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GAVIN FRIEND In some experiments we get a 70 percent decrease (in methane emissions), which is quite staggering. JOHN WALLACE And if we are able to do even just 70 percent, it therefore follows that the importation made by tho... DONALD G. DEE You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research. NANCY REAGAN At this point, we probably have 70 percent of our regulatory signs back up, and probably 30 percent ... RICHARD THOMPSON The success rate is still in the 70 percent range, BURTON Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. TOM BROKAW In some school they go by percentages, where all the cheerleaders with a certain (judging) percentag... CHRISTY HARRELL The new business model in animation today is co-production. It accounts for 70 to 80 percent of prog... BIREN GHOSE That's tough to figure out for a team that shoots over 70 percent. But we're moving on. CRAIG KOWAL Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims. BILLY TAUZIN About 70 percent of our vacancies require security clearances, GREG MCELROY The aged and disabled population makes up about 20 percent of Medicaid and they use 60 to 70 percent... BOB DAY Using statistical learning theory, the computer can categorize the sounds of each key as it's struck... LI ZHUANG More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen ... DAN LIPINSKI The country is so poor. It's one of the poorest nations in this hemisphere, with 60 to 70 percent of... CHARLES MARKS Judging by market rates, there is a 70 percent probability of a rate cut by March. ANDREW CHAVERIAT You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats ... RAND PAUL We're a traditional grocery store, not a specialty store. We're trying to be in the middle, which is... JENNIFER WEBBER I would say the vast majority, probably 70 percent (want a) companion; 10 percent guard dog; 10 perc... ED NICKS Last year, a little over 51 percent of all individual taxpayers took advantage of e-file. This year,... BERT DUMARS It's awful. I'm down probably 70 percent or more. JANELLE GENTRY Our turnover rate as of May of this year was about 70 percent, which is about 30 percent below the i... BOB FARLEY If we get into a drying trend for the next 20 to 22 days, I would guess that there is probably a 70 ... TOM JOHNSTON We won about 70 percent of our doubles matches this year. BEN BUCCA Nationally, 70 percent of students are below grade level [in reading], BOB WISE On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this i... KEVIN SYSTROM This is the first study with national data on the prevalence of ED in the United States. ED varies b... ELIZABETH SELVIN We're losing staff like crazy. Vacancies have gone up by 70 percent because salaries fall further an... DORA SCHRIRO Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in th... FRANCES TOWNSEND Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 per... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I am on the road 70 to 80 percent of the year. INGRID JENSEN We expect low-cost carriers to capture at least 60-70 percent of the market by 2010. KAPIL KAUL Maybe 60 to 70 percent of them are new or start-up companies. These numbers continue to grow. BOB VETERE We're important to ESPN. We fill up a lot of space for them in the summer. We're their programming i... BOB DUPUY They represent about 30 percent of all proteins in the human genome, but they represent something li... GEORGE DETITTA we are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent i... MICHAEL DELL We want 70 percent of the market. That's what we are looking for and what we are going to provide. GARY LINDEN All the locations we run are now at $2.99, ... I would guess probably 60 to 70 percent of the rest o... DON BOWERS By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul... JEFF SACKS We want to reach 70 percent of our goal before the public campaign. JENNIFER MURPHY We had white and black participants and Republicans and Democrats. Dr. King's dream is about 70 perc... REP ALVIN HOLMES We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50... GRAY DAVIS Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indi... ELAINE CHAO They were running as low as $99 a night and up to, well we saw a Comfort Inn for $300 a night, which... CHRIS HOPKINS There is no justification for these executives to pocket over $300 million in payouts for just engin... PHIL ANGELIDES The probability of a large and damaging earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in the next 30 year... DAVID SCHWARTZ We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our nu... JAMES P. HOFFA We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. ... JOE BURNETT I would say it's probably the cause of 70 percent of (cash machine card) fraud. AVIVAH LITAN We shipped 60 to 70 percent of what we normally would have expected to ship out of this harvest. MIKE ORR It seemed like it was higher than 70 percent. I've never seen a shooting exhibition like that. JAY STANLEY A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are i... JOHN SHADEGG For our offense, 60-70 percent of our points are scored in transition. We plan to do what we've done... IAN HICKS This is a very serious event. The mortality rates for this event can be very high with 30 to 70 perc... FRED HOERR If you are going to run schools with 70 percent of the money coming from this building, that's a rea... FRANK BRAWNER That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent... DON YAEGER I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we we... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friend... MICHELLE KWAN China has many challenges. China has a large poultry population of 14 billion and 70 percent of that... HENK BEKEDAM Those weeds have been reduced by the 70-80 percent range in my counties (Lake and Chaffee). LARRY WALKER Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see... SOURCE UNKNOWN It is pretty striking. What you see is in a five-year period the number of options being reduced by ... DANE MOTT I was happy with our up front play both offensively and defensively. For early on, I thought we pick... JEFF VROMAN Well, I guess they (Pack coaches) might have lied to us. But 70 percent - that's still too high. ENGIN ATSUR We average about 125 to 150 people each show. About 70 percent of those are teens. MARK MACHNIC I would say since we've been doing it, at least 60 to 70 percent of the people who have completed th... MARGO DEANE I don't understand that. We shot better than 70 percent during the season. But, we're still playing. CAROL SMITH Almost 70 percent of the time, if January is unusually warm, February is warm, too. But there's stil... HARRY HILLAKER We looked at four pairs of jeans that all had claims of controlling the tummy area for women. They r... KATHLEEN HUDDY They took a page out of President Clinton's strategy -- legislative strategy -- which is to break th... GLEN BOLGER All these guys think they can shoot a 72. If they were capable of hitting 90 percent of their shots,... GLEN EWING The U.S. trucking industry, which moves 70 percent of domestic freight, is on schedule to pay $6.6 b... BILL GRAVES Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines... LARRY ELDER If you have a 70 to 80 percent plant-based diet, it will allow for a low-fat diet. If a person eats ... WENDY LEE Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway sy... JERRY COSTELLO In New Orleans, 70 percent of their stations were flooded and many will never be useable again. BILL METCALF Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business... EUGENIO ALEMAN We are making another run at $70 a barrel, and we are doing it without a hurricane having knocked ou... JACK CAFFREY I have seen debt ratios as high as 70 percent or 80 percent. But somehow these people have found a w... ANTHONY HSIEH We found a dramatic decrease in particles. There is something like a 70 percent decrease in particle... LUKE CLANCY It's our hamburgers. The hamburger or hamburger plate - probably 70 percent of my business is some s... LARRY GOLDEN To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ... SAUL ALINSKY Economists are interested in why 70 percent makes it. It's surprising to us that so much makes it. BILL EVANS Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the a... NOAM CHOMSKY We were about one-third into the year and we had maybe 65 to 70 percent of our budget receipts ... f... BOB BOWEN Who is going to gain market share in future? When we polled those in the industry 70 percent of resp... BRIAN AMBROSE Who is going to gain market share in future? When we polled those in the industry 70 percent of resp... BRIAN AMBROSE To beat St. Francis, you have to go through the guards. I think they account for about 70 percent of... JOE SUBOTICKI Four more (free throws) would have meant overtime, five would have won it -- and we'd still be less ... MIKE RUSZKOWSKI The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND We see now that 85 percent of the population has access to primary healthcare services in camp setti... DANIEL TOOLE Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at tha... DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU
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CANDACE PARKER My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. CANDACE PARKER You want your coach's blessing. CANDACE PARKER It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn... CANDACE PARKER I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now. CANDACE PARKER What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We&... CANDACE PARKER From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my... CANDACE PARKER I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal. CANDACE PARKER My baby is the joy in my life. CANDACE PARKER The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich... CANDACE PARKER For me, family has always come first. CANDACE PARKER I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been i... 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ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns, ALISON PARKER We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ... ALISON PARKER For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates... ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-... ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure... ALISON PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... 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DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER As society advances the standard of poverty rises. THEODORE PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a... DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply... DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi... DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... 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DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ... DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie. DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. 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