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Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one – Jayadeva de Silva	added by anonymous 8 years ago
There are eight million solvent economic units owned by entrepreneurs who have taxable income. – Nojibur Rahman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The settlement agreement also requires McDonald's to compensate lawful permanent resident employees of McDonald's-owned restaurants who lost work or lost their jobs due to these documentary practices. – Justice Department	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have summoned the governors from the three biggest coal producing provinces, plus two leading state-owned companies, to more than 40 meetings on cutting production - all have failed. – Zhang Shaoqiang	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our upright wasn't much of a piano — it was a half-step flat the entire time we owned it — but that piano was everything to me. It was dark mahogany, almost black, with rouge crimps all over it. I took about eight piano lessons before my teacher gave up on me. I loved boogie-woogie and hillbilly music and gospel too much. – Allen Toussaint	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Definitely, we will continue to enlarge our fleet and increase our number of aircraft in the future, growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year. – Zep Lee	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year. – Zep Lee	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I ’ll be damned if I ever come to Salt Lake again without bringing my gun, the point is, it’s my right to drive any kind of vehicle I want. If I want to fly the Confederate Flag, it’s my right - Kelly Leeper Leeper’s friend, who is not identified, owned the truck, which was parked in a lot outside the Red Lion Hotel and reportedly filled with $ 50,000 worth of welding equipment. At some point Sunday, Kelly Leeper Leeper said Kelly Leeper Leeper friend looked out Kelly Leeper Leeper friend hotel room window and saw a group of black men converging near the truck. Leeper and Kelly Leeper Leeper friend friend, who were in town for a Garth Brooks concert, went out to confront the group, and the incident quickly devolved into a fight. – Kelly Leeper Leeper	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If you look at other sectors, they are making those kinds of demands in high-tech, automobiles, and commercial airliners. So, that general pressure for foreign companies to partner with state-owned companies is growing. – Scott Kennedy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I like watching the movies. I wish I owned Marvel, as someone that believes in capitalism, i don't know, I'm kinda old school. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There would be an inherent conflict of interest if a specialty pharmacy is owned by someone making the drug, there could be pressure on the pharmacy to start patients on the drug, or continue patients on it, or not stop them. – Scott Knoer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are presently in negotiations with people in South Africa, we imported around 80-90 million tonnes of coking coal last (fiscal) year and if that is the amount that can come through a mine owned by Coal India, it would consider it. – Coal Secretary Anil Swarup	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's a significant amount of shares (owned by Trian), and we're at a key point in the business right now, and really, they have a history of bringing value to corporations, we didn't want to have a lot of disruption and a lot of uncertainty in the business. – Sysco Corp -LRB- SYY.N -RRB-	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Banks are under increased pressure from regulators to lower their NPL ratios, more loans are being offloaded to state-owned asset management companies and other players in the market. – Ted Osborn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
NYBC does not own the animals in question, and never did, the animals are owned by the Liberian government, and their officials have repeatedly acknowledged that they have responsibility for the care of the chimpanzees. – New York Blood Center	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We see here a combination of the two persecution engines – Islamic extremism and organized corruption – where the vulnerable position of religious minorities, such as Christians, is being exploited, Kats said. Corruption is deeply rooted in Iraqi society, right up to the highest levels. Also, it is especially people in or close to political power who are occupying not just Christian-owned homes, but also churches and monasteries. – Frank Wolf	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
[ Hapoel ] Katamon is like a team from a parallel world, hapoel Katamon is owned by their supporters, Hapoel Katamon's sustainable, democratic and open to all races and religions, of which there are plenty in Hapoel Jerusalem. – Ouriel Daskal	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It can be expensive to feed a growing big cat because they require lots of raw meat, it's possible whomever owned it was overwhelmed by the cost and released it on purpose figuring local authorities would be able to take care of it, or they actually lost it and are afraid to come forward because of all the concern. – Karen Saprapani	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm deeply troubled that the subliminal effect of being owned by Nikkei will make it (the FT) less willing to publish articles critical of corporate Japan, which includes the Nikkei. – Michael Woodford	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are not anti-disclosure, but we have concerns about implementing rules on one side of the world when there are state-owned oil companies in Russia and China that are not subject to those rules. – Carlton Carrol	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With a return to the drachma, Greek business owners will have difficulty accessing capital, so maybe they sell their business to an international and sit out a difficult decade. There are many family-owned companies which will take this route. – Dimitris Paraskevas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are controlled and owned -- they are controlled by ISIS, i wouldn't send many troops because you won't need 'em by the time I'm done. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sometimes I'll say flippantly if you sold the chicken to somebody, there'd be plenty of them, when things are owned, there's lots of cows. Cows are not endangered. Neither are chickens, really. The sage brush grouse would probably be less likely to be endangered if somebody owned it and allowed it to reproduce. So there are ways of handling it. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For us, this Monday is a normal working day, nOTHING WE CA N'T HANDLE. In Serbia, a dealer in the local subsidiary of a Greek bank said interbank operations with Greece had stopped because the banks there were shut, but he said otherwise operations were carrying on as normal. A trader at a Greek-owned bank in the Romanian capital also said interbank operations with Greece were limited, but that this had been the case for months already. – Piraeus Bank Bulgaria	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one

– Jayadeva de Silva

added by anonymous
8 years ago

There are eight million solvent economic units owned by entrepreneurs who have taxable income.

– Nojibur Rahman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The settlement agreement also requires McDonald's to compensate lawful permanent resident employees of McDonald's-owned restaurants who lost work or lost their jobs due to these documentary practices.

– Justice Department

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have summoned the governors from the three biggest coal producing provinces, plus two leading state-owned companies, to more than 40 meetings on cutting production - all have failed.

– Zhang Shaoqiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our upright wasn't much of a piano — it was a half-step flat the entire time we owned it — but that piano was everything to me. It was dark mahogany, almost black, with rouge crimps all over it. I took about eight piano lessons before my teacher gave up on me. I loved boogie-woogie and hillbilly music and gospel too much.

– Allen Toussaint

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Definitely, we will continue to enlarge our fleet and increase our number of aircraft in the future, growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year.

– Zep Lee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year.

– Zep Lee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I ’ll be damned if I ever come to Salt Lake again without bringing my gun, the point is, it’s my right to drive any kind of vehicle I want. If I want to fly the Confederate Flag, it’s my right - Kelly Leeper Leeper’s friend, who is not identified, owned the truck, which was parked in a lot outside the Red Lion Hotel and reportedly filled with $ 50,000 worth of welding equipment. At some point Sunday, Kelly Leeper Leeper said Kelly Leeper Leeper friend looked out Kelly Leeper Leeper friend hotel room window and saw a group of black men converging near the truck. Leeper and Kelly Leeper Leeper friend friend, who were in town for a Garth Brooks concert, went out to confront the group, and the incident quickly devolved into a fight.

– Kelly Leeper Leeper

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If you look at other sectors, they are making those kinds of demands in high-tech, automobiles, and commercial airliners. So, that general pressure for foreign companies to partner with state-owned companies is growing.

– Scott Kennedy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I like watching the movies. I wish I owned Marvel, as someone that believes in capitalism, i don't know, I'm kinda old school.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There would be an inherent conflict of interest if a specialty pharmacy is owned by someone making the drug, there could be pressure on the pharmacy to start patients on the drug, or continue patients on it, or not stop them.

– Scott Knoer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are presently in negotiations with people in South Africa, we imported around 80-90 million tonnes of coking coal last (fiscal) year and if that is the amount that can come through a mine owned by Coal India, it would consider it.

– Coal Secretary Anil Swarup

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's a significant amount of shares (owned by Trian), and we're at a key point in the business right now, and really, they have a history of bringing value to corporations, we didn't want to have a lot of disruption and a lot of uncertainty in the business.

– Sysco Corp -LRB- SYY.N -RRB-

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Banks are under increased pressure from regulators to lower their NPL ratios, more loans are being offloaded to state-owned asset management companies and other players in the market.

– Ted Osborn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

NYBC does not own the animals in question, and never did, the animals are owned by the Liberian government, and their officials have repeatedly acknowledged that they have responsibility for the care of the chimpanzees.

– New York Blood Center

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We see here a combination of the two persecution engines – Islamic extremism and organized corruption – where the vulnerable position of religious minorities, such as Christians, is being exploited, Kats said. Corruption is deeply rooted in Iraqi society, right up to the highest levels. Also, it is especially people in or close to political power who are occupying not just Christian-owned homes, but also churches and monasteries.

– Frank Wolf

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

[ Hapoel ] Katamon is like a team from a parallel world, hapoel Katamon is owned by their supporters, Hapoel Katamon's sustainable, democratic and open to all races and religions, of which there are plenty in Hapoel Jerusalem.

– Ouriel Daskal

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It can be expensive to feed a growing big cat because they require lots of raw meat, it's possible whomever owned it was overwhelmed by the cost and released it on purpose figuring local authorities would be able to take care of it, or they actually lost it and are afraid to come forward because of all the concern.

– Karen Saprapani

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm deeply troubled that the subliminal effect of being owned by Nikkei will make it (the FT) less willing to publish articles critical of corporate Japan, which includes the Nikkei.

– Michael Woodford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not anti-disclosure, but we have concerns about implementing rules on one side of the world when there are state-owned oil companies in Russia and China that are not subject to those rules.

– Carlton Carrol

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With a return to the drachma, Greek business owners will have difficulty accessing capital, so maybe they sell their business to an international and sit out a difficult decade. There are many family-owned companies which will take this route.

– Dimitris Paraskevas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I win, I would attack those oil sites that are controlled and owned -- they are controlled by ISIS, i wouldn't send many troops because you won't need 'em by the time I'm done.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sometimes I'll say flippantly if you sold the chicken to somebody, there'd be plenty of them, when things are owned, there's lots of cows. Cows are not endangered. Neither are chickens, really. The sage brush grouse would probably be less likely to be endangered if somebody owned it and allowed it to reproduce. So there are ways of handling it.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For us, this Monday is a normal working day, nOTHING WE CA N'T HANDLE. In Serbia, a dealer in the local subsidiary of a Greek bank said interbank operations with Greece had stopped because the banks there were shut, but he said otherwise operations were carrying on as normal. A trader at a Greek-owned bank in the Romanian capital also said interbank operations with Greece were limited, but that this had been the case for months already.

– Piraeus Bank Bulgaria

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner

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