John Barrett
John Barrett
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Each nation has particular strengths and weaknesses in terms of technology adoption. Canada, for instance, is a very impressive market for home networking while Japan is the undisputed champion for mobile phones, with over one-half of all Japanese households using mobile phone features like e-mail or photo messaging every month. Of course long commute times in Japan encourage the use of mobile phone entertainment features.
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It's a national dialogue that a lot of people by definition can't participate in today.
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Smaller businesses can open, but they're not going to survive until other businesses remain that create foot traffic, ... To make this happen, property owners have to understand that they have to work with smaller business owners and not jack rents up when their businesses are doing well.
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The laptop market is a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Their strategy is becoming more and more apparent.
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They call this the mayor's celebration but it's about the people. The people have a lot to celebrate, ... This is the biggest I've ever seen. I say it every year, but it just keeps getting bigger and better every year.
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We lost a lot of beautiful buildings to urban renewal, ... The uniqueness of these buildings is the character and charm of the community. They'll never build factories like that again.
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We certainly are a much different community than 50 years ago.
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We need to remind the Kenyan government officials that TB is entirely curable disease and action can deal with it,
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What this is saying to Mr. Ellis is that nothing (in relation to zoning bylaws) is going to change mid-stream. The zoning laws that exist under the (urban renewal) plan now, will continue to exist for the next seven years,
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Communities are figuring out that they can take these old buildings and think outside the box and find good reuse for them,
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Did I know what they were? ... I didn't have a clue. But I knew that there was something on the horizon. I knew something was there.
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Oh God! The butt of jokes that I received from my fellow mayors throughout the state of Massachusetts. One of them said, 'You don't even know how to spell the word contemporary, never mind know what it is,'
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No prosecutor would accept that from an ordinary witness. You'd get a subpoena the next day and ask specific, pointed questions until you got answers, or you'd indict the guy.