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Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.

John Lehman

I believe there will be strong and bold recommendations. I think if top managers are involved in inappropriate actions, that needs to be dealt with appropriately by the commissioner or the governor.

David Leblanc

In general, it reflected a lot of the recommendations the state has had for a number of years.

Bob Loux

The bottom line is we'll begin to carefully review the commission's recommendations, but we have no further comment at this time.

Glenn Flood

We are definitely going to have to look at all of the recommendations, find some sort of consensus and do what we can to implement those, but it will probably be a lengthy process.

David Mcentire

We agreed with the recommendations.

Les Dorr

Every one of the recommendations in our report, whether they are recommendations to the Congress or recommendations to the states, are designed to improve confidence in our system of federal elections.

D. James Baker

In the end, the County Commission is the responsible body that has to make these decisions. Whether they follow our recommendations is a reflection on the commission, not the committee. They should have done something about this four years ago.

Len Tria

We want to make sure there's not any recommendations that come out of that program that may be in contrast with what we've proposed, ... We don't anticipate that there's going to be.

Marc Williams

We have started implementing the recommendations. It is still early days but this could have a significant financial implication on those persons now occupying the lands.

Brian Reidl

We will be looking carefully at the recommendations.

Mark Lassiter

We explain our business needs to our partners, and give them the information necessary to make recommendations. They come back with great options.

Alex Spinos

What I think is really great is that this has been driven by the user groups. They came together and made recommendations for the projects.

Tim Mueller

One of the Foster Report's recommendations was that a new steering group was formed with the chair of each home country represented on that.

Liz Mccolgan

Funding for the major recommendations will go to Congress in the Defense budget on Monday and Congress will have its say on them.

Steve Kosiak

The number could change and the recommendations that are finally on the warrant could be different.

Jerome Sullivan

We are confident that they will assess not only the substance of the recommendations but also the circumstances, rationale and bases behind them.

Gabriel Claudio

Being a planning commission member is an important role because they make recommendations to the city council regarding planning and growth issues in the city.

Susan Price

In general, they are lucky to get any of their recommendations adopted. A lot of commissions have filed reports, and no one pays attention. By the time they have done their work, attention has moved onto something else - which is, of course, the reason why presidents create commissions.

Donald Ritchie

As we have maintained, we will offer a series a recommendations ? some specific and some broader ? to protect the interests of those the program was meant to serve.

Mike Holtzman

The eventual goal of this committee is to make recommendations about what we can do. It could be something as small as the schedule.

Paul Puryear

Why are we in the housing business? That was the foundation in which all the other recommendations rest.

Michael Coleman

When decisions are made without taking into account sound military recommendations, sound military decision-making, sound planning, then we're bound to make mistakes. When we violate the principles of war with mass and unity of command and unity of effort, we do that at our own peril.

John Batiste

I added legislation to a bill that was implemented last year that took on many recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

John Hostettler

We will give them full and complete cooperation as always to help them review the matters of concern with the Warren Police Department, ... We look forward to their suggestions and recommendations.

Greg Hicks

Will include various recommendations on how we can more efficiently and effectively serve an ever-growing number of families in need.

Chris Clarke

There are a number of commissions, both state and tribal, who do not fulfill what the minimal recommendations are. And they put fighters at risk of being hurt.

Paul Wallace

These are not the recommendations we will make to the school board. These are three options to start a dialogue at the public meetings.

Bob Hartwig

I am aware that the officers of the Crown have had the opportunity of perusing the bill and that they will be making some recommendations.

Arthur Williams

We appreciate what the commission has done. It's a tough job and it's a good step towards ensuring that the final recommendations increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our military structure.

Glenn Flood

Prior Time Warner directors are going to be looking askance at recommendations coming from these five because they come in with the Icahn agenda. Their interest is in short-term price performance.

Fred Lane

We, in fact, will be, hopefully, in a constructive way pressing the government to start to act and develop and implement these recommendations.

Francis Frank

The government of Nepal is not listening, there have been many recommendations, and many calls [for reform], but the government is using more and more repressive measures.

Nicholas Howen

It applies to companies that are publicly traded; for instance, companies on NASDAQ, however, many nonprofits and universities are taking advantage of the recommendations and applying them.

Tim Johnson

We are taking these recommendations seriously.

Larry Jackson

It is then her decision what to do next. We just make recommendations.

Michael Ballard

We did receive incorrect information that was provided to us, and we made the decision to loan the money based on the financial statements that were presented to us. It's apparent that there are some discrepancies in those financial statements and the recommendations were for us to get legal advice and we're doing that.

Mike Currie

When I first got it, it meant nothing to me because I knew nothing about the mines. But when I looked over it and saw there had been recommendations made.

Vicki Sharp

It's not our job to prove or disprove anything, but to find out what's going on in the family. Whether it's adoption or foster placement, we make recommendations to the court in the best interests of the child.

Helen Moore

I'd had recommendations from friends and family to get into the programming area.

Dan Thompson

We determined that policies were not followed, recommendations were not responded to and good judgement was not exercised.

Russ Danielson

I think the repeat findings would be the result of the audit cycle to a great extent. The agency had just two months to make changes based on his recommendations. We fully expected the possibility of repeat findings.

Justin Dejong

Generally speaking, if a student is interested in a program they can get in the program. Though some programs require teacher recommendations, initial student interest is the impetus.

John Wise

We are pleased with the findings and the constructive recommendations made in today's draft report.

Donald Kerr

When we make decisions about operational hours?as a business partner we have to make recommendations [about] keeping [these places] open with as many locations as we have on campus.

Katherine Carmody

I think key in this report are the recommendations that talk about improved coordination with the police department and other agencies and the fire department.

Nicholas Scoppetta

Experience from high-income countries shows that overall mortality and disability from birth defects could be reduced by up to 70 percent if the recommendations in this report were broadly implemented.

Arnold Christianson

One, if there are recommendations that need action, we need them sooner than later. Two, he does not want this to be delayed any further and become a political football in the middle of the campaign.

John Feehery

The 2000 audit made it apparent that ... management had not implemented any of the 1996 [Ernst and Young] recommendations, ... Nevertheless, information was dropped from the final 2000 report, with no mention of the 1996 audit.

John Gomery

Let staff look into the participants in the committee to make sure they are diverse and make recommendations to the council.

Andy Fox

I'm a big Jeff Buckley fan. But he only had one album and then he died. So I started with Jeff Buckley and began getting some good recommendations.

Jace Seavers

(The recommendations) pick up all the strong sides from everyone's issues.

Chris Mills

It is a collective wisdom that put this plan together. We are excited about it. There were a lot of good thoughts that came forward, and we will build on the recommendations.

Sharon Vogel

I am pleased that the commission apparently has been receptive to arguments against some of the Pentagon's recommendations, ... It is obvious that this is an independent commission full of independent commissioners who are looking at the facts and are making their decisions.

Stephanie Herseth

The recommendations from our last meeting were erroneously interpreted and regrettably led to the considerable slowing down of the peace process.

Pierre Schori

In 1989 ...their engineers made four recommendations to change the design of the vehicle. Ford didn't do it. They only implemented two of the design changes. The ones they didn't do included widening the vehicle two inches and lowering the vehicle.

Leonard Vitullo

Some of the recommendations make sense, ... We could have facility used at least partially, and help the fishermen.

Alice Brown

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

William Sessions

We will evaluate it go through each of the recommendations. Of course it's going to have to be a prioritizing of what is financially feasible and what is practically feasible and whether it goes with our mission or not.

Judy Outlaw

They keep pushing their recommendations as though they are the gospel truth. There is confusion as to all of these recommendations, issued as if they are policy. The Times-Picayune contributes to that confusion. None of this is a given.

Mtangulizi Sanyika

One of the top recommendations I can give to students is for them to do their homework. Research the employer and find out what the company is about. The best way they are going to impress an employer is to show interest.

Brandon Bute

I was encouraged by the clientele, people wanting recommendations. Being able to educate and create a certain enthusiasm about wine was what I really liked.

Daniel Johnnes

Chairman Grassley continues to look at the report?s many recommendations and consider whether to work to enact them. That applies to this provision.

Jill Gerber

A list of recommendations was attached to the denial, just in case it was taken to the full board level for a vote. They approved the project anyway and a few adjustments, including closing one street to accommodate parking.

Tom Herring

We will review the institution's corporate governance, including policies and procedures and then, make whatever recommendations -- if any -- we feel are appropriate for the full Board to consider.

John Biggs

We can't only be tied to Quebec's demands, but at the same time we take seriously the recommendations of the Quebec government because it's a major player.

Irwin Cotler

Any recommendations regarding climate policy must meet the demands of economic growth and development, especially in the developing world.

Chuck Hagel

Then we'll be bringing our draft recommendations to council and the Port Authority by early fall.

Dave Reid

These are excellent recommendations. It documents a continuous improvement planning process that validates the good work we are doing and will help us improve in other areas. We all want the same thing -- to provide the best education for our students.

Candace Millington

The mayor has asked his Fire Commission to evaluate the recommendations made in the controller's audit and come up with a plan for implementing them and determining the feasibility of implementing them.

Joe Ramallo

We called his references. If you saw his recommendations, they were glowing. Nobody said anything about any investigation. We did a stringent background check, which includes fingerprinting, through the FBI, the state, and it came back clean.

Sheila Weiss

The buzzword in the industry is that average recommendations for average conditions provide average results. Our motto is to apply what is necessary, where and when it's necessary, depending on the crop and the product used.

Sid Parks

These are pretty broad-reaching recommendations. They're pretty much where they need to be.

John Cox

This set of recommendations is ecologically responsible, but it's not putting a hair shirt on Seattle.

Denis Hayes

Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment on specifics and possible recommendations.

Dean Acosta

These recommendations could take the form of new guidelines for using existing air-interface protocols, or they could be to develop a new air-interface protocol. We like to be as data-driven as possible.

Sue Hutchinson

We are pleased that the signals from Washington are positive, ... The White House appears ready to accept the recommendations.

Jim Saxton

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

Christopher P. Howson

The software analyzes different aspects of a company's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement to provide you with exact buy and sell recommendations.

Mark Hing

The supervisor doesn't feel these recommendations go far enough.

Tony Bell

We estimate in the report that if the recommendations that we give were implemented, up to 70 percent of mortality and disability from birth defects could be prevented, treated, or ameliorated.

Christopher P. Howson

We will get at them promptly and we expect to be accountable for responding to those recommendations.

Bill Price

We wanted someone familiar with the local market and got recommendations on people who had local experience that was applicable to a project like Port Royal.

Bernard Groseclose

The majority of the parents were not interested or real excited about having their child change schools, but that's going to happen with any boundary line recommendations. Their concerns all were legitimate but were personal needs and issues. I feel their questions were answered very thoroughly.

Jim Vaughan

Transparency is essential ... what we need now is the implementation of the commission's recommendations but they need to be matched by resources from the Executive.

Kenny Macaskill

Many of the recommendations went into the 'too hard' box and floated in a bureaucratic malaise until the memory of the flood faded away.

Gerald Galloway

The governor's office is accepting resumes and recommendations.

David Ford

I've been getting more and more clients, largely because of recommendations made by CPAs to their clients. Things have been going so well, I was even able to double my revenue this year from last year.

Lynn Beare

The county needs to educate the public and come up with better recommendations for what types of trees should be planted.

Sandy Greenberg

Despite weeks and weeks of evidence -- even before Hurricane Katrina -- that these families were going to face record energy bills, your Administration has made no recommendations to deal with their financial straits.

Doug Wilder

The first go-round showed that recommendations like this can make a difference. All indications are they will continue to do so.

Joe Quintana

At the end of the day we wound up with five options, none of which had any recommendations with them. It was multiple-choice questions like on a menu. None of them seemed to have any consensus that this will actually fix something.

Alderman Dana Mclendon

In doing so, you might have made a friend or at least an associate that will say good things and make recommendations about you.

John Bean

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

J. Edgar Hoover

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Carolyn Johnson

The (rebel) New Forces go with the recommendations of the (UN-mandated) international working group. There is no other way.

Sidiki Konate

We can only make recommendations. It's then up to the governments to decide what next to do.

Bob Aldrich

The governor reviews each case personally to ensure that justice has been served. He takes many factors into consideration, including the parole board's recommendations, before making a final decision.

Mark Rickel

All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

Steve Hayes

We don't have a set of formal recommendations. What Sen. Bennett has been saying publicly is that it wouldn't hurt to have a few days of food on hand, a little bit of cash.

Don Meyer

We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommendations to the board.

Art Johnson

We have real questions with regard to some of the recommendations as they apply to the Air National Guard.

Anthony J. Principi

The IT organization must take into account all deployment recommendations, controls and limitations of the application, and enforce a policy that prohibits installing and operating the software outside these boundaries.

Mark Patterson

So, utilizing yield potential to dictate nitrogen recommendations may not be the most effective method, especially when nitrogen costs are high. Historically, we've treated excess nitrogen as cheap crop insurance. While it was then, that's not the case anymore.

Robert Mullen

I absolutely have to keep on top of all things changing within the parameter of investments. We hire professionals to make recommendations, but if we have no knowledge of what's going on, we don't know whether or not we approved something rational or someone had a silly idea and let's take a chance.

Roger May

The recommendations relate only to the use of hormones for cardiac protection. It does not relate to hormone use for other issues.

Nanette Wenger

They had called across the state to different head football coaches, along with the media and college coaches to ask for recommendations for Texas High and to find out what our program would mean to this particular event. They said everything came back as a can't-miss proposition. They were told ours is a team they need to have. I'm really proud of that.

Barry Norton

We're not going away. We're going to see that [the] recommendations are translated into legislation, that the legislation is translated into effective action by the agencies.

Stephen Push

I do think we must change our methods and management and look critically at any kind of fraud. I say quite clearly that the recommendations of the committee will be followed up.

Jacques Santer

The GC has decided that a technical committee will be constituted under the aegis of the director. Students will also pitch in with their recommendations for the maintenance of existing equipment and upgrading the institute's infrastructure facilities.

Sudeshna Bose

We made some very helpful recommendations and a large number of them have been accepted by the government.

Barry Sheerman

The existing body of evidence ... favors the notion that potassium supplementation should be considered as part of recommendations for prevention and treatment of hypertension.

Paul Whelton

We have another report, so let's just add it to the pile. Every time there's an unusual case, there's a panel that comes up with the same recommendations.

Jetta Bernier

We at Guidant recognize that there is an increased appetite for information from our industry among physicians and patients. We have also asked an independent panel of outside experts to provide recommendations.

Steve Tragash

It is not being a rubber stamp, ... but clearly, the bias here is to support the Pentagon recommendations.

San Antonio

If the college doesn't take our recommendations, the board may proceed to a censure.

Kathy Lawrence

A lot of time customers will go to older employees to ask for recommendations for over-the-counter medication because they probably have the same aches and pains. If we don't learn how to recruit and retain older people, we won't have a business.

Steve Wing

We have to tackle these recommendations one evening at a time. We have to look at this with that level of scrutiny.

Mayor Michael Hassig

Members of the commission have been selected for their experience and for their integrity. ... I know the group's recommendations will be comprehensive and well-considered.

Guy Boutilier

They're all good kids. We had 40 kids interested originally, but to be invited on the trip, they had to show interest in biology and have good grades and outstanding teacher recommendations.

Brynna Vogt

[So how much is enough? The most recent recommendations from the Institute of Medicine offer a range of 10% to 35% of calories from protein.] That's not a license to chow down on fatty meats, ... The Food Pyramid suggests more low-fat dairy and fish, and beans to increase protein.

Barbara Rolls

Just about every major study is showing that consumer recommendations trumps any form of advertisement.

Pete Blackshaw

Virtually all of our clients have accepted our recommendations.

Steve Littlejohn

We have established working groups with ardent goals and short deadlines to make recommendations for better enforcement strategies all across the operations spectrum.

Janet Napolitano

We're really moving on to the practical questions now to see how we can implement some of these recommendations.

Dave Kingham

This makes the implementation of the recommendations all the more compelling and pressing.

Yeo Yang Poh

We're setting out to craft recommendations that we believe will be do-able and reasonable.

Julian Fantino

There was an instruction somewhere along the line, we are not yet sure where, that tender evaluation reports should not include recommendations.

Ian Neilson

I think it's too far in one direction for where we are as a school district, but I'll wait and see what the committee's recommendations are.

Ray Morgan

The true concept of what art really is, is it's beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there are 11 beholders up here. I want to get to a point where we get recommendations from CAB that everyone is happy with.

Councilman Roger Flores

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Larry Hansen

Could we do a better job? A more streamlined job? Maybe. I think that probably could be done. Do we agree with the specific recommendations or observations related to Ontario? Absolutely not.

Terry Sullivan

We'll just be observing and making recommendations.

Steve Kolenda

There are expectations of good dividends and several buy recommendations from market players.

Helio Ozaki

This might be a very auspicious moment to make some recommendations about what we think ought to be regularly available.

David Finkelhor

I would like to ask the council to respect my recommendations, ... If the council chooses to do otherwise, I'd like to go on record saying I disagree.

James Perkins

[The Democrats limited their request to internal memos and recommendations related to 16 cases, and emphasized that it was no random fishing expedition.] This is a modest request, ... We could have asked for the moon, but we're not.

David Carle

The NEC meeting next month will make a decision about those vacancies. Recommendations will be taken to the meeting after the executive and officers have met. The NEC will then take a decision.

Robert Pickersgill

These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more than five servings of fruit and vegetables per day.

Feng He

We welcome their interest in seeing their recommendations implemented. There is ample public information available for them to review about all of the actions we continue to take to better protect the American people.

Dana Perino

The fact that the governor has included it in his recommendations to the Legislature gives us good reason for hope.

Greg Fox

The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.

David Anthony

Crude oil was a little weaker, so that provides a stimulus to stock prices. And there's good cheer on the corporate news and recommendations front. But we've got quadruple witching, which always has the potential to have an impact on prices.

Michael Panzner

Most of the recommendations were not implemented and we believe residential customers are not getting their share of the benefits. Consolidation often means fewer choices for customers.

Ryan Lippe

In general, those who came to the open house were not in disagreement with our recommendations. At the open house the only issue where people were really divided was size limits and that really just mirrors our feelings (as a committee) on this.

Steve Jacobson

We're hoping to see strong regulations down the road. The challenge is how to do that. As with any task force, it depends on what happens to the recommendations.

Damien Newton

The commissioner will give full consideration to any considerations and recommendations. [We] always want to work closely and have a strong relationship with local officials.

Dennis Schain

We have to see if the allegations have any legs to stand on, with Tim having the right to confront those who are making the allegations. The committee will then make its recommendations to the U.S.B.S.F. board. The board has the right to accept or reject the recommendations of the committee.

Dan Goodwin

We are coming up with policy recommendations for those who participate in 401(k) and pension plans, ... pretty short.

Andy Card

I think the Planning Commission needs to hear how valued their recommendations are, ... A lot of times those recommendations are not only valued but are relied upon.

Tim Parker

It's a massive undertaking that's going to change the landscape of Pittsburgh. We want to make sure we're really making recommendations that are in the best interests for the city of Pittsburgh.

Ron Porter

They offer areas of strength at the university, as well as challenges and recommendations.

Carri Jenkins

We have made some progress influencing the sourcing decision that our customers make. There are a growing number of examples of where we participated in the customer design and development and made recommendations about suppliers. The customer allowed us to make sourcing decisions on their behalf.

Everett Tucker

It's to have an exhaustive look at the matter, not only from the standpoint of potentially assigning responsibility but finding out what happened and making recommendations of a systemic nature so that it doesn't happen again.

Eugene Fidell

We receive the vast majority of our applications on-line through the Common Application. Giving high schools the option of delivering transcripts and recommendations electronically is an exciting development that will benefit everyone.

Eric Kaplan

We're looking closely at the recommendations. We have a huge database. Any change won't be easy, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Elaine Jennings

One of the primary strategies to close the achievement gap is to provide high-quality teachers to students who need them most, and that's precisely what our recommendations are about. Right now those students aren't getting the highest-quality teachers, and until the district addresses that, it will continue to have an achievement gap.

Ed Fuller

All of the recommendations will be reviewed in detail and taken seriously.

Earlon Mcwhorter

Third, according to our understanding, recommendations by the council are limited to the General Assembly.

Zhang Yishan