Keep in mind that spending-like tax preferences add about as much to the deficit each year as the direct spending Washington wants to freeze.
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And while no mind-boggling fortunes like those of Rockefeller and Carnegie were created by this second-tier (those levels would not be reached again until the Bill Gates era), the wealth that was created was nothing to sneeze at (and was much larger, in aggregate, than the wealth created for and by the Robber Barons in the nineteenth century).
I'll try - honest - but keep in mind the old saying - guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
So what you see is, constantly now, the Republicans trying to create the image - and especially in the mind of Independent voters just like Michael Steele - that they are not one and the same with the Republicans who are in power at the moment.
Computers and handsets are becoming an extension of body and mind, creating a Cyborg-like population.
Also, those subject to the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax should bear in mind that most deductions--like those for employee business expenses--are disallowed.
If someone asked me to free associate about the Best Buy store near my New Jersey home, what would come to mind are terms like mish-mash, so-so pricing, great Geek Squad and pushy salesmen.
The worry is that if Mr Byers cannot make up his mind on relatively low-key issues like milk and ice cream, how will he be able to resist the far more serious pressures that will be exerted on him over car prices and supermarkets, both currently the subject of competition inquiries?
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Some of them -- there are issues that may lie slightly outside of something like proliferation -- Armenia comes to mind with the normalization of relations.
From the simplest development to the most mind-blowing innovation, we'd like to hear what smartphone feature you want now.
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It's also important to bear in mind that it's not about - like wow, a president actually visited a country.
Also consider the mind-bending financial resources amassed by giants like Apple, Google, and others contrasted against the unbending pressure businesses put on CIOs to cut costs annually.
And swing voters don't appear to mind too much either - indeed, some like the fact that the high rhetoric and lofty promises of the 2008 campaign have been replaced, at least by Mr Romney, by a drier, more technocratic approach.
Keep in mind that it faces huge competitors like Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and BMC (NYSE:BMC).
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How can they be sure that their surrogate will not change her mind and have an abortion -- or, like Kelley, refuse to?
However, those pale-green cannibalistic undead just make my skin crawl -- not literally like theirs does, mind you, but crawl nonetheless.
Dividends as a theme, names like Kimberly-Clark Corporation come to mind.
If it actually played as the creepy psychological thriller it would like to think it is, the mind-numbing contortions of Fernley Phillips' crude screenplay would be downright offensive.
Select from this list the ones you want to network with and then choose who else in your contacts you would like to invite - though bear in mind they will get an e-mail from Twitter asking them to join up, so choose carefully the people you think will not mind this.
"It's mind-boggling to think he's 38 and still running like this, " coach James Li said.
And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.
"You can't be giving out awards and not have the success of American Idol in mind, and all its attendant buzzwords like democratization and crowd-sourcing, " he says.
What's more, some of the pursuits of these venture philanthropists seem more like self-serving science projects: Never mind feeding the poor, let's wire up schools for Web surfing.
This was one of the lowest points in my life -- my mind and body felt completely drained, and I felt like a failure.
By "customer" he means the stores and distributors that stock Rubbermaid stuff--never mind the real customer, the consumer, who might like ordering online just fine.
Like CBT, it conditions your mind to be more stress-resistant.
Instead of another endless vertical list, mind-mapping organizes concepts and tasks in a colorful web that looks a bit like a public transit map.
With electrodes fixed to his skull, Mr Styffe fixed his mind on game characters, such as a juggler or a Pac-Man-like blob fleeing ghosts in a maze.
The secretary of state was of a like mind with a group of foreign policy traditionalists in the administration -- Gates, Donilon and Vice President Joe Biden -- who were more sanguine about the situation the U.S. faced, both in Egypt and in the region, the officials said.
Sitting on a panel here yesterday at the ISPCon trade show with the Red Hat CEO, his new investor friends, a local TV anchorwoman and a devoted crowd singing his praises, Torvalds certainly didn't mind the attention, nodding playfully at suggestions that he was approaching "God-like" status among developers.
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