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We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success, Jack Greenberg
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The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.
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We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.
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We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.
based believe credible evidence trial
We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,
based open plan
We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.
based bush media move period tend time wisdom
We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.
based jury
We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.
based issue items labor lies softer
Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.
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The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light. Kimberly Williams
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Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.
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We are pretty confident that the usability and visual enhancements to the Linux desktop will fuel more growth in this market. We think this should give customers more choice and confidence to begin integrating open solutions.
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We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings. Paul O'Neill
beginning despite low maintained percent pleased prices since strong
We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.
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We are pleased to begin a relationship with one of our country's premier cancer centers. We are particularly excited because of the community outreach initiatives that are integrated into this partnership. We are not only focused on bringing more marketing partners into the Rays family, but also developing relationships such as this, in which the community benefits as well.
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We've about got it done. We're staged up and ready to begin construction on this.
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We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning. Gary Knell
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We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it begins to lift rates.
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There are some gradual signs that the worst is over for this particular downdraft, ... We're optimistic that we can get a little turnaround by the end of the week. But it's hard to point to any one real catalyst that can turn things around.
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Unless there's some catalyst for the shorts to start scampering there's no reason for markets to go higher.
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We're just in a holding pattern. I don't see any catalyst on the scene at this point to get stocks going.
catalyst market seeing starting technology
We're seeing the idea that technology is starting to get back in the driver's seat. And tech is a catalyst that you need for the market to rally.
catalyst cause education hone
Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.
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She may be the fastest guard in the country. She certainly was the catalyst for her team.
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We've sort of run into resistance, we need a significant catalyst to move us further and it's just not there.
catalyst-for-change glasses looks
My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . . Elizabeth Dole
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. Charles Dickens
couple men hands
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.
couple hands want
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better. Charles Stross
couple may terrible
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
couple years my-boyfriend
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. Alanis Morissette
couple majority adaptation
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore
couple guitar burritos
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos. Alan Arkin
couple moving done
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball
couple believe next
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels
days pleasing points tie won
The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training. Graeme Souness
days few government light negative polling posters
The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.
days despite due losing pleased production reach record several
We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.
days premier
There are days when you don't have your premier stuff, Dusty Baker
days pick
There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.
days grow light line looks offensive putting starting
There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.
days
There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.
days reads
There are days he just reads my mind. Karen Allen
days push
There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair. Nicky Byrne
dollars hiv cost
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
dollars poor taxpayers
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
dollars quarters billions
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn
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The potential for the euro to fall is pretty limited from here. The dollar is not going to get the same support we saw last year from rates now, and the euro zone economy is looking more solid.
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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.
dollars millions raise work
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
dollars three roles
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
dollars raw-materials plowing
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 positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.
expected
We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year. Paul James
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Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65. Mark Barrowcliffe
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Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.
expected koreans olympics skating time
When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. Kim Yuna
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We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.
expected hard paid people team tried
We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.
expected poverty recession three trouble
Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.
expected
We know what's expected of us, and we know what we need to do. We don't want to end up like two years ago.
generally generous grants perception wiped
The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.
generally
If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed. Leander Paes
generally green military style uniforms
When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.
generally
Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on, Richard Armitage
generally high return
We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate. Jim Harrison
generally good hire
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen. James Sinegal
generally information otherwise playing somebody
What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there. Keira Knightley
generally people time work
Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality. Isabella Rossellini
generally guest pays people seen supporting three touch widely
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.
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The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.
headline numbers performance stronger
The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.
headlines monday yankees
My God, ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs? Wade Boggs
headline
I don't think you're going to see headline breakthroughs. Stephen Hadley
headlines
If I say anything at all there will be headlines all over the place. Gordon Strachan
headline heads night time trying wrap
Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.
headlines inevitably joe starts written
Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said. Armando Iannucci
headline regardless
I think this is a dollar-supportive (report) ... regardless of the headline (non-farm payrolls) number.
headlines save writers
Writing headlines is a specialty-there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. Bill Walsh
lasts remember there-is-hope
Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
lasts fool firsts
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. Charles Simmons
lasts dubbing spokes
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. Alan Rickman
last nine won
We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.
last people ready year
We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.
lasts eloquent last-time
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. David Mitchell
lasts records haircuts
You're only as good as your last record. David Sanborn
lasts female worship
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. Camille Paglia
lasts needs kind
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! Bryan Lee O'Malley
marketing phrases idiot
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
marketing advertising timing
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills. Al Ries
marketing company ultimate
Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.
marketing mind building
Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
marketing cows looks
A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
marketing world needs
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing. Akio Morita
market
We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.
marketing advertising products
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Edwin Land
marketing coaching good-coaches
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching. Bernard Ebbers
moves
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty. Michael Novak
moves poised seems team
With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented. Troy Glaus
moves politics
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. Italo Calvino
moves tough versatile
She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.
moves people
People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it. Lawrence Tierney
moves oil overly positions price quick traders
Traders are not being overly quick to get into long positions as the oil price moves up, but are quick to unload if they see any weakness.
moves
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again. Anatoly Karpov
moves path towards turn
There are moves to turn around from that path towards something like Matsushita.
moves
Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps. Jeremy Spencer
needed veto
I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her. Lorraine Toussaint
needed prove relaxed
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
needed reason signature
The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece. George Thorogood
needed
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue. Earl Butz
needed stepped whenever
Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.
needed amazed surprising
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. Cheryl Strayed
needed whether
Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.
needed recover year
We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.
needed next
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' Karin Slaughter
round
You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen. Lefty Grove
round
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. Samantha Fox
rounds
I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible, Catriona Matthew
rounds howls-moving-castle
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. Diana Wynne Jones
rounds load products
I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me. Amy Winehouse
rounds spoke washington
Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then, Pat Toomey
round scale
If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important. Peter Mandelson
round season
This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him. Steven Gerrard
round state win
Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.
weaker
You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex. Olga Kurylenko
weaker
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. J. I. Packer
weaker
Actually, it was a little weaker than when I was here. Kwame Brown