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We believe the long-term outlook for hotel investment remains quite attractive. While we are not driven by a specific timetable, our over- arching objective is to strategically invest $500 million annually over the next several years in the acquisition and development of primarily hotel- related opportunities. We have carefully assembled a first class investment team over the last several years, and our depth in this area continues to fuel a very active pipeline of prospective investment opportunities. HEI now has 13 professionals, with more than 185 years of collective experience, driving its acquisition and development effort with several additional positions to be filled in the coming months.

Today there was a collective effort. We are riding the momentum that we started three games ago. Caron did a really good job defensively. He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain, and we are just riding a wave right now.

Today the collective wisdom is that the economy will improve in the not-too-distant future, and that's hostile for bonds because it suggests that the Fed is done easing monetary policy and that financial markets may confront some interest-rate pressures as the economy improves and borrowing re-accelerates.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

The presidency should show objectivity and bear in mind the collective interests of all its members, of the EU, and not a special interest which it itself has.

The presidency needs to show impartiality and bear in mind the collective interests of the EU and not the interests i t has by securing the opening of accession talks between Turkey and the EU.

The quality of the orchestra is truly outstanding. I do think they have an extraordinary kind of collective identity and esprit that's wonderful, ... The way they have contributed to bringing the orchestra back to financial health has been very laudable. They're very committed to the orchestra and the city. They're very proud of what they contribute to Pittsburgh.

Those are shoes that one guy can't fill, and I know it's not me. I'm thrilled to be over where he played. You can't replace him - it'll be a collective effort.

Thus, there can be no real disarmament except on the basis of the collective peace system of the League of Nations.

We are on the right path. There was huge interest in the position and a lot of applications, but I feel we have the right person to get the best out of the players. This was a collective appointment and we were all on the one hymn sheet with this one.

We had an idea (this could happen) if the collective bargaining agreement wasn't reached.

We plan to find out if these major league sports are going to do anything. If they give us the excuse that they're tied in to collective bargaining agreements and they can't do anything, ... then it's up to Congress to change it and make it the law of the land.

We have made a collective decision to play the game.

We did some good things today, and we had several players really step up, which is what we need now. It's not one player replacing a player that goes down. It's a collective group. Offensively, you can see that we can be hard to guard.

We sent in proposals since 2004 to the CPO to sit and negotiate for the new collective agreement, and it is going into 2006 now and no agreement has been met.

There are better ways of doing things than to just implement it on us. It hurt a lot of teachers that we couldn't compromise. For every one bad teacher you get several good ones. We don't want the collective bargaining changed for one bad teacher.

Traditionalists didn't see any reason for it and saw it as a challenge to real collective bargaining. Over the years there has been a rethinking of this idea.

The deal is virtually done and it's not going to be just revolutionary for the NHL, it will be a new chapter in collective bargaining agreements for all sports because it will most closely tie together the fortunes of the owners and the players.

What it does is unite the arts groups. A lot of times there are different groups in Gilroy and they'll have a purpose individually, but this makes it more of a collective group where you're able to share a vision and purpose.

Wall Street breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as fears of mounting inflationary pressures and additional rate hikes by the Federal Reserve suddenly evaporated.

There are many important messages emerging from this pioneering study. One that rings loud and clear is the economic one - that our collective failure to value the goods and services provided by international waters, and to narrowly price the benefits in terms of the few rather than the many, is impoverishing us all.

We'll just have to make that up with trying to get the ball to our key people that we think have the best opportunity to score. It has to be a collective effort.

We know that right now from a personnel standpoint we're not at our best, but there's a lot you can make up for with a strong collective effort and a strong belief in one other.

We asked the US administration to continue with its support and not to enforce collective punishment, which will have disastrous consequences.

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

We have been honest and open about this plan and will improve year after year until we get to our collective goal.

There is a collective voice for black theater in America. This is where we all come together.

We think we are seeing the collective light from millions of the first objects to form in the universe. The objects disappeared eons ago, yet their light is still traveling across the universe.

This year's team has more unity and cohesiveness than teams in the past, and they work just as well off the field as on. The girls' attitudes are always positive and the team has a collective never-say-die philosophy. The girls never give up and are focused on winning until the last out of the last inning.

We believe he will be able to take the BJP forward with stress on ideology, discipline and commitment to the principles of collective leadership.

This series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure and growth for marathon running.

When you look at the whole financial literacy landscape, all of the companies, organizations and associations involved in AWARE have a long history of educating consumers about auto financing and are doing a great job. But we felt there was still room for a collaborative and collective effort like ours on an industry-wide level to augment what they're doing individually.

With (the company) being out of the loop, so to speak, that does bode well for everybody. I imagine there was a collective sigh of relief in Raleigh. I'm sure they wanted that.

We are encouraged to see that members of Congress on both sides of the aisle recognize the need for fairness in collective bargaining.

First and foremost, The Full Circle initiative demonstrates ESPN's commitment to serving fans however and wherever they consume sports. It also offers a wonderful showcase of the collective exposure we can provide, particularly for a big event like North Carolina-Duke, which appropriately takes place on the first anniversary of ESPNU. In time, we plan to build the Full Circle concept by applying similar blanket coverage to future events.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

Both Olivier and myself will concentrate on our role and try to bring our experience to rediscover a certain collective energy. We are not here to give any lessons but we know we missed out on our match with Scotland and that the expectations will be very high on Saturday.

The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.

The governments continuing refusal to negotiate is proof that these illegal regulations were designed to eliminate collective bargaining.

While there are no future meetings scheduled, we have agreed to keep the lines of communication open. We have no intention of making any further announcement relating to collective bargaining or the status of the season at this time.

were supposed to use force only in self-defense, or by a collective decision that it was necessary to use force in order to keep the peace.

The operating schedule is a collective decision based on a monstrous review a couple years back.

The recent election made clear that our membership expects concrete results, particularly in our collective bargaining and our nationwide organizing efforts.

We have a collective failure of leadership unfortunately - there may be individuals who are the exception to the rule - amongst the bishops of the Church of England to maintain and teach orthodoxy in as clear and as gracious a manner as they should do.

We have a collective bargaining extension in place, long-term television contracts, and have undertaken many other strong elements in league and club operations. I am honored to have been commissioner since late 1989 and to have been heavily involved with the league, its owners, clubs, coaches, players, fans and media since 1969.

To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries.

this union will have to regroup and demand that the 22 jobs be part of any new collective bargaining agreement.

We cannot deny that there have been loopholes in the system of checking structures of collective housing.

We want to get a collective bargaining agreement done with Gene (Upshaw) and I don't see why we're having such a holdup at this time. He has his reasons and we have our reasons, but it's not a healthy situation to have.

Today, my faith in the collective bargaining process has been reaffirmed,

With respect to the appeal process for on-field discipline, that process was negotiated in collective bargaining and has served the industry well for decades, ... Mr. Wells' dissatisfaction with his appeal says more about his poor behavior than it does about the quality of the appeal process.

We've reached a real breakthrough with the summit in our collective attempt to ensure that this is a successful gathering of the global family,

Through this collective effort, Chubb, our agents and customers are helping charities in our communities achieve their important missions,

We've been talking to each other about staying together and not breaking down. We're really all we have. We have to stay together, and everybody is committed to doing it. ... Nobody likes losing, but when we do stay together and we all make that collective effort to keep encouraging each other, that's when we're at our best.

We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.

(We have to) decide what we're going to do in terms of applying the franchise tag, if such is the case, how much money we're going to have to spend. And all of that is really in suspended animation because of the lack of a collective bargaining agreement.

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

We will not achieve our collective goals for development, peace and security and human rights if we do not take concrete action to enhance women's participation in decision-making in governments, parliaments, international organizations, academic life and the private sector.

We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team. We're not going to win with individual effort. We're going to win when we play together as a team the way we're capable of playing.

We initiated termination proceedings on June 2 against all nine individuals. Under procedures established in their collective bargaining agreement, they had seven days to respond to the charges before the terminations would be final. All nine individuals resigned during that time.

USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.

We are very frustrated and concerned over where we are in this process. The union is engaged in a charade. It is clear to us that union leadership has no interest in negotiating or making a deal to save the start of the season. Union leadership is stalling, doing everything in its power to ensure this collective bargaining negotiation is not resolved in a timely manner.

We are aware of the concerns of Mr. Wilson and Gov. Pataki. In the months ahead, we'll be spending a great deal of time with our clubs, ensuring the extended collective bargaining agreement and the related revenue-sharing arrangements work for all 32 teams.

Bottom line is, we've got better players and a better coaching staff this season. We need to take it as a personal and collective challenge to be better than we were last season and from the guys I've been talking to this summer, I think we are going to do that.

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.

BHB appealed primarily because of the importance of collective selling for the future long-term funding of a key British Industry.

Everybody gave a tremendous effort. We played with terrific energy and a lot of competitive spirit. This was a collective team effort.

Everything between the IIHF and the NHL in the collective bargaining agreement would be void. There would be no NHL participation at the Olympics, at the world championships or a possible World Cup. There would be no transfer agreement.

Conscience is a kind of stored procedure which was planted in mankind's collective unconscious. Someone has the buttons to control it.

Congress did not say you could ignore collective bargaining rights. It said just the opposite.

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.

Epics typically appeal to the collective unconscious. They are brands, deeply entrenched in the mind and such is their recall that the first week's turnout is nearly assured.

Europe needs a clear and more collective policy on the security of our energy supply. Now, powers reside at the national level and we need a Europe-wide approach.

Five of the corporations in the steel industry elected to resist collective bargaining and undertook to destroy the steel workers' union.

Fascinating though the issues are, and as serious as they are, I believe the Majority has given in too much to their collective imaginations, rather than sound reasoning based on the record, in reaching some of the conditions on the merger,

Everything is inspired by something. We all see the same movies, read the same books. It's as if there's a collective consciousness.

There's no real precedent there for collective punishment or commissary funds. Those are going to be a long battle.

There's nothing that we have accomplished in the last 30 years that Russ hasn't been at the center of, from expansion, to collective bargaining, to international activities, ... It's quite an N.B.A. career that will be coming, I don't want to say to a close, but slowing down at the end of the season. It's a big loss, but we're also cheered that it's something Russ wanted to do.

The United Nations, as the core of the collective security mechanism, plays an irreplaceable role in international cooperation to ensure global security, ... Such a role can only be strengthened and must not in any way be weakened.

The world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose while Annan is in charge.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

There would be no exclusive collective or one-closed-shop bargaining, we told them. They could have membership drives on site, but we did not agree to automatically deduct membership dues from all our staff, even those who did not wish to be members.

The salary cap in the Collective Bargaining Agreement in the National (Hockey) League now is going to really encourage teams to develop their own talent and to have a lot of young players developing in the AHL. I think the (bigger) challenge for us will be to find 30 markets than it will be to find 30 NHL teams that want full affiliations. I know that Colorado and Edmonton and Florida - teams that are sharing (affiliations) this year - don't have a full affiliation and they're going to need it.

I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

These new facilities have been years in the making and represent the collective thought of doctors, nurses, patients and their parents, architects and many, many others who have brought their unique perspective to the task -- to design facilities that will support the most advanced medical and surgical practice available, anywhere. When we complete the construction, these facilities will enable us to meet our patient care responsibilities well into the future.

The strike began last Friday at 8 a.m. after the employer refused to remove demands for concessions during contract talks for a new collective agreement.

The style I want to play will be dictated by the collective talent of the team. I did ask John for some tape. I've never seen this group play.

So much of new knowledge and new applications and ideas come when people from different disciplines combine their expertise or their ways of thinking and looking at problems to discover new solutions, ... If we could begin to do that kind of thing and foster the collective growth in many different fields that we are involved in, I think it would be a lot more fun, as well as a lot more productive.

Sometimes we're not following the game plans. It's a collective effort. It's everybody and we have to do a better job of avoiding it.

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Russ discussed with me his desire to step down as deputy commissioner once our collective bargaining negotiations were concluded, but I persuaded him to stay on for an additional season. He will be functioning as usual for the next eight months, but we agreed that it was appropriate to let the Board of Governors know his plans as far in advance as possible.

Right now we're looking at the collective sensibilities of a family product and working to define what it is. Everyone has their own opinion, and what you think would be in a family tier is probably different than what someone else does.

Our conclusion is that it is not a reasonable exercise of business judgment to go forward with an executive compensation plan one week before a motion (to abrogate collective bargaining) dealing with one of the main issues of this case, which is labor peace.

Other governments right across this country are able to sit down with their teachers, which include school principals, and negotiate settlements that put class size not only in private policy but enshrine them in collective agreements as well.

a demonstration of collective anger at the rising number of racist and anti-Semitic attacks this year.

Strikes are part of the collective bargaining process in normal times, and they certainly end up as a part of this process,

Now, as one organization, we can buy the content for less. We can negotiate with the distributors differently because we're offering a collective wider coverage. We have a better opportunity to negotiate those deals.