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If you add up all the time that staff spend doing infection control measures, donning protective equipment and separating out wards into people with and without Covid … that might impede the overall productivity of the system. – Ben Zaranko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When wildlife mortalities occur in such small numbers or individuals, and in species like skunks, foxes and bears that don’t spend a lot of time in situations where they are highly visible to the public, they can be hard to detect, when you get that first detection you tend to start looking harder, and you’re more likely to find new cases. – Jennifer Ramsey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ultimately order something that is going to satisfy you and make you feel good when you walk out of the restaurant, so you didn’t spend like $20 on lunch and left feeling hungry still looking for snacks, the more satisfied you are with what you eat, the less you feel the need to mindlessly snack. – Natalie Mokari	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we look at work in terms of switching projects, as opposed to the micro view of switching screens, we find people spend about 10 ½ minutes in any work project before being interrupted — internally or by someone else — and then switch to another work project. – Gloria Mark	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are all grateful for the many years we have been able to spend with a truly remarkable human being, a great journalist, and speaking as a kid brother, the greatest older brother any kid brother could ever have. – Marvin Kalb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While most social media apps tend to be addictive, none is more so than Avid TikTok, every day, users spend an average of an hour and a half on TikTok, which is nearly double the average time spent on Facebook or Instagram. – Saif Shahin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hit the target or spend a lifetime wasting time training.” – Wesley D'Amico	added by WesleyD'Amico 1 year ago
It might be time to find those non-social media apps and digital experiences and rethink how much time you spend on platforms that aren’t leaving you feeling calm, refreshed, and in a better headspace. – Neha Chaudhary	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I do not have plans to run for anything other than to spend the next four years serving this state as governor with a majority Democratic legislature for the first time in a long time, i know enough about myself to know if there is something that needs to get done, and if there’s a role I can play, I will want to play it. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Location and cost of first dates matter more now than they have in the last few years, why should I spend extra time and money just to go on a date that might end poorly? – Kristin Moss	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now that the problem has occurred, and at [the Department of Transportation] and the market’s urging, I suspect the carrier has a different view of what IT upgrades are necessary, they’ll spend their own money now to research, develop and implement new systems. – Robert Mann	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I really believed that this was my guy. I thought, ‘Oh my god, I won.’ Like I got everything. I have my career, I have respect, I have my family, I have so many friends, i have all of these things. And then I thought this was gonna be the person I spend my life with. – Brooke Shields	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s different segments, there’s different price levels, it’s not just having to spend $50,000 or $100,000 on an EV anymore. – Matt Degen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Congressman, why is a 'Foreign Influence' task force sending Excel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low-follower accounts in Maryland, Kentucky, and Ohio? Why does the FITF spend so much time reviewing domestic speech? – Matt Taibbi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Now there will be those both in our state and across the country who will point to our victory tonight and try to use it to argue there is no voter suppression in Georgia, let me be clear. The fact that millions of Georgians endured hours in lines – and were willing to spend hours in line – lines that wrapped around buildings and went on for blocks, lines in the cold, lines in the rain, is most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with. – Neil Strauss	added by Normando 1 year ago
Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. – Jackie Robinson	added by Normando 1 year ago
While Republicans chase windmills and rush their MAGA money into out-of-reach districts hoping to catch a couple headlines, Democrats are investing strategically and taking nothing for granted to maintain the path to 218 – while also forcing national Republicans to spend millions to prop up their extreme candidates, we’re confident the MAGA Republicans that would be a rubber stamp for the GOP’s nationwide abortion ban and gutting of Social Security and Medicare will never see the halls of Congress. – Spokesperson Tommy Garcia	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think the focus is marijuana crimes, in my mind, right, we spend — this may be the stupidest expenditure of federal money in taxpayer money in the history of our country. You get caught with marijuana, then you end up in prison. That's insane for us. We should tax the marijuana and put it into addiction treatment, we should use it to keep fentanyl and these hardcore drugs out of our country, out of our society. We should invest in the shop class, we should invest into early childhood education. – Tim Ryan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In the private sector, when you spend more money and get less results, you get fired, governor. – Paul LePage	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Independentanalysisshows that school districts nationwide plan to spend more than $27 billion on academic recovery, including more than $6 billion on summer learning and after-school programs and $3 billion on tutoring and coaching for reading and math; and an additional $30 billion on staffing, including hiring more educators, and providing professional development so that educators know how to best support their students’ recovery. – The Department	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think it'll probably pass, i didn't vote for it because I thought it was unnecessary for us to spend the time and the effort to change that because we already abolished slavery years ago. – Joey Hensley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If there is a conviction, then they these people will spend time behind bars, as they should, because they've been convicted of a crime. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

If you add up all the time that staff spend doing infection control measures, donning protective equipment and separating out wards into people with and without Covid … that might impede the overall productivity of the system.

– Ben Zaranko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When wildlife mortalities occur in such small numbers or individuals, and in species like skunks, foxes and bears that don’t spend a lot of time in situations where they are highly visible to the public, they can be hard to detect, when you get that first detection you tend to start looking harder, and you’re more likely to find new cases.

– Jennifer Ramsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ultimately order something that is going to satisfy you and make you feel good when you walk out of the restaurant, so you didn’t spend like $20 on lunch and left feeling hungry still looking for snacks, the more satisfied you are with what you eat, the less you feel the need to mindlessly snack.

– Natalie Mokari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we look at work in terms of switching projects, as opposed to the micro view of switching screens, we find people spend about 10 ½ minutes in any work project before being interrupted — internally or by someone else — and then switch to another work project.

– Gloria Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all grateful for the many years we have been able to spend with a truly remarkable human being, a great journalist, and speaking as a kid brother, the greatest older brother any kid brother could ever have.

– Marvin Kalb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While most social media apps tend to be addictive, none is more so than Avid TikTok, every day, users spend an average of an hour and a half on TikTok, which is nearly double the average time spent on Facebook or Instagram.

– Saif Shahin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hit the target or spend a lifetime wasting time training.”

– Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

It might be time to find those non-social media apps and digital experiences and rethink how much time you spend on platforms that aren’t leaving you feeling calm, refreshed, and in a better headspace.

– Neha Chaudhary

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do not have plans to run for anything other than to spend the next four years serving this state as governor with a majority Democratic legislature for the first time in a long time, i know enough about myself to know if there is something that needs to get done, and if there’s a role I can play, I will want to play it.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Location and cost of first dates matter more now than they have in the last few years, why should I spend extra time and money just to go on a date that might end poorly?

– Kristin Moss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now that the problem has occurred, and at [the Department of Transportation] and the market’s urging, I suspect the carrier has a different view of what IT upgrades are necessary, they’ll spend their own money now to research, develop and implement new systems.

– Robert Mann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I really believed that this was my guy. I thought, ‘Oh my god, I won.’ Like I got everything. I have my career, I have respect, I have my family, I have so many friends, i have all of these things. And then I thought this was gonna be the person I spend my life with.

– Brooke Shields

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s different segments, there’s different price levels, it’s not just having to spend $50,000 or $100,000 on an EV anymore.

– Matt Degen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Congressman, why is a 'Foreign Influence' task force sending Excel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low-follower accounts in Maryland, Kentucky, and Ohio? Why does the FITF spend so much time reviewing domestic speech?

– Matt Taibbi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now there will be those both in our state and across the country who will point to our victory tonight and try to use it to argue there is no voter suppression in Georgia, let me be clear. The fact that millions of Georgians endured hours in lines – and were willing to spend hours in line – lines that wrapped around buildings and went on for blocks, lines in the cold, lines in the rain, is most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with.

– Neil Strauss

added by Normando
1 year ago

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

– Jackie Robinson

added by Normando
1 year ago

While Republicans chase windmills and rush their MAGA money into out-of-reach districts hoping to catch a couple headlines, Democrats are investing strategically and taking nothing for granted to maintain the path to 218 – while also forcing national Republicans to spend millions to prop up their extreme candidates, we’re confident the MAGA Republicans that would be a rubber stamp for the GOP’s nationwide abortion ban and gutting of Social Security and Medicare will never see the halls of Congress.

– Spokesperson Tommy Garcia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think the focus is marijuana crimes, in my mind, right, we spend — this may be the stupidest expenditure of federal money in taxpayer money in the history of our country. You get caught with marijuana, then you end up in prison. That's insane for us. We should tax the marijuana and put it into addiction treatment, we should use it to keep fentanyl and these hardcore drugs out of our country, out of our society. We should invest in the shop class, we should invest into early childhood education.

– Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the private sector, when you spend more money and get less results, you get fired, governor.

– Paul LePage

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Independentanalysisshows that school districts nationwide plan to spend more than $27 billion on academic recovery, including more than $6 billion on summer learning and after-school programs and $3 billion on tutoring and coaching for reading and math; and an additional $30 billion on staffing, including hiring more educators, and providing professional development so that educators know how to best support their students’ recovery.

– The Department

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it'll probably pass, i didn't vote for it because I thought it was unnecessary for us to spend the time and the effort to change that because we already abolished slavery years ago.

– Joey Hensley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If there is a conviction, then they these people will spend time behind bars, as they should, because they've been convicted of a crime.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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