"I always said that I was going to buy myself a new Corvette when I turned 60, but for a while there it didn't look like I was going to make it, " he says.
Sobering up after a Saturday night of reporting (that, of course, I invited my buddies to join and blew my whole fee for the piece in one night at the tables) I went to a landfill-turned golf course in a town (I forget which one) that was also being considered for a casino.
Now, last night, I gave a speech in which I said that we have turned a corner where we can begin to bring back some of our troops.
For a second opinion I turned to Andrew Smithers, a well-known investment theorist in London.
But I was committed to fighting at the Commonwealth Games so I delayed my return for a year until I turned pro after Melbourne.
I'm happy to say that this particular story has a positive ending, as I turned the phone over to see if I would need to call BlackBerry HQ in a panic.
Hi Michele -- In order to answer your question, I turned to a leading sports nutritionist, Nancy Clark M.
Instead of being overcome with disappointment and frustration (although trust me, I was filled with both), I turned the experience into a hard-learned lesson.
We were doing pretty good 'til the secretary of the treasury went on TV, and I turned to a fellow trader and I said, gee, why can't they just not talk for a day?
Yes, I took a calculated risk that I could be embarrassed and turned away by the Saks buyer, and yes, reaching for the ultimate, the buying office headquarters of Saks Fifth Avenue, to sell my first creation, was a daring move.
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But when I asked for a tour of the new digs, I was turned down.
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I'd just turned 21 when I'd chosen a rather eccentric doctoral study.
In 1996, Will and I were turned away from a screening of Alexander Payne's "Citizen Ruth" (we had arrived late) and after much grumbling, settled on a consolation choice: a little-hyped Australian film about a troubled pianist.
"I was standing outside having a bit of fresh air and as I turned round I saw this very bright blue light which was dimming, " he said.
Structural solutions outlined include that the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was designated as a more permanent solution and it will most likely be turned into a bank as I suggested in a Eurozone Crisis Solutions.
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"I left it alone, and it turned out to be a bigger mistake than I ever expected, " he said.
Though I did know the basics of this from my college days as a US history major (before I turned to biochemistry), I found the similarity of the rhetoric quite surprising.
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In the interim I've turned down probably a thousand interview requests.
It turned out I had a rare virus that had attacked the muscles in my heart and as a result, I ended up having major heart surgery -- bypasses of five arteries.
To answer their question about how soon they can get a loan after a short sale, I turned to Joe Kelly at ArcLoan.com, who in turn asked one of his loan officers, Carrie Chienyuen, to review their credit reports and financial situation, and explain their options.
Since moving to Asia nearly 14 years ago, obligatory family visits to a gritty city have turned into voluntary trips to a place where I can count on a relaxing weekend spent browsing bookstores and eating good food.
"I now realize that they took my money with a smile and made fun of me when I turned my back, " Chung's statement says.
Tsarnaev would be represented by counsel who could seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal courts if what I envision as a reasonably brief period of temporary detention turned into something abusive.
So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer.
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And then I turned around and saw that a managing director was watching with his mouth open.
"Now that Greece has turned a corner, I'm actually enjoying the job" he smiled, looking out towards parliament through a bullet-scarred window.
In deference to Arianna, I did what I know best: I turned to technology to help me sleep rather than push for a Luddistic, tech-free lifestyle.
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