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NCLB is a federal law. Vermont complies with the law. Beyond that, I have no desire, nor will I allow it to drive the education vision of this state.

I was pretty comfortable out there. My vision was good the past few days, so I just came in and I felt pretty good.

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

No. 1 (Demetrius James) is an outstanding running back. He has good vision and he runs hard and fast. No. 10 (wide receiver Steve Dawson) is their big play man. When they need a big play on offense or on a kick return, they look for him.

Nick brings an invaluable understanding of technology and emerging platforms with more than 20 years of senior management experience to our team. We are thrilled to have Nick help drive our vision for advancing the wave of user-generated media and digital content creation.

I would really like to know a little bit more about what his vision is for the future of this country and his people. Some facts and some real policies rather than just a lot of almost throw-away positions they take to change their image.

When I look with both my eyes it's not far from what it was before, ... My left vision isn't as good as my right eye but it's not where it's going to make a difference on the ice.

When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when his vision recovered his hair just turned that color.

We had a vision to bring this program back to respectability and these kids have done that admirably. They accomplished a lot this year.

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership.

One of the things that we talk about is moving toward knowledge-based economics. In trying to create some vision for the future, I think higher education has a greater role to play in that.

Monster's vision in centralizing the Diversity recruiting business and internal diversity workforce initiatives reflects the future progression of the function of the Chief Diversity Officer. Clearly, the companies that secure a competitive advantage will be those that assign diversity to their overall growth strategy. Assuming the role of Chief Diversity Officer for Monster, a visionary company that created the online recruiting industry, is truly exciting.

No one seems to have a vision for the future of the community and that high school. Boca High is going to be stuck on that little parcel of land.

None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.

Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

Of course, it will take a long time in history for the new socialist countryside to materialize in China. Formerly meant to be a vision to pursue and a direction for development, the notion is now deemed as both a long-term goal and an urgent, immediate task.

My concern is that we're growing, and we've got to try to establish some vision for where we want the city to go with the growth - and we've also got to try to strengthen up the bases from which we're beginning to grow. We've got to get the infrastructure sound. We've got to go back and pick up some of these things where we've regressed so that we can provide a vision, and we can work from a solid place.

No one we saw in league even compared to him. He has great vision on the court and the ability to find his teammates.

My dad had a vision of what a bookseller's role in society was.

Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience.

Nothing else could move me more than your working thoughts exploring the infinity of understanding. This vision of you always seeking the truths of the world gives me hope that the world will be better one day. Thank you, my love.

No doubt, Pier 1 has a substantial brand equity, ... My suspicion is that Buffett sees through the current problems and has confidence in whatever new vision and strategy the company is working on that isn't apparent yet to outsiders.

Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

Now that we're moving, it's a perfect time to change the name. What's my vision for the next place? To be 10 times better than this place.

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game, ... He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Peter's got a good feel for the puck in the offensive part of the game. He's a give-and-go player and he knows what to do with the puck. He's got good vision and he gets his stick on the puck. He's got some good anticipation. I think his skill dictates top two lines and that's where he'll get a lot of opportunity in those areas, and we'll see what he does with it.

Phil was a visionary. He just had a great vision and a true, deep passion for the music.

PG Exhibits has done amazing work for Gates Corporation. I know Rod personally and it's an honor to work with someone so talented. He's an expert at bringing vision and a company's brand to life.

People want their leaders to talk about the future. They don't want anger and pessimism and personal attacks. They want a positive vision from leaders looking forward,

Richard is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker who has the experience and vision to grasp the challenges and opportunities facing BBC Children's. I am confident he will build the output and reputation of the department both nationally and internationally.

New Horizons will study a unique world, and we can only imagine what we may learn. This is a prime example of scientific missions that complement the Vision for Space Exploration.

My first vision for this race was that maybe 500 people would show up. So thank you guys. This is awesome.

I'd like to give Pat Blake a chance, to hear what his strategic vision is for the company. But I go into it with apprehension knowing Roger (Curry) had a good background and a good track record. Why is Pat going to succeed where someone like Roger didn't?

I don't come in with the desire to change anything particular or with a special vision to go anywhere different from where we've been. I want to build on the excellence on what's been there. I'm looking forward to building on what we've had.

I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

I don't feel I have any personal control over Athens, but as the institution changes, the city will change and tie in to Vision Ohio,

If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible.

If we're going to become a top-quality community, we need a vision as to where we're going. Good or bad, the vision has gotten people talking.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits. The ones who ARE changing are women. They have a very different vision.

(The plan) provides a road map for future development and the well-being of any town. It defines your vision for the future and outlines the steps necessary to achieve that vision.

When trying to get a new business or property started up, I find that local banks are much better at seeing the vision you have laid out for the business or property because the investment is in their backyard. They tend to share that vision.

We need a set of very specific ideas that will help to improve people's lives, and I think the country needs to hear those ideas and see what our vision is.

We need a vision that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels. But that's also public policy, and that comes down to political will, ... It's the governor and the Legislature saying, 'We want to widen our narrow focus on fossil fuels. We want to diversify.'

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sense of fairness and a vision that encourages all of us to find the good in each other and build up on that, as opposed to what divides us.

Much has changed in the world and much has changed in technology. But some things do not change. Today we still celebrate the transition from a vision to a physical shape.

Since obtaining our community charter in 1996 we have still found that most people mistakenly believe they cannot join our Credit Union because they are not in, or associated in some way to the military or March Air Reserve Base. We, in good faith and as a corporate conscious citizen, have decided to fine tune our name to better suit our vision and the field of membership we serve.

Since our data were collected, additional treatments have become available. However, these medications are fairly expensive. Ultimately, it may cost patients and society more to care for patients in earlier stages of the disease ? but over the long-term, when managed correctly and effectively, glaucoma patients can retain more of their vision and therefore remain more productive with a presumably higher quality of life.

Since I started, I had this vision of creating a safe, comfortable place to seriously explore the thousands of possibilities of mosaic making.

Sirius Telecom combines the vision of what's next with the hindsight of what works. Their clients demand leading edge technology and world-class service. Their commitment to quality, support and excellence matches our own, which is why this is a great strategic match that will help ensure Sirius continues to be a leader in partition switching services.

My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.

meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

Mike inherited a somewhat difficult situation with 21 games remaining in the 2003-04 season, but he did an outstanding job of steering us into the playoffs. We very much look forward to having Mike return for a full NHL season as the Blues' head coach and give him the opportunity to execute his overall vision for this team and a plan for success.

Mike Ribeiro demonstrated during the 2003-04 season how much of a force he can be. His creativity, his passing skills and his vision make him one of the key components of our offence.

Mayor Daley's vision of a modernized O'Hare is moving full steam ahead, and this historic bond sale is another important milestone that has been reached as this critical project is implemented.

Mayor (Richard) Daley's vision of a modernized O'Hare is moving full steam ahead, and this historic bond sale is another important milestone that has been reached as this critical project is implemented.

McAfee's vision and strategy is synergistic to our business goals. McAfee takes security beyond traditional virus protection. It has provided us with a multi-layered security strategy that includes proactive protection from buffer overflows and other advanced threats. With the upcoming availability of McAfee's network access control solution, we'll be able to perform checks at the time of network access -- rounding out our system security strategy with highly detailed insight into our compliance.

Mr. Ackermann is Mr. Deutsche Bank these days. He holds in his hands the vision and strategy for the bank.

She brings a combination of journalistic integrity, artistic vision and hard work. She puts those three things together as well as anybody in the business.

She has no vision, no guiding principles for our state. This lack of clear vision and principle is what propels her to be on all sides of many issues, to say one thing, then do another or do nothing.

She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness.

She needs to articulate the issues enough for voters to want to remove the governor we have and replace him with her. I think voters are looking for a vision of what she's going to do for the state.

She has the vision and experience to ensure a strong focus on student engagement in Western's planning for the future, particularly in areas such as interdisciplinary programs, service learning, co-op and internship opportunities and career services.

She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.

She gives us another primary ball-handler and makes us a little tougher to press. She's a very good ball-handler, but a great playmaker. If you're open, you're going to get the ball. Her court vision is phenomenal.

(Lynch has) great vision, tremendous speed. You've got to make him run east and west, not north and south. He's a game-breaker kind of back, the kind of back you'd love to have on your team. He's a tremendous ballplayer.

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

So many homes today are the developers vision of what we should need in terms of square footage and rooms and adjacencies, ... 'The Not So Big House' is about how to introduce spirit and personality into our homes. The book is also about giving up the spaces we don't really use and end up making a house feel soulless.

Selvin is 100 percent, ... He's gotten his speed back. He's gotten his vision back. He's bigger and strong, and he's definitely ready to go.

She had a strength and clarity in the things she said. And a consistent vision of what whole justice looks like.

Siebel has provided a consistent vision for the CRM industry for over a decade. With Customer Adaptive Solutions -- and everything they represent -- the company is laying out a new vision for customer facing applications that are more flexible and better able to accommodate customer input. This will enable Siebel users to be more responsive to customers and enable the kind of customer centric processes that drive loyalty and, ultimately, repeat business.

Simon Cowell, I have met him at a couple of parties. But I don't know him at all, really, and this part is not based on him aside from the fact that I am a judge on a talent show that's massively popular and I am very cruel. There the resemblance stops. The part really is a creation of writer/director Paul Weitz and his warped vision of me.

Sentinel has always provided superior software and technology solutions that support the strategic and operational challenges of our customers. The union of Creative and Sentinel creates a company with architectural vision and a proven ability to successfully address complex mobile computing challenges.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead -- because our vision will look that far ahead,

O Nanak, some behold the Blessed Vision of the True Guru s Darshan, with love and affection, conquering their ego, they meet with the Lord.

She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators,

She's a naturally-gifted player. Her vision is extremely mature. She'll play a ball into a space before you even know that's the space you're getting into. Her technical skills are extremely solid.

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.

... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.