strong team home
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team Becca Fitzpatrick
strong lying home
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free. Barry Pepper
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create. Barry Manilow
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it. B. D. Wong
strong military war
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness. B. H. Liddell Hart
strong war military
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.