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What I don't like about things like that is that for a wealthy person, the fine is a mere inconvenience. For the poor person, it's a major punishment.
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What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.
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What we've been seeing over the last few years is a lot of families moving north into Martin and St. Lucie counties because they can get more bang for their buck, and they're commuting to Palm Beach County for work. Three years ago, you could buy what was going for $350,000 here, you could buy for $150,000 there. But that's changing. Now those are getting up in the $300,000 range, too.
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What we've been doing is using data to make instructional decisions. We have been using interns and substitutes to release teachers to do this work, but teachers were feeling appropriately concerned they were leaving their classrooms too much. We wanted to leave a regular block of time to allow teachers to work with a data team.
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What we see is that the economy still looks very strong.
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What we see here with Mr. Furrow would be acting out of a calling as a Phineas priest.
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What we saw in 1999, we won't see that again in our lifetime. It is now a state of normalcy.
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What we're trying to say is that we're all one community. Although we have these things that we can celebrate (as differences), we also have a lot of things in common. The point is to educate our kids while they're young, because if we educate them while they're young, we're not going to have these community meetings anymore.
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What we're trying to do is to show how, in your own backyard, you can have a place where children are engaged by nature.
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We started to look at the business fundamentals very differently and focused on the blocking and tackling and the competitive environment, which is a very different way of doing business.
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We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we'd get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we're going to sue them, they show up in our offices the next week.
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We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.
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We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.
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We urge all Americans to take some simple steps to prepare for emergencies, including getting an emergency supply kit, making a family emergency plan and learning more about how to respond to emergencies that could affect your area,