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Monster Madness is back, the website's back, we're very excited and hope you enjoy it this whole month but there's a bit of a rocky start. The first episode had a problem with the script. One of our writers had somehow added a portion that was taken from a pre-existing article. That's unacceptable and all of us here apologize for letting that sneak in. We're very sorry and want to tell you how that happened. The short story is somebody fucked up, somebody new but I think you deserve a little bit of a longer story too so if you want to stick around for a bit here you go. – James Rolfe	added by SuperQuotes 9 months ago
It was briefed to them before they signed this contract that as soon as their … flight school portion was up, they had to serve three continuous years to get aviation branch, that’s both on the ROTC side and then one West Point officer that I spoke to. – Tom Drew	Found on CNN 12 months ago
Most of the associations we saw between menopause and tau protein occurred in the context of high amyloid, now a large portion of the older population do accumulate amyloid as they get older — it’s not that uncommon. – Gillian Coughlan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was meeting with two leaders who are deeply devout and religious men who spent a great portion of their time at Camp David in prayer. – Jimmy Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it. – Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most intriguing feature of our footprint is a long portion preserved at the back of the foot, which is an impression of what we call the metapodium, the presence of this might suggest our large meat-eater was squatting down in the mud, before standing up and walking away. It’s fun to think this dinosaur might well have been strolling along a muddy coastal plain one lazy Sunday afternoon in the Jurassic. – Dean Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I hate that the other side used race as much as they did, the bill is totally racially neutral. It is only designed to assist the court systems in Hinds County by helping a portion of Jackson, the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which was carved out back in 2017 and had full support of the Democrats back then. – Trey Lamar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The bill is totally racially neutral. It is only designed to assist the court systems in Hinds County by helping a portion of Jackson, the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which was carved out back in 2017 and had full support of the Democrats back then. – Trey Lamar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the majority of legacy automakers will own a large portion of the market share in time. – Eric Schiffer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But you have some of this tension because there is a substantial portion of the administration that actually believes that climate change is our biggest existential threat. – Mike Gallagher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Primary ticketing companies, including Ticketmaster, do not set ticket prices. We do not decide how many tickets go on sale and when. And, we do not set service fees. Pricing and distribution strategies are determined by the artists. Service fees, even if they're called ticketing fees, are retained mainly by the venues and their portion of the service fee. – Joe Berchtold of Live Nation	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ideally, you aren’t showing up to a restaurant overly hungry, it just leads to making decisions that are based more on portion size just to reregulate that hunger and get away from that sense of feeling ravenous. – Natalie Mokari	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you are losing the educated middle-class portion of the population, then it matters for your economic prospects, but it also matters for the potential political reconstitution of the country. – Kristine Berzina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would say that going into late October, early November, prices should be moderating, i think it's probable that prices in much of the West Coast should bring things down for a good portion ... it may take a week or two for the trend to start showing downdrafts, but I would say probably by mid to late October, prices should be falling for much of the West Coast and potentially the Great Lakes as well. – De Haan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Those who are picking whole fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, lean protein sources, or are conscious of the portion size of their snack — it can sometimes help them meet certain recommendations and guidelines. – Jessica Bihuniak	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is paid for and far more by the amount of deficit reduction that we’re already on track for this year, like I said, we’re on track for $1.7 trillion in deficit reduction this year.That means, practically speaking, compared to the previous year, 1.7 trillion more dollars are coming into the Treasury than are going out.And we’re using a portion of that — a very small portion of it — to provide relief to middle-class families, consistent with the president’s plan. – Bharat Ramamurti	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We've done wet dress rehearsal testing, where we've gone through a good portion of the countdown and worked through any problems, we're feeling good about getting to launch on Monday. – Cliff Lanham	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that - an unintended mistake. The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent. Once made aware of the negative portion of the picture I immediately replaced it and followed up with an apology/explanation the next day, my error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image used in that post from an internet search for a' GOP elephant'. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause. – Shanon Terry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Yes, there may have been an undercurrent there of anti-Liz sentiment, but there is no way she would have had any trouble getting elected, her relationship with that portion of the party has been uneasy from the beginning, and they probably never totally embraced her because she has been the definition of an establishment Republican. But she was right on the policies. – Tim Stubson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Her relationship with that portion of the party has been uneasy from the beginning, and they probably never totally embraced her because she has been the definition of an establishment Republican. But she was right on the policies. – Tim Stubson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I mean, because the reality I think is so damning that sometimes you need to create an alternate. i think that John Gibbs has certainly fired up a certain portion of the electorate over those claims. – Hillary Scholten	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that John Gibbs has certainly fired up a certain portion of the electorate over those claims, and I think it's dangerous. – Hillary Scholten	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you use the term reparations, we would like for it to be associated with the full repair of human beings, to close the racial income gap, housing can only be a portion of it, maybe a silo of it. – Rose Cannon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They had keto delivered to their house. They had a health educator help them, yet boom ! Most people quit following the keto diet almost immediately( when that portion of the study ended), while many of those on The Mediterranean diet were still eating that way when the study was over. – Christopher Gardner	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Monster Madness is back, the website's back, we're very excited and hope you enjoy it this whole month but there's a bit of a rocky start. The first episode had a problem with the script. One of our writers had somehow added a portion that was taken from a pre-existing article. That's unacceptable and all of us here apologize for letting that sneak in. We're very sorry and want to tell you how that happened. The short story is somebody fucked up, somebody new but I think you deserve a little bit of a longer story too so if you want to stick around for a bit here you go.

– James Rolfe

added by SuperQuotes
9 months ago

It was briefed to them before they signed this contract that as soon as their … flight school portion was up, they had to serve three continuous years to get aviation branch, that’s both on the ROTC side and then one West Point officer that I spoke to.

– Tom Drew

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Most of the associations we saw between menopause and tau protein occurred in the context of high amyloid, now a large portion of the older population do accumulate amyloid as they get older — it’s not that uncommon.

– Gillian Coughlan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was meeting with two leaders who are deeply devout and religious men who spent a great portion of their time at Camp David in prayer.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

– Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most intriguing feature of our footprint is a long portion preserved at the back of the foot, which is an impression of what we call the metapodium, the presence of this might suggest our large meat-eater was squatting down in the mud, before standing up and walking away. It’s fun to think this dinosaur might well have been strolling along a muddy coastal plain one lazy Sunday afternoon in the Jurassic.

– Dean Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hate that the other side used race as much as they did, the bill is totally racially neutral. It is only designed to assist the court systems in Hinds County by helping a portion of Jackson, the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which was carved out back in 2017 and had full support of the Democrats back then.

– Trey Lamar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill is totally racially neutral. It is only designed to assist the court systems in Hinds County by helping a portion of Jackson, the Capitol Complex Improvement District, which was carved out back in 2017 and had full support of the Democrats back then.

– Trey Lamar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the majority of legacy automakers will own a large portion of the market share in time.

– Eric Schiffer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But you have some of this tension because there is a substantial portion of the administration that actually believes that climate change is our biggest existential threat.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Primary ticketing companies, including Ticketmaster, do not set ticket prices. We do not decide how many tickets go on sale and when. And, we do not set service fees. Pricing and distribution strategies are determined by the artists. Service fees, even if they're called ticketing fees, are retained mainly by the venues and their portion of the service fee.

– Joe Berchtold of Live Nation

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ideally, you aren’t showing up to a restaurant overly hungry, it just leads to making decisions that are based more on portion size just to reregulate that hunger and get away from that sense of feeling ravenous.

– Natalie Mokari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you are losing the educated middle-class portion of the population, then it matters for your economic prospects, but it also matters for the potential political reconstitution of the country.

– Kristine Berzina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would say that going into late October, early November, prices should be moderating, i think it's probable that prices in much of the West Coast should bring things down for a good portion ... it may take a week or two for the trend to start showing downdrafts, but I would say probably by mid to late October, prices should be falling for much of the West Coast and potentially the Great Lakes as well.

– De Haan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Those who are picking whole fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, lean protein sources, or are conscious of the portion size of their snack — it can sometimes help them meet certain recommendations and guidelines.

– Jessica Bihuniak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is paid for and far more by the amount of deficit reduction that we’re already on track for this year, like I said, we’re on track for $1.7 trillion in deficit reduction this year.That means, practically speaking, compared to the previous year, 1.7 trillion more dollars are coming into the Treasury than are going out.And we’re using a portion of that — a very small portion of it — to provide relief to middle-class families, consistent with the president’s plan.

– Bharat Ramamurti

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've done wet dress rehearsal testing, where we've gone through a good portion of the countdown and worked through any problems, we're feeling good about getting to launch on Monday.

– Cliff Lanham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that - an unintended mistake. The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent. Once made aware of the negative portion of the picture I immediately replaced it and followed up with an apology/explanation the next day, my error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image used in that post from an internet search for a' GOP elephant'. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause.

– Shanon Terry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yes, there may have been an undercurrent there of anti-Liz sentiment, but there is no way she would have had any trouble getting elected, her relationship with that portion of the party has been uneasy from the beginning, and they probably never totally embraced her because she has been the definition of an establishment Republican. But she was right on the policies.

– Tim Stubson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Her relationship with that portion of the party has been uneasy from the beginning, and they probably never totally embraced her because she has been the definition of an establishment Republican. But she was right on the policies.

– Tim Stubson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I mean, because the reality I think is so damning that sometimes you need to create an alternate. i think that John Gibbs has certainly fired up a certain portion of the electorate over those claims.

– Hillary Scholten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that John Gibbs has certainly fired up a certain portion of the electorate over those claims, and I think it's dangerous.

– Hillary Scholten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you use the term reparations, we would like for it to be associated with the full repair of human beings, to close the racial income gap, housing can only be a portion of it, maybe a silo of it.

– Rose Cannon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They had keto delivered to their house. They had a health educator help them, yet boom ! Most people quit following the keto diet almost immediately( when that portion of the study ended), while many of those on The Mediterranean diet were still eating that way when the study was over.

– Christopher Gardner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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