• As for how this is all happening so fast ... that's a great question.

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  • So ... not that big of a thing, actually.

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  • He said there was no alternative "to creating this pause in order to give us time, to give us breathing space so that we can work hard.... to resurrect that which we hold so dear".

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  • What we are trying to do is build capacity... so that we can have partners that are strong and independent, but democratic.

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  • Money, reduced to bits on a fiber optic wire, could now be moved from account to account, country to country, in microseconds...so quickly that it rarely ever even needs to precipitate into actual currency.

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  • It means boosting the number -- the numbers of quality teachers who can help our special education and English language learners meet high standards -- and you've done that here at Wright, so congratulations on that. (Applause.) It means improving instruction in science, technology, reading, math, and ensuring that more women and people of color are doing well in those subjects. (Applause.) So that's the second -- the second factor.

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  • R. is a big piece of what we do, but he wasn't here ... so I'm not using that as an excuse.

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  • This could happen if the tax payments to Switzerland lower your regular U.S. tax bill so much that the AMT kicks in.

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  • The United States is the biggest outside player in the Middle East and President Bush is seen as embodying the U.S. So in that sense I think he's enhanced by this tension and conflict.

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  • Close behind is Microsoft's Media Player, with 38%, then QuickTime, with a distant 14% share. (Apple disagrees that its share is so low.) That, despite such gimmicks as a Disney promotion on boxes of Frosted Cheerios cereal giving away QuickTime software.

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  • And I just saw there's also a little Bo replica. (Laughter.) So that's a new addition.

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  • The UNESCO-U.S. relationship is so intertwined that I cannot imagine the United States disengaging.

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  • And there was a lack of oversight from the regulator, the Financial Services Authority: it was "thoroughly inadequate... not so much the dog that did not bark, as a dog barking up the wrong tree".

    BBC: Carrying on banking

  • And to see the Americans are going to get electoral fatigue because it's going to be more - almost a year since we know the names of who's going to be - or who wants to be a president of the U.S. So we will see if that some kind of reaction to the final vote in November.

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  • In most U.S. industries, that is just not so.

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  • Get the whole darn U.S. economy so jacked up again that you take Congress in 2002 and 400 electoral votes in 2004.

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  • His controversial deployment of U.S. troops in Bosnia has so far kept peace in that region.

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  • And the other thing is people know who you are everywhere -- obviously. (Laughter.) So you have to -- you always have to like shave and comb your hair and -- (laughter) -- you can't just roll out of bed and be out there. (Laughter.) So that kind of stuff can be a little tough.

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  • The indictment alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC because the watchdog agency was given false information about the source on contributions, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) because it was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.

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  • It also alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), stating the FEC was given false information about the source of contributions and the INS was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.

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  • Influences contributing to the decline include soft Chinese economic data overnight, worries that any selling of Cypriot gold to help fund a bailout will create a domino effect in which other debt-plagued European nations have to sell as well, plus a strong U.S. stock market so far this year that has taken away safe-haven demand for gold.

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  • Some 49 state now use this trick of so-called provider taxes to goose federal spending, up from 21 in 2003. (Alaska is the exception.) But the practice is so abusive that even Mr. Obama proposed new limits in his last two budgets.

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  • He studied in the U.S., and his English is so articulate that it borders on poetic.

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  • Both companies see lots of opportunities for more dealmaking: The U.S. industry is so fragmented that the ten biggest chains account for only 5% of the market.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Both companies see lots of opportunities for more dealmaking: The U.S. industry is so fragmented that the ten biggest chains account for just 5% of the market.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So those 2.5 or so million votes were in that position.

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  • But this year's bull market in bonds, especially U.S. Treasury bonds, has been so powerful that it has created an exception to that old rule.

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  • We have ... made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.

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  • The U.N. delegates were so amazed that some even sneaked out of the main meeting to watch the younger people debate.

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  • Housing is alleged to have corrected, but the real, and economy-enhancing correction is yet to come if and when the U.S. returns to sound dollar policy so that the economy can start growing again.

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