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As for predicting such a thing, we have gotten very good at forecasting wind speeds and if lighter winds are forecast for an intensely active fire, we know that there is a good chance that strong vertically developed smoke columns are a possibility. – Makoto Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ukraine's tactic of targeting supply lines has worked well, especially during the first five to 10 days of the war. This was partially down to Ukrainian tactics and partially down to how Russia was operating, during the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear. – Thomas Bullock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear. – Thomas Bullock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are striking the enemy’s columns, we burn many columns of the enemy. – Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The key element to this investigation, in my opinion, lies in that rubble, in those columns and condition of the structural elements. – Sinisa Kolar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Spalling can get to a point that, if not repaired, it can lead to eventual collapse, and I've been to places where there have been collapses of floors, of beams, of columns. – Greg Batista	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The current is really very strong right now so its kind of pushed them up against the columns right now. – Emily Black	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
These articles that you're talking about were 17, 18 years ago, some of those were columns. They were humor columns, but some of them weren't funny and so I am apologetic. I'm embarrassed by some of those things that I wrote, but I do think we should get back to the issue of whether I'm qualified to be on the Federal Reserve Board. – Stephen Moore	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I’d developed the concept over time as a practitioner back in my General Electric and International Paper days, and I’d been teaching the 4C’s to my students at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill since I’d been appointed to the chair professorship in 1986 as well as expounding on it in executive education programs and consulting work I was doing in the U.S. and Europe during that same time. I was also writing a column for the leading trade magazine “Advertising Age” for a few years and I first wrote about the 4C’s for publication in one of those columns, sometime in the year 1990. – Robert F. Lauterborn	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Each window and entrance portal, arches and columns, railings and jaali screens (latticed window patterns), turrets and walls ... everything had to be fully in sync with the original fort, we were very careful in not making a 'palace' and, instead, let it reverberate the story of the fort. – Ritu Khandelwal	Found on CNN 7 years ago
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The four columns of success are motivation, education, actions and relations – Med Jones	added by seattle29 12 years ago
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. – Ellen Goodman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. – Jimmy Breslin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

As for predicting such a thing, we have gotten very good at forecasting wind speeds and if lighter winds are forecast for an intensely active fire, we know that there is a good chance that strong vertically developed smoke columns are a possibility.

– Makoto Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ukraine's tactic of targeting supply lines has worked well, especially during the first five to 10 days of the war. This was partially down to Ukrainian tactics and partially down to how Russia was operating, during the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear.

– Thomas Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear.

– Thomas Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are striking the enemy’s columns, we burn many columns of the enemy.

– Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The key element to this investigation, in my opinion, lies in that rubble, in those columns and condition of the structural elements.

– Sinisa Kolar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Spalling can get to a point that, if not repaired, it can lead to eventual collapse, and I've been to places where there have been collapses of floors, of beams, of columns.

– Greg Batista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The current is really very strong right now so its kind of pushed them up against the columns right now.

– Emily Black

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

These articles that you're talking about were 17, 18 years ago, some of those were columns. They were humor columns, but some of them weren't funny and so I am apologetic. I'm embarrassed by some of those things that I wrote, but I do think we should get back to the issue of whether I'm qualified to be on the Federal Reserve Board.

– Stephen Moore

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I’d developed the concept over time as a practitioner back in my General Electric and International Paper days, and I’d been teaching the 4C’s to my students at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill since I’d been appointed to the chair professorship in 1986 as well as expounding on it in executive education programs and consulting work I was doing in the U.S. and Europe during that same time. I was also writing a column for the leading trade magazine “Advertising Age” for a few years and I first wrote about the 4C’s for publication in one of those columns, sometime in the year 1990.

– Robert F. Lauterborn

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Each window and entrance portal, arches and columns, railings and jaali screens (latticed window patterns), turrets and walls ... everything had to be fully in sync with the original fort, we were very careful in not making a 'palace' and, instead, let it reverberate the story of the fort.

– Ritu Khandelwal

Found on CNN
7 years ago

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

– Erica Jong

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The four columns of success are motivation, education, actions and relations

– Med Jones

added by seattle29
12 years ago

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

– Ellen Goodman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

– Jimmy Breslin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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