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could make a difference in the straw poll, there's no doubt about it. This is almost like the old Daley machine, where you tend to buy votes. Dan Quayle
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Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are. Rudy Vallee
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Compliance means turnover of the two suspects for trial. It's been almost 10 years since the Pan Am 103 tragedy, this has gone on for far too long. James Foley
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Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet. Samantha Harvey
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Do we want to play him 75 plays in a game? Probably not, ... Do we want to play him in spots and spurts and see how he responds and reacts to it? It's almost like you would do in a preseason game -- six, eight plays, take him out for a few, put another guy in, give him six or eight more and see how he manages it. Nick Saban
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Don't let the crowd in until you are almost sure that play will take place.
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Don't rush to develop a new resume. That's the mistake almost everyone makes. Instead, reflect on what isn't working, what's not right about where you are, what are your greatest strengths are, and what you love to do.
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Don't make music because that's what's cool. We almost started out doing that.
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Don't forget he's almost 79 years old. Part of his restricted schedule is not because he's doing feverish things behind closed doors. He's resting. There was speculation in 2002 and 2003 that his health wasn't very good. There is a basis for believing that there may be some fatigue and delicacy of constitution there.
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Cover stories are an almost inevitable part of every improper relationship between two human beings, ... Now to say that is not to excuse it or to exonerate it or justify it, but rather to emphasize the testimony about 'visiting Betty' or 'bringing me letters' is in the record, but it is not linked in any way to the December 17 phone call or to any testimony or affidavit with regards to the Jones case.
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Courtney Paris has almost a third of their team's rebounds this season and her twin sister, Ashley, has almost another third. We have to do a good job at not giving them second and third shot opportunities.
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Cycle after cycle, like the ticks of a clock, we get closer and closer to the point where one of these mega-thrust earthquakes are going to occur like happened in Indonesia last year. You can almost look at these slip events as ticks of that clock.
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Currently, import is totally businesses' activity. There has been almost no room for the Government to intervene by administrative means after China entered the World Trade Organization . Along with a recovery in investment at home, China's trade surplus in 2006 will probably be lower than the estimated 90 billion US dollars for the current year.
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Current labor market estimates appear to be overstating the share of working Americans by 1.4 percentage points. This corresponds to roughly 3 million fewer people working almost as big a drop in employment as in a typical recession.
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Cremation is almost always chosen by the deceased. Surveys show people choose it because it's easier to arrange.
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Cuba is a nation divided by its government. Almost 20 percent of the population lives in exile. Almost every family unit has been stricken by that division, and it is time for that to end and the barriers that divide the Cubans to be brought down.
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CRP has a good earning capacity, and it is our ambition to improve it further. Its order backlog for 2006 is at a good level and we believe the market will be strong over the next few years. However, it is important to remember that this business are almost entirely project-related, which entails great variation in order bookings and consequently also in invoicing between different quarters.
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Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun. James T. Walsh
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Courses typically set their event schedule early in the year ... so calling the fall of the prior year or at least at the first of the year is important for any event, especially if it will be large and will close off the course. Almost all courses have a tournament package ... and some have sales directors to walk you through the process if they do lots of them. For most clubs, you'll go to the head pro.
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
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And they're speeding up more to home plate to give the catcher an opportunity. It's almost impossible if you don't get a good jump. If you have a catcher who can throw the ball well, it's almost impossible to steal. Tim Raines
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Anne wrote it for me and directed, so I was stuck with it, ... We always got along. It's almost gross, I tell you, when I think of how well we get along. Ellen DeGeneres
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Anne, our commander in chief, ... has it blocked out in three three-year segments, almost like 'Star Wars.' In a very brilliant way, Anne is telling the entire saga of 'CSI: Miami' backwards. David Caruso
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An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. Charles Kettering
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The upstream and downstream constraints are real and long-term and we're seeing almost daily examples of them. We're going to have a very strong price environment until the steam is taken out of demand or until investment catches up and restores a spare capacity cushion to production and refining.
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The way we started out it made the first game almost look like a fluke. But then we settled down and played better.
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The way they move is different but they're almost always within a second or two of ski time and shooting time, so the results are very similar. Any time we test heart rates or lactates or anything like that, it's almost the same. It's like testing the same person, same blood.
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The way the championship points are structured, winning is not the most important thing. It pays the most points, but a top-five these days is almost as good as a win. Jeff Gordon
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. Henry David Thoreau
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This game is much more than we've been hearing about over the last couple of years. Players do have passion for this game. Players do respect the game. Players are clean. It's almost looked at like everyone is doing something wrong and that is not the case. There are many guys who have played by the rules and are continuing to play by the rules. Johnny Damon
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This deal does two things. It gives us some cap room, and it solves what really is almost a crisis right now. We had set aside, as many teams did, a reserve of about a million and a half dollars to deal with injuries. That was inadequate.
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This crowd was almost Kings-like. They know this puts them in the big leagues. It reminds me of when the Kings came to Sacramento. It's the only other place that has reminded me of that.
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This couple was given $40,000 as a wedding gift by the bride's father. His instructions were to either have a large wedding with the funds, or elope or choose a small wedding and invest the money. They had a small but posh wedding and put a down payment on a loft in San Francisco. Because the real estate market was so hot, the loft went up almost $200,000 in value in the course of a year and a half. Kathleen Kennedy