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Over the past twenty years, innovative entrepreneurs have been working to build a new class of companies that strive to do good as well as doing well. The success of companies like Whole Foods has demonstrated that ideas that once seemed on the margins are now becoming mainstream -- as consumers strive to make better choices, seek to do business with companies they respect, and buy products and services that promote a more balanced and sustainable lifestyle.

Over the twenty two years that I have lived here, I have watched forestry operations open the canopy destroying moist forest understorey,

Over twenty years, we expect to generate about $80 million or more in sales tax revenue.

I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh?

I write at home, from around 9.30 to midday, when I stop for lunch, then begin again at one, until roughly 3.30. Then I start again around seven and do a couple of hours. My writing environment is a quiet, book-filled study. Or, rather, it has been for the last twenty years.

I think the president of the United States spoke for twenty minutes here yesterday. I would ask your indulgence to let me finish my statement.

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

We followed every standard protocol for hurricanes, but the flooding was just astronomical. Twenty to 50 percent of the population (of New Orleans) had not evacuated. That's going to take a while to ramp up the rescue operations and support operations. It just doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.

We don't think if you're going to bring thousands of users up that you're not going to want support. If you're a small company with ten to twenty users, have fun with it. But when you look to scale, you need support.

We've gotten on a good roll here. Twenty wins is 20 wins. I think we're the best team in Kentucky. I'd definitely be upset if we don't make the (NCAA) Tournament.

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

The fact is that cycling in France is in the process of going through one of its toughest periods, ... They haven't won for twenty years now so naturally it's harder for them to accept.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

To us it's critically important that we send a message that the disclosure law cannot be evaded. Twenty five thousand dollars is still a significant fine for the state board of elections.

We are concerned about the current trend and know that things need to change now. Or, only the wealthy will be able to attend college in twenty years which is the exact time that some students now may have children who wish to pursue education.

We only had about twenty pitches of video. That didn't tell us a heck of a lot. He did a good job of mixing his pitches, using both sides of the plate. He's got a pretty live fastball, too, so you just have to tip your hat to him.

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the scene. The fact that Shaw made two requests for a lawyer and was questioned for twenty minutes indicates a violation of his rights, assuming that is what really happened. My understanding is that Miranda does not legitimize a confession obtained by questioning a defendant who has repeatedly asked for a lawyer.

We think we will have to adjust the current estimates downward. We as motorists now spend a lot more time in congestion than we did 20 years ago. The type of vehicles that we drive are different. Twenty years ago, air conditioning and power windows were options. Today, they are standard and ... have a detrimental effect on fuel economy.

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

Usually I like to take a nap. I'm not sure (how it started). After a long day of school... Twenty minutes, that's about it. ... I listen to music to get focused and think about the meet or whatever it may be.

The percentage of women who gamble has dramatically increased. Twenty years ago, it would have been 80 percent men, 20 percent women, and now it's 50-50.

We're in the business of inspiring imaginative play. Creating a play structure that will build years of good memories to children, while maintaining its spot as a source of pride for parents is a dynamic Rainbow has enjoyed for twenty years.

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, / Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: / And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

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Dumas Walker' was a big hit. It was about a guy who actually sold firecrackers and beer on the Tennessee line. We lived in Kentucky, and you couldn't buy either. Twenty years later we wrote this silly ditty in 20 minutes, but we weren't aware that everyone had a Dumas Walker.

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to affect the ice.

Twenty eight years ago we were playing non-league football and now we are in a cup final.

Twenty games are not enough, ... Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It is three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games are not enough. Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It is three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games are not enough. The union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It's three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty games is not enough, ... Also, the union's proposal is not three strikes and you're out. It's three strikes and maybe you're out.

Twenty home runs in a half season is pretty darn good.

Twenty is a good number, ... That way you can be creative, cut their hair off, have Barbie parties. I got them free, so I had 75.

Twenty might not sound like a lot to someone from Indianapolis. But I'm from Chicago, and 20 touchdown passes is more than any Bears quarterback has thrown in 38 of the last 39 years.

Twenty million dollars is a lot of money. It goes very, very quickly when there's a lot of hands out there.

Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,

Twenty more yards of field position wasn't going to make a difference. The series before, Texas had great success moving the ball downfield. If we get the first down, we win the game.

Twenty or 30 years from now, you're probably going to say you've watched one of the top five players to ever play this game.

Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented.

Twenty percent of our patients meet the criteria for needing more cardiovascular services. This will complement the services already offered.

Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future,

Twenty percent of people receive 80 percent of all infections,

Twenty percent of workers say they called into work because they just didn't feel like going into the office that day. One in four workers report they feel sick days are equivalent to extra vacation days and treat them as such.

Twenty percent would be fine, 30 percent would be fine as a transfer fee as opposed to paying the whole fee.

Twenty to 25 percent of our resources are going to be directed toward making sure companies don't drop programs.

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Twenty to 30 percent of my work is now related to photography and writing.

Twenty wins, that doesn't happen very often in high school. I was happy to see Greg get that tonight.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying.

Twenty years ago, I'd go listen to people play. I found them fascinating and interesting and wanted to capture their faces for posterity.

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Twenty years ago if you were going to be a cook, it was because you didn't make it in the army. It was the last stop before you were on the street.

Twenty years ago it was about drinking and being hung over. Now people want to go out and have a special meal and a nice bottle of wine. They're not throwing back shots of tequila and dancing until midnight.

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.

Twenty years ago, only a major label could produce a really top-quality product, but now the costs of technology have fallen so much that anybody who gets it right and employs the right people can produce excellent results.

Twenty years ago people weren't aware of it as a profession, ... Now the first question in the marketing is, 'Who designed this course?'

Twenty years ago, pneumatic cylinders controlled virtually every axis of a case packer. New case packers today are often all servo-controlled. We are taking old case packers and adding two-axis pushers and servo-controlled elevators to provide significantly more speed.

Twenty years ago there was a stigma about being laid off, now it's the norm.

Twenty years ago when Live AID or Farm Aid played, that was a big deal. That was something very different. Now these things seem to be the response to big very bad disastrous events.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Twenty years from now, I see myself being at the helm of a multimedia conglomerate, a powerful company with a solid film division, a budding music division, a solid television division, ... And I want to get into advertising as well.

Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of the toil of the years.

Twenty Years, ... It's big, blazing guitars, big drums, lots of melodies, all done in three minutes or less. Just like the thousands of cover songs we've played up till now.

Twenty years later all parties realize the need to develop efficient and environmentally sound oil shale technologies at a measured pace so that volatility doesn't happen again.

Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

'These cheap slaves fill every place. Their dress is scant and cheap. Their food is rice from China. They hedge twenty in a room, ten by ten.

It was a blow-off of the finest degree. I haven't seen anything like this in twenty years.....insulting.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive.

The San Antonio, although she sailed a month and a half later, arrived twenty days before the San Carlos, losing on the voyage eight sailors.

The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.

You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.

Vic has been involved in the oil and gas industry for over twenty years. His vast array of experience and knowledge will be a tremendous asset to the other members of the Board of Directors and to the Company as it moves forward.

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

Well I don't think it's a good one. Let me put this in context for you, we had over the last twenty years we've welcomed nearly 100,000 Americans, some young, some old, to take part in this event. Every single one has done so safely.

Before I started drawing a comic, I would read my script for it ten or twenty times.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over the last twenty years has been a deepening concern for the development of character in the citizenry.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

See food as medicine eighty per cent of the time. The other twenty per cent of the time you can indulge.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

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