• We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.

    BBC: Great Britain amateur boxers praise coach Rob McCracken

  • And it's just - it's important to try to sort out all that rhetoric and really just get down to whether something is true or not.

    NPR: Political Ads May Not Tell Whole Story

  • Hoyer pointed out that Democrats have cut down the number of earmarks and now require that all requests get posted on the Internet.

    CNN: Two Democrats urge Obama to veto spending bill

  • And the prevention-focused entrepreneur will get so bogged down worrying about obstacles that his business may never get off the ground at all.

    FORBES: The Surprising Key to Finding The Right Job For You

  • Remember that you and your Tech Leads (lead engineers) may know of a million things to get you all down, but the rest of your team is likely not exposed to all of that.

    FORBES: What Makes Someone a Great Product Manager at Google?

  • "The benefit of having multiple investment managers, custodians and clearing firms all competing for our advisors' business is that you get to drive down costs and increase quality and empower the advisor to be the quarterback for his clients, " says Pottruck.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • It is not inconceivable that this particular phase of negotiations may hit the buffers, or, perhaps more likely, get bogged down in irreconcilable differences, without that representing the end of all hopes for re-uniting the island.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • These steps are just a short-term down payment on our larger goal of ensuring that all Americans get the skills and education they need to succeed in today's economy.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on New Training for New Job Creation

  • He dressed the funding proposal up in geoengineering language because that was the way to get funds - a tactic scientists in all fields have used down the years in order to ensure their research happens (witness the boom in "bioterror"-related research after the US anthrax scares of 2001).

    BBC: Geoengineering: Risks and benefits

  • Now that all of his alter-egos have settled down, he can finally get on with the business of being David Bowie auteur, bon vivant, and eternally, rock's most gorgeous space alien.

    CNN: Review: David Bowie's first new album in 10 years

  • Under a provision of the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law that takes effect in July, all consumers who are turned down or don't get the best terms because of a credit score will get a copy of the credit score used, as well as information about where their scores fall among all consumers.

    WSJ: Getting Going: Why the Latest Credit-Score Fixes Fall Short

  • "When we are all dead and buried who is to say that you don't get some government we don't like down south which decides to do something very differently".

    BBC: Scotland

  • What's really more likely to happen is that if these bond insurers get down-graded by the rating agencies from their triple-A rating, that would cause all the holders of the bonds to also have down-grades, which would mean yet more billions of write-offs, yet more losses, yet more problems for the stock market and yet more ripple effect on the rest of the economy.

    NPR: Bond Insurer Losses Could Have Broader Impact

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