Michael Allen
Michael Allen
Michael 'Mike' Allenfrom Belfast is an Irish rugby union player who plays both at centre and wing for Edinburgh...
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth28 November 1990
anyone quite talking
For at least 20 years we've been talking about consolidation, but it never quite evolves the way anyone expects.
biggest budgets chunk issue looking microsoft open schools source takes
A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.
brother sister
Then I had another brother who wanted to come, ... Then my sister called and she had friends, and they had friends. And I said, 'Bring them all.'
markets southern sustained york
They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.
change definitely
This is definitely going to change the way we do science.
airlines either oil price profits raise
Profits are elusive. Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.
ability add affecting affects certainly continue costs energy growing income increases items middle moment people purchase rising sales wage
People at the upper end of the income distribution have done very well and continue to do well. People in the middle are growing, but they're not growing all that much. Wage increases have been muted and that certainly affects people in the middle and at the bottom. Add in rising energy costs and those people are really being constrained right at the moment in their ability to go out and purchase items and that's certainly affecting the sales tax.
among business price travelers
There's more price sensitivity among business travelers than ever.
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Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.
along helped move tribes
Right now ... the tribes are pretty satisfied. I think (the first speech) helped move this thing along a little bit.
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college coaches can get athletic programs placed on probation by violating rules, yet they can bounce to another job while their former school is put on probation and the athletes left behind are reprimanded. It seems the NCAA should wise up and ... ban them from being hired by another school.