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Mystery balloon hovered over Andaman Sheekha and Nicobar Islands around tri-service military drill. – Indian Ocean	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It does this by changing biology in ways consistent with a slowing of the process of aging, although the specific mechanisms of how this occurs are still under investigation, we decided to drill down to the cellular level in people to see if the same is true. – Daniel Belsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Someone came in screaming in the emergency department that this was not a drill and to shelter in place. – Joshua Horenstein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Who’s going to call 911? Who’s going to start chest compressions? Who’s going to open the door when the ambulance arrives? Just talking about it helps. I think of this like a tornado drill, hopefully, you’ll never need to know what to do, but if that situation happens, you want to have a plan in place about what you’re going to do to help keep your loved one alive. – Comilla Sasson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are very concerned that the gas drilling will damage the area, we also believe that there is no need to drill [ for ] new gas at all and that we should invest much more in renewable energy. – Ineke van Gent	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This idea that they don't have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true, this piece of the Republicans talking about' President Joe Biden on Tuesday shut down fields,' wrong. We ought to be able to work something out whereby they're able to increase refining capacity and still not give up on transitioning to renewable energy. They're both within realm of possibility. – The President	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We really need to drill down and look for it. – Andrew Wilcoski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks, instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed. – Pavel Molchanov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She just was approved by the Senate for her current job about a year ago. I think that would have to give the White House some comfort that she knows the drill, she's been through a confirmation proceeding. Senators have voted for her previously, including some Republican senators. – Thomas Dupree	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial' drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed. – Pavel Molchanov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The withdrawal in Afghanistan looked like a ferret fire drill! – Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy	added by anonymous 2 years ago
This drill is targeted at a certain country's seriously wrong moves and remarks on the Taiwan question and Taiwan secessionists' activities, and is a necessary measure to safeguard the country's sovereignty. – Shi Yi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was not a mention of this specific product or brand in the initial interview questions I think that the states undertook with those families, i believe there was a mention of a possible fragrance room spray in a family member of the Texas patient. So I think we're going to try to go back and drill down a little more carefully. – Jennifer McQuiston	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Generally, first ladies have had more success when they have one singular issue that they really drill down on. She might decide to triage if her efforts become scattered. – Kate Andersen Brower	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have always been very confident that we will continue to develop and drill on federal acreage, it’s embedded into the rights we have in the leases and we’re doing it the right way. – David Hager	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
So it won't just be the day-to-day need to turn on your lights or your stove for food for cooking, it's actually going to drill down to basic health concerns from the heat that's upon us. – Valerie Hill Rawls	Found on CNN 3 years ago
He is threatening the penitentiary officers and he, he makes all kinds of arrogant accusations, for example he says, he is saying that he will put a drill to the head of the officer. – Sergei Lavrov	Found on CNN 4 years ago
She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful person, i have cried so much, I cant cry anymore. She leaves behind a newborn and older daughter. Oglesby aspired to work with children. We grew up as cousins,Merrett said. We grew up in the same church, on the same drill team. She works at my kids daycare. We all grew up in this little town. Were all family. Were all hurting behind this. Derrick Fudge, 57 TheSpringfield, Ohio resident was out with family members when he was killed, a sister of one of the shooting victims told the Daily News. Derrick Fudge (Facebook ) They were all just down there enjoying themselves and had stepped out of, I think, one of the clubs and were in a line to get some food, saidTwyla Southall. Logan Turner, 30 Logan Turner has just celebrated his birthday on Tuesday and was out with friends Sunday morning, his mother told the Daily News. He obtained an engineering degree from theUniversity of Toledo and worked as a machinist in Springboro, Danita Turner said. He was very generous and loving and the worlds best son, she said. Everyone loved Logan. He was a happy go lucky guy. Springboro High School guidance counselor and coachRyan Wilhite posted a photo of Turner playing football. Heart is broken,he wrote. Such a great young man lost too soon. Praying for comfort and healing for his family and all of his teammates who loved him so much. Rest easy 78. Nicholas Cumer, 25 Nicholas Cumer was a graduate student at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania who was workingas an intern at a Dayton facility for people battling cancer. – Derasha Merrett	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I drilled a hole into her shin bone and placed an intraosseous line -- a bone catheter -- so that we could inject platelets and medications into her blood through her bone marrow. I can not imagine her parents' horror on hearing the crack of the drill bit into their baby's leg, we took turns pounding on this baby's chest and trying to pump air into lungs that had filled with blood. – Maureen Nemetski	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think [ Be Best ] is well-intentioned, and it showcases how well the first lady does when she interacts with children, but I think it's too broad and unfocused, if President Trump could drill down on one part of it, like opioid addiction and babies born to mothers who are addicted, it would be more successful. Being single-mindedly focused would also serve to help people see President Trump contributions to this administration, which I think get lost amid the turbulence. – Kate Andersen Brower	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I feel like I have to say [ that it's a drill ] several times because they're looking at me like,' are David Schonfeld sure ? Are you sure ?'. – Abbie Clements	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I remember in particular one fire drill. I remember grabbing onto my students, running out, crying, they didn't see me [ crying ] because they're small, but my heart was racing. – Abbie Clements	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. – Billie Holiday	added by Normando 5 years ago
I would never have thought in a million years that anybody would have thought that it made sense to use in an active shooter drill where teachers are unaware that they're going to be shot with a pellet gun, that would have never crossed my mind as something we'd need to legislate. – Wendy McNamara	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Mystery balloon hovered over Andaman Sheekha and Nicobar Islands around tri-service military drill.

– Indian Ocean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It does this by changing biology in ways consistent with a slowing of the process of aging, although the specific mechanisms of how this occurs are still under investigation, we decided to drill down to the cellular level in people to see if the same is true.

– Daniel Belsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone came in screaming in the emergency department that this was not a drill and to shelter in place.

– Joshua Horenstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Who’s going to call 911? Who’s going to start chest compressions? Who’s going to open the door when the ambulance arrives? Just talking about it helps. I think of this like a tornado drill, hopefully, you’ll never need to know what to do, but if that situation happens, you want to have a plan in place about what you’re going to do to help keep your loved one alive.

– Comilla Sasson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are very concerned that the gas drilling will damage the area, we also believe that there is no need to drill [ for ] new gas at all and that we should invest much more in renewable energy.

– Ineke van Gent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This idea that they don't have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true, this piece of the Republicans talking about' President Joe Biden on Tuesday shut down fields,' wrong. We ought to be able to work something out whereby they're able to increase refining capacity and still not give up on transitioning to renewable energy. They're both within realm of possibility.

– The President

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We really need to drill down and look for it.

– Andrew Wilcoski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks, instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She just was approved by the Senate for her current job about a year ago. I think that would have to give the White House some comfort that she knows the drill, she's been through a confirmation proceeding. Senators have voted for her previously, including some Republican senators.

– Thomas Dupree

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial' drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The withdrawal in Afghanistan looked like a ferret fire drill!

– Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

This drill is targeted at a certain country's seriously wrong moves and remarks on the Taiwan question and Taiwan secessionists' activities, and is a necessary measure to safeguard the country's sovereignty.

– Shi Yi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was not a mention of this specific product or brand in the initial interview questions I think that the states undertook with those families, i believe there was a mention of a possible fragrance room spray in a family member of the Texas patient. So I think we're going to try to go back and drill down a little more carefully.

– Jennifer McQuiston

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Generally, first ladies have had more success when they have one singular issue that they really drill down on. She might decide to triage if her efforts become scattered.

– Kate Andersen Brower

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have always been very confident that we will continue to develop and drill on federal acreage, it’s embedded into the rights we have in the leases and we’re doing it the right way.

– David Hager

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

So it won't just be the day-to-day need to turn on your lights or your stove for food for cooking, it's actually going to drill down to basic health concerns from the heat that's upon us.

– Valerie Hill Rawls

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He is threatening the penitentiary officers and he, he makes all kinds of arrogant accusations, for example he says, he is saying that he will put a drill to the head of the officer.

– Sergei Lavrov

Found on CNN
4 years ago

She was a wonderful mother, a wonderful person, i have cried so much, I cant cry anymore. She leaves behind a newborn and older daughter. Oglesby aspired to work with children. We grew up as cousins,Merrett said. We grew up in the same church, on the same drill team. She works at my kids daycare. We all grew up in this little town. Were all family. Were all hurting behind this. Derrick Fudge, 57 TheSpringfield, Ohio resident was out with family members when he was killed, a sister of one of the shooting victims told the Daily News. Derrick Fudge (Facebook ) They were all just down there enjoying themselves and had stepped out of, I think, one of the clubs and were in a line to get some food, saidTwyla Southall. Logan Turner, 30 Logan Turner has just celebrated his birthday on Tuesday and was out with friends Sunday morning, his mother told the Daily News. He obtained an engineering degree from theUniversity of Toledo and worked as a machinist in Springboro, Danita Turner said. He was very generous and loving and the worlds best son, she said. Everyone loved Logan. He was a happy go lucky guy. Springboro High School guidance counselor and coachRyan Wilhite posted a photo of Turner playing football. Heart is broken,he wrote. Such a great young man lost too soon. Praying for comfort and healing for his family and all of his teammates who loved him so much. Rest easy 78. Nicholas Cumer, 25 Nicholas Cumer was a graduate student at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania who was workingas an intern at a Dayton facility for people battling cancer.

– Derasha Merrett

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I drilled a hole into her shin bone and placed an intraosseous line -- a bone catheter -- so that we could inject platelets and medications into her blood through her bone marrow. I can not imagine her parents' horror on hearing the crack of the drill bit into their baby's leg, we took turns pounding on this baby's chest and trying to pump air into lungs that had filled with blood.

– Maureen Nemetski

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think [ Be Best ] is well-intentioned, and it showcases how well the first lady does when she interacts with children, but I think it's too broad and unfocused, if President Trump could drill down on one part of it, like opioid addiction and babies born to mothers who are addicted, it would be more successful. Being single-mindedly focused would also serve to help people see President Trump contributions to this administration, which I think get lost amid the turbulence.

– Kate Andersen Brower

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I feel like I have to say [ that it's a drill ] several times because they're looking at me like,' are David Schonfeld sure ? Are you sure ?'.

– Abbie Clements

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I remember in particular one fire drill. I remember grabbing onto my students, running out, crying, they didn't see me [ crying ] because they're small, but my heart was racing.

– Abbie Clements

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

– Billie Holiday

added by Normando
5 years ago

I would never have thought in a million years that anybody would have thought that it made sense to use in an active shooter drill where teachers are unaware that they're going to be shot with a pellet gun, that would have never crossed my mind as something we'd need to legislate.

– Wendy McNamara

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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