Michael Ward
Michael Ward
American guitarist who has been a part of the bands School of Fish and The Wallflowers.
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth21 February 1967
CityLos Angeles, CA
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When you look at the trends over the last couple of years, the industry cycle, if you want to call it that, has been fairly stable, fairly flat. I think the outlook for 1998 and 1999 is more or less a continuation of that trend.
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The big thing GM has been trying to do for the last five or six years is improve productivity in North America,
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It's the number one sport in the world, and this country is the last to catch on. I love it because it's a simple game. All you need is a ball.
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For the last few years, we've been totally jammed, there was no time for the teams to practice. Although the building looks like a big empty arena, indoor soccer fields are very expensive to build. If they cost $200,000, you'd see one on every corner.
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There is room for a lot of growth, and I'm proud to be a part of that, ... The living environment is very different, but the people here are very opening and inviting.
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To the extent that Jim Padilla was in charge of operations, he certainly deserves some of the blame.
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Every mountain has at least one way up it, ... We reckoned there must be a route up Everest from Nepal.
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We are voluntarily doing this, there has been no pressure to do this. We want to change some previous policies and procedures and management changes. We will also be putting our entire staff through a training program to teach them how to intercede in disputes between patrons.
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If we feel it's a bull market, we can run the fund 90 percent long and 10 percent short.
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Basically, I say if you're going to build a student life center, and then you don't have enough money for it ... call it something else,
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I think Tim being in the Guard is great. I hope all of my kids join the military. It teaches them discipline and respect.
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I saw that the county prosecuting attorney, Mike Nolan, was looking for an assistant county prosecuting attorney, ... I hadn't been to Athens before.
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GM is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in the world, and some people blame that, or attribute at least part of the blame of GM's cost structure to its internal components operation.
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Historically, St. Patrick's Day and the weekend is one of the largest alcohol consumption weekends of the year. Financially this is painful at this point of time, but to weigh that against changes we want to make there was no question it should be done.