And people would look and say, what name is this? (Laughter.) And they couldn't pronounce it, and people wouldn't answer the door.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Tampa, FL
"You've got to really look and say this investment could be for ten, 15, up to 18 years, " says Anna Sofat, director at wealth management service Addidi Wealth.
For many very common words in English such as "come", "once", "was", "the", the best method for accuracy is to read them as "sight" words - that is, using the strategy of look and say.
"It's one of these things where you cannot look and say 'It's worth X, ' because there's nothing like it, " he says, adding that the last 50-acre waterfront estate in Greenwich was sold and subdivided in 1954.
So if I make a claim that I'm reducing greenhouse gases because I've changed mileage standards on cars, there will be a process whereby people will be able to take a look and say, is that in fact in effect?
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
And that's part of what the role of the commission is going to be, is to take a look and say, do we make sure that a consortium of oil companies pay for specifically technology to deal with this kind of incident when it happens.
WHITEHOUSE: Deepwater BP Oil Spill: Presidential Press Conference
Look, say the pundits, at the net effect of his new lower income-tax band (starting next month), the cut in the basic rate of income tax from 23% to 22%, the changes to national insurance, the abolition of the married couples' tax allowance and the mortgage-interest allowance (all starting a year from now), the new child tax credit (from 2001), etc.
But if we start moving on that pathway and other countries can look and say the United States is not just talking the talk, but it's walking the walk, then I think that will indicate to the Iranians, for example, that the goal here is not to single them out per se -- it's to suggest that this is dangerous for everybody, including them.
That is to say, I don't want to look back and say, 'Well I needed to do that because it was a good career move, ' or, 'I needed to do that because I needed some money.
Americans will never look at guns the way, say, the Dutch look at them.
Look, they say, at the 2010 performance of companies that launched their first drugs this year.
And in the UK you could just look ahead and say, it's going to get worse.
They will help change the world, that we can look back and say we did our duty.
All I've got to do is say look, I've got no political experience whatsoever and the crowd cheers.
It is a very good example that everyone could look at and say: 'We could do the same.
"We will look back and say it's unbelievable we ever did without this, " says Peter Kim, Merck's new research chief.
One day historians will look back and say this was truly a golden age and how much fun it must have been.
For we would all look up, say yes, those costs are higher than the benefits and move to non-CO2 emitting methods of power generation and transport.
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And so trying to let people know how dire the situation is because most people look back and say, you know, I remember the good old times.
"This is what Apple has done: Each release has had one or two things that you will look at and say 'that's a pretty good feature, '" DeMichillie says.
My goal is, is that a year from now or two years from now, people look back and say, you know what, we actually started making progress on this issue.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget
You can't have job growth if the economy is contracting by 6 percent, because businesses look and they say nobody is spending money, we got no customers, we can't hire.
The offenders at the same time say look, I've served my time, I'm not dangerous in this particular case, I've done nothing that suggests I'm a ongoing danger, and this is going to wreck my life.
"All the flooding and all the droughts have a reason and although proving the reason is quite difficult and scientists still have problems with proving it, you can just look around and say there is a problem, " he said.
We must do the difficult work today, so that years from now people will look back and say that this generation rose to the moment, prevailed in a tough fight, and left behind a more hopeful region and a safer America.
If a bank can't spare anybody to work the doorway, says Marchese, "I tell branch managers to put a bell over the door and just have everybody on the teller line look up and say hello, " the way chefs do in small sushi restaurants.
And when the final chapter of this war is written, historians will look back and say, not only was this the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, but all of you also represented the values of America in an exemplary way.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks to Troops at Bagram Air Base
"Unless this policy changes, I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis - who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes - one day will look around and say hey, this country is going nowhere, " he told Reuters news agency in a pre-election interview.
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