Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
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But he's going to learn a very, very difficult and painful lesson. Even if it's one that's not totally unexpected, because he has seen others go through it.
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There is room for an Olympic-size swimming pool between the current library parking lot and the parking lot for Metro.
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Those are three things that are kind of fundamental when you're talking about hiring a guy as your head coach. The absence of those three components of the process certainly had us thinking that this was unusual to say the least.
fruit
It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.
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He's given us the edge of a working environment second to none.
tendencies
I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.
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Harris County and Montgomery County will be part of the group that will do the maintenance work.
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I think I was surprised as anybody when I first got the call, because I've been an agent for 20 years, ... I was certainly intrigued and curious as to why me? But I'm glad I took the opportunity to meet with Arthur Blank and have that explained, or I wouldn't be sitting here.
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I was mildly shocked they moved as quickly as they did. Like Tyrone, I think there are fine people at Notre Dame. But the situation got away from them, and the powers that be, who were in the background, saw winning as the most important thing, and that carried the day.
acceptance
The acceptance from the marketplace of what we're doing has been just astounding.
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He's not going to moan or go ballistic,
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What’s the business case for ending life on earth?
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We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.
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The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."