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As soon as the gunfire started, everyone dropped to the floor and they were underneath desks, and she was trying to shield herself with a chair, along with a man next to her, then, all of a sudden, she said she just felt [the bullet] going through her back. – Stephanie Baldwin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As soon as the gunfire started, everyone dropped to the floor and they were underneath desks, and she was trying to shield herself with a chair, along with a man next to her, then, all of a sudden, she said she just felt (the bullet) going through her back. – Stephanie Baldwin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
She was angry, and I was telling her, ‘No, you’re not getting in the front of the line. I’ve been here since 12, and she proceeds to attack me with the chair, pushing into my friend, knocking me over and twisting my ankle. – Ahmad Shukrey	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have had a strong October jobs report and Fed Chair Janet Yellen herself referring to a December rate rise as a 'live possibility' for the first time, the coming week should shed a little more light on the prospects for tightening this year. – Chris Hare	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To regain membership to the IAAF the new federation would have to fulfil a list of criteria, an inspection team will be led by Independent Chair Rune Andersen, an independent international anti-doping expert (Norwegian) and three members of the IAAF Council who will be appointed in the next few days. – Sebastian Coe	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The culprits placed a bomb under a chair at the checkpoint killing four people, this attack was to disrupt stir unrest. – Tanongsak Wansupha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I doubt (Fed chair Janet) Yellen would want to sound particularly aggressive. The latest data have been mediocre ... and more time is needed to evaluate how far China and emerging markets have stabilised. And commodities prices have fallen. – Giuseppe Sersale	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It literally makes no sense, as I'm looking at it, why he would escalate to that point -- pick her up, pick up the chair she's in, the desk she's in, and toss her, there may be some logical explanation, but I can't see it. – David Klinger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It was also about laying bare the closed hearts, which frequently hide even behind the church’s teachings or good intentions, in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families. – Pope Francis	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are delighted to have in Sidney a new chair with strong experience of global business and markets, used to leading in a complex regulatory environment. – Glen Moreno	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
She has worked hard to build a committee consensus, this is a very difficult decision that isn’t clear cut one way or another. It’s up to the chair to find and guide the center of gravity. – Don Kohn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have to remember everything in the House and everything in Congress is about checks and balances, we have two houses of Congress for that reason. We have three branches of government for that reason, and one of the reasons that every board has the freedom to vacate (the chair). – Raul Labrador	Found on CNN 8 years ago
She tried to climb back on the chair and then he shot her. – Tracy Heu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People with [acid] reflux are really quite miserable, they can’t eat the way they want, sleep the way want, they can’t eat late at night, and often have to sleep sitting up in chair. – Bob Ganz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Most FOMC participants, including Chair Yellen, currently anticipate Most FOMC participants achieving these conditions will likely entail an initial increase in the federal funds rate later this year, followed by a gradual pace of tightening thereafter. – Chair Yellen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm not going to support a 'vacate the chair' until we got somebody I think can do a better job than Boehner, there's no point throwing Boehner out until there is somebody to replace him. – Blake Farenthold	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have a variety of opinions across our party from A-to-Z of how this presidential campaign should unfold, and that's the beauty of our party, that we embrace a wide variety of our opinions, the chair runs the party, ultimately the chair makes those kinds of decisions. – Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The chair runs the party, ultimately the chair makes those kinds of decisions. – Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We grow the chairs upside down and we start with one branch that spreads out into the chair-back. So, you've gone from one to two, and then the seat, and then you've got the four legs; and it's much more of a tree shape, actually it works in a similar way to 3D printing... we're using photosynthesis for the printing. So as it grows, you've got a piece growing up. – Gavin Munro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It takes between five and eight years to grow a chair. Small lamps; between two and three years. And the dining tables; ten to fifteen. It's a long-burner. But it's something similar to setting up a vineyard, it takes a few years to get going but we'll have a crop every year. – Gavin Munro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The process that we go through to make a chair nowadays, the way we've been doing, is almost ludicrous. We grow these trees for sixty years before they're worth cutting down, and then we make them into smaller and smaller bits, only to stick them back together again in ways that can only ever come loose over time. And all the energy and all the driving around of all these bits and all the things that you need to make... why do all of that? – Gavin Munro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The times when I'm scared are when I'm writing, i've been known to jump out of a chair when someone comes into a room. – Wes Craven	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What do unions reward? Seniority, a seniority system over time discourages excellence, a seniority (system) over time, as opposed to a meritocracy, rewards you for just sitting in a chair. – Carly Fiorina	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As undignified as this is, it is my turn to take the empty chair that I saw on the cover of the New York Magazine, because I was assaulted sitting in a chair on a job interview and I was not drugged. – Gloria Allred	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

As soon as the gunfire started, everyone dropped to the floor and they were underneath desks, and she was trying to shield herself with a chair, along with a man next to her, then, all of a sudden, she said she just felt [the bullet] going through her back.

– Stephanie Baldwin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

– Stephanie Baldwin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She was angry, and I was telling her, ‘No, you’re not getting in the front of the line. I’ve been here since 12, and she proceeds to attack me with the chair, pushing into my friend, knocking me over and twisting my ankle.

– Ahmad Shukrey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have had a strong October jobs report and Fed Chair Janet Yellen herself referring to a December rate rise as a 'live possibility' for the first time, the coming week should shed a little more light on the prospects for tightening this year.

– Chris Hare

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To regain membership to the IAAF the new federation would have to fulfil a list of criteria, an inspection team will be led by Independent Chair Rune Andersen, an independent international anti-doping expert (Norwegian) and three members of the IAAF Council who will be appointed in the next few days.

– Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The culprits placed a bomb under a chair at the checkpoint killing four people, this attack was to disrupt stir unrest.

– Tanongsak Wansupha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I doubt (Fed chair Janet) Yellen would want to sound particularly aggressive. The latest data have been mediocre ... and more time is needed to evaluate how far China and emerging markets have stabilised. And commodities prices have fallen.

– Giuseppe Sersale

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It literally makes no sense, as I'm looking at it, why he would escalate to that point -- pick her up, pick up the chair she's in, the desk she's in, and toss her, there may be some logical explanation, but I can't see it.

– David Klinger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was also about laying bare the closed hearts, which frequently hide even behind the church’s teachings or good intentions, in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are delighted to have in Sidney a new chair with strong experience of global business and markets, used to leading in a complex regulatory environment.

– Glen Moreno

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She has worked hard to build a committee consensus, this is a very difficult decision that isn’t clear cut one way or another. It’s up to the chair to find and guide the center of gravity.

– Don Kohn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have to remember everything in the House and everything in Congress is about checks and balances, we have two houses of Congress for that reason. We have three branches of government for that reason, and one of the reasons that every board has the freedom to vacate (the chair).

– Raul Labrador

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She tried to climb back on the chair and then he shot her.

– Tracy Heu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People with [acid] reflux are really quite miserable, they can’t eat the way they want, sleep the way want, they can’t eat late at night, and often have to sleep sitting up in chair.

– Bob Ganz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Most FOMC participants, including Chair Yellen, currently anticipate Most FOMC participants achieving these conditions will likely entail an initial increase in the federal funds rate later this year, followed by a gradual pace of tightening thereafter.

– Chair Yellen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not going to support a 'vacate the chair' until we got somebody I think can do a better job than Boehner, there's no point throwing Boehner out until there is somebody to replace him.

– Blake Farenthold

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have a variety of opinions across our party from A-to-Z of how this presidential campaign should unfold, and that's the beauty of our party, that we embrace a wide variety of our opinions, the chair runs the party, ultimately the chair makes those kinds of decisions.

– Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The chair runs the party, ultimately the chair makes those kinds of decisions.

– Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We grow the chairs upside down and we start with one branch that spreads out into the chair-back. So, you've gone from one to two, and then the seat, and then you've got the four legs; and it's much more of a tree shape, actually it works in a similar way to 3D printing... we're using photosynthesis for the printing. So as it grows, you've got a piece growing up.

– Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It takes between five and eight years to grow a chair. Small lamps; between two and three years. And the dining tables; ten to fifteen. It's a long-burner. But it's something similar to setting up a vineyard, it takes a few years to get going but we'll have a crop every year.

– Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The process that we go through to make a chair nowadays, the way we've been doing, is almost ludicrous. We grow these trees for sixty years before they're worth cutting down, and then we make them into smaller and smaller bits, only to stick them back together again in ways that can only ever come loose over time. And all the energy and all the driving around of all these bits and all the things that you need to make... why do all of that?

– Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The times when I'm scared are when I'm writing, i've been known to jump out of a chair when someone comes into a room.

– Wes Craven

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What do unions reward? Seniority, a seniority system over time discourages excellence, a seniority (system) over time, as opposed to a meritocracy, rewards you for just sitting in a chair.

– Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As undignified as this is, it is my turn to take the empty chair that I saw on the cover of the New York Magazine, because I was assaulted sitting in a chair on a job interview and I was not drugged.

– Gloria Allred

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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