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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Life
Blessing
Will
Independence
Long
Live
Every
Virtue
Considered
Though
Secure
Were
Contracting
Heath
Wants
Grand
Barren
Ever
Basis
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
Karen Mills
Government
Business
Opportunities
Job
Advice
Our
Out
Jobs
Small
Small Business
Mentoring
Make
Sure
Access
Go
Contracting
Capital
Successful
Creates
Help
Need
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank
Government
Time
You
People
Will
Spending
Administration
Pretty
Directly
Federal
Factors
Federal Government
Federal Spending
Employed
George
George W
George W. Bush
Contracting
Same
Same Time
Difference
Grew
Explained
Bush
Recall
Number
President Truman made his name by looking into contracting. And that's how integrity within the military procurement started in the United States.
Ashraf Ghani
Integrity
Made
Looking
Military
President
States
Name
Within
How
His
Truman
Contracting
United
United States
Started
The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
Elise Stefanik
Technology
Balance
Control
Independent
Give
Take
Powers
Greater
Enables
Contracting
Them
Workers
Careers
Preserve
It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen.
Tracy Anderson
Light
Long
Releasing
Anderson
Give
Weights
Look
Tracy
Method
Causing
Contracting
Just
Different
While
Body
Using
Toned
Muscle
Stretch
The SBA should be redirected to focus on its core missions of capital access, contracting, and counseling, while reducing duplication, overlap, and wasteful spending. Doing so will greatly improve its ability to better advocate for small businesses.
Sam Graves
Better
Will
Focus
Spending
Ability
Small
Small Businesses
Counseling
Missions
Access
Advocate
Overlap
Reducing
Doing
Contracting
Greatly
Improve
Duplication
While
Capital
Should
Businesses
Wasteful
Wasteful Spending
Core
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
Sam Graves
Business
Competition
Job
Value
Drive
Healthy
Nation
Down
Benefit
Market
Our
Innovators
Job Creators
More
Small
Small Business
Federal
Prices
Economy
Contract
Contracting
Offers
Them
Helps
Grow
Creators
Bring
I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.
Todd Wilcox
Life
Service
Entrepreneur
Military
Defense
Way
Has-Been
Slowly
Adopt
Civilian
Been
Contracting
Surroundings
Refused
Influenced
Company
Military Service
Founder
Things
Extension
Career
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
Matt Taibbi
Corruption
Construction
Way
Has-Been
Since
Around
Been
Contracting
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
Sean Astin
Universe
About
Given
Pounds
Had
Taken
Put
Like
Most
Off
Contracting
Expanding
Any
Any Given Moment
Either
Moment
The fact that there's never been a single documented case in the history of this planet of anyone ever contracting HIV in the ring seems to me like a leg perfectly strong enough to stand on in terms of a lawsuit.
Tommy Morrison
Me
History
Strong
Single
Enough
Ring
Case
Seems
Lawsuit
Fact
Never
Perfectly
Like
Terms
Documented
Been
Contracting
Leg
HIV
The History Of
Anyone
Planet
Stand
Ever
When there's a revolution in Egypt, you can't really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that's not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu.
Sayed Kashua
Time
You
Flu
Revolution
Not Knowing
Out
About
Knowing
Contracting
Get
Die
Egypt
After
Happens
Depressed
Really
Swine
Streets
Start
Millions
Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson
Difficulties
Markets
Response
Hazard
Attend
Supported
Trades
Contracting
Vertical
Where
Product
Organizational
Intermediate
Exposed
Assets
The rise of franchising, contracting, and other similar employment practices has made it harder to enforce worker protections like minimum wages, overtime pay, and the right to unionize.
Jan Schakowsky
Made
Overtime
Pay
Other
Minimum
Rise
Similar
Like
Employment
Practices
Wages
Contracting
Enforce
Worker
Harder
Right
Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality.
Meir Soloveichik
Home
Will
Nothing
Immortality
Joined
Parties
Source
Contracting
Than
Just
Establishing
Loving
Groom
Less
Bride
Companions
Beloved
Two
We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand.
Jane Hawking
Good
Me
Together
Sky
Black
Universe
Way
Collapsing
Possibility
Tell
Would
Easy
Constellations
Black Hole
About
He
Look
Although
Understand
Contracting
Up
Itself
Very
Expanding
Quite
Form
Hole
Again
Describe
Star
Actually
Night
I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting.
Denise Dresser
Government
Needs
Secrecy
Way
Corrupt
About
Clean
Come
Look
Involvement
Learned
Greater
Opposed
Go
Led
Iraq
Mexican
Contracting
American
Just
Wants
Necessarily
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
Tom Coburn
Government
Sunshine
Sometimes
Will
Practice
Easily
Shadowy
Database
Accessible
Contract
Contracting
Information
Confusing
Transparent
Bring