If this is done in a common-sense way that increases our international competitiveness while encouraging job creation on our shores and discouraging abusive tax-shelters and race-to-the-bottom behavior, this could be a win for everyone.
What's also been acknowledged is that the 12 million or so undocumented workers are here -- who are not paying taxes in the ways that we'd like them to be paying taxes, who are living in the shadows, that that is a group that we have to deal with in a practical, common-sense way.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama: Working Together for Immigration Reform
President Obama reiterates his commitment to do everything in his power to implement a series of common sense measures that would reduce gun violence in America.
Each should serve as a lesson to all of us and serve as a not-so-gentle reminder that ignorance is still rampant in our world and common sense is a truly lost art for for many.
These communities come with a built-in sense of passion, common interest and drive to promote a cause.
You need a bachelor's degree, although Ryan Mack will tell you, you need a lot of common sense and a lot of experience in order to do that.
"I really don't think that this is a deal breaker in any way shape or form it just requires a little common sense, " Robertson added.
The number one thing great communicators have in common is they possess a heightened sense of situational and contextual awareness.
And then to, as things began to stabilize, to go about the business of getting our fiscal house in order in a reasonable, balanced, common-sense way.
But when the frequency of hurricanes and strong storms declines in a warming world, it defies common sense to claim that global warming is causing the increasingly rare hurricanes and strong storms that do still occur.
It was driven by workers who were tired of seeing their jobs shipped overseas, their health care costs go up, their dreams slip out of reach. (Applause.) It was grounded in a sense of unity and common purpose with every single American, whether they voted for me on Election Day or voted for somebody else.
This approach to software development was codified in a meeting in February 2001 in Utah when a group of programmers declared its allegiance to doing things quickly, using common sense and simplicity.
In my experience, the vast majority of Americans exhibit a native common sense about the importance of U.S. engagement in the world.
In their common sense of French decline, however, which has a long tradition in French writing, they share a bleakness that has struck a chord in contemporary France.
Here, a squat New Zealander named Ed Mumm keeps a fleet of construction-grade excavators and bulldozers and, in defiance of all common sense, allows pretty much anyone (for a fee, naturally) to play with them after only a few minutes of training.
"There seems to be a lot of common sense in what he is saying, " he said.
And this is our best chance in more than a decade to take common-sense steps that will save lives.
This call sought to create the space for Congress to act in a bipartisan manner on the type of common sense immigration reform that is needed to fix the broken system.
WHITEHOUSE: Creating an Immigration System for the 21st Century
Touring has long been one of the best ways to promote a new album, and considering 27, 000 people in the states bought Gold Cobra, common sense would indicate that there would be a good number of people willing to spend some more money on seeing Limp Bizkit play those new tunes and the better known songs from a decade ago.
In fact, it was a victory for both common sense and the European Union.
ECONOMIST: Serbia and Kosovo strike a small deal with big implications
These articles are nothing more than common sense re-worded in a fancy package.
There was no sense of common purpose in a group that had grown and diversified significantly in less than two decades.
Ian Kealey, who farms in Somerset, said it was a "common-sense" decision to move more people from administrative duties to frontline policing.
But it will still face an onslaught and to do its job it will need to appeal to a wide audience, in the language of common sense.
ECONOMIST: The task of sorting out banking is far from finished
We hear from former trading vice-president of Lehman's, Larry McDonald, who has written an insider's view of the systemic problems within the bank in his literary apologia "A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers".
Why has it taken so long for such a common sense notion to gain acceptance in the pension community?
Veterans for Common Sense also weighed in, issuing a statement "strongly" supporting Shinseki.
For tourists, common sense precautions apply in dealing with a solicitation from a stranger, regardless of whether he or she is holding a fancy camera.
Whatever the issues are that we face, whether we're talking about health care, or education, or energy, all those important things, the application of those first principles, the application of those common sense conservative beliefs will result in a stronger and stronger nation.
CNN: Thompson's September 7, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa
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