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He spends his days sketching passers-by, or trying to.
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One learns a lot from this book, or seems to, about crippling federal bureaucracy. "Seems to" because it's possible that the CIA and the National Security Agency were more interested than they let on to Mr. Stoll.
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One learns a lot from this book, or seems to, about crippling federal bureaucracy. "Seems to" because it's possible that the CIA and the National Security Agency were more interested than they let on to Mr. Stoll.
wsj_0274 (line 46, ant vp):
In addition, further packaging of mortgage-backed securities, such as Blackstone's fund, have reduced the effects of prepayment risk and automatically reinvest monthly payments so institutions don't have to.
wsj_0280 (line 75, ant vp):
Jewelry makers rarely pay commissions and aren't expected to anytime soon.
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An 11-week dispute involving Australia's 1,640 domestic pilots has slashed airline earnings and crippled much of the continent's tourist industry. "The only people who are flying are those who have to," said Frank Moore, chairman of the Australian Tourist Industry Association.
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Yesterday, Joel Zweibel, an attorney for Eastern's creditors committee, declined to comment on whether the experts had ever been instructed to look at other choices and whether they now were asked not to.
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"Monitoring shows that the Natick team's new system really does reduce cycle time for the morning package sort," reports James Barksdale, chief operating officer at Federal Express. "The vans leave at least 15 minutes earlier, on average, than they used to.
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"We're taking on more debt than we would have liked to," acknowledged Michael Plouf, LIN's vice president and treasurer.
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Ms. Johnson, who works out of Aetna's office in Walnut Creek, an East Bay suburb, is awed by the earthquake's destructive force. "It really brings you down to a human level," she says. "It's hard to accept all the suffering people are going through, but you have to.
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But we're not making as many {pyrotechnic devices} as we used to."
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The dividend increase was Du Pont's second this year, an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders. "We haven't benefited the shareholder as much as we need to," said Edgar Woolard Jr., Du Pont's chairman and chief executive officer, in an interview several months before he entered his current position in April.
wsj_1004 (line 32, ant tv):
They can make the masks brittle and can pass through material they're not supposed to.
wsj_1099 (line 18, ant vp):
Mr. Corry might have to dismember the company more than he wants to.
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In real life, jurors may not always work that way, but some court observers question why they shouldn't be encouraged to do so rather than be programmed not to.
wsj_1286 (line 4, ant vp):
Why can't we teach our children to read, write and reckon?
It's not that we don't know how to, because we do.
wsj_1286 (line 5, ant vp):
Why can't we teach our children to read, write and reckon?
It's that we don't want to.
wsj_1286 (line 6, ant vp):
Why can't we teach our children to read, write and reckon?
And the reason we don't want to is that effective education would require us to relinquish some cherished metaphysical beliefs about human nature in general and the human nature of young people in particular, as well as to violate some cherished vested interests.
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Thus, he asserts, Lloyd's can't react quickly to competition. "Lloyd's has lost control of the situation," he says. "They aren't controlling their destiny like they used to."
wsj_1569 (line 30, ant vp):
It never hurt anyone, that is, unless the growth funds don't grow when you need them to.
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As that system grows, larger computers may be needed. "In the past, customers had to go to IBM when they outgrew the VAX. Now they don't have to," he says. "That's going to cost IBM revenue."
wsj_1831 (line 39, ant vp):
Frank grovels a little for the bookers, probably no more or less than he would have to if he worked for a big corporation.
wsj_1929 (line 31, ant vp):
Even the Soviet Union has Peter the Great to rediscover, should it choose to.
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"We want to complain, we want to say something about it, and we're going to as it gets worse," says Rep. Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican who has been a staunch Contra backer. "But it's like kicking your father in the pants.
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However, he acknowledges they "have the option of taking a swat at me if they really want to." Mr. Friend says his side is "dead serious." Although they don't contemplate delivering any disabling blows, he says that Mr. Alexander will be asked to sign a release from liability, just in case.
wsj_2173 (line 28, ant vp):
Those cuts, known as a "sequester" in budget jargon, became permanent yesterday, although Congress could cancel or rescind them whenever it wants to.
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It considered running them during tomorrow night's World Series broadcast but decided not to when the market recovered yesterday.
wsj_2331 (line 28, ant vped):
"It hasn't had any impact on us, nor do we expect it to," said a spokeswoman for Miller Brewing Co., a major client of Backer Spielvogel.
wsj_2379 (line 35, ant vp):
On days like Friday, that means they must buy shares from sellers when no one else is willing to.