Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.


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I moved to Andover for the schools and didn't use them.
BARBARA BECKER
It's a huge deal to ordinary families.
BARBARA BECKER
This issue has a lot of impact on the UA community.
BARBARA BECKER
The wonderful thing about students doing the work is that they're always full of great ideas and ent...
BARBARA BECKER
Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensit...
JASPER BECKER
Ford is a big part of the global warming problem, but they have failed to adopt more than token solu...
DAN BECKER
Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from...
DAN BECKER
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is hist...
KUNO BECKER
As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will i...
DAN BECKER
It turns out that the latter is the case. The chemical composition appears to be very ordinary.
GEORGE BECKER
It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse.
DANIEL BECKER
The first thing I did when I came down here was dial numbers for American Legion posts, ... A few of...
DENNIS BECKER
There's a deduction for any sort of verbalization. She's up there speaking in complete sentences - n...
EYRE BECKER
We have to remember that these are revenue projections and not necessarily real dollars. Maine shoul...
BILL BECKER
If you essentially put yourself in an auditory cave, you?re going to miss opportunities to learn by ...
FRANKLIN BECKER
There were a lot of intelligent viewpoints on both sides.
RICHARD BECKER
The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat ...
HEATHER BECKER
They aren't Jeb Bush. They don't speak Spanish off the top of their head. They have to distinguish t...
GEOFFREY BECKER
They've essentially abdicated responsibility for fuel economy to the automakers.
DAN 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