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I am excited and honored to have this opportunity, both as a CNN veteran who has done virtually every job in the organization and as a journalist dedicated to maintaining our stature as the world's most powerful news organization.

I'd use it tomorrow in virtually every criminal and civil case on my desk.

From the point of view of the economy, we are in a good spot, ... It is a broad-based recovery, touching all parts of the country, every region, touching virtually every sector.

From the outset the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal authorities have provided virtually all the resources that would be necessary and appropriate and could be used effectively,

I had virtually given up on the case, but the aftermath has surprised me most of all. One can feel somewhat hopeful now that some good will come out of all this.

Based on what I've heard to this point, it would be virtually impossible to have found that any player violated the program the way the program exists.

Bush is going to get a post-election free pass on virtually all economic issues for the next few months.

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

We then checked Kansas City. Same card. We looked nationwide and found that same card was the favorite virtually everywhere.

We've done what we set out to do and won all our dual meets and the Virginia Duals. But starting the Big Ten is a whole new season and a challenging one at that with virtually every team ranked.

We've experienced this vandalism and destruction on virtually all our parcels except the islands. We would really like to get word out to the public that we want to protect these lands. The public's going to be key to help.

Hybrid Synergy Drive is a core technology that will play a key role in virtually all Toyota models in the years ahead.

He was a guy who was able to go hard and run hard on virtually every single play of the game. It didn't make any difference if it was the fourth quarter, in the middle of a two-minute drive, or the third play of the game. He was always very, very close to his top speed. ... Even if he had good players covering him, he'd wear them down.

He was seen seated behind a desk, immobile, with no close-ups allowed. Virtually his only movement occurred during a poignant moment when his wife swooped in to give him a Happy New Year kiss.

We lost nine seniors, virtually every starting player. Right now, our strength is our offense - we're a pretty good-hitting team. There's some depth in the pitching, although the staff is real inexperienced. Our nemesis is our defense. That's where we really need to improve.

He can take you on an intellectual tour of virtually every nation of the world. I had lunch with him and Henry Kissinger last year, and the conversation was back and forth, country by country, taking in politics, government and economics. It was one of the most interesting and extraordinary lunches. If you didn't know his age, you wouldn't think he was 60.

I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.

He was tough to bring down last year and he looks bigger, stronger and faster this year. But he's just one of many players we have to be aware of because they have virtually their entire starting team returning.

He was virtually unstoppable in those two games for us. Both teams had a difficult time finding the right combination to stop him. He is so fast and strong that he just outruns defenders down the filed. He is extremely aggressive and is good at scooping up loose balls and going straight to the net.

Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

He either has had to have some knowledge or admit to being virtually blind, deaf and dumb. Has he condoned it? Has he ignored it? Has he encouraged it? Those are the questions that have to be asked, and sooner rather than later.

There is no effective filtering out of copyrighted works operating now within Napster. We believe it is willful, ... Virtually all of the music that we noticed to Napster, that they claimed they have filtered out, is still available on their system.

There is a dollop of truth in virtually every perspective. I think we are all better served by hearing from as many voices as we can. It makes us better thinkers.

The people were not ready for that kind of impact -- not that anybody could be, ... It was far larger than they ever dreamed it would be. It wiped out virtually all their infrastructure.

Hence China's currency policy has taken virtually all of Asia out of the international adjustment process.

We transport people to a place that is more magical than they could ever imagine. We capture the essence of Disney through these heartwarming stories that encompass virtually every generation alive today, giving this show truly universal appeal.

Long droughts have been implicated in the collapse of many ancient civilizations on virtually every continent, including our example in eastern Africa, the Mayan in Central America and many others.

I was completely thrilled. I was just really happy. She's just a wonderful, wonderful collaborator. She's a really good actress and a genuinely nice person and that's a rare thing. She works incredibly hard -- she's in virtually every scene.

I will virtually guarantee someone is looking to turn PCs into spam zombies.

Let me say this flatly: Leaks are good. They are the way we hold paranoid and secretive governments accountable. Historically, leaks have virtually never harmed national security in even a minor way, despite plenty of shrill commentary to the contrary. Reporters should be allowed to print them without fear of being tossed in jail.

Look at a bottle of say, children's aspirin or your aspirin. Virtually anything has more child protective devices than the firearms in the home.

Materials for construction are part of a world market, and the demand created in Louisiana is virtually insignificant. A large part of the reason why materials will go up are related to futures markets on commodities.

That energy conservation helps every animal that we know of. In virtually all of our participants, the rate of metabolism went down, even when they were sleeping.

Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.

Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.

Some of these people who are on this list I have voted against requests that they have made. And I think it's important that distinction is made that I do that. I virtually will not sell a vote. I'm not going to do that.

Reed-Custer did a good job of spreading the floor on us. We have seen virtually nothing but the spread offense for the last four games, but Reed-Custer did a good job of it.

Refinance activity will continue as homeowners refinance out of adjustable rate mortgages and into fixed-rate programs now that there is virtually no difference between long- and short-term interest rates.

Redevelopment is virtually the only solution to help them improve their living conditions substantially.

Piracy remains a real problem for virtually every sector in every country in the world.

Our objective with Moab Cluster Suite 4.2.2 is to enable more users to easily use a cluster, let even the newest network administrations gain intuitive control over their cluster without training, and to allow sites with high levels of complexity to gain more fine-grained control over virtually every aspect of workload usage and system integration. Our customers consistently see the industries' highest utilization rates, commonly helping them achieve 10 to 30 percent more work on their existing hardware and sometimes even more.

Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit; at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.

I think that consumers' psyches are in remarkably good shape, particularly having come off a year where we had natural disasters that filtered through to affect virtually every household.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

I think computers have made it possible that virtually all of us could be observed.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time.

It is disappointing for Daniel and we certainly have nothing against him but it has been unfortunate that he has had injuries that have restricted him to virtually being a passenger. We wish him all the best for the future.

It is crucial that restaurants match sales with shipments. If demand for an item exceeds supply, individual restaurants are faced with either unhappy customers or higher costs when they have to place special orders at the last minute. Conversely, an over-supply of a product is an unnecessary expense. Pairing an automated marketing intelligence system with a sophisticated supply chain program virtually guarantees that a restaurant will have the products the customer wants.

I think that the trend toward freedom is virtually irreversible . . . these folks are too young and too vigorous.

It actually would be virtually impossible to exaggerate the magnitude of the state's fiscal problem. And the governor-elect means what he's said about campaign-finance reform. And that intrinsically creates a very tough agenda.

Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time. It's virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we'd be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.

It is highly likely - virtually indisputable - that final decisions had not been reached as to any of the five defendants when these false notices were served.

I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets,

Our clients require a high degree of certainty in trusting us with their sensitive data and an assurance that their provider meets the highest possible standards. US clients are virtually demanding SAS 70 certification or they are not willing to work with you.

Overall, I was very satisfied with our team score today. The one thing that surprised me was how low the team scores were today. It was virtually the first time out for many of the girls, especially playing 18 holes. Some have played nine holes.

I think one of the things that has been very clearly established that should give a lot of comfort to concerned Americans is that virtually every country said we interpret it the same as you -- we interpret that these are issues of national sovereignty.

I think most of the homes will be rebuilt. I hope most are virtually the same. I have talked with a lot of business owners and home owners and they have expressed to me their desire to return.

I was in Bethany at about 7:30 a.m. and my estimate was waves of 3, possibly 4 feet. Virtually negligible beach erosion. It was the kind of thing you see in just a very minor blow. People could go out to the beach today and have a good time.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

I think if you look at virtually every starter, we've had some rough starts here in the last two weeks, ... The big key is to get back on it mentally and understand that if we don't pitch, we don't win. Against the pitching we're going to face in postseason, we're not going to outscore people.

I think if you look at virtually every starter, we've had some rough starts in the last two weeks,

I was this jock playing football and baseball for 20 years and had virtually no aesthetic development.

It does keep the momentum going and keeps it on the front pages and on the minds of the public who have been inconvenienced. The boycott demonstrated how virtually every product that the public buys and every service the public receives has been touched by a Latino immigrant.

Just to show you how perverse the markets can be, the No. 1 investment over the past 15 months was a product that is given away for free at virtually every restaurant in the world.

Just virtually every county road is impassible, ... It's just everywhere.

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

I think the likelihood of Karl Rove being indicted in the future is virtually zero, ... Face the Nation.

It is a definite concern at a time when we have virtually no new entrants in the pipeline.

It is a logical extension of what had gone on here virtually 100 years.

I think we've all had problems. We're certainly going to be down to the wire. We've been programming now for about six months virtually seven days a week. We have outside consultants, inside guys, everybody is working on this.

I think we've had a good spring. We've progressed, I think, in virtually every area. Spring is all about fundamentals and technique. It's not about out scheming each other offensively or defensively. It's about making every player on your football team better fundamentally and technique-wise ? and I think we've done that.

It appears we are gaining market share in virtually all markets.

I think it goes without saying the third quarter is going to be bad virtually across the board for anyone in technology.

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

I was not running away from anything when I left Canada. ... I didn't come to America for economic opportunity, although I have certainly enjoyed it. But every fourth Thursday of November, I have given thanks ... because America has been virtually everything I hoped it would be.

Traveler's checks are nice to have if you have a habit of losing things or are traveling to a destination with a high crime threat, or to a very remote area. Otherwise, ATMs are virtually everywhere these days, with most accepting a variety of cards.

Truckers have contributed from virtually every state in the country with the exception of Hawaii.

We believe the high number of violations is attributable to a significant increase in enforcement standards by the MSHA inspectors that examined the mine virtually every day.

We all realize that virtually all of our teams go on vacation between June 15 and the first few weeks of July.

The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications.

The predictors of a good education are virtually impossible to measure,

The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

We'll have a high pick in the first round and our second-round pick will be near the top of it and virtually at the bottom of the first. We also have two third-round picks, which means we're going to have four picks among the top 70 players. I think those four picks can have a significant impact.

The American consumer should shed no tears at Mr. Crawford's resignation, ... The fact is, he took the side of the pharmaceutical industry and against consumers at virtually every opportunity.

The American people could not be clearer about their opposition to the continued exclusion of lesbian and gay Americans from our armed forces. Support for repealing the military's ban has grown by fifteen percent in the South, eight percent among moderate Republicans and nine percent among Catholics. In virtually every community, constituents are sending a clear message to their elected leaders that the time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Our nation supports treating everyone who sacrifices for our national defense, whether gay or straight, with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Waikiki was unbelievable during the 1950s. There was virtually nobody there, only the rich people that came in from California. We had it all to ourselves.

Virtually 100 percent of the time we spent doing campaign-related activities. Everything I used in the caucus was state materials.

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Virtually all applications will run on Rhapsody. Last week, at a developer conference, more than 400 applications were tested for compatibility and only four weren't fully compatible. And they could be modified for compatibility.

Virtually all appointments that we make for anything, whether they're standing committees or commissions, or anything else, they have a requirement for gender balance and a requirement for balance across region,

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Virtually all indices remain at solid levels. It's a very strong reading for manufacturing overall. The most disturbing thing is the prices paid which is almost at crisis levels.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.