Famous Quotes & Sayings

Absolutely, not true. We have offers going back since Lehman acquired the property.

Also, students have moved away from home, where they have acquired some immunity to the bugs around them, and into accommodation shared with people from all over the country and abroad, where they will come into contact with a new pool of potential infections.

They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but the order and magnitude of those tasks is multiplying exponentially.

This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.

Jon Daniels

There is no trade or pending trade despite reports to the contrary and we expect him to be here this year and at a minimum, next year. Since we acquired him from the Yankees, there has been endless speculation about where he might be headed. We have been consistent in saying that he is a piece of the puzzle we are putting together.

Young people are increasingly viewing sexual activity and relationships as commodities to be acquired and discarded. Clearly, people's sexual cultures are changing and better and more effective sex education is required to keep up.

EMC has acquired Smarts (an event automation and network systems management software vendor), but we don't see them as a competitor...although it is one of the companies we watch very closely in terms of what their long-term ambitions could be.

As I said, we had acquired some aircraft, and the same propaganda team, Guatemalan propaganda team, prepared leaflets, which were in several phases.

CompuServe hasn't been in a huge growth mode since AOL acquired it. AOL is looking for more advertising and trying to bring in more customers.

Vigilance is justifiably high. We know there is a certain exposure from information acquired in Italy and abroad.

We are very excited to have acquired such attractive oil and gas properties. The combination of a substantial increase in production and reserves, dedicated equipment to support our drilling activities and strong commodity prices positions the Company for strong growth in 2006.

Boston has many questions to answer. They have to convince me that they were working completely in good faith. Now they have the knowledge that they have acquired stolen artifacts. Are they worried? I don't know. Do they want an agreement? I don't know. But, they do have a moral obligation to give back the items to the victim, which in this case is Italy.

We saw the gap that is critical for us to fill and Dimension was acquired as part of that strategy.

We see in Eddie a player with great potential, and certainly the injury put him back. He acquired a reputation that people expected a lot out of him, and I'm not copping out of that. We do expect a lot of Eddie, but at the same time he's a young player and he's getting there. His best soccer is probably for the next World Cup in all honestly. He's got a bright future, and we're hopeful he's moving forward.

David Powers

We saw this as an opportunity to explore a passion we had and leverage some of the skills we had acquired at our day job. One day we were thinking about how we could teach people to play and become better ourselves.

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

Clint Hurdle

With respect to the privacy of himself and his family, I'm not going to make any comment on his condition, other than the fact we believe it's in his best interest to put him on the disabled list. The doctors acquired all the information they needed.

Tori Amos

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

Richard Eyre

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along with knowing the history, behavior and local staff, helped make Golden Eagle a success story.

We might have lost some of our most seasoned and experienced players but we have acquired some senior players too during the off-season. We have also been i9n camp for the past five to six weeks preparing for this African Safari, so I am confident that the team has great potential.

We will set up something with the mayor after we are served. I don't know what we would have to do to show good faith. We are sensitive to trying to do the right thing. We negotiated with this guy for nearly two years before we acquired the property.

We will work to ensure this transition will be as seamless as possible for all customers, suppliers and valued partners. In addition, we will extend the opportunity for employment to all Ryerson employees in the acquired locations. We value their expertise and believe they will complement and strengthen our existing Energy Alloys team. Additionally, they share our mission for superior customer service and have an outstanding reputation for exceeding customer expectations.

Tom Robinson

We feel very fortunate to have acquired someone of Sandy's tremendous reputation and experience in the institutional markets. She is a great addition to our team as we grow Oppenheimer Investment Management LLC going forward.

These content companies go in and out of consolidation phases. There are periods when they go independent, and periods where they're acquired by bigger conglomerates. This is one of those periods.

Generally, 85 percent of the tests come back as the sporadic, or naturally occurring form, 14 percent come back as the familial form that is passed down through generations and less than 1 percent come back as the variant form. There's never been a variant case acquired in the United States.

Erica Jong

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

The baby boomers have acquired more wealth than any previous generation. Now their children are moving into adulthood, and they're looking to their parents for help in buying a home. And they're getting it.

Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant strides by gaining market share and increasing efficiencies for new products, as well as improving results at businesses acquired over the last two years, all while maintaining excellent customer service. We continue to invest heavily in growth in terms of capital improvements, product quality programs, and most importantly, in people, and we are optimistic that these investments will continue to yield favorable returns.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

The New York Times allegations are wrong in all their details. The claim that the two BND officers had acquired Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and handed it to the U.S.A. one month before the war's outbreak, as is stated in the New York Times, is false.