Robert Kerr
Robert Kerr
Petroleum tycoon turned Democratic politician who was the 12th Governor of Oklahoma from 1943 to 1947. He also served as a US Senator from 1949 to 1963.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 September 1896
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We want to reduce the motoring public's exposure to impaired drivers through aggressive enforcement.
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We're still struggling in a fog of volatility that may obscure the fact the market is, or may be close to, bottoming,
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We'll make sure there's enough in that account to purchase health insurance coverage.
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We feel like we've turned this thing around by offering a much greater benefit to many people affected by the change.
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We give them some flexibility, but we don't let them go into the mandatory services, ... I'm hoping that as we make the transition, it frees this agency's resources up to really pressure plans to be more efficient.
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We found the rationale for the raid flimsy. The stated reason was that there was information threatening national security that was about to be revealed. Yet we have seen no evidence that this is actually the case.
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The recent volatility reflects the debate in the market but I think we may well have touched bottom in the current cycle.
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Next week we have a raft of earnings in the tech sector, with STM, Philips and Nokia. We have got to see evidence that if the bad news is not turning into good news, then at least the bad news is slowing,
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I can't see any particular catalyst for the market going lower because there is the prospect of economic recovery, and improving expectations for economic growth in due course should feed through to improving expectations for earnings and should stop undermining apparently bad valuations.
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Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.
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Be smart, not scared. If they do the scared thing and someone grabs hold of them, then they'll kick and hit, and it won't get them anywhere.
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The risk is on the upside, because the market knows that we are at the end of the earnings cycle, it's just that earnings are not turning as fast as many had hoped.