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Steve Loranger With this transaction behind us, we can sharpen our focus on our other improvement priorities, such as streamlining our operations and expanding our core businesses in advanced water treatment, water and wastewater solutions, space, defense electronics and leisure marine in order to provide greater potential for growth and profitability. We will continue operating our portfolio toward achieving premier multi-industry performance, with an improved growth profile, increased margins and a more efficient use of capital.
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Pam Slaton We did not ask for it. They knew about us. They were impressed at how an orchestra our size was growing and achieving professional status.
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Hector Ruiz We deserve to have a significantly larger share of the market than we already have. The only thing that's keeping us from achieving those numbers are the illegal, monopolistic actions of our competitor.
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Ryk Neethling We are all friends and we have the similar feelings we had in Athens, so a world record is definitely our target and we are capable of achieving it. The relay on the opening night will be a good start for us.
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Rahul Dravid We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.
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Takashi Sensui We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role.
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Lew Wasserman We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
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Pierre Lafontaine We know we can still count on him to help us in our efforts to build and strengthen Canadian swimming as an ambassador and as a mentor to young athletes.
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Benedict Cumberbatch I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Michael Budman Wayne is a natural leader of the Roots athletics team, Team Roots, and a great ambassador for our company. Both on and off the ice, he exemplifies the best of Canada and the Canadian and Olympic heritage of Roots.
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Catherine Marquette United for D.C. is excited to begin the third annual United Community Grants cycle. Last year alone, United for D.C. distributed almost $85,000 in grants to six local organizations, assisting established groups expand their urban soccer programming and helping new organizations create inner-city programs. We look forward to receiving another round of quality applications this cycle.
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Daniel Pearl We are pleased to have this opportunity to work with Mr. Williams and continue efforts in assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ... We continue to call on our associates and guests to keep helping our fellow residents of southern Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama during these difficult times.
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Masayoshi Son We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can be duplicated for the U.K. and other countries.
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Jan Egeland We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
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Laurie Graham Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.
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Tim Minear I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.
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Nitin Nohria We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.
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Jim Adams What has happened is that everyone has accepted that over time this is going to become a global issue and in that context (efforts have) been ratcheted up a level,
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Adam Ereli We briefed him on our policy and our dealings and the state of play with North Korea, ... As a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.
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David Kelly What's remarkable is how little the statement changed. The one thing that is important is that the Fed has always, over the past few years, tipped its hand. But they have still not indicated that they are close to ending their tightening.
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John Scofield We're going to have to stick to this budget. We're going to have to reduce the defense transfer and we're going to have to drop the gimmicks. That's our starting point and ending point.
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Ryohei Muramatsu Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.
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Mark Everson We're moving aggressively to reduce the tax gap, ... But no one should think we can totally eliminate the gap. That would take Draconian measures and make the government too intrusive. We have to strike the right balance.
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Michael Diekmann With the measures initiated today we create the necessary prerequisites to ensure our competitiveness going forward. We want to consistently take advantage of our growth opportunities across borders.
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Sean Clark We feel that the traditional accounting measures designed to capture physical assets are deficient in capturing the full value of a firm.
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Adam Ereli Unrelated to the six-party talks, there are measures in the United States to take action against counterfeiting and other activities that can be used to threaten the United States pursuant to the Patriot Act.
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Ignacio Bunye We are a free enterprise economy and we shall leave market forces to determine the value of the peso, while taking the appropriate measures to assist the export sector.
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Alan McCollough We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()
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Don Waddell When we call up players, we don't call them up just to sit on the bench. We expect them to contribute to our team's success right away. This season has been no exception. I'm extremely proud of the overall success the Gladiators have enjoyed and the quality players that Jeff and Steve have produced.
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Anne Bacon Tom's work was very important, and the way that we will honor him is to try to continue that work, maybe not for each of us going to Iraq, but we all have the opportunity to create peace in our own community.
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Robert Novak We would want to exhaust every possible means for a peaceful solution, and I think that is the vocation of the Security Council.
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Ross Levinsohn We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.
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Debra Peterson We're going to take all steps necessary to protect the creativity and innovation of our employees.
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Bill Richardson We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,
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Jeff Brown We felt like not only was (the compliance check failure) unintentional, but that we took many, many steps to prevent it.
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Bill Belichick We brought 45 guys here. When one man goes down, that's what the other is there for. He steps in.
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Jim Larranaga We both agreed that this was something that doesn't represent George Mason University or our basketball program. That we needed to take immediate steps to send that message not only to Tony, but to the rest of our team and to the rest of the athletes who represent George Mason.
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Steve Cummings When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.
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Madeline Albright Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,
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Doug Smith We reject violence to punish anyone who harms us.
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Chris Christie The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president [Barack Obama]. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.
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Chris Christie Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.
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Chris Christie I'm going to be specific so you can render your verdict. Let's go to North Africa, she was the chief engineer of the disastrous overthrow of [Muamar] Qaddafi in Libya. Libya today after Hillary Clinton's grand strategy? Their economy's in ruins. There's death and violence on the streets, and ISIS is now dominating that country.
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Chris Christie The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.