"I was a typical American consumer - I shopped a lot, I ate most of my meals in take-out containers, I took cabs everywhere, " said Michelle, a journalist with a weekly business magazine.
To see many of the best people from that reservoir -- the ones who stopped dreaming of their potential to serve and took real action -- take a look at those volunteers in the Marines and the Peace Corps.
"It's not as hard to take as the one before, which was right at the end but we had chances and didn't take them - they had one and took it, " he said.
At the end of the morning, each of the students received fresh produce to take back to school -- and took time to write thank you notes to those who helped sow the garden back in March.
In a match that lasted an hour and 33 minutes, Clijsters took the first set that saw her take a 2-0 lead before Wozniacki, in her first grand slam final, took the next four games to go 4-2.
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Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.
Mr. Kim's longtime second-in-command, Kim Yong Nam, took his place at the parade and may take on a bigger short-term role.
When Mr. Pope first switched to a Roth 401(k), however, he took a cut in his take-home pay, and that, he says, is one reason people are wary of the Roth option.
There is also a continuous mode, which will take a sequence of nine shots -- it took us a while to figure out that you've got to hold down the camera button to get it snapping.
Parmar saved two set points at 4-5 down in the opening set to force a tie-break and then took advantage of a costly double-fault from his opponent to take it 7-3.
The pick of the attack was Kuwait-born debutant Tanvir Ahmed, who took two more wickets on the day to take his first innings figures to 6-120.
Mertinak and Karol Beck edged the tie-break 7-5 to take the first set and then took the second, despite Argentina opening with a break.
Nick Williams scored 40 for Oswestry in their 209 before Mark Robinson took 3-25 to help them take maximum points.
"It's much easier to make a board like this -- it took only two weeks -- whereas if we want to make a miniature board it would take a lot longer and cost a lot more, " Migicovsky said.
In my opinion, that which took 1-2 generations to displace will itself take 1-2 generations (decades) to be displaced.
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But it took a politician with an ability to take a short-term hit in order to get the long-run results that we needed.
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England took on Romania hoping to take control of the group - and to better their chances of avoiding Argentina in the second round.
It took then-president Pervez Musharraf three months to forcibly take over the Red Mosque.
These gamers also took the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (you can take the self-scorable test, here) to evaluate their psychological foundations of morality, such as whether they value loyalty to a group or whether they respect authority.
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Murray and Huber, who were knocked out of the French Open at the first hurdle, wasted six break points in the decider before Bryan and Stosur took the second of their two at to take a 5-4 lead.
She worked to cultivate her craft, studying acting and catching up on her education, and she took great risks to take control of her career in the mid-fifties, when it was at its commercial apogee.
With almost a total domination of possession, Toulouse had only themselves to blame as fumbles in the Glasgow red zone denied them a try and it took Skrela's second penalty to take the score to 10-6.
Although Hamilton opened up the fourth set with an 11-dart leg, Klaasen took control again and kept his nerve to take the set and go on to secure victory.
It only took four days for Amazon to take advantage of the ruling on the e-book price-fixing settlement.
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Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Epic Games and GameStop were among the major players represented when the meeting took place earlier this afternoon.
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It took a few hours, but investors finally did take a gander at the profit-and-loss statement.
As European regulators appeared to recognize and take steps to address the backlash against the EU-ETS, lawmakers in the United States also took unprecedented action against the policy.
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He points out that the company since August has been run by Chairman and co-founder Jim Bidzos, who took over after former CEO Mark McLaughlin left to take the top job at Palo Alto Networks.
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Despite a near-quadrupling in the oil price since he took office (for which he can take some of the credit), Venezuela's economy contracted by 7.5% last year and is forecast to grow by less than 3% this year.
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