I've seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.

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We thought, ?O.K., we?ll just have Nate [Young] come on after the U.I. set and jam with us, ... We just decided, ?this is retarded? ? we?ll put it under one umbrella just for the convenience of it.

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They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.

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We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.

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A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

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My whole business has been subjected to a meltdown.

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[In an all-too-common scenario, Gtess was making do with manual intervention between silos of automation.] People were checking batches and moving things into the next step in the process, ... With BPM, we've added intelligence and automation from beginning to end, so instead of monitoring and moving work around all the way through the process, our analysts are now just managing the queues.

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We're shooting to begin surfacing in May 2006, ... Most construction should be complete by the end of 2006.

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The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good.

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