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This plan to consolidate manufacturing, cut operating expenditures, and freeze pensions seems like a bold step, in-line with our optimistic views for possible savings.


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ROXANE GAY It's a bold first step.
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GEORGE HARRISON We don't plan to announce a price cut. We're going to see how our product is received at E3 and then...
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DANIEL VASELLA This bill is almost like a freeze.
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MATT CIMO It seems like they have a fast line to the door because of the fact they were aligned with the gover...
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BRIAN M. RIEDL We'd like to talk further with the audit bureau and clarify this. We definitely believe they (the ex...
DAVID LARSON He will present our views and consider possible steps to ensure a political and diplomatic solution ...
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CLAIRE BUCHAN How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

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BRIAN K. VAUGHAN We see $250,000 in savings in a short six months as a strong step forward.
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BRIAN BILBRAY It seems to be in line with what we thought.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI