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It changed from a semi-secret occupation without government regulation to something that is transparent, with annual reports and public disclosure. That's a very large change. In the trading area, especially, there was a lot of secrecy.

Martin Mayer

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony.

Paul Goodman

I knew Aaron was going to be tough. He's the best out here, the best I've seen. My horse is bigger and not nearly as fast. It's like driving a semi on a race track.

Kyle Dewar

There are only four events but with heats, semi-finals and finals there are 11 races, plus three more with relays so 14 races over six days is a lot of swimming.

Stephan Widmer

Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee.

Sandra Lee

My team has not performed consistently this season but have made it to the semi-finals and at this level Los P have a way of finding their form.

Tony James

With semi stocks, if you're not buying when there are mistakes then you're chasing momentum and that's historically proven to be a difficult strategy. Investors should take advantage of controversy.

Cody Acree

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.

Bear Bryant

At the end of our conversation, I said the church would get the word out about donations and Karl agreed to drive the loaded semi to the people in need.

Todd Hunter

We have recovered semi automatic weapons from him.

Karnail Singh

We're semi-pro though, strictly part time. You have to budget your time. I have a job here at Rutgers that I love, and the band is a weekend-warrior kind of thing.

Ben Sopranzetti

I got sick when I was playing the semi-finals in Korea, and since then I've had a tough time playing.

Jelena Jankovic

The biggest culprit is plastic residue left in the barrel. Rust develops underneath that plastic and can pit the barrel. Besides that, recoil increases. Extraction of the shell is less efficient, especially with the semi-automatics.

Pat Childs

Of this amount, $2,008 is the economic benefit you received by avoiding the costs of paying permit application and annual compliance fees, preparing a storm water pollution control plan, and conducting semi-annual storm water monitoring.

Anne Price

For example, this was the case for arid and semi-arid areas where lawn irrigation and planting changed the ecosystems from shrub lands and desert to deciduous forests.

Marc Imhoff

We can confidently say the rains have established. In many arid and semi-arid regions, the drought is already alleviating, the dams are filling up and there is water for livestock.

Peter Ambenje

I think the fact that both the Bulls and us are in a similar situation, that we have to win to qualify for a semi-final berth, could result in positive rugby.

John Smit

The Rube Goldberg demonstrations are always well-attended on campus because it's fun to see how complicated our engineering students can make even the most trivial of actions. Sometimes their inventions work great. It is a fun exercise in semi-futility that produces a lot of camaraderie among the students who build these machines.

Bill Graff

I believe he needs to do that a little more, as (Andre) Agassi did in the final - take some chances with semi short balls and attempt winners or attack.

Pat Cash

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Boris Pasternak

The easy money has been made in many of the semi stocks, including Intel, but I still think some chips stocks have 20 to 25 percent upside left. This is hopefully the pause that refreshes.

Krishna Shankar

Once I hit the guard rail, I lost my semi-balance and it dropped behind me.

Matt Stairs

We are more beginners than them in the matter of semi-finals, they are more experienced. We must be careful because the Italians start slowly and then end up scoring against you.

Victor Valdes

It's been tough, it's been a battle ... At the beginning our goal was to reach the semi-finals, now it is getting to the final.

Shannon Kleibrink

We escorted a semi-truck load of goods to Camp Gruber. The Red Cross ladies were very organized. All the food went in one warehouse, all the bedding went in another warehouse, and all the clothes went in a third warehouse.

Joe Calvillo

Irish is entitled to parity of esteem. But that does not mean parity of print runs. Semi-state companies were forced to print equal numbers of Irish and English versions of annual reports, when there was only a tiny demand for the Irish-language version.

Jim Duffy

We're not a meeting, and we don't preach. We sit in a circle for an hour at a Friend's home and listen to a higher power through our silence. Some Friends groups have semi-programmed meetings where they read Bible verses and sing hymns, but not ours.

Loree Campbell

We had requested what we thought was fair value, but they came back much lower, so we countered with something we thought they would take. The BLM came semi-close to that figure but then they sent it to the Department of Justice attorneys for approval and they knocked it down again.

Darin Wright

Neal has been semi-detached for weeks. We've decided the split is final.

Peter Morris

We do rearrange things. But Paul also does have an amazing range that he doesn't use all that much. When we were doing Another One Bites the Dust , we pulled it down a couple of semi-tones because we didn't want to hurt him.

Brian May

It's nice to be through to another semi-final.

Lleyton Hewitt

We can never get rid of all the mosquitoes, we can only hope to make it semi-tolerable with mosquitoes.

Ronnie Neese

Two semi-trailer units made contact and collided. One of those semis careened off and hit the bus.

Al Fraser

The VR-1 is our first entry into the semi-rugged market, so we set out to make the best laptop in terms of durability, published standards, and sheer computing performance.

Thomas Turner

There are no clip-fed or semi-automatic guns here. All of the guns are pre-1900 in design.

Alan Deal

Our grain is brought in by local farmers and shipped out of here either by semi or by rail.

Jim Keller

I think the market overreacted. The case for Motorola is still very strong. The cellular business is at the beginning of a new cycle for Motorola, the semi-conductor business is at the beginning of a new cycle.

Mona Eraiba

We just got afraid of the press. (We've got a) semi-inexperienced bunch. ... They weren't coming to the ball and they weren't moving right. ... It's just an experience factor and an age thing.

Russ Halverson

Nothing is percolating, but we certainly would listen if somebody called. Once you've got the bug, you always feel that way. We're happy doing what we're doing though. It's like semi-retirement.

Jeff Torborg

Overall, you're going to see a pretty strong opening. A lot of semi numbers were pretty good last night.

Barry Ritholtz

I just looked up and saw four semi trucks pull up, ... When it was spreaded out, it was so deep I thought we might loose a few Kindergartners in it. But they told me it would be different after a good rain. It is.

Ronald Jackson

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

Paul Klee

It's going to be a very hard game. But now we are in the semi-finals, anything can happen. We've got our chance.

Kolo Toure

Why a man can have access to a semi-automatic assault weapon ... what is going on?

John Fernandez

We are living in an America in which an Orthodox Jew was the ambassador to Cairo and kept a kosher home. America now, on Yom Kippur, semi-shuts down, including government, because so many of the administrative assistants are Jewish.

Arthur Hertzberg

They've lost so much. We don't realize how fortunate we are. They need everything. We're hoping we can fill the semi.

Sally Adams

We are not mentally tired, although physically we might be a bit. This will be our Cup final, not our semi-final. It is that big and important for us.

George Boateng

We're well positioned in the hottest electronic markets out there – wireless, digital TV ... there isn't a semi company out there that has the position that TI has in digital TV, ... We're just in some hot areas that are driving a lot of strength.

Ron Slaymaker

The first one was a much larger project in scope. Whereas the ones we're doing now are smaller versions. They consist of a 30-inch high, limestone wall built in a semi-circle.

Charlie Tygard

My dad still comes up every day, so he's more like semi-retired. Mom still comes up a couple days a week to help clean or bread chicken.

Marc Danley

It is the manager's decision and whether it is me or Carlo, we will be strong enough. Carlo has been doing brilliantly well and with him in goal we have reached the semi-final. Now we must make sure we make the final.

Petr Cech

And PSV played very, very well (in last year's semi-finals), maybe better than us.

Paolo Maldini

Anything can happen in a semi-final, and we will now go into it as underdogs.

Simon King

It doesn't get much better then scoring a hat-trick in the semi-final at Hampden Park. I'm delighted we're in the final and we've still got a lot to play for this season. To play the way we did today was exceptional and I'm really pleased for the fans who have backed us in great numbers this season.

Paul Hartley

Just prior to the game against Antrim in the semi-final, Raymond had a fitness test and we were worried about his availability. He has been hampered by injury lately and obviously that is a worry for us.

Martin Coyle

They came out full-on with plenty of intensity. It was good preparation because I believe they'll be our (semi-final) opponents. There's a very good chance we'll play them again in a couple of weeks.

Al Westover

I got three other guys to play with me, got on a bus, and started playing folk clubs and dives. A lot of times the reception was semi-hostile, like 'What are you doing here? You're rich, and you're probably a Republican as well!'

Jimmy Webb

We are going to attack the enemy in the field that could be hidden in tree lines. They could be hidden by buildings. They could be in semi-populated areas, possibly they're harder to find.

Charles Wald

Five days ago I was on holiday and having fun. Two days I didn't think I'm playing. Now I have a chance to be in the semi-finals. It's strange. Who knows?

Fernando Gonzalez

It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches.

Mario Ancic

There were two things investors hated about Motorola: Chris Galvin and the semi business. Now they are getting rid of both.

Casey Ryan

[Leprechauns coach Mark Barrett was disappointed with the end result, but refused to comment on the decisions which cost his side.] There's nothing we can do about it, so we'll just look ahead to the semi-finals, ... We've come out of the game with a fair few injuries so a week off with the minor premiership would have been nice, but we've got to play now.

Mark Barrett

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Mitch Hedberg

Because it's romantic, it's dashing, it's a spectacle. It's not bad musically. It's not great. But it's good enough. There's even an operatic aspect to it, which might fascinate certain semi-sophisticated audiences.

John Simon

I'm not semi-retired, I'm just taking it easy.

Craig Washington

It represents the political climate of the U.S.. It's a play on test tubes. I'm very pro-choice and it's a semi-human interpretation of different ways babies are raised.

Susan Schultz

The board members are likely to take an upbeat view on the economy when the interim review of their October semi-annual outlook report is released later today.

Satoru Ogasawara

It's devastating. We wanted that bronze medal every bit as much as we wanted to win the semi-final. We had given some great performances over the last week but just came out on the wrong end of it.

David Murdoch

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

Howard Metzenbaum

You've got your pads and your disks - the pads wear down. The semi-abrasive compound only lasts a certain amount of time until you're down to the steel plate.

Christopher Burdick

We are seeking a development that is better suited to an existing semi-rural neighborhood and in keeping with that. No one is saying there should be no development, but that development should be in keeping with the surrounding neighborhood.

Howard Wilkinson

People wanting to give and do stuff and communities were organizing efforts and we put the word out on this Friday. Collected two semi-loads. We feel well blessed to get to do it.

John Gregg

For the moment the priority has to be looking after the interests of players at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Borders, but while it is said the club scene is amateur there is no getting away from the fact players there are semi-pro albeit mostly imports.

Jim Hay

If we win on Friday we are Minor Premiers which gives us a home semi-final but Wigan are fighting for a top-six position and I will be very surprised if it's not a full house.

Daniel Anderson

It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer).

Sarah Vowell

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I'm happy with the medal.

Tomas Vokoun

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Ambrose Bierce

We have to plan properly for the semi-final because it is a one-off game and we have to play with the attitude that we are going to win.

Michael Tulloch

We are coming up to the political conventions, and the Republicans, I'm sure, will bring up the semi or partial privatization of Social Security. And if that comes to pass, even in concept, long before it actually happens, it is going to focus on companies that would benefit from this: money managers, bank custodians, all sorts of the major financial companies.

Robert Stovall

In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers.

Sloan Wilson

An elderly female was found the doorway leading from the parlor to the bedrooms in semi-conscious condition suffering from smoke inhalation. An elderly male was then found in the parlor unconscious and also suffering from smoke inhalation.

Fire Capt. Emmit Kane

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church.

James Bamford

We have strikers who can score in Barcelona. It's tough, but we have a chance of reaching the semi-finals.

Fabrizio Miccoli

She fought so many battles for others, so I thought it would be most befitting to have her sitting in the quiet shadows of Battle Oaks, in a semi-reclined reassessment of what she's done and the battles she's fought.

Eddie Dixon