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en I couldn't argue with the words he chose. But the tone he employed was devastating ... booming and nasty.

en This week's redundancies also serve as a reminder not to talk up the benefits of a Free Trade Agreement with China. While some will argue the benefits in a FTA for New Zealand agricultural exporters, the effects on the 300,000 workers employed in the manufacturing industries could be devastating.

en That first day was a devastating scene. People were crying; they couldn't find words [to express their sorrow]. And I felt almost like I couldn't breathe. I just wanted to put my face in my hands and cry and stare at the wall.

en 'Deadwood' is a hard show to like, ... It's full of cuss words and nasty people doing nasty things to each other. Emmy voters tend to like huggable shows. Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence. They've given a lot of awards to 'The Sopranos,' but 'Deadwood' is arguably grittier than that.

en Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?

en When we benchmark, we take the hard data from the quarterly census of employment and wages. If their method is consistent, this is the first year in some time that we've shown a positive increase. . . . But it does support what we've been saying all along that the economy is booming, booming, booming.

en This is what happens when you have problems like this. All this macho, 'Drill him, he drilled us.' I'm not interested in that type of stuff. It was an accident, it just happened to occur to Luna. What else can I say? It's unfortunate. I couldn't even argue. I didn't want to argue to give it any merit.

en Each day is another adventure, ... We have complex cross currents working in an environment where we have a nasty and negative tone.

en Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.

en At that time I think people took advantage of the situation and just employed every Tom, Dick and Harry. People weren't being employed because of their competence; they were just being employed.

en Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work
  Sir Joshua Reynolds

en We couldn't get out, couldn't find a way out. That was the most devastating thing of all. By the grace of God, I just went down a stairway and found a way to get out and let everybody know how to get out.

en What Lucent is to dial-tone, we want to be to...mail tone, web tone, e-commerce tone, all the new digital tones,

en As things stand, the measures and the tone employed by the [currency] pair does not seem strong enough to turn market sentiment on a sixpence. Most likely the bank will have to continue to intervene heavily to stem the strength.

en First of all, we're going to stop using [the word] 'devastating' because it's not devastating. New Orleans is devastating. We have Florida coming in now. This is not the end of the world. I'll be out there. This team will be out there. And we'll play hard like we did [Wednesday].


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