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There are a lot of them in every county. They are such an important part of the past and the present. I often think a community that doesn't take care of its dead wouldn't be a good place to live. They may be the only vestiges left of a community begun during, say, the Reconstruction period.

Caneta Hankins

It is the intention that, in due course, the company will carry out a capital reconstruction to enable the restoration of dividend payments at the appropriate time.

John Macarthur

It's going to be a long and expensive process that will require a lot of reframing and reconstruction to make it work.

Todd Duncan

This is all a bit of a puzzle, ... It will depend obviously on how quickly these areas can be repopulated, and also you've got the positive of reconstruction spending and the fact that that will create jobs.

Paul Ashworth

Both the US Defense Department (Army Corps of Engineers) and the State Department have roles in reconstruction, however, the Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO) manages most of the pledged $18 billion.

Heather Layman

We're putting people before the reconstruction of buildings.

Alfred Hughes

Your personal involvement in the post-tsunami reconstruction efforts of our country has been a great source of strength to all of us.

Mahinda Rajapakse

The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.

Vicente Fox

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

Ivor Van Heerden

In a hurricane, everybody gets popped, so in the rebuilding there is a very substantial reconstruction and sprucing up.

Joe Riley

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.

Walter Williams

There is a perception that the emergency conditions have passed because we're now in the reconstruction phase. This is wrong. The problems are so great, the humanitarian needs are so immense, that the emergency continues.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

Our reconstruction supports a lot of variability in the past.

Gabriele Hegerl

Still has an opportunity to reach out to blacks during the reconstruction, giving the displaced people a role in the project. But there is a problem. Already, he has made some mistakes. No-bid contracts are going to firms with close ties to Bush, and those don't tend to be minority-owned businesses.

Ron Walters

This is a very fine reconstruction of Mozart. My hope is that the mass will not be just a concert, but will feel spiritual. That it will make a statement about the human condition.

Rodney Wynkoop

He knew that (the rules) and still took a key and went in there. So we are absolutely not going to use our money that people donated to help the animals to pay for his reconstruction or medical bills, that was his fault.

Jeannette Christos

Most of them are considered Gilded Age presidents, from Reconstruction to 1900. But you know, it's not easy to be the president of the United States.

Bob Leith

One hundred percent of the donations are applied to the reconstruction. No administrative costs and none of [Miller's] expenses traveling to Sri Lanka have come from the donations.

Mike Costello

The heyday was Reconstruction, really. And then, starting about 1890, Arkansas imposed statutes that forced black people out of public office and made it impossible to vote -- Jim Crow laws -- and I just started to be amazed.

Judith Kilpatrick

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Markku Niskala

I guess in their rush to the Gulf Coast to secure reconstruction contracts, they forgot about the troops who are protecting them over in Iraq.

Carolyn Maloney

We are not there to fight. We are there for stabilization and reconstruction. We hope that the people there will not fight us.

Bernard Bot

Out of touch with the priorities of the business community. Interestingly, as the election grows closer, the mayor is scurrying to begin projects which have long been neglected. The South Terminal pier reconstruction is one project that he should begin immediately.

Chester Coach Scott Langerock

The reconstruction, massive as it is, is really the easy part. Rebuilding confidence, especially among the poor and vulnerable, is going to be extraordinarily difficult.

Bruce Reed

The president called this the largest reconstruction program in the history of the world, but when it comes to housing, the support is almost nonexistent, ... He's just handing out land.

Bruce Katz

The main issue now is to provide Afghanistan and the government there with the resources to be able to begin reconstruction.

Ahmed Rashid

The JAL group is close to collapse. I feel heavy a responsibility for the reconstruction of the business.

Haruka Nishimatsu

After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstruction, it made people think about cutting some of the projects that are everywhere.

Glenn Reynolds

We were ready to go to Indonesia to help over there ... when all of a sudden Katrina hit. The real mission statement, I guess you would say for Morrell, is to assist in the reconstruction of devastated areas throughout the world.

Merrill Osmond

Government-owned facilities like naval facilities and shipyards are going with their existing relationships. But many of the decisions about reconstruction are happening at the state level, so those outcomes are still up in the air.

Poe Fratt

The rationale for the only recovery plan is to make sure that there is no gap between the end of the relief operation and full-scale reconstruction.

Jan Vandermoortele

We are anticipating between $5 to 7 million for the cost and originally estimated it costing about $4.8 million. We also think that with all the constructing activity with (Hurricane) Katrina that we are anticipating higher prices, just not sure how high they might be. We might have to shift money from other projects if the reconstruction costs more than our expected expense.

Charlie Duggan

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

Wade Duty

One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.

Jean Arnault

In reality, dredging would probably be more important than that. That's probably more practical than reconstruction, but that's not a good thing to say.

John Meyer

Its essential that local populations spearhead the reconstruction effort.

Azmat Ulla

We share the wish for a national consensus for peace as a passport for the reconstruction of our country.

Camilo Gomez

For our size, I think we are safe. There has been a lot of highway reconstruction. Danbury would have never been the same if I-84 hadn't been widened.

Bill Jordan

The summer looks dismal with the insurance adjusters, contractors and reconstruction crews going away and tourists not coming back.

Bill Langkopp

This is the biggest project that I personally have been part of. The $600 million urban expressway reconstruction. They don't happen all that often.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

We have planned to double and treble our efforts to overcome our constraints. Post-tsunami reconstruction will be carried out equitably in the South, the North and the East, in our country.

Mahinda Rajapakse

These efforts were all part of the plan from the beginning. The intention was to preserve as much of the Iraqi infrastructure as possible so as to allow follow-on agencies to conduct reconstruction efforts.

Charles Owens

They couldn't ask us to sign a reconstruction that didn't correspond to our own.

Gianfranco Fini

It could be any one of different enemies of Afghanistan, of peace, of reconstruction in this country.

Omar Samad

The United Nations is in Iraq on a mission of peace, and for the reconstruction of the country and to support the Iraqi people. Therefore it is all the more shocking that this attack occurred.

Fayssal Mekdad

She lived there and enjoyed the reconstruction of the house. She was very instrumental in getting some of the furniture back.

John Garrott

The U.S. government remains committed to Iraq's future and that we remain committed to continuing our reconstruction efforts and programs and to continue to help Iraqi people during this period of transition.

Ambassador Daniel Speckhard

Our interest today is to ensure that this energy and concern will be harnessed towards convincing negotiators and leaders of Afghan factions alike of the benefits of including Afghan women as full partners in the decision-making process around the peace table, in humanitarian efforts and in reconstruction of the country.

Angela King

Commodity prices are going to go higher. We're not going to see a lot of the economic benefit of the reconstruction because of the prices.

G. Logan Jordan

Richard will have scans in the morning but it's got all the symptoms of another reconstruction.

Leigh Matthews

There has been marked increase in the incidence of larger and more deadly explosive devices, including suicide bombings. The perpetrators of these attacks have shown a growing intent to target civilians, government officials and reconstruction workers.

Tom Koenigs

The accident remains under investigation by our accident-reconstruction team.

Robert Noble

The $2.0 million less the cost of the studies might leave $1.5, $1.3 million. You might get the ramps for that, but if you get into reconstruction of that bridge and the approaches to bring them to standards for the next 30 to 40 years, that would could easily double the cost of construction.

Tom Beekman

We have to divide into two parts -- one is the relief and the second is reconstruction. He said that the response of the international community in the context of rescue and relief have been commendable.

Shaukat Sultan

The UK is the largest European investor in Sri Lanka and I especially look forward to meeting with UK NGOs and businesses working on post-tsunami reconstruction.

Brian Pearson

It's all about recovery, reconstruction and new construction. We're still in recovery mode and the coming year will be the rebuilding mode. Right now, housing is our biggest concern. There's just no outlet for affordable housing.

George Touart

He said the improvements will include 33 blocks of total infrastructure reconstruction, including sewer lines, water lines, lighting and concrete, which will “completely change the face of Havre.

Mick Johnson

Which has worked hard to reach this goal, feels even more the moral duty to support the brave Iraqi government in its efforts for democracy, security and for the social and economic reconstruction of the country.

Franco Frattini

Even another tropical storm could set the reconstruction back for months.

Matthew Simmons

The CIDA funds that are generated in this manner will be made available to support relief, rehabilitation, and eventually reconstruction proposals that are submitted to us by Canadian non-governmental organizations.

Aileen Carroll

It is reconstruction where the pledges are highly inadequate because reconstruction would require billions of dollars... for houses, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, colleges and police stations, roads and bridges.

Shaukat Sultan

Bulgaria must continue to support Iraq and its reconstruction, stabilization and democratic development.

Georgi Parvanov

Our hearts and our prayers are with the victims, ... But one should also keep in mind the importance of reconstruction in Iraq. You cannot leave Iraq alone, because failure is not an option here.

Barham Saleh

What we have at this point is a reconstruction of the cranium, half live and half skeletal. To do the full reconstruction, it will take more time and money.

Rodolfo Coria

Even as sufficient pledges have been made for recovery and reconstruction, relief is still less than 50 percent funded.

Andrew Macleod

Once reconstruction really gets under way in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we're expecting to see a surge in appliance manufacturers by mid-October, ... That could give some of the durable goods names a better profile.

Frank Holmes

International responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Taro Aso

It's going to be a long reconstruction in New Orleans and here. People are coming with their children. Some have lost documents. Some are undocumented.

Jose Lagos

The government has spent a lot of money to house people temporarily, but little has been done to enable people to come back and be residents of their city. There's no coherent strategy for the displaced to benefit from the reconstruction through jobs or housing or paying off their mortgages.

Greg Galluzzo

Everyday the hunt for Iraqi assets unveils more and Hussein's thievery from the Iraqi people, ... Taking international action to identify and freeze funds pilfered by the fallen regime is crucial to the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

Juan Zarate

There is no need for non-combat engineers to help out in the reconstruction process.

Irwandi Yusuf

There's going to be massive reconstruction in the Gulf region in a couple of months. And that is going to generate a lot of business and gains for the companies involved in the effort.

Joe Liro

Even more than money and the availability of money, what really slows down the reconstruction is decision-making bureaucracy and red tape.

James Carafano

Though the causes may be numerous and valid, the existence of the gap simply means that the completion of the U.S.-funded portion of Iraq's reconstruction will leave many planned projects on the drawing board.

Stuart Bowen

Although Dave served in a management position during the initial reconstruction effort in Iraq, he had no authority to award contracts. There is no connection between the hurricane-related work we are doing in Mississippi and Louisiana and Nash's involvement in Iraq.

Susan Wasley

We're probably in the most intense period of reconstruction. We have a lot of facilities around America that have simply reached the end of their useful life.

Rick Wade

Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.

Dennis Arroyo

Sometimes [the elbow] feels powerful and sometimes it doesn't. Usually the days when it doesn't is the days I pitch well. Hopefully it'll feel worse, I guess. It feels as good as can be expected for the time I'm coming back from a major reconstruction.

Scott Williamson

The new reconstruction was very detailed; we were all amazed with the level of detail that it showed.

Raúl Padrón

B.W. was kind of an interesting man. He was a realist. He had to make a cotton crop and go on. He became a state senator and was involved in Reconstruction. He was involved in the (Gov. Francis T.) Nicholls government and in the fight against the lottery.

Jimmy Marston

Our message must be clear -- reconstruction will only take place in those parts of Afghanistan where local players provide security and stability.

Poul Nielson

Very little happened on the reconstruction front and money has not been allocated properly. Most was spent on projects with no follow-up and so projects fell apart.

Joost Hiltermann

We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manager so that we all have something lasting to show for this spending.

David Vitter

The day they told me I'd have to have a reconstruction, they kind of said there wasn't a great chance I'd ever throw again. It was probably the worst day of my life.

Eulema Miller

It is called destruction before reconstruction. People will have to see the danger of war, the hopelessness of war, before things can improve.

Elizabeth Joyce

With these concrete, sustained projects we want to contribute to the reconstruction process. As well as providing humanitarian aid, we wish to express our closeness with these countries in which we have been active for many years.

Ekkehard Schulz

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Edith Hamilton