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Addressing the issues of affordability is important to achieving the economic development goals that will be outlined (Thursday), establishing Vermont as a leader in key 21st century industries.

A dramatic gap is opening up between carriers that get it and those that are still struggling to make it easy on consumers. The 21st Century Insurance Web site is consistently good, which clearly means the people at 21st are working hard to make their site as good as it can be.

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

After half a century in psychiatric practice, I know without a doubt that the source of addiction is spiritual deficiency. Irrespective of whether we are religious or atheist, all human beings are spiritual by nature and spirituality is the cornerstone of our recovery.

After nearly half a century of acrimony and tensions, Pakistan-India relations are now at a historic crossroads,

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

The most satisfying thing about storytelling, and the most important thing that can come from it, is the connection that is formed between the storyteller and the listener, and between the listener and the other listeners. In the 21st century there are all kinds of electronic and digital connections. Storytelling creates an in-person connection.

the most intellectually accomplished president of the 20th century and also the worst.

Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

Drawing on the wisdom of the Chinese nation, Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have effected the melting of ice of more than half a century in cross-Strait relations this year and opened the door of exchanges between political parties across the Strait.

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century Most people feel unworthy of forgiveness. They have a tremendous sense of unworthiness, even if outwardly they are antagonistic toward God and the Gospel.

Antique buttons are more interesting, especially the 19th century buttons which depicted all sorts of activities.

Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.

Are we going to go through another century and talk about the same things or are we really going to try something.

A quarter of a century from now, we hope Angelenos will look back and recognize our time as one in which we provided a vision for the future.

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

Arthur Temple was easily the man of the century of East Texas. Arthur's leadership was far and away our most important guiding beacon. He led us away from harsh segregation. He showed the way for public housing for the less fortunate. Through the Temple Foundation, which he organized, he provided for the sick and the elderly as well as our most important health systems.

The big thing is that we are looking to having this thing completed exactly a century after it was built. I hope we have some sort of local celebration.

You've got to very much be part of today's society and you've got to use 21st Century techniques to draw attention to what you believe in.

This is going to be an extraordinarily sensational case, certainly the case of the century for Belgium.

This is an exciting opportunity to talk about creating a united front against this 21st century slavery.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

The unwillingness after half a century to commit themselves to moral and material restitution ... is a moral stain on Switzerland.

This confirmation is also a victory for the nominee, President Bush, and, most of all, the U.S. Senate. Finally, it is a victory for the U.S. Supreme Court which will be led into the 21st century by a brilliant, principled Chief Justice.

This century has been a very bloody one,

This book gives readers an inside look at how to create an incredible company for customers of all ages. Specifically, I provide the essential elements required to launch, nurture, and run a viable global company in the 21st century and beyond, based on time-tested experience.

All of our lives, the very fabric of our society, are so intertwined with science and technology that you can't even begin to fathom where we're going in the 21st century without an understanding of science.

Although ice-sheet disintegration and the subsequent sea-level rise lags behind rising temperatures, the process will become irreversible sometime in the second half of the 21st century unless something is done to reduce human emissions of greenhouse-gas emissions.

American Century has relented, which demonstrates the power of no-load fund supermarkets.

You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.

This is the same studio, Twentieth Century Fox, that showed Arab-Muslim terrorists as vermin in a movie called 'True Lies' with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1994.

They really have been the core group. These fellows in their late 70s and early 80s - I just admire these volunteers so much. They put so much time and energy into helping people. Churches were instrumental in starting Food Share nearly a quarter of a century ago, and the partnership with the faith community remains a vital one.

They're not trying to undo history but trying to say that these things are rather adornments and inconveniences which proclaim a different sort of country from the one of the turn of the century which we think this country should be,

The research we did suggested that there's a real opportunity for Century Bank to take advantage of its friendly, neighborhood focus and special retail-oriented services to carve out a productive niche in the marketplace.

There is still this 'Lords of Yesteryear' mentality that tries to keep holding on to resource policies that were designed a century ago.

At a time when some of our critics have been quick to writes us off, I intend to reassert our credibility and authority. This movement has been fighting for Liberalism for a century and a half. A great cause is not going to be destroyed in a month and a half.

As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

A century ago, developers thought about where the retail and services would go in relation to housing. That has to happen again.

It seems like a century ago. It seems like forever, just rehabbing and everything.

It seems intolerable to me that in the 21st century we still have a situation where we can have these multiple-death fires in nursing homes, ... The problem now is to keep people focused on the problem. ... It's past time.

It's a truly historic event. There's a need for North Carolina to have in the 21st century a true Mecca port. It takes a piece of property of this size to achieve that.

It was carried in the 13th and 14th century by the highest-ranking Russian generals. It's a symbol of power. I'm going to use this on reporters and players.

It's a real showcase of how older historical homes can be transformed into 21st century livable homes. It shows that you don't have to tear down what we value from the past.

I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.

It positions the Antitrust Division to address the challenges of the New Economy in the 21st Century while strengthening enforcement capability in traditional industries,

It is worth noting that the north line of the Silk Road was opened also at the beginning of the 1st century AD.

It is unbelievable that in the 21st century this kind of thing can be happening. It is a complete reversal of the democratic gains Kenya has made in the last 15 years.

It is unbelievable in the 21st century that we have to have this type of situation to get kids to school.

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever after'' and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

For a century now artists have been accustomed to pushing outward the boundaries of what's called art, delighting in the squeals of people whose expectations are violated. But the old fun is gone. the conservatives, by and large, have given up the game.

For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

The nineteenth century novels came from a time when there was no television and people had time to read novels in three volumes.

It's going to radically change medicine. The biggest problem in our country is that we don't have 21st century health IT.

It's a very important hall. All the great musicians of the first half of the century have played there. You knew you had arrived when you had done that.

It's got to be participatory. It's about bringing 21st century racing into people's living rooms.

It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.

It sounds like it's a step to bring NASCAR into the 21st century with stopping use of an old-century fuel.

It's part of my effort to expose Indian audiences to the works of Western composers of the 19th century who were strongly influenced by Oriental, specifically, Indian themes,

It's unusual to have such correspondence between two such great 20th century figures.

That knowledge comes in handy irrespective of the age of the building, and most of us have some experience with 19th and early 20th century buildings.

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

Economic growth in the United States in the 20th century was based on building entrances to the middle class, from Henry Ford in 1913 to strong unions in the '50s and '60s.

Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

The book wrestles with the questions modern mothers face about the merits of professional work versus life spent with children. It paints a picture of the trials and tribulations of 21st century motherhood.

The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing in the German language.

The best education, both within formal learning institutions and outside them is that which helps to make people acquire the necessary skills, attitudes and behaviour that are needed in the real world of the 21st century

That is not going to happen this century unless we get more kids interested in science. We have 39 of the 50 best scientific institutions in the world. But U.S. enrollment is down and foreign enrollment is up. We have to change that if we want to be the innovators of the future.

It was more than a quarter century ago that I started talking about the importance of communication and information in modern society.

I've done several shorter races, century (100-mile) rides and marathons, and the Ironman is just a matter of putting it all together. This is a fun way to train because it's motivating to have a group of people working out together and sharing a common interest.

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.

I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

The TV is an out, an excuse for not having eye contact or for not having to come up with something interesting to say. Is it pathological? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. But pathology and sadness are part of 20th century American life.

They are missing a component that is very important and should be one of the skill sets for the 21st century that every kid has when they graduate from high school.

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,

Notre Dame will provide an alternative for the 21st century - a place of higher learning that plays host to world-changing teaching and research, but where technical knowledge does not outrun moral wisdom, where the goal of education is to help students live a good human life, where our restless quest to understand the world not only lives in harmony with faith but is strengthened by it,

The new century brings new challenges and opportunities to improve the health of everyone in the United States, ... People not only want to live a long life, but they also want to enjoy a healthy life.

The message of this week is one of monumental disappointment. We have seen the UN desperately searching for a role in the 21st century but not finding one. Ultimately, that role may far more limited than what people have been used to ... the UN is likely to become a bystander.

The international award is a symbol of the success that we have had in trying to completely remake this campus for the last 20 years. A lot of people have been working to bring the university into the twenty-first century and to use the campus to show what a quality institution this is.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century

The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet.

The Corps tries to solve 21st century water resource problems with 19th century solutions. The Feingold-McCain bill will help ensure the Corps won't repeat the mistakes of the past.

The Canary Islands offer special incentives to companies looking at potential filming locations, so it was only logical for me to help the local government make connections with major U.S. film studios like Universal, Fox, Sony, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, Viacom, Comcast, HBO, Netflix, Warner Brothers etc.

I just came out and from the opening drum roll, the 20th Century Fox theme, they knew exactly where this was going. People were probably very, very surprised about how much they remembered of Star Wars.

Increasingly, city officials view broadband in the 21st century the same way they viewed electricity 100 years ago and telephone service 50 years ago. It's falling into the category of a necessary and essential social service.

Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.

In its century plus years of existence, it's had only two owners: the Flagler System and Flagler College.

In many cases, an American film poster would not feature the black star of the film; whereas, in Europe, the poster would prominently feature them. 'The Great American Broadcast,' which was a 20th Century Fox picture made in 1941, features Alice Faye, Jack Oakie and John Payne, all of whom are illustrated on the American poster. The Italian poster features the Nicholas Brothers, and it's a lot more exciting.

In keeping with our commitment to be a 21st century publisher, our content needs to be available in a digital format. We have a vision of the future and this is a significant step towards achieving that vision. We are putting our digital house in order so that we are prepared to offer consumers book content in new ways and with a variety of partners. Once the content is digitized and available in a robust database, the possibilities of what can be done are endless. The world we live in today is increasingly technology driven. HarperCollins is going to move with the technology.

I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

If I were to use outdoor for Coke, I would do the exact opposite. I would run 19th century billboards. That would be startling.

I have never subscribed to authoritarianism, and I think if the 21st century is going to be authoritarian then we're all done for.

If there's anything that's clear in the 21st century it's that the world needs peacekeepers,

If the pathetic level of funding in the proposed budget continues, restoration of the dead zone in the Sound will continue for a quarter century and raw sewage will flow into the Connecticut River and Sound for at least another hundred years. This is totally unacceptable to Save the Sound, and I venture to say, every member of the Coalition.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.