But whatever the outcome, at that moment Tuesday night, the focused energy of this president at this stage of his presidency reverberated through the rafters of the Capitol and suggested that this long speech was not a laundry list but a to-do list, an agenda for change offered up by a confident and empowered advocate.
You can be sure that when I was running for this office, things like saving the banks and rescuing auto companies were not on my to-do list.
Is our economy really so bad that the people making these calls need those jobs, so we allow this loophole to the Do Not Call list?
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It has been said that the members of the Senate divide into two groups: those who look into the bathroom mirror each morning imagining they hear "Hail to the Chief, " and those who do not -- with the latter list thought to be the shorter.
Sure of holding on to their present constituencies for life, they do not fancy having to scramble on to a party list in future.
And because tax-exempt organizations are not bound by the federal do-not call list, the firms were able to randomly call consumers, pitching their services under the guise of a non-profit counseling service.
The to-do list was not only indicative of the fast-paced life of a restaurateur, but of her unpreparedness for fitting a child into the chaos.
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Moreover, the Treasury department is well on its way to setting up the Do Not Pay list that the Vice President announced last summer.
But something like 70% of shoppers go shopping with a directional list, not detailed enough to do a lot of direct price comparison.
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Mrs Merkel put the constitution at the top of her to-do list, which is not just undesirable (in Charlemagne's view, anyway) but unrealistic: nothing much is going to happen in the next six months because of the French presidential and legislative elections.
When assigned to random groups to select music with people you do not know, for example, you will collectively create a shared favorites list that is likely to be quite different from the lists of all other groups that might form for a similar task.
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Getting the to-do list right is trickier, not least because misguided meddling could make unemployment worse.
Adding climate change to his already long "to do" list shows this man does not expect a quiet life.
Brands that can do that not only go to the top of the Loyalty List, but become top earners too.
They failed because at both points what people wanted or felt able to do with their phones did not much overlap with the same list of tasks for laptops.
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And if the targeted approach feels too intrusive, employees can ask to be placed on the wellness program's do-not-call list.
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"Our goal at the conference is not necessarily to walk out with a list of things we're going to do tomorrow and say, 'This is going to solve the problem, '" said Bazadona.
If outside assistance on the first 100 days is not possible, ensure your plan is much more than a glorified "to-do" list.
The United States has not handed the Yugoslav government a "precise list" of what it wants Belgrade to do, but this senior official said the demands include guaranteed cooperation with the war crimes tribunal and handing over more indicted suspects.
Anti-social tenants risk being pushed to the bottom of a council's home improvement list if they do not behave.
America has not managed much in the way of growth-enhancing structural reforms and has a long to-do list, from improving worker training to reining in health-care costs.
For example, from the above list, the people who produce telephone books simply do not have the right to prevent anyone coming up with a better way of finding telephone numbers.
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This is really important, because when a young company aspires to do something really bold, there is usually a long list of reasons why it might not work.
But the Refugee Council opposes having such a list of so-called safe countries where it is assumed people do not have a right to asylum.
Currently, many seniors do not get an annual physical or deal with many of the issues covered by the list due to inability to pay.
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Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra to Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Taylor, the hotel's guestbook reads like an A-list of twentieth century historical figures -- not to mention tens of thousands of well-to-do tourists and travelers.
Last spring an announcement from the platform team at Twitter not-at-all-subtly suggested developers of third party clients should find something else to do, and today a list of changes to its API turns that whisper into a firm nudge.
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We took a hard look at the make up of our team expertise, market opportunities, as well as product positioning and began to boil down a Failure Manifesto, which was a list of declarations of what we would and would not do next.
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In compiling this list, we concluded that the best way to rank a coach relative to his peers is not to do so based on the number of wins and loses alone, but instead on how much a coach wins and losses as compared to the resources he has.
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