The company is perhaps best known for Terra Chips and Earth Best organic baby food among its three dozen brands.
One part, space tourism, is a luxury service that is, in any case, unlikely to go beyond low-Earth orbit at best (the cost of getting even as far as the moon would reduce the number of potential clients to a handful).
The occasion was massively overhyped and misrepresented reporting of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project.
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So after four years of Obama, where are the best places on Earth to conduct business these days?
We need to make America the best place on Earth to do business.
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When he referred to this country as the last best hope of earth.
We have to make America the best place on earth to do business.
Now, we still have the best universities and the best colleges on Earth.
But, sadly, it took 25 years to strip the U.S. from being the best place on earth to be born.
It was here in America that the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best products on Earth.
My grandmother, who worked on a bomber assembly line, was part of a workforce that turned out the best products on Earth.
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And that means that we as a nation need to make sure that we are the best place on Earth to do business.
We want to fall in love because being in love is like the best narcotic on earth, at once soothing and exciting, pleasurable and painful.
We can make sure America remains the best place on Earth to do business by knocking down barriers that stand in the way of your growth.
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And, the panel said, there's another reason America needs this center: The South Pole is one of the best places on Earth to do scientific studies.
But I want to be clear: Even as we make America the best place on Earth to do business, businesses also have a responsibility to America.
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We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. (Applause.) We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business.
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Naish won't go so far as to say kitesurfing is superior to windsurfing--"on the right day, with the right conditions, windsurfing is still the best sport on earth, " he says--but he's cleaning up on the craze.
And he reminded me that despite our issues here - and we've got huge challenges and they just got a lot worse after November 6th, but still millions and millions of people look to us still as the last best hope of earth.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is Buttermilk, an entire mountain focused on learning, with a plethora of beginner and intermediate terrain, very family friendly and simply one of the best places on earth to learn to ski or snowboard, with both great terrain and a top quality ski school.
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But what I don't want to do is for us as a country, or as a party, to shy away from the prospects of international competition, because I think we've got the best workers on Earth, we've got the most innovative products on Earth, and if we are able to compete on an even playing field, nobody can beat us.
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Earth was just a speck at best when photographed late into Voyager 2's journey.
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That combination cannot be duplicated here on Earth, but we tried as best we could to test our equipment for those conditions.
We educate our citizens and train our workers in the best colleges and universities on Earth.
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Discussing the purpose of life on earth, its unwieldiness regularly defeats the best efforts of famous maestros.
The United States, separated from much of the world by two oceans and bordered by allies, is, by dint of geography, among the best-protected countries on earth.
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