Famous Quotes & Sayings

The share of purchases from foreign investors, including central banks, may decrease as a narrow spread between short-and long-term notes makes it difficult to hold the bonds.

These efforts are another important step to improve IT effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring veterans continue to receive 21st century health care.

These discussions have centered on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative

The stock market continues to react to John Q. Public. We used to watch century marks in the Dow. Now we watch millenniums.

The stock is likely to see as much as 30 per cent gain in the first trading day to follow the similar recent gain of other material stocks.

The situation is more worrying (in Somalia) because of the 15 years of conflict in a country that has lacked central government.

The semiconductor industry faces many technical challenges that need to be addressed if we are to maintain the rate of progress that has been the hallmark of our industry. The Focus Center Program is designed to create a nationwide multiuniversity network of research centers that will help keep the United States and U.S. semiconductor firms at the front of the global microelectronics revolution.

The second lesson is that we can't rely on the Europeans. We can only hope on a 50 per cent recovery of that rift. So that leaves us with constructing issue-based coalitions of the willing as the key component of future US foreign policy.

The solar panels are a technically innovative project that symbolizes a much larger effort undertaken in the White Center community.

The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'

The stuff they're smoking today is far more powerful than when I was running around being a hippie. It has gone from one or two per cent THC to 22 to 25 per cent THC.

The spring concert is really just for the students. It is not centered around Homecoming, but is something our students can be proud of.

The sight of so many visitors in Central Park in mid-February has been nearly as thrilling as 'The Gates' itself,

The technology is a first of its kind and could replace metal detectors for speed. It is Central Florida engineering with international appeal.

The bull's-eye is probably going to be in West Virginia, northern Virginia, north and central Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania. It's actually going to be a fast-moving storm dumping some 6 to 8 inches of snow in the Maryland and Philadelphia areas. There could be a couple of places in West Virginia that get 10 inches.

The big thing is that we are looking to having this thing completed exactly a century after it was built. I hope we have some sort of local celebration.

Avalon Center is the only program in the county that provided abused women and children with a safe home when home isn't safe anymore,

A world-class cultural center in a rural setting, the home of Dartmouth College is ideal if you're an outdoors person,

Tom Ridge

As of today, we now have full nationwide connectivity to the Homeland Security Operations Center, a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week nerve center for homeland security information and incident management,

That play in center field by Sarah was big. I thought we played really well. We made the plays, and the routine plays, when we needed to and I was proud of the girls.

That's what we're looking to do. It's all part of a seven-game series. That's the best, most positive thing is that we're going back to the Ford Center in Oklahoma City.

Robert Dallek

That's why pragmatism is such a central ingredient of an effective presidency. If you're not pragmatic, not responsive to changing realities, then you don't succeed.

We've never seen anything like it. It literally covered one end of the shopping center to the other and in some instances, 10 inches deep.

We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.

(This) was followed and expanded over the centuries by many explorers, including Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, all of whom played an important role in revealing the secrets of Australia's coast.

This team has a center and a forward. That team had four guards and a forward or five guards.

John Podesta

This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It provides not one cent to extend the solvency of Social Security. It will not result in paying down the debt.

This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.

This was by far the hardest deployment I've ever experienced. The World Trade Center was hard but it (the destruction) was in one spot. The devastation here is so immense. It's all over.

This vision for the Freedom Center should be a tribute, a celebration of those men and women who through the course of history have moved us forward in our march to freedom.

What really impressed me was that one of my friends went to a Max Ophuls retrospective at Lincoln Center and Michael Barker was there every day. When your distributor is doing that, you know it's not just a job. They really love movies.

Bill Taylor

What needs to happen downtown, I think, is for some momentum to begin. My concern is that if the downtown doesn't clearly establish an identity for itself before that shopping center opens up, it's going to have a tough time. Too often, people wait before they take action, and by then it's too late.

Austin Ligon

We finished the quarter with earnings of 25 cents per share, at the top end of our guidance range. Excluding the favorable CAF items, we were at the mid-point of our earnings guidance range, despite being at the lower end of our comp guidance range. As already discussed, we benefited from the unusually strong wholesale margins.