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His fall has already begun. I don't think his regime will last out this year.
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I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,
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We've already begun the '60s.
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Given that the budget sets government fiscal policy up to the end of 2006, it is only fair that it b...
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We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL
There hasn't been a regular source. Each year (the budget) is a new invention.
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As for new releases, we plan to terminate purchases of VHS sometime early next fiscal year. Next yea...
HIROFUMI SHIRAKATA
It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books fro...
CATHY CLARK
The concern obviously of a supplementary budget is the impact on the budget deficit, which will grow...
JAMES JOWA
You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [d...
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WILLIAM SATURNO
The governor has already begun interviewing candidates. It's a short list.
DAVE CONTARINO
This has been the most difficult budget cycle in 11 years of doing this,
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CHRIS COLEMAN
We can say we are positively certified and can meet financial obligations for the next two years. Th...
BILL LOOSE
Obviously, our investigation has already begun to determine the cause of the accident.
MARK YORK
It's already in the city council budget to build a new, higher building.
MAYOR DEL BRITTON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The budget is an all-around good thing. It's a reduction of 100 jobs over last year, no toll increas...
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After the Democrats' obstructionist approach to Social Security reform, it is more difficult for the...
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The fact that the overall effect of reconciliation taken together was to enlarge rather than reduce ...
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To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.
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The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
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However, SCI has continued to win new business and gain market share, and we expect growth in fiscal...
GENE SAPP
This would represent a significant reprioritization of expenditures given that the fiscal year is al...
ALAN GIBSON
This would represent a significant reprioritization of expenditures given that the fiscal year is al...
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We turned the corner during 2003 and were profitable in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. In the ...
GRETCHEN SHUGART
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
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RALPH NORRIS
Fiscal year 2005 has been a great year for our company, and across Europe, Middle East and Africa we...
BERND BISCHOFF
Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the w...
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This fiscal year should be fine, but the question will be how they do in the next fiscal year. Their...
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I'm confident that an emphasis on growth and profitability, supported by our new operating structure...
DAVID WETHERELL
We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementat...
VANO MERABISHVILI
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NORIHITO KANAI
There hasnt been a slot machine assigned yet. They have the cart before the horse on this,
JOHN CORNISH
We've already met for next year.
ANITA LUNDY
The governor has already begun to address many of the critical issues raised in the report.
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Bowling is certainly something that is very popular. Looking at the numbers and where the budget fal...
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Delhi has always been a target of the terrorists. We arrested 42 terrorists last year and this year ...
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And all next day and all the next it went on. It went on till one could hardly even remember a time ...
C.S. LEWIS
It's been really, really big this year. We already ran out of to-go boxes and the new pecan pancakes...
BRIAN SMITH
We've made the tough decisions, the portfolio choices and the necessary investments. We enter the ne...
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Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fea...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
This building has been designed with form and function for the next 100 years.
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There are nine species ahead of the grizzly bear. We are already eating into next year's budget for ...
CHUCK DAVIS
Competition's going to get a lot more intense, ... We know that one of the biggest products, Viagra,...
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Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some...
ELAINE CHAO
We've been preparing since school has begun.
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We came out yesterday and we told the Street that for fiscal year 2001 that we'll be able to grow ou...
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Even with new development, we're still expecting the vacancy rates to stay below 2 percent throughou...
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Anything that has not been distributed the year before is kept and that's how we start off the next ...
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Because of love we cannot untangle what had happened in the past and change what has already begun i...
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In the last few years, companies have begun to move beyond traditional philanthropy and basic compli...
JANE NELSON
This is over a 20-year build-out. So we don't expect this to come in the next couple years or even f...
J. LISLE BOZEMAN
I think we've already started to see it. I think we're going to continue to see it for the next year...
JAMES PREISSLER
The budget deficit is going to have to go up over the next three to seven years.
BARRY RITHOLTZ
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA...
ROBERT BALLARD
I really retired from the Feet of Flames show because I had already begun work on a new show in my m...
MICHAEL FLATLEY
It's been such a relief this year going through the budget, Last year it was slash and burn.
JIM CARUTHERS
We have really expanded and we have been voted as the world's leading new airline. Considering the f...
K. ASHRAFUL KABIR
These accomplishments, and other initiatives under way, position us to return to profitability in th...
CARL YANKOWSKI
It seems clear that the prophetic times I have been expecting for decades have finally arrived. And ...
HAL LINDSEY
I don't have a good feeling what our budget is going to look like next year. Nothing should be const...
STEPHEN HUGHES
But for the full year, we managed to stay as the No. 1 LCD TV maker and we aim to remain No. 1 in th...
HIROSHI SAJI
In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu...
BRUCE BARTON
Flex-fuels was a term that was rarely uttered even a year ago. The potential for (flex- fuels) to be...
JOEL MAKOWER
The surprise is just how quickly Wi-Fi has been implemented. Even small schools without much of a bu...
BERT SPERLING
We're already getting ready for next year with lifting and postseason conditioning. By going 0-21, t...
CHARBEA HALLER
Overall, this is a good budget for this year, ... We're in a presidential election and next year a n...
PETE DOMENICI
Interest in the product has been remarkable with a very fast growing pipeline. We have already begun...
TONY ESPOSITO
That's a situation we no longer find ourselves in. We are facing budget deficits again. The presiden...
BOB GOODLATTE
Senator Nickles and Senator Lott have talked, and it's Senator Nickles' expectation that he will be ...
BROOK SIMMONS
Here we are, before there's even been a shovel put into the earth, and we're already effectively 31 ...
JOE NATION
Even though we don't have it (already) in the budget, this should add to our ADA (average daily atte...
MIKE ZAJICEK
Oman's oil production has been declining over the last few years. Nevertheless, the production is ex...
ABDULNABI MACKI
The Legislature has been very responsible in terms of good fiscal policy.
COLEMAN STIPANOVICH
I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The ...
ROB PORTMAN
I feel we're an even keel team this year. We've played all the tough teams from both sides (leagues)...
NATHAN WAITE
We hope the Legislature takes to heart our previous warnings about the budget shortfall and the need...
BRENDAN GILFILLAN
In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as ...
DANNY ANDERSON
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of...
CHARLES VEST
Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells?
S.L. JENNINGS
The action this week does indicate that the recovery horizon has been pushed out further. Investors ...
ELVIS PICARDO
No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the ne...
JONATHAN KING
The price strength has been a little surprising given the magnitude of the surplus in U.S. corn inve...
DARREL GOOD
The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... Th...
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BEEZIE MADDEN
No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That...
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
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The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec...
MAYA LIN
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU
All great achievements require time.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
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