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It's not due until June, but I'm going to have it done in a couple of weeks. Doing it does not constitute an admission that there ever was a dam there.


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WALTER BECKER There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers...
BRAD BECKER We had to do a lot of up-front setup. Companies can go out of business if they have a fire and haven...
BRAD BECKER We're totally dependent on computer accounting and record keeping.
BRAD BECKER Their client base is more sensitive to price increases than clients of fine restaurants.
BOB BECKER Once it's district, the coaches say there is no more getting better. (The coaches) just keep ... mak...
FRANK BECKER ...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contrad...
ERNEST BECKER The median amount of time from when the symptoms start to when they do die is four to five months an...
CHERYLE BECKER He came up to me and said, ?Can you buy me some toys?? We would have bought every toy store for this...
RICK BECKER How do we know there's not more out there. We have to figure out a way do that.
BILL BECKER He hit it with a hammer, and a sliver of metal came and hit him in the right eye. He had a pretty mi...
BILL BECKER She really gave up a year of her life.
BILL BECKER It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to...
DAN BECKER We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what...
JOE BECKER There are amazing challenges and obstacles.
JOE BECKER The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alab...
JOE BECKER Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc for southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross w...
JOE BECKER They said they thought he might be a burglary suspect.
JOE BECKER People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
ERNEST BECKER Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There see...
ERNEST BECKER Something's fishy when the Bush administration delays a report showing no improvement in fuel econom...
DANIEL BECKER It's a long-term hope, but in the meantime we want to use the technology available today to make cle...
DANIEL BECKER Ford is at the bottom of the barrel among major auto makers on fuel economy, but today is a better d...
DAN BECKER If the United States had taken a leading role in trying to make this a meaningful agreement ... then...
DAN BECKER We're very careful not to place any beer advertising where the audience is a majority of people who ...
JEFF BECKER It's a bit like telling a three-pack-a-day smoker to give up one cigarette a day.
DAN BECKER This new standard is like telling a two-pack-a-day smoker to cut out one cigarette a day.
DANIEL BECKER