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Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.
I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.
For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.
Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.
Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.
Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.
People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.
The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.
A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.
When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.