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The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.
A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.
I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'
Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.
I eat like a maniac when I am sick. My attitude is if I am going to die anyway in the next 24-48 hours, I mind as well live it up.
And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.
I won't be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton either, both are too flawed in my opinion to be allowed near the Oval Office.
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”
The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.
Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.
2018 is a horrendous cycle for Democrats. For starters they have to defend 5 seats in states Barack Obama lost either 2008, 2012 or both.
I never complain: 'Oh, I have to go to the hospital and get platelets.' No. It's just something you have to do, so why complain about it?
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.
Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
We can bring crews in from other areas, too. If Monterey is hard hit and Bakersfield, for example, is not, we can bring crews in from there.
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.
If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.