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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families who suffer the risk of always worrying - you are the heroes.

The point is, let's encourage America's families to save for education.

We appreciate that people do things as families so we don't want to discourage that.

We are proud to welcome the Best Western Chincoteague Island to our chain. This versatile property offers a quality lodging choice for families and leisure guests traveling to Chincoteague Island, as well as corporate guests serving NASA, the Navy and NOAA. We are happy to raise the Best Western flag at this unique island property.

We are proud to partner with Timberland as part of the CommunityBuilders Tour. Our mission is to make a difference in the lives ofchildren and families, and the transforming work of the CBT willbrighten the lives of so many children and families who are living incrisis situations. Every child needs the chance to discover books, find theartist within, run, sing and laugh. Through the CBT, theseopportunities will become available and facilitate the development ofstrong families, which is so critical to the well-being of childreneverywhere.

We are proud to partner with Timberland as part of the Community Builders Tour. Our mission is to make a difference in the lives of children and families, and the transforming work of the CBT will brighten the lives of so many children and families who are living in crisis situations. Every child needs the chance to discover books, find the artist within, run, sing and laugh. Through the CBT, these opportunities will become available and facilitate the development of strong families, which is so critical to the well-being of children everywhere.

We are proud to have brought this exciting week of live theater to the families of our state for the past nine years. The diversity and excellence of our performing artists has added immeasurably to the success of this program. We are determined to give every child the opportunity to see a live performance, and we hope they will continue to make attendance at the theatre a part of their lives as they become young adults.

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

There are certain families in the world that just get an inordinate amount of tragedy. That's just what happened here.

We strongly condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the families of the victims.

We stand at an historic moment in the struggle to end the anguish that these weapons have already inflicted on tens of thousands of the world's children, their families and their communities,

Where the Red Cross has helped is in determining what families get these homes, ... That's the hard part, picking who gets what.

Where the average debt levels are really increasing are for children of more-affluent families. Children of affluent families are now almost as likely to borrow as children of less-affluent families.

Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty?

When we were saying it doesn't matter in the '60s and '70s and '80s, we didn't have the experience of enough kids in a culture when families were breaking down. It was just our best guess.

When we went to talk to those families, we found out that one of the families was originally from Herrin, so we were able to quickly place them in one of our vacant homes in Herrin. Our agency covers 24 counties, and if we don't have a house available, we can still help a family by making referrals.

We're spread out over two blocks and there's lots of fun things. Some families make this a family reunion event. It's a feel-good kind of thing. There's something for everybody.

We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family.

We're going to go to San Antonio and set up our operations. The players will have a few days off to try to deal with their families, deal with their situations at home and try to get their families to San Antonio, and then we'll go to work next week to prepare for the season. We're talking to the league office and looking at conflict dates with certain sites, and trying to figure out what we're going to do.

What they've learned and documented over time is actually the repayment rate for low-income families is at least as good, in some cases higher, than other families.

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

When we deploy soldiers, we deploy the family. And we need to partner with all these groups to give these families what they need.

What about the residential areas? What about my home? What about other families who houses that are still underwater? What are you doing to meet immediately meet our needs,

We bring together low-income workers and their families on a self-help basis.

We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

We're going to make sure that victims of this disaster, whatever their economic circumstances, get the necessary financial assistance to ensure that they can obtain a temporary residence for the time being, ... These programs have been designed to give families the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom to decide where they want to relocate and what they want to do over the next few months.

United Families International is very active in the U.N.. You'll see they have several diplomats from the Mid-East on their advisory board.

Very few things have as great an impact on families as the loss of a job, ... We will work to assist these families in this time of need and continue to hope for the best with respect to our other military facilities.

Working with the families is critical to getting the job done properly, and the truth is that the medical examiner and the police need to establish a synergistic relationship from the outset.

Working families need care. They need care that is regulated, safe and secure, and that's what we're building here. Don't give people C$25 a day to blow on beer and popcorn.

Working families need and deserve Supreme Court justices who understand and respect the importance of hard-fought rights and protections, not justices who take an unduly narrow view of the law.

Working families appreciate the opportunities they have to shop in our stores and save money.

Working families across America are struggling with the rising cost of health care. Wal-Mart is providing solutions.

With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another $543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.

With the high prices of gas and energy in general, it is becoming more important for families and businesses to save money where they can. A home energy audit is the first step to assess your home's energy diet and to evaluate what measures can be made to make your home more energy efficient. An audit will show you problems that, when corrected, save significant amounts of money over time.

We extend our sincere condolences to the families of our subcontract personnel.

We're expecting there to be a big response to this program. With so many military families in the area, it should be a real hit.

We're finding a dramatic increase in the total number of families throughout the U.S. that are paying a high share of their income for medical bills. When you add in premiums, it's even higher.

We're getting a full gamut of health needs. Every thing from rashes, I would assume from being in dirty water, whole families with rashes, cuts, bruises, broken bones.

We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their families and their communities.

Three thousand people died, ... No matter how hard we worked or how desperately we tried, it was not enough. The victims and the families of 9/11 deserve better.

With the quality and volume of data we have available, Express Scripts is one of the few organizations in the nation capable of undertaking a study of this magnitude and importance. We're publicly sharing these results because of the important long-term health and financial implications these findings have for children, their families and those that pay for health care in this country.

With version 1, we've focused on consumers and families but there is definitely a need for classroom situations so we're looking into that for future versions -- specifically, the ability to apply a policy that administrator or teacher can set up across multiple PCs.

We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing.

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of servicemen and women lack basic financial knowledge. We are here to unveil an important new program that will help members of the armed services and their families manage their money, and save and invest it wisely.

We know families looking to relocate consider the quality of schools a critical factor in their decision-making.

We know each other quite well. Our families get along well. When you play with somebody for the first time, you don't know how to react. I've played with Justin quite a few times and you know how he reacts and just go out there and just have fun.

We know better, but we don't act because we don't want to look, ... The Superdome made those people impossible to ignore, but we could look down the streets of every city in America and see enough poor and forgotten families to fill all the sports stadiums in America.

With this event, we're trying to open the door to people so they understand the whole idea of becoming a host family. This is about getting families interested in other cultures.

With this agreement we've brought about an improvement for all families. We've achieved an improvement for families with one income and we've made it better to combine family and work.

Workers generally, and working families generally, are hit by the same huge increase in costs that's going to face them all winter.

Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting. Payment now should be speedy to prevent further hardship.

We've got children and families that are willing to work, and we're certainly going to do everything we can.

We've wanted to do this for a while. We're trying to expand our audience base by doing something lighter; we want families to come with their kids and find that this is accessible.

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

We want families to have accurate information so you know what you are dealing with, what the problem is, and how to obtain the most appropriate action for your child.

We want families to come back to see us and sit around the family dining room table.

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

We want to serve families the best we can within the economy of scale.

We were (housed) in a kitchen in a house on the property where the library is now. The first day, two families came in and within a couple of months we outgrew that kitchen and moved into the location we're at now.

We also want families to feel welcome. If mom and dad want to come out and shoot a game of pool without going to a bar, we hope the have the location.

We did have one to two families displaced, and the Red Cross was able to put them up at the Howard Johnson Hotel in North Bergen.

There are plenty of young families who don't want to go into debt for five to seven years to have a safe, functional automobile.

There are multiple checks and balances to make sure what we're doing is targeting ... international phone calls of terrorists, not the conversations between two families coordinating a family vacation. We have very strict laws, very strict oversight. This is a targeted program, and I think most of the American people would be very angry if they thought we weren't doing just this.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

There are more and more black families moving into the northern communities and they should have the right to be represented as well.

There are feelings within the families and survivors group that are very difficult for the members of that group to deal with. There is, as you would expect, anger as part of the grieving process and sometimes that anger is vented toward very innocent people,

There are families who have lots of kids who go to Harvard, ... I don't know too many who have five go. What was unusual about (the Chavezes) was that it was a no-college-background family. It's not only a no-Harvard-tradition (family), there was no college tradition in the family.

There are even irresponsible families who sell their daughters' bodies and insensitive neighbors who think this is the most natural thing in the world ... until tragedy and disease strike,

We decided to make this RAV4 bigger to attract more families and those who prefer to buy minivans,

We deal with about 50 different Amish families from Ohio who hand-make all our furniture. We have 40, maybe 50 catalogues for you to go through, and when you see something that you want, we'll shop around because the prices do vary. We find the best price that we can pass on to the customer -- the best quality at the best price.

We thought we'd have more support than we did. Basically, they didn't want to have anything to do with us. They gave us no support, they gave our families no support, and it was hard for our families, not knowing who to turn to. So it was basically our lawyers and people like Amnesty that gave support to our families and helped them get through it.

We really had a diverse group of kids. They had different kinds of disabilities. These children are too young to participate in Special Olympics, so this offers them an outlet to participate in a game that they may not otherwise get to play. It is a really special time for not just the participants, but for the families and the volunteers too.

We're assuming the worst, that there has been likely transmission to health care workers, that there has been transmission to families and that there has probably been transmission to other patients, and that it provides the link to St. John's Hospital that we didn't recognize last night,

We hope to honor as many Gold Star Families as possible for their tremendous sacrifices and the service of their loved ones. The opportunity to honor them is a welcome opportunity.

Yes, people have problems, marriages have problems, families have problems. But why can't we have programming that's encouraging?

We didn't tell the families what happened, the families told us what happened. The families were informed by the governor and his staff and by other rescue-connected people. We were here and took the same emotional ride as the families.

We have quite a few players from California so it makes it easier for their families to get there and see them play,

We've staved it off for 15 years, but we have to pay the piper -- the time is here. To use money just to keep a dwindling school alive is not wise. I understand that it's difficult, but looking at it overall, it's not the board's fault enrollment in particular schools is going down, and it's not the board's fault that families have to move to Tracy to buy a house.

We've seen we can drive the economy at 4 percent unemployment with strong productivity gains. I won't be satisfied until we're back there. Many working families won't be either, I'd guess.

The outcome we're after is Pennsylvania mining families know that when their loved ones go into this tough, dangerous business that at least their maps are dependable,

We have anywhere from six to 12 families arriving each day. More than 500 campers were set up by FEMA for the displaced families so there is still plenty of room.

We are telling the families that had relatives cremated to call the funeral homes and ask them, 'Were their relatives sent to the place?'

We're hollowing the economy out. It's having enormous negative consequences for families and individuals.

We're grieving for our employees, our customers, their families and their loved ones.

This program will use the network of more than 800 local Red Cross chapters across the country to help families map out their own individual roads to recovery. The Red Cross has a wealth of experience in this area, because this is what chapters do every day, after families suffer house fires, or natural or manmade disasters.

This program is just one example of the countless grassroots sports programs McDonald's supports worldwide. From local sporting events and activities to our worldwide sponsorship of the Olympic Games and World Cup Soccer, it's all about encouraging children and families to be active and have fun.

This process has to be very hard on the nominee and on their families and everyone who cares much about them,

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.

The profile of the people we serve are families that are having trouble making ends meet. There are also senior citizens who are living on fixed incomes who come in and some have the added stress of caring for young grandchildren.

The prime minister told the House in response that he had 'met the families and had long discussions.' The families told us afterwards that no such discussions took place,