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There’s a lot of earnings optimism, the feel-good factor of companies bouncing back, we spent so much time being afraid of the tapering in September and early October. I think people are now going to see tapering as a positive sign, that you can completely come full circle. – David Madden	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There is little doubt that Tedros lacks credibility, not only because he allowed Beijing to undermine the investigation into COVID-19’s origins, but also because a number of serious scandals have occurred on his watch. these include reports about sexual assault allegations involving WHO employees in his inner circle, as well as a recent audit which revealed that the WHO spent millions of donor dollars procuring faulty Chinese PPE during the height of the pandemic. – Craig Singleton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're spending over five times what we spent in the [ 2009 ] Recovery Act, and it's a lot broader, the Joe Biden administration and congressional Democrats learned a big lesson, which is these kinds of investments can have a huge positive impact on sectors, technology, and the economy. – Josh Freed	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's abundantly clear that parents are concerned about the quality of education — Virginia recently posted staggering learning loss numbers over the course of the pandemic, which compounds the already abysmal proficiency rates in the state, when schools obsessively focus on DEI initiatives, that's time and resources that are not being spent on core curriculum. – Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We've just spent many years preparing and talking about a pandemic, and quite frankly, we were not prepared. We did not put the infrastructure in place that we actually needed to put in place. We de-invested in... our health and public health systems in ways that quite tragically resulted in two years of significant outbreak that did not have to be as bad as it was, the real issue here is that we're about to do the same mistake again. We're about to have the same things happen to us because we have not really invested in the mitigation and adaptation that is necessary to address climate change. – Georges Benjamin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This race is about the next chapter of Virginia and our country, glenn Youngkin has spent this entire campaign trying to be a Donald Trump wannabee. – Terry McAuliffe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They spent days without eating, depending on charity to survive. – Marcela Tapia	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Most of the people who had that bonus wanted to test how it could be spent, so several clients made payments to us with bitcoin, chivo has benefited small entrepreneurs because it makes the payment method easier for customers. – Alexander Diaz	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
You sabotage yourself and your resilience with a negative perfectionist' you failed' lens, what you want to do for your resilience is build yourself up and be your own best friend. If all of us spent more time focused on what we are doing well, that could help alleviate anxiety levels from a different point of view. – Wendy Suzuki	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think the first thing is Jahan’s good, that helps. Then, I think the combination of Jahan’s talent and the time that Sean and Jahan have spent together, whether it’s on the practice field, whether it’s watching film, whether it’s in meetings. And then, they’ve played a lot of games. – Nittany Lions coach James Franklin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Having a strategy that relies exclusively or primarily just on law enforcement doesn't work. And we know that. We've spent billions of dollars across the city policing without other supports for communities and it's not moving the needle fast enough, deeply enough, or permanently enough. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was shocking to me that huge tracts of the country spent weeks under air quality alerts from the large wildfires in the The West and Canada, no matter where you were, you couldn't avoid climate change. – Rachel Licker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I feel like I spent my youth at war for this country. My kids spent their youth at war, my kids went to war. – Perry Blackburn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our city is facing a public health, safety and economic crisis in homelessness that has evolved into a humanitarian emergency. I've spent my entire life bringing groups of people together in coalitions to solve complex problems and produce concrete change -- especially in times of crisis, los Angeles is Los Angeles. With my whole heart, I'm ready. Let's do this -- together. I'm running for mayor. – Karen Bass	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I spent the last three or four days really kind of racking my brain, and I woke up this morning and went to Facebook, and there was that video with the police on it right away. That was the couple. – Brian Laundrie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Alex Murdaugh has spent Alex Murdaugh entire life in Hampton County. – Dick Harpootlian	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During the COVID-19 pandemic, children and adolescents spent more time than usual away from structured school settings, and families who were already disproportionally affected by obesity risk factors might have had additional disruptions in income, food, and other social determinants of health. – The CDC	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think that I was born and raised for this moment in time, and it is to protect the future for those people, i have spent much of my adult life, much of my professional career, fighting for and protecting Wyoming. – James Hageman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You can ignore everything else in this case, and if we spent one day trying this to you, here’s what you would have: You’d have a note sent by the killer that only the killer could have written that the defendant has admitted only the killer wrote. And the defendant has stipulated, ‘I wrote the cadaver note and envelope that only the killer could have written.’. – Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Newsom’s being selfish and afraid, i suppose I would be too if I spent my first term misleading Californians…Every day that goes by, I grow more disillusioned with the party’s practices. – Kevin Paffrath	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are built, we are so excited, we have not spent an evening in it yet. Actually Karl has been at home and I said ‘Why don’t you go and stay at the house?’ but he’s waiting for me to get there and have all the animals there. – Kaley Cuoco	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As elderlies keep increasing and we Generation Z become a minority, most of Japan's tax will be spent to make those elderlies live long, things will be difficult for us. – Kenta Ito	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own. – Lord Borwick of Hawkshead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No, I’m sorry, the American president and the secretary of defense set the conditions, but it seems just the opposite of that… it’s heartbreaking after 20 years in Afghanistan to see the blood, sweat and tears that have been spent there now evaporating into this debacle. – August Pfluger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

There’s a lot of earnings optimism, the feel-good factor of companies bouncing back, we spent so much time being afraid of the tapering in September and early October. I think people are now going to see tapering as a positive sign, that you can completely come full circle.

– David Madden

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There is little doubt that Tedros lacks credibility, not only because he allowed Beijing to undermine the investigation into COVID-19’s origins, but also because a number of serious scandals have occurred on his watch. these include reports about sexual assault allegations involving WHO employees in his inner circle, as well as a recent audit which revealed that the WHO spent millions of donor dollars procuring faulty Chinese PPE during the height of the pandemic.

– Craig Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're spending over five times what we spent in the [ 2009 ] Recovery Act, and it's a lot broader, the Joe Biden administration and congressional Democrats learned a big lesson, which is these kinds of investments can have a huge positive impact on sectors, technology, and the economy.

– Josh Freed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's abundantly clear that parents are concerned about the quality of education — Virginia recently posted staggering learning loss numbers over the course of the pandemic, which compounds the already abysmal proficiency rates in the state, when schools obsessively focus on DEI initiatives, that's time and resources that are not being spent on core curriculum.

– Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've just spent many years preparing and talking about a pandemic, and quite frankly, we were not prepared. We did not put the infrastructure in place that we actually needed to put in place. We de-invested in... our health and public health systems in ways that quite tragically resulted in two years of significant outbreak that did not have to be as bad as it was, the real issue here is that we're about to do the same mistake again. We're about to have the same things happen to us because we have not really invested in the mitigation and adaptation that is necessary to address climate change.

– Georges Benjamin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This race is about the next chapter of Virginia and our country, glenn Youngkin has spent this entire campaign trying to be a Donald Trump wannabee.

– Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They spent days without eating, depending on charity to survive.

– Marcela Tapia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most of the people who had that bonus wanted to test how it could be spent, so several clients made payments to us with bitcoin, chivo has benefited small entrepreneurs because it makes the payment method easier for customers.

– Alexander Diaz

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

You sabotage yourself and your resilience with a negative perfectionist' you failed' lens, what you want to do for your resilience is build yourself up and be your own best friend. If all of us spent more time focused on what we are doing well, that could help alleviate anxiety levels from a different point of view.

– Wendy Suzuki

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the first thing is Jahan’s good, that helps. Then, I think the combination of Jahan’s talent and the time that Sean and Jahan have spent together, whether it’s on the practice field, whether it’s watching film, whether it’s in meetings. And then, they’ve played a lot of games.

– Nittany Lions coach James Franklin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Having a strategy that relies exclusively or primarily just on law enforcement doesn't work. And we know that. We've spent billions of dollars across the city policing without other supports for communities and it's not moving the needle fast enough, deeply enough, or permanently enough.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was shocking to me that huge tracts of the country spent weeks under air quality alerts from the large wildfires in the The West and Canada, no matter where you were, you couldn't avoid climate change.

– Rachel Licker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I feel like I spent my youth at war for this country. My kids spent their youth at war, my kids went to war.

– Perry Blackburn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our city is facing a public health, safety and economic crisis in homelessness that has evolved into a humanitarian emergency. I've spent my entire life bringing groups of people together in coalitions to solve complex problems and produce concrete change -- especially in times of crisis, los Angeles is Los Angeles. With my whole heart, I'm ready. Let's do this -- together. I'm running for mayor.

– Karen Bass

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I spent the last three or four days really kind of racking my brain, and I woke up this morning and went to Facebook, and there was that video with the police on it right away. That was the couple.

– Brian Laundrie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Alex Murdaugh has spent Alex Murdaugh entire life in Hampton County.

– Dick Harpootlian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the COVID-19 pandemic, children and adolescents spent more time than usual away from structured school settings, and families who were already disproportionally affected by obesity risk factors might have had additional disruptions in income, food, and other social determinants of health.

– The CDC

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that I was born and raised for this moment in time, and it is to protect the future for those people, i have spent much of my adult life, much of my professional career, fighting for and protecting Wyoming.

– James Hageman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can ignore everything else in this case, and if we spent one day trying this to you, here’s what you would have: You’d have a note sent by the killer that only the killer could have written that the defendant has admitted only the killer wrote. And the defendant has stipulated, ‘I wrote the cadaver note and envelope that only the killer could have written.’.

– Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Newsom’s being selfish and afraid, i suppose I would be too if I spent my first term misleading Californians…Every day that goes by, I grow more disillusioned with the party’s practices.

– Kevin Paffrath

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are built, we are so excited, we have not spent an evening in it yet. Actually Karl has been at home and I said ‘Why don’t you go and stay at the house?’ but he’s waiting for me to get there and have all the animals there.

– Kaley Cuoco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As elderlies keep increasing and we Generation Z become a minority, most of Japan's tax will be spent to make those elderlies live long, things will be difficult for us.

– Kenta Ito

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own.

– Lord Borwick of Hawkshead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No, I’m sorry, the American president and the secretary of defense set the conditions, but it seems just the opposite of that… it’s heartbreaking after 20 years in Afghanistan to see the blood, sweat and tears that have been spent there now evaporating into this debacle.

– August Pfluger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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