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en What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

en With little or no state oversight, local governments allow developers to build housing in flood plains and when the inevitable happens and the flood plains flood, everyone wonders why no one thought to make sure there was adequate flood protection.

en Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
  Brian W. Aldiss

en There are too many factories. It is inevitable that the water is polluted.

en So many things can hinder one. Think you are up in a hot air balloon with sandbags. As you get older, keep throwing those sandbags overboard. The more sandbags you throw, the higher you soar, the higher the balloon goes.

en Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.

en It was a whole experience to prepare that vehicle to go out, ... because you knew that if something happened, you were definitely going to get it. We put as many sandbags as possible on the floor, hoping those sandbags might save your life.

en It should release detainees it has no legal authority to hold. It should provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes and it should investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for the torture of detainees.

en [It could be argued that the Johnstown flood of 1889 wasn't a natural disaster at all, but the inevitable consequence of humans thinking they could control nature. Whatever the cause, the day after a dam burst, unleashing 20 million tons of water on the residents of Johnstown, Pa., and its neighboring boroughs, the area looked like] a vast sea of muck and rubble and filthy water, ... The Johnstown Flood.

en The bureau lives sometimes as an isolated area where they forget that they're responsible to the attorney general and they're responsible to the Congress,

en No matter what the flood protection that levee is supposed to provide... if it gives way, it doesn't really matter what the flood standard is.

en There are a lot of reasons why, looking further out, a broadened base for the U.S. dollar would be positive. It would be good for the U.S. because it will make those countries more prosperous, more responsible, more stable. At the same time it does make us more responsible for them, which is a pretty big task to take on.

en We spent time Monday making up some additional sandbags and then placed them in areas that we've know of or have been told are problem areas. We load the sandbags on and off of pallets, and we'll likely leave them where they are until (today) to let them dry out some. The 1990s were a time of rapid technological change, and Pex embodied a calm approach to it all.

en It was the only prudent and responsible thing to do.

en Over the last few years Social Security has come under attack ... The President and Congress must place the issue of Social Security reform as a top priority. We cannot afford to wait. Reform is necessary and responsible action must be taken to preserve our future.


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