That's part of the carrot you put out with communities as you're closing a plant.


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ALAN WALKER
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY
I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON
You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY
If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS
I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS
Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS