The early retirement and now this [corruption] stuff has taken away years and years of experience where you could call and try and resolve problems without making them acts of Congress.

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Dinosaurs are all around us today in a very real sense.

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Before, we were dealing with guys who knew the service end of a department and knew how to get things done for communities. If you were out there fixing a street, and somebody said, 'Can we extend it around this corner because there's a need here,' they'd figure out a way to do it. New people are reluctant to work with anybody unless it's scripted. There's not a lot of innovative stuff going on.

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ISM believes that the occupation can end through popular, peaceful protests that comply with international law for the protection of civilians.

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In the next 5-10 years, property owners will increasingly adopt cost segregation to minimize federal income taxes.

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They won't tell me anything. I was shocked.

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A lot of guys are heading up departments they know nothing about. They're just managers wondering if they're running it or keeping a seat warm. Before, they had people around them who knew how to get the job done. No more. A lot of those people who ran departments for decades regardless of who the commissioner was are now gone.

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[Evolutionary changes] weren't happening so dinosaurs could give rise to birds, ... gave an animal a particular advantage in day-to-day existence.

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