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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

We believe the Emerging Technology Fund has become our most effective tool for attracting or retaining companies that are looking to expand here in Massachusetts.

Stephen Mulloney

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Attracting and retaining companies to any community is an extremely competitive exercise.

Lynda Weatherman

North Korea clearly at this time wants to retain the right to have nuclear programs of one type or another.

James Leach

I have to get into this playbook a little more. They kind of threw me out there today. I'll have to see how much I can retain.

Billy Miller

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Daniel Pipes

They wanted to retain the flexibility for another year.

Bill Price

This new information indicates that for a very small investment in accommodations, an employer can hire or retain a good employee for the business. This is a win for the employer and the worker.

Roy Grizzard

Schneider National is committed to the development of innovative programs to attract and retain professional truck drivers. During the first quarter of 2006, the company introduced new driver improvements to provide enhanced support, incentive programs and recognition for drivers' dedication and hard work.

Rob Reich

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Michael Roth

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Vanna Bonta

It appears that your office has now assumed a position adverse to TIDA, ... It is apparent you have acquired an interest in this issue that is antagonistic to TIDA and its officers. Accordingly, I respectfully request that you retain outside counsel to represent TIDA in this specific matter, as it relates to specious allegations made by the Controller.

Tony Hall

A lot of things that you want, companies want. You want a productive employee, a trained employee. You want to retain employees. Unions want that too.

Rock Regan

The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.

Roberto Assagioli

We have a fifteen year lead in this market and we will retain our leadership.

John Schwartz

I've waited 18 years to say this, but England are about to retain the little urn.

Simon Hughes

Employers have become very savvy. They're in a very competitive job market and it's hard to recruit and retain people, so they might be open to making some changes.

Ron Krannich

The difference is Hernando County being able to be competitive in recruiting good teachers and retaining the great teachers that we have here, so it's important that we're on an equal playing field. That's really what the school board is looking to do.

Roy Gordon

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It will be harder to retain the absolute superstars.

Ivo Welch

If we're going to attract and retain teachers, they have to know that retirement benefits will happen. It's time to solve this problem.

Rosemary Coyle

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

More than 40 percent of the top consumer banks now offer Web services and consider the Net a must-have service to retain customer relationships.

Julio Gomez

In Florida, with its annual increases, and also with the hurricanes and booming construction and resort industries, there are plenty of jobs available. So employers have to pay more to retain good workers.

Allen Douglas

North Korea clearly at this time wants to retain a right to have a nuclear program of one kind or another.

Jim Leach

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

Warren E. Burger

With the majority of Fortune 500 companies having domestic partner benefits, it becomes an issue of being able to recruit and retain [employees].

Jay Fisette

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erich Fromm

We will retain the right to protest, and will ask the Security Council to investigate the truth ... about this factory.

Omar El bashir

They are under enormous pressure to retain people.

Sharra Greer

It's extremely important to retain a world-class production base in the U.K, ... We are looking for Hollywood-based films to be attracted here, that serves to open production business for domestic films.

Martin Brown

In the past, when we had the more difficult budget years, it was considered successful if we were able to retain $65 million in general fund money for the Centennial Highway Fund.

Carlos Braceras

There's a lot of concern about the amount of data that firms would have to retain in order to comply.

David Shillman

It is not a question of whether we retain the majority in 2006, but how strong that majority will be.

Brian Bosma

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Otto von Bismarck

We have developed systems for hiring, training and retaining employees like an elaborate science.

Nandan Nilekani

Depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

John Wagner

We can't expect them to do it for free forever. It's no different than us paying a retired Army general to talk about the war, or to retain ... a retired FBI agent to talk about the latest crime trends.

Chris Hansen

I think I learned something more about that history of mine, ... There's a, you know, young kid who had been changed by the Marine Corps but could also retain some of his humanity, some of his personality, and that was confirmed for me.

Anthony Swofford

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

Ginger Mccain

It was a way for me to hang on to my identity. For me, during this period of my life, it became a form of retaining my identity.

Donna Hollen Bolmgren

The whole market today is a little scary. I'm happy we retain any value.

John Warnock

Clearly the North Korean desire is for a light-water reactor, and the North Korean desire is to retain a peaceful nuclear program.

James Leach

They always retain the right to help a victim who wants it.

Justin Green

That's where our work force is coming from. Who are we going to promote? How are we going to retain people? We don't want dishwashers going in and out. We want them to be the managers.

Michelle Miller

They retain information better if they experience it instead of just listening.

Karen Collins

When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.

Collin Ashton

There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it.

Tom Malinowski

When you have a great brand, you will always get a chance to be involved in deals. When you have good people -- and Goldman has managed to attract and retain many of the best people -- you can execute once you win the business.

James Marks

We want to retain our customer base. We know that a lot of our customers use our competitors, and it's only because they can get the services at 6 or 7 o'clock at night.

Tori White

When it comes to recruiting and retaining the type of people this company needs, stock options aren't the only important compensation tool, but they are an important one.

T.r. Reid

Almost three quarters of our margin decline in the first half of this year is because we are spending to retain and acquire customers there.

Arun Sarin

The department encourages students with offenses to fill out aid applications. Some may retain aid if they've gone through a rehabilitation program.

Valerie Smith

The addition of Max and Claudio to the Boyden network enhances our capabilities to meet the expanding needs of our clients in identifying and retaining top leaders in this important market.

Chris Clarke

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

Barry Goldwater

Water leeches important antioxidants and minerals from the beans, which you discard when you toss the water. Incorporate the water into your cooking process to retain the vitamins and minerals.

Rosalind Allen

It's now a bigger challenge for companies to retain their employees.

Catherine Eddy

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce

As part of our agreement with SJL they provided us a list of employees they'd like to retain. Per the agreement they initiated that, and we agreed to administer that news to employees.

Kate Snedeker

The idea that we will be destroying something that was great is just wrong, ... The goal is to retain that and built on it.

James Goldston

Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, / And when we meet at any time again, / Be it not seen in either of our brows, / That we one jot of former love retain.

Michael Drayton

(We) were basically told by the Sheriff's Department that would be unfair to the other contract cities, because then they would have to offer more money to retain their officers.

Ted Cole

We find ourselves in a very difficult cycle of faculty who are very talented being wooed by other universities. We are a prime candidate for cherry-picking. In order to retain the integrity of our programs, we don't want to lose our very best faculty.

Jerry Hauser

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Stanley Kubrick

To be recognized by our residents as the best in the industry for fulfilling customer service needs is a high compliment to our staff. We will continue to listen to our valued customers and focus on retaining the best and brightest employees to sustain this momentum.

Adam Ford

Under the law, no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them. There is no legal basis under which a third party could retain them as part of an estate. The documents remain the property of the U.S. government.

Richard Kolko

We have created a blue chip market for blue chip companies. Nasdaq is raising its financial listing standards above that of any other market globally to attract and retain companies that want to trade on the market with the highest listing standards.

Bob Greifeld

I felt it was very important that this franchise retain him and not lose him. I spoke very strongly on his behalf. For the new owner's sake, Dana was an important asset that they needed. With the approval of the Commissioner's office, we agreed to terms with Dana.

Jim Bowden

I'm struck by the numbers -- by what they have been able to achieve. There's a real commitment to retain and build the staff.

Rick Rodriguez

One of the priorities of ?Campaign Arizona' was endowed support of faculty and staff, not only to retain the great faculty that you already have but also to recruit more from other institutions or private industry.

Rodney Campbell

These are the sectors that attract and retain talented young people and build regional wealth.

Harold Miller

Effective follow-up with customers is more important than ever, yet it is increasingly complex and time consuming for dealership employees to proactively manage customer communications. Consumers expect to receive information quickly and the way they find most convenient. Dealers need a system that helps them use various communication methods to retain customers for life.

Mark Przybylski

This proposal would limit our ability to establish a competitive compensation package and that could place Sun at a competitive disadvantage in attracting and retaining top talent.

Stephanie Von Allmen

If they feel they're not there on merit that can also have very bad implications. It's really about getting the balance, about being active but also retaining the appearance that everyone is qualified and doing a good job.

Michelle Ryan

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and what you think, ... There is strong evidence that, particularly in the over-50s, the degree to which you retain your mental faculties depends on a number of simple behavioural factors.

Brian Robertson

If the unions and their members are able to commit to extensive across-the-board labor reform, there may be an opportunity to retain some wide body airframe maintenance capacity in-house.

Rob Fyfe

We will leave numbers unchanged and retain our neutral stance based on valuation.

Chris Millington

Last time we were the No 1 at Manchester, and I'm sure everything points to our retaining the top position here too.

Sunny Thomas

With the economy as good as it's been, small employers simply haven't been able to attract and retain good employees if they don't have a 401(k) plan.

Bill Carey

It's one of the most authentic curriculum experiences that prepares students for career choices and college prep. Even if they decide not to pursue it, they still retain the job skills.

Kathleen Sirovy

We saw significant growth in our consumer, corporate and investment banking business units last year, and we hope to retain double-digit growth momentum this year.

Morris Li

The first goal is to retain and expand existing businesses.

John Boswell

With agents rapidly shifting to contact centers that either remunerate better or offer better incentives, recruiting, managing and retaining staff has become one of the biggest issues that contact centers across Asia Pacific need to deal with.

Shivanu Shukla

For OMG to achieve its long-range growth agenda, it is vitally important that we have the systems and programs in place that enables us to attract, retain and grow a superior work force. We firmly believe that Dan Lewis has the experience and the foresight to help us put those systems and programs in place.

Joe Scaminace

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

Jonathan Sacks

We take a very realistic approach to what it takes to retain workers.

Michael Richards

This is my ninth year as general manager and, when you find players who can perform on the big stage in New York, it makes it that much more important to retain those players.

Brian Cashman

The retaining wall that's there is very inefficient. It's a small portion of the debris field itself.

Bob Brooks

We demand that NABI immediately retain an investment bank other than Lehman, or in conjunction with Lehman, to explore strategies to maximize shareholder value.

Daniel Loeb

This is the first word processor to be able to import PDF documents without having to copy and paste. Also, most tables will retain their formatting.

Richard Carriere

What will probably happen is they will knuckle down and vote for reform. Things are getting better in Japan and the architect of that appears to be moving toward retaining power.

Callum Henderson

Customers asked for a tool that would allow them to delegate domain name management responsibilities to a variety of people on a variety of levels, yet ensure they retain control over their domains. So we developed the exact solution they requested.

Bob Parsons

[He knows how to dramatize his subject matter.] The faculty retaining ownership is the last bulwark of defense of the universities as they exist, ... It's high noon.

David Noble

We want to ensure that we are competitive in attracting and retaining talent. We're competing very broadly with very large, global companies.

Gregory Comeaux

We needed to retain the elements of the old label so as not to alienate the existing consumer base, but by paring them down to their most basic shapes and forms, the same elements become sleek and modern.

Janet Kinghorn

This initiative seeks to retain and grow existing companies, give first to new animal health and nutrition ventures, and attract new companies.

Joerg Ohle

As long as I own it, I retain the option to change the color.

James Wolfe

Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also remain focused on aligning and engaging employees. This session provides an opportunity to learn how to implement systems that help engage and retain employees-from an expert in talent management.

Allan Schweyer

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Mary Worley Montagu

The Fusion, Milan and Zephyr continue to surprise us on the upside. These new, fuel-efficient cars are helping our dealers to retain owners and capture new ones. We never have been in a better position to compete for customers in an environment of rising gasoline prices.

Al Giombetti

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Otto Weininger

Every two years we have an election for a term of four years. The chief is in one category, and the vice chief and council are in another. This year I am up for re-election. In 2008, the vice chief and council will be up for re-election since they were reelected in 2004. This way, our governing board is able to retain some continuity.

Chief Louie Chavis

We've mentally prepared for whatever is going to happen, but I think we've done enough - if we skate our best - that we should be able to retain our placement.

Aaron Lowe

When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping them connect with the opportunity at two or more store locations, we're happy to do that.

Anne Roman

Francisco Partners will provide GXS with the support necessary to acquire other electronic commerce solution companies in the future, as well as attract and retain key talent to accelerate its growth.

David Stanton

To retain your character you need marketing. Without marketing, you can do nothing.

David Mason

Target has one of the best health care and benefits packages in the industry. We are an industry leader in providing a wide array of excellent benefits that allow us to attract and retain the best team members.

Carolyn Brookter

The feasibility study showed that conventions we've been getting here have been outgrowing our facilities. We're not just going out to get more of a share of the pie but working to retain the piece we already have.

Kelly Ward

If Europe wants to retain its competitive edge at the top of the global-value-added chain, the education system must be made more flexible, more effective and more easily accessible to a wider range of people.

Andreas Schleicher

BCCI will deal only with one party, which is appropriate, for this way we will be able to retain transparency while providing a level playing field for all prospective bidders.

Lalit Modi

The risk of knowledge loss will always be there because there will always be unexpected departures. But if you have a solid process to map out who is in your leadership pipeline, you'll be better prepared to fill job openings, retain top-performing employees and prepare for retirement.

Liviu Dedes

His legacy is that he figured out how to get and retain the best work force.

Nicholas Heymann

E-mail archiving isn't just about compliance; it's also about retaining corporate knowledge and managing storage, ... It makes sense to provide solutions that address all of these needs.

Michael Osterman

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

It certainly is damaging to the industry as a whole. What it means is that there's this floating customer base. Every airline has to work harder to attract and retain customers.

Stuart Klaskin

We are prime for growth. We are fortunate to have REDCO (Regional Economic Development Corporation) and area towns with leadership that is dedicated to bringing new business into the area and retaining existing businesses.

Kathy Lively

We want to get someone in here to advise us how to retain as much of the historic element as possible while also making it safe, ... We wouldn't want to replace this with a culvert except as a last resort.

Greg Turner

Downtown has for the most part been able to retain the important buildings in recent years, but we're still losing the little ones.

Angie Quinn

Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on returns to the Companies Office to retain the critical transport and energy portfolios.

Gerry Brownlee

The potential advantages that we can get from owning Egg make it clear that retaining it is the right decision.

Mark Tucker

I would be honored to be speaker if I am fortunate enough to be re-elected and we are fortunate enough to retain the majority. I believe I will be the only nomination from our (Democratic) caucus.

Barbara Buckley

They're not going to get their way. We will retain the right to shoot those (bison) that cannot be captured near West Yellowstone.

Larry Petersen

We have a lot of good people here. We focus on hiring and retaining good quality people.

Tim Roewe

We are beginning to wrap up the Main Street improvements, putting in the new retaining wall on Jackson Street. We are buying a 90-foot fire truck. There are many little things, too.

Dan Camp

It might seem extreme, but it would allow the LDP to retain the balance of power.

Richard Gibbs

Digital music finally got off the ground in Europe in 2005, but it is important to retain a sense of perspective: paying for digital music is currently a niche activity and is still outweighed by file sharing which is conducted by 15 percent of European internet users.

Mark Mulligan

We have to recruit and retain our staff in a very competitive job market. Silicon Valley is 45 miles southwest of Livermore. The computer companies there aggressively recruit good computational staff.

Douglas Post

I can see that my players are eager to win this time, and win we must in order for us to retain substantial hope for qualification.

Otto Rehhagel

Attracting and retaining workers at all levels is critical to DRS.

Michael Kelly

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

We were disappointed we didn't retain the ball as much as we wanted.

Darren Fletcher

Our Hamlet is a very Israeli Hamlet from the language to its energy. As soon as local theater is authentic in its place, it has an opportunity abroad. If you look at Kurosawa's films for example, they are very local and very Japanese. When they retain their identity and if they're excellent, they have a chance abroad. Our Hamlet is honest and genuine. It crosses the barrier of language.

Omri Nitzan

It's not easy to retain an artistic passion under those conditions.

Chris Knight

We retain a healthy degree of skepticism that all will not be well on Feb. 15. The state of Vermont has to come up with a fail-proof plan.

Michael Sirotkin

The increase is to attract and retain employees. As we try to do recruitment we are not getting the right number of qualified candidates, and then we have to take a look at our salaries to find out what's at issue.

Yvonne Hester

[The violations] were accumulating. Your newspaper wrote a very extensive article about the retaining wall issue and that was certainly one of them. The other ones began to emerge, and finally we reached the point where no matter what we got up and said, it didn't account for anything, and we decided this was our only recourse.

David Slipy

Nortel strives to provide more than a superior IPTV network for our customers. Our goal is to enable new and exciting IPTV applications that give our customers a competitive advantage to win and retain IPTV subscribers.

Walt Megura

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.

Frank Stella

Despite their concern about retaining core deposits, few bankers plan to change their tactics for funding growth.

John Ziegelbauer

There is an emerging opportunity for commerce on the web and this agreement allows Yahoo! flexibility in aggressively pursuing this opportunity while retaining 100 percent of the financial benefit of Yahoo! shareholders.

Tim Koogle

We'll end this year at 300 team members. We've been able to grow because we can retain excellent team members.

Trip Goodloe

It affects our ability to get the best president and retain quality faculty.

Mark Kresowik

We feel very confident the Big East will retain its spot in the BCS, ... We feel we are one of the six strongest conferences in the country. We may be sixth, but we're sixth.

Jeff Long

I support it because I think we need to be on par with the state so that we can attract and retain good teachers. We need, at the very least, to look at what other counties in our area are doing.

William Shelton

There is 'no negotiating partner' only if Israel is determined to annex or retain indefinite control of significant chunks of the territory occupied in 1967.

James Reilly

Our future success depends primarily on our ability to attract, train, retain and develop the right people within our organization.

Abe Reichental

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Wallace Stegner

We might be able to retain an attorney because we could lose a lot of foster care providers who simply cannot do this.

Gary Lane

We want to attract and retain quality educators, and that's the goal.

Brett Hall

Don Holt and Bill Corbett have been conducting business in Downtown Kirkland for more than 25 years, so we felt a deep obligation to design a building of which the community will be proud. As one of very few hotels ever to open in the downtown area, we've a remarkable opportunity to play a role in retaining the aesthetic integrity and contribute to the economic development of Kirkland.

Jeff Jobe

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A major obstacle the carrier must overcome is recruiting and retaining qualified employees. United is understaffed at many locations, and its reputation as an employer who breaks promises, eliminates benefits, forces confrontations and destroys pensions does little to help recruitment.

Randy Canale

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Benny Hinn

This is the result of our company growing to meet the demands of our customers and our total commitment to attracting and retaining the best associates possible.

Lawrence Jackson

We need to be retaining students better on our campus, making sure they know what the courses offered are, and that they get through the system faster so they can be out in the workplace.

Val Peterson

Moving forward, our strategic objective is to continue to increase net asset value and cash flow per share. We are pursuing a four-point plan: growth from existing core operations; expanding our capacity for the future, developing attracting and retaining the best people in the industry, and driving new opportunities from exploration and acquisition.

Tye Burt

The key issue is what data ISPs will be forced to either retain or preserve, and cost of recovery for that. Without an adequate cost recovery for both retention and retrieval of the information, ISPs will be open to open-ended requirements.

Joe Mcnamee

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

David Rudow

We retain the footwear rights and the ability to market our athletes.

Paul Harrington

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Thurgood Marshall

Like any genre of music that forms in a niche, then reaches pop mainstream, Latin artists are recognizing, 'I can compete in the pop form, yet still retain my identity as a Latino.

Paul Burgess

The board opted to retain $6.5 million in order to offset the negative impact we've had on fuel prices.

Ken Hardie

I think it's a concern (that he can retain his license while on bail), but it's not something we can remedy.

James Ronca

Today we're presenting a total package that in Florida, we don't only want to recruit you -- we want to retain you.

Sen. Evelyn Lynn

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

Clifford Longley

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

I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of the Big 12 coaches and has done a great job retaining his coaching staff despite all the success ISU has experienced.

Jeff Horton

The funds were donated in full compliance with federal law and disclosed properly and publicly, but yesterday's admission of guilt and improper actions warranted our action to make something positive come of all this by donating the money to local charities rather than retaining it.

Shannon Flaherty

We'll take great pains to retain as much of the original wood as possible.

Quentin Snediker

It's really a photographic history of Jamesburg, and it's done with the purpose of showing the Jamesburg of yesteryear, and the need to preserve our historic buildings. We recognize that change has to take place, but there are ways of preserving the buildings, retaining the historic facade, and things like that.

Ron Becker

He is going to try by all means to hire his own team of lawyers. He has already decided to retain some of the lawyers who came yesterday.

Arthur Saye

This is a rare opportunity to advance a landmark project early in the life of the 100-year Cascade Agenda program. Conserving properties like this is the basis of the Cascade Agenda. There is an opportunity to provide parks and open space and conserve working forests. Retaining these kinds of landscapes is important to maintaining the quality of life of the region.

Gene Duvernoy

This seems to be another indication that growth targets may be too aggressive. It's more expensive to attract new customers. On the other hand, retaining and developing them typically requires investments in systems, employees and processes that bankers emerging from expense management strategies may not yet be comfortable with.

Piercarlo Gera

Howard has a history of knowing where the lines are, and we're confident he'll continue to retain that perspective at Sirius.

Scott Greenstein

It's a very nice innovation. It's more about retaining customers and giving them more reasons to stick with Yahoo.

Charles Golvin

We still had a long way to go and it was imperative to retain continuity in our efforts.

Jim Whitaker

During my time as president we have fought many battles, not least almost annually the one to retain the British Grand Prix.

Jackie Stewart

We need to retain all of our seats, and when you have somebody on your side of the aisle that's leaving, that's significant in the next election.

Diane Tebelius

It will help retain workers that we have and hopefully attract new workers to the system.

Greg Bird

A lot of the information overlaps. It makes it easier to retain the information by simply focusing on the various areas instead of increasing the volume of study material by learning the same thing over and over again. This method ensured that I paid an equal amount of attention to each area of study.

Debra Ialomov

People are flying, but 33 percent of them are flying from somewhere else. We need to work with Northwest to be more competitive in this market and retain passengers out of this airport.

Hal Gershman

Because DSL helps us to retain customers, it also makes it less likely that these customers will sign up for competing cable voice services.

Bob Ingalls

The exclusion of same-sex domestic partners from this program [tuition reduction] is detrimental to the university's ability to attract and retain the most qualified employees without regard to their household arrangements, and is inequitable to employees who cannot marry their domestic partners.

Peter Likins

Today's intensely competitive logistics services environment requires that providers respond more quickly to rate requests and with professional proposals that will help them win and retain important customer relationships.

Jim Preuninger

We see it as an effort to attract and retain talent.

Maureen Weber

They could move here and still retain their name as the New York Black Yankees. The New York would go from referring to the city to the state.

Doug Brei

We feel like we contributed to important improvements in the program in terms of a couple of hundred thousand people being able to retain their medical care and (for those on the program) to be able to retain all their important due process protections.

Ted Carey

North Queensland has always had a great pool of talent, but since Graham took over we have done a much better job of retaining those really top kids as well as being able to attract high quality young guys from other clubs.

Peter Parr

The Harris government pulled off a clever trick — retaining all power while creating the illusion of relinquishing a substantial amount of it.

Mike Harris

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.

William James

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

Bill Bryan

We believe that our new customer additions and revenue from repeat customers attest to our ability to acquire and retain customers by continually investing in innovative technology and new products and services that broaden our product offering.

Robert Keane

I don't think you have to be a top performer to retain customers, but you need to be a good performer to satisfy customers. Customers are not going to wait around four days for you to respond to their question. Speed and accuracy are important.

Barrett Ladd

I think absolutely there is a hard deadline here. Even though we retain his rights if he goes the junior college route, it retards his progress and our chances of getting him out there playing in Instructional League or the (Arizona) Fall League and getting the kid some at-bats.

Mike Rizzo

Retaining existing business is just as important as recruiting new business.

Mark Swanger