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I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

In Air Force basic training we did not talk about the role of a warrior, we did not talk about weapons.

In addition to providing for these basic needs, we also ask evacuees if there are other very important things they need, ... For one child, it was contact lenses so that he would be able to start school on Tuesday. We found a way to make that happen due to generosity of this community.

In addition we have to make progress on the restructuring of lending by state-run institutions, personnel costs and the government's balance sheet. We need to have a basic plan on these three issues within about a month.

In fact, even down to the basic level, I learned that everyone scans and records using completely different formats. In a world where we spend millions of dollars on digital effects, I take scanned files from one company to another, and they look completely different. There is a lot more work to be done, in my opinion, in terms of industry standards for this kind of work.

A nice well-equipped, state-of-the-art amusement centre of the type we have planned to develop will cost in excess of US$500,000 to get the minimum basic infrastructure to develop the park to its former glory... and we can't find the money, so we need help.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

After hard work, cooperation with the Greek government and other states, we achieved a text which satisfies our side; it satisfies our basic expectations.

Anytime a professional source that becomes a professional tool that raises the image of our profession in the public's eye and says we have basic skills in reading, math, science and all those things, I think it's a good thing .

Are these prices competitive or are we being gouged? That's the basic question here today.

an important victory for what has been Al Gore and Joe Lieberman's basic principle since Election Day -- a full and fair count of all the votes.

As for legislation on Basic Law Article 23, we do not have a set timetable and we shall first conduct consultation of this matter.

Any community needs to plan to be able to realize their vision, ... Things that some people think are amenities ... are, in fact, part of the basic infrastructure.

The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair.

The National Amusement Ride Safety Act does not single out this industry, ... Our purpose is to ensure that this industry is treated no differently than any other when it comes to basic consumer safety oversight of activity that places small children on large machines.

a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) ... to stop the repression in Kosovo.

The calculator is designed to provide a basic projection of consumers' buying potential. Our built-in debt-to-income ratio calculates the high end of affordability.

a great deal more basic research is needed before we can even begin to think about applying this to humans.

A home gym doesn't have to be fancy. And, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get good results. All you really need is some basic equipment and some know-how.

The immediate availability of basic humanitarian supplies and the ability to dispatch them rapidly to populations in affected areas can save many lives in emergencies.

All this is confirmation we will see breakthroughs without compromising ethical standards. We're not going to have to go that way if we can just be patient and fund the basic science.

All we can do is basic stuff at this point.

The class is designed for employees of businesses that sell fertilizer and pesticides. The training will provide increased knowledge in pest identification and management as well as basic horticultural training.

The Cuban agricultural, conventional, 'Green Revolution' system never was able to feed the people. It had high yields, but was oriented to plantation agriculture. We exported citrus, tobacco, sugar cane and we imported the basic things. So the system, even in the good times, never fulfilled people's basic needs.

The current government said it would spend $200 million by the end of the year. The sum has not been spent so the electricity supply and other basic services have deteriorated and unemployment has increased.

The fundamentals of the Plan still remain the driving force. The basic initiatives are still in place.

The formula proposed by the EU harms the basic democratic principle that each vote should have the same democratic value.

The freedom of the media to report on current affairs in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong is protected by the Basic Law.

You've done the basic beach vacation, the basic city vacation. People are trying to push the limits.

The game was in our hands. We led for 46 minutes. It was a basic collapse by our team in the fourth quarter.

The eight companies meeting all the basic requirements deserve praise for making an effort to provide their online annual reports in formats that meet the varying needs of investors. Clearly, these companies are trying to communicate their financial information effectively on the Web.

The hardest part is getting used to the military lifestyle and being told what to do. For us, basic training will be the most difficult part.

The high beta sectors, such as technology and basic resources, that have led the market rally since September 11 look somewhat overvalued.

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

The improvements we are seeing are real. There are a lot of basic improvements being made that will accumulate in the third and fourth quarters.

The important thing is not so much the style of martial art but the style of the instructor. Watch classes. Basic ones and advanced ones. See if it will match your preferences.

This is a classic confrontation between purists and pragmatists. It has been going on in both parties since the 1960s. This example is especially stark because DeWine and his critics are both conservative and committed to the same basic values.

This is a group that supports very basic government services like education and health care, and they see him as someone who was talking about cutting them back.

The focus of the Fund will be to help those individuals and families evacuated from the greater New Orleans area as they address immediate concerns related to housing, food, education, health care and basic survival necessities. The Fund will also provide resources to assist individuals over time to rebuild their homes and livelihoods,

The flip side of high technology (has meant) people have been staying away from basic industries because they're not nouvelle cuisine. You could be seeing some stock rotation here.

The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the matter have been unilaterally interpreted, and sometimes distorted, giving rise to unjustified criticism of the conduct of the Icelandic authorities.

Their offense makes you tired, but when you're not mentally tough you don't focus and do the things you have to do to win. We had them on the run. On that third-down play, the safety has to get some depth, get off the hash (mark). That's basic football.

The Iran issue is the driver of the day, the extra factor causing the run-up in prices, but the basic thing underlying the industry is that global demand remains very strong.

The entire CAFTA process has been conducted behind closed, with corporate interests granted almost everything they desire, while basic protections for people, be it worker rights, environmental sanity, or access to essential services have been sacrificed.

The European Commission will help to turn this into reality by co-funding centers of competence for digitization and providing a truly European framework for protecting, accessing and using intellectual property rights in digital libraries. Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization.

The events of the last ten days have shown that Mr. Brown has repeatedly exercised poor judgment and has failed in his basic responsibilities, ... His continued presence in this critical position endangers the success of the ongoing recovery efforts. ... It is not enough to remove Mr. Brown from the disaster scene.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Although another type of mammal has been affected, the basic assessment of the infection situation remains unchanged.

The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, ... For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about -- namely freedom.

The Chinese government consistently respects the universal principles of the international community on human rights and, based on China's actual conditions, actively strives to promote and protect the people's human rights and basic freedoms.

The challenges we are facing are not difficult and it is possible to solve them. The basic disagreements have been solved and we've passed the steps that we used to think were almost impossible.

The changing structure and nature of the workplace has led to more invasive and often covert monitoring practices that call into question employees' most basic rights to privacy and dignity.

The commission seemed to forget one of the basic guidelines they were to follow.

The company has chosen this basic technology. It is inefficient and it does nothing to prevent the vapors from escaping into the community.

The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principleall knowledge is build. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced. He said thinking is a choice, and that wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they means to discover them. Richard said reason is our only way of grasping reality - that it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking - to reject reason - but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.

The complexities of doing home deliveries are much greater than they are for commercial deliveries. It is far more difficult to get low costs. You still have the basic reality that you have to find someone at home. It gets awfully expensive if you have to make five stops in order to make four deliveries.

Their basic job is to get ready to play basketball and I didn't think we came out with that intention, whatever the situation. There are a lot of distractions in basketball.

Their basic needs are regarded, they have the right food, they have the right shelter, the right capacity to avoid injury,

Their basic strategy is focusing on core brands, core customers and core flow, and that's an appropriate strategy,

The key to tomorrow will be serving and passing, as basic and as uninteresting as it sounds. I want us to play consistently well, something we didn't do tonight.

You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it.

The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.

This is our basic document. It guarantees our freedoms, ... I think the American people revere it, but they don't know a lot about it. I'm trying to inspire students and teachers . . . to study it, to read it.

This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.

These findings provide evidence that high-deductible and consumer-driven plans may undermine the two basic purposes of health insurance: to reduce financial barriers to needed care and protect against high out-of-pocket cost burdens for patients.

And sometimes the basic plays are the ones that he doesn't make. Those are the ones I get frustrated with.

You type in some basic information - your name, your Social Security number and also the amount of refund expected - and it'll tell you how long it's going to be before you get your refund.

A joint assessment has come up with a $30 million requirement to fill the needs to improve surveillance, veterinary services and put in place a basic human health component to deal with the outbreak.

All Microsoft is asking for is access to our file. This is a basic question of fairness and transparency.

These are in a sense Milosevic's hostages. He's refusing to allow the basic rules of the road to be implemented. That is, that international relief agencies get access to them so that they can help them provide the bare minimum.

These are pretty basic principles. All we're talking about are things like a balanced budget and the idea of not increasing bonded indebtedness. I think we all believe in these basic Republican principles.

The type of economy that we are dealing with at this particular stage is, I suspect, one that none of us has seen before, and indeed it may be unprecedented in our history, ... Our basic purpose is to keep that process going.

For approximately half of those customers who purchase optional and basic insurance for their private passenger vehicle from ICBC, rates in 2006 will be lower than they were in 2004. However, we know we have significant challenges ahead of us as we work to keep rates low and stable in the long term.

Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love; how we hurt ourselves and how we heal ourselves.

It's the mixture of products with more basic phones being sold in emerging markets and that's gonna shift your ASP.

It's surprising that out of all the commentary you read on what's happening, nobody thinks it's just a basic inflationary story.

It starts with jobs and the economy. Voters are much more concerned with basic pocketbook issues than anything else.

It's a lot of, frankly, unexciting basic blocking and tackling. From an information security perspective, we have to make sure we have an understanding of what information is where and how it's protected, and make sure agencies responsible for data believe in the controls that are in place.

It's not the same mission with the solar arrays. It would have to be a conscious decision on NASA's part to say we want to change the basic parameters of the mission.

It's the whole basic way New Orleans runs. You meet people and they open up to you.

It's like building a home. You've got to build a great foundation in terms of their basic knowledge, and then you can put anything you want on that foundation if you build the foundation the right way.

It's the basic economics of higher supply, lower price. Leasing companies lost money and banks jumped out of the leasing market. So the industry got more disciplined and now there are fewer vehicles around, so prices are going up again.

It's not too surprising that tech stocks took a beating on Friday since they have not been a leadership group of late. While tech has been languishing, basic materials, energy and industrial stocks have been reaching new highs. These may be tiring, but it seems too early to abandon them yet.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

For many people, and particularly in communities of color, the basic bargain of America - that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can share in the nation's prosperity - has become a raw deal. That's what President Obama's opportunity agenda is all about - making good on our country's half of the basic bargain.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

At last Olympics, I just focused on my competitions but not the election, so I did not prepare much for it, and I even did not make the basic introduction about myself required by IOC. But I'm very happy that although I lost the election, it was not by a big gap.

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

There's a need to give services to the Spanish community. A lot of them don't know the basic information on how smoking is dangerous.

It's not just about undocumented workers, it's about human beings and basic rights.

It's not just a piece about the French Revolution, it's about revolution in a much broader sense, and it's about the capacity that human beings have for personal change. The piece is an exultation and an encouragement to those of us who believe the human race can discover its humanity and its capacity for empathy to the point where it may be possible for us at some point to guarantee the basic human rights of the individual (around the world).

It strikes me as either they were flushed from a previous hiding place, or else they were so confident that they really just gave up some basic security.

It's not that complicated. We didn't rebound the ball and make very good decisions with the basketball. Now, it's about making basketball plays. Basic basketball plays. The older guys keep telling us it's not the national championship game. It's a series. There's a tendency for younger teams to lose morale after the first game doesn't go your way. We're a pretty positive group and that comes from experience.

It's not quite a forgotten craft but it's the area of the game where we have been most reluctant to get involved, in terms of the specialist help the fast bowlers have received. I have got to convey a basic message about the mindset of a spin bowler, engender an interest in spin bowling and a culture that allows it to flourish. I'm not sure that exists at the moment.

It's not over yet. But we believe we have a handle at least on the basic financial issues.

It meets the basic requirements to get (students) into college.

It's a real problem. How do you commemorate a disaster, the basic nature of which the city tried to deny for decades, and an event that could basically happen again at any time?

As sales and profits continue to expand despite surging basic material prices, Japanese firms are willing to boost investment to deal with growing demand.

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.