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They're charging you more for the basic ticket and then taking what used to be bundled in the package and switching it to a la carte. It's nuts.

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

If City came back with the same figure as a basic salary I would advise him to sign it.

I believe it made a greater impact on them as they realized that these people had truly lost everything, including the basic essentials of food and water,

I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

I believe in the basic goodness of people, ... If presented with the facts, people will make the right decisions.

I chose 17 percent because, with the generous exemptions, it allows people to meet their basic needs, but also produces a healthy revenue stream,

I completely agreed with him, ... These are basic human principles, when you're talking about kindness and compassion and the innate desire for happiness. But it still doesn't hurt talking about it ... You never know when it's actually going to sink in and a person is going to implement it in their own lives.

I cannot think of a better use of taxpayers' funds than to provide basic utilities to people who need it. We are not responsible for everything in their water. The have shallow-point sand wells that septic systems, road run-offs and fertilizers from farmers' fields can infiltrate. There has been no tritium found in those wells.

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

However, they were so appreciative of the donation, it just provided me with a certain amount of joy. A member of the International Association for Volunteer Effort, that I belong to as well, told me that appreciation comes from an instinct of basic survival and gratefulness for anything rather than worrying about the quality of the donation.

If I'm calling company ABC for a reference check about Joe Smith, they'll say he worked here from X date to Y date; but a lot of companies are adopting a policy not to get into information beyond basic details.

If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.

I certainly agree with those who have grown impatient with hair-splitting over legal technicalities, ... There is a basic understanding of the standard of truthfulness that the president failed to meet.

I can't tell you why, but I do. I've played a lot in the preseason at the end of games when sometimes you are losing. We're in two-minute shotgun. We run some pretty basic plays. Maybe that's what I do best.

I applaud Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger who are part of the growing bipartisan coalition of leaders determined to give hope to patients and families suffering from chronic disease and injury. However, the Brownback bill in the United States Senate would prohibit a technique that allows critical patient-specific stem cell research. If passed, this would have overwhelming and devastating consequences to the advancement of medical science here in California and around the world, severely harming our research funding program in California and undermining the basic right of families in this country to gain access to ethical therapies to help their loved ones. We owe it to the future of California and the nation to follow the vision of hope for patients.

I don't think candidates should take contributions from people if they don't have the most basic information about who they are.

I don't see any retreat when it comes to our basic values, ... We feel that what we stand for is still very important to the future of this country. How we present it and how we describe it, maybe we need to look at more carefully. But I didn't hear anybody sounding retreat as I called around to our caucus. We want to make certain that we pick and choose our battles selectively and that we are unified when we do have to take a stand.

I'd say Wright State does not help because there are no mandatory classes on those sorts of things. If I was a business major I would be better prepared since I would have to take classes that teach such basic skills, but since I am not I have to fend for myself.

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

I do not expect that this year will be any easier than in the recent past, but I am confident that for the sake of this institution and the congressional budget process, we will do the most basic of our responsibilities this year-produce a budget.

For pretty much all the senior people at Apple, security is one of the top jobs on their list. When we think about security and how we design software, the basic approach is to make it as secure as possible, because most people really aren't security experts. We try to make sure things are pretty well locked down out of the box.

For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.

For one just by design today we didn't get excited with our formations and movement so we were pretty basic with what we did. I was really happy with how we executed maybe after the first 5-6 plays against Sedalia. Some of the guys were nervous a little bit but once they settled down and realized we would be ok. Eric (Douglas) is a heck of a player and Kolby (Hurt) had a nice couple of runs. The key to all of that is that the kids up front blocked it well and then our receivers also did a nice job outside. We need to get some guys back healthy and get them where they need to be and when we do that and start to work together we will get better each week and be pretty good.

For the first time, the tools for computerized editing are in the hands of the general public. Today, nearly every PC and Mac ships with basic video editing software built in.

Heaven forbid there is another attack and the impact of this becomes broader; then you could see a longer-term effect, ... it's not going to change the basic outlook for stocks and the economy.

He became out of step with the basic audience, because they didn't believe it. And I think that was the beginning of the end of Winchell. I think it was a self-inflicted wound.

His comments fit with the basic idea of a pause at a 5% or perhaps 5.25% funds rate - more likely the former, but with no presumption that this will be the peak in rates.

Before Christmas, offensively we were running our stuff really well. But looking at out defense, we've got to get back to the fundamentals and the basic principles of our defense.

Before I came here, I expected to teach some basic stuff from Step 1, but some of these guys can actually hit it. They have the athletic capability, I think they can pick up the sport very easily, and I also think the interest is going to be there. I think it will continue to spread in the country.

Because I was studying these kinds of movies so carefully, I realized how obvious their basic structure is, so I decided to reverse it. When you're playing with very known patterns of narrative events, you just have to twist one little thing, and it suddenly becomes very original. It's kind of like what Alfred Hitchcock did in Psycho . There's a sadistic pleasure to watching an audience realize you've broken the rules and anything goes.

Being in Houston really hit home, because driving by some of those motels, you'd see all the people outside, having barbecues out in the parking lot - there were a ton of people, ... Maybe raising money will help get these people food, water, shelter - just basic necessities, really.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

a minimal, not a maximal agenda, a starting point, not the end. This basic commitment must be assumed by all the governments of the world.

Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.

The lawyers' view was to leave them alone, they had the same basic rights as a U.S. citizen, a U.S. person and therefore the data was kind of left alone,

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

The meeting was extremely disappointing. From my point of view, the Facilities Committee really handed (Crews) the framework for a successful referendum. We gave her the basic analysis. We gave her a planning tool to proceed with, and we gave her the support of the board. ... We spent about 400 hours building that report.

The market's trying to stabilize. We're seeing some strength in a few of the beaten-down sectors, including technology and basic materials.

All the ingredients are going to be the same. I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age ... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.

The Constitution is very similar to a human skeleton. It is the framework upon which government operates, ... Ever since it was adopted, we have been putting on muscles, skin and limbs. As educators, it's our duty to instill the basic knowledge of American government in our students.

The consumer can pop for a spree now and then, but spending at its basic level is pressured by a negative savings rate.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

The main reason that Alcoa is cheap is that all of the stocks in basic materials are cheap,

The lines are blurring between sales and marketing at many firms. Most companies want at least some basic marketing functionality.

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

Like a lot of Iowans, I have to drive just to meet basic needs, ... Am I going to drive into town for a loaf of bread and a half gallon of milk or am going into town to play cards with friends? Probably not. So it's definitely fewer trips.

Based on the record available, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Judge Roberts's view of the rule of law would include as paramount the protection of basic rights,

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.

Forcing Mr. Duncan to go forward without adequate time to prepare will deprive him of his federal and Idaho Constitutional rights to the effective assistance of counsel, to prepare a defense and to basic fairness and due process.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.