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Approved Quotes
We stand with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in this lawsuit, ... The Illinois Commerce Commission does not have the legal authority to order a power auction with unlimited rate hikes as the outcome. The ICC should tell Ameren and ComEd to take their auction proposal to Springfield for review by the General Assembly, which approved a Public Utilities Act that clearly gives Illinois regulators final say over electricity rates.
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Along Quotes
Until now, residential developments have failed to keep pace in the surrounding neighborhoods. Boulevard Row will be the first new condominium town home development along Rainbow Boulevard. Our goal is to regenerate and beautify Rainbow, provide new housing for those looking for an urban lifestyle and act as a catalyst for property owners up and down the Boulevard to invest and improve their properties.
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Black Quotes
We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?
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Albert Quotes
We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.
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Added Quotes
Ultimately, the bill may rest on a shaky premise, as Clean Air Act permitting provisions seem to have only a marginal effect on decisions by oil companies to invest in new refining capacity, ... Industry and government analysts alike agree that profit margins are the most significant factor, and record profits from high gasoline prices have encouraged a major investment in added refining capacity. Projects already reported or announced are expected to add nearly 600,000 b/d to our existing capacity over the next several years.
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Beginning Quotes
We're seeing industry-wide demand for solutions to make compliance sustainable and, at the same time, more efficient and more effective. Many companies are beginning to act on improvement opportunities identified through their Sarbanes-Oxley efforts. Increasingly, companies are undertaking projects to better leverage technology to improve information quality, automate internal controls and enhance monitoring and reporting capabilities.
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Ability Quotes
We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities. If they don't have the ability to secure our salaries and to guarantee good living conditions for the people, they either have to step aside or to ask the people what the next step must be. They cannot act alone.
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Blatant Quotes
There are some parallels in the sense that the (USA) Patriot Act represents some retrenchment of our civil liberties and free speech. It is not as raw and blatant as the Sedition Act, but it represents an effort by government and the Congress to bolster security at the price of liberty - not just the Patriot Act, but the language and rhetoric and debate over who is more patriotic.
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Adequately Quotes
The REAL ID Act would, among other things, permit immigration judges to deny asylum based solely on an applicant's demeanor, ... As health professionals who also do asylum evaluations, we fear that this is likely to lead immigration judges (who are not adequately trained in the symptoms of torture survivors) to deny asylum to those who need it most.
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America Quotes
There is broad, bi-partisan support for reauthorization of the County Payments Act as enacted in 2000, including its important environmental safeguards. There are better ways to fund public education for our children than selling off our public forests. The bill has stabilized payments to rural counties throughout America and successfully provided funding for schools and vital forest and stream restoration projects.
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Congress Quotes
We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.
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Bush Quotes
We're here to support our troops, our president, and the mission. Nothing in life is easy and this is an example of that. We had Clinton for president for 8 years and he had the same intelligence and it took somebody with some guts to act on it. That's what President Bush did and we're here to support him.
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Access Quotes
This raises huge questions about the authorities of States and Tribes to access the best scientific data and manage a regional resource. Congress was clear 26 years ago when it passed the Northwest Power Act laying out the roles and responsibilities of tribes and federal and state fishery agencies. If this stands, it says that any member of Congress, behind closed doors, can undo a decades-long effort with words hidden in a legislative report.
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Aid Quotes
The provision of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 establishing equal financial aid treatment for all 529 plans is good news for Ohio families with money invested in the Guaranteed Savings Fund. This eliminates a major source of confusion for families saving for college and for financial aid administrators as well.
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Acting Quotes
When the kids were small, you had to tell them what to do, ... But now that they're older, you have to challenge them. They have to improvise. They have to bring themselves into it. Otherwise, it doesn't have any life in it. They had to act , and acting is not doing what somebody tells you.
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Advantage Quotes
We were certainly poised to take advantage of other teams' inability, if you will, to act quickly in free agency. And now obviously the field's been leveled quite a bit. We're disappointed solely from a football operations standpoint that we weren't able to jump out there and take advantage of some players and opportunities that might have come about because of teams having to clear cap space.
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Dramatic Quotes
Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
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Against Quotes
Let mortification be especially directed to strike at those sins that act your master sins-that at, most prevalent and predominant in your heart, that yet you have most prayed against and are least able to resist, that strongly assault you and most easily beset you and are masters over you.
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Action Quotes
Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.