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Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
Michael McCaul
Agriculture
Year
Increasingly
Extremely
Range
Destructive
Has-Been
High
Threatening
Winds
Lead
Fires
Simply
Drought
Adverse
Adverse Conditions
Industry
Continuing
Been
Conditions
Texas
Hit
Hard
The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.
Michael Mina
Me
You
Better
Enjoy
Everything
Ways
Out
Has-Been
Run
Restaurants
Part
Know
Most
Involved
Make
Priority
Been
Being
Different
Them
Figuring
Different Ways
Deeply
One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.
Michael Mullen
People
Military
Think
Has-Been
Stayed
Could
Advance
Fairly
Because
Still
Were
Been
Improve
Where
Place
Certainly
Reasons
Treated
My whole life has been about risk and reward.
Michael Ovitz
Life
Reward
Has-Been
About
Risk
Been
Whole
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
Michael Patrick Hearn
Made
Few
Enormous
Mark
Mark Twain
Books
Has-Been
Someone
Major
Been
Subject
Contribution
American
Literature
American Literature
Twain
Who
Many
Biographies
Of all the places I've visited in my life, Egypt has been the most fascinating. I've explored almost the whole country: Cairo and the Pyramids, Alexandria, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the Valleys of the Kings and the Queens and the Nobles.
Michael Portillo
Life
My Life
Country
Alexandria
Valleys
Visited
Has-Been
Temples
Kings
Noble
Almost
Pyramids
Most
Queens
Been
Egypt
Places
Explored
Fascinating
Whole
I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.
Michael Schumacher
Family
Tough
Big
Say
Has-Been
Part
Leave
Been
Ferrari
Big Part
Which
Career
All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.
Michael Specter
Food
Engineering
Way
Has-Been
Thousand
Thousand Years
Eat
Only
Brussels
Powerful
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Powerful Way
Particularly
Doing
Been
Years
Whether
Mankind
Modified
Pork
Eleven
Bellies
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.
Michael Specter
Time
Mother
Single
Cloud
Every
Enormous
Birth
Our
Hundred
Has-Been
Bacteria
Trillion
Entire
More
Colonies
Through
Unseen
He
Genes
Attract
Without
Pass
Leave
Been
Womb
Begin
Child
Canal
Crawl
Inherit
By The Time
The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.
Michael Specter
Best
Change
Example
Rose
Increase
Way
Has-Been
Best Way
Record
Per
Emissions
For Example
Obvious
Deal
Climate
Climate Change
Been
Years
Done
Six
Cent
Cut
Carbon
Largest
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Me
Learning
Job
Has-Been
Been
Process
Film
I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Work
Hope
Me
You
People
Diversity
Think
Ways
Television
Has-Been
Diverse
Had
Feel
Been
Lot
Very
Done
Quite
Different
Want
Theater
Far
Different People
Fortunate
Many
Film
Actor
Different Ways
Film And Television
Grows
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Michael Tilson Thomas
Music
Path
Diversity
Recognition
Has-Been
About
Importance
Stylistic
Vernacular
Been
Traditions
American
Which
American Music
Much
Whole
It's not unknown that Vancouver is a huge destination for television and film. It has been for many years. It just seems to be that I'm drawn to the show that shoots in Vancouver.
Michael Trucco
Destination
Unknown
Television
Drawn
Has-Been
Vancouver
Seems
Been
Years
Huge
Shoots
Just
Show
Many
Film
Rusbridger's curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian's quite quixotic mission.
Michael Wolff
Success
Guardian
Face
Has-Been
Give
Remote
Mission
Been
Curious
Quite
Figure
Reasonable
Donald Trump has been both a peculiar and characteristic American figure for more than three decades. Inheriting a small New York real-estate development company from his father, he parlayed it not so much into a big real-estate company, but himself into a fantasy of a big real-estate developer.
Michael Wolff
Father
Three
Big
Characteristic
Has-Been
More
Small
Both
He
Developer
Development
New
Himself
Been
His
Trump
Than
Decades
American
Donald
York
Donald Trump
New York
Fantasy
Much
Figure
Company
Peculiar
This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound.
Michel Foucault
Police
Become
Has-Been
Armed
Ideological
Been
Effects
Nationalist
Fascist
Profound
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.
Michele Bachmann
Work
Education
Faith
Family
Experience
People
Think
Background
Those
Has-Been
About
Individual
Factors
Take
Voters
Look
Because
Been
Curious
American
Candidate
Want
American People
Measure
Who
Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.
Michelle Alexander
Education
History
Rights
Economic Development
Training
World
Police
Job
Nation
Human Rights
Our
Stripped
System
Job Training
Has-Been
Unprecedented
Civil
Born
Economic
Investing
Development
Budgets
Arrested
Prisons
Been
Human
While
Billions
World History
Basic
Millions
Treatment
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
Michelle Alexander
Great
Eyes
People
Progress
Wealth
Power
Odds
Back
Defied
Though
Has-Been
Obama
Scarcely
Seems
Great Power
Like
Been
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Clock
Fame
Fixed
America
Achieved
Anyone
Barack
Barack Obama
Turned
Racial
Notice
Who
The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.
Michelle Alexander
Love
Time
Black
Long
Long Time
President
Back
Saxophone
Has-Been
Running
Folks
Some
Shades
Silly
Threw
Seems
He
Between
Fell
Retrospect
Hall
Affair
Been
Clinton
Began
Love Affair
Going
Us
Bill
Bill Clinton
Show
Many
Played
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
Michelle Alexander
Great
Justice
Reality
Gift
Crime
Face
South Africa
Brazil
Approaches
Range
Punishment
Has-Been
Great Gift
Introducing
Diverse
Countries
Singapore
Forces
Uganda
Been
South
Questions
Australia
Nations
Norway
Africa
Jamaica
Us
Incarceration
Chosen
Wide
Wide Range
Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.
Michelle Dean
Negative
Back
Has-Been
Someone
Since
Learned
Still
Been
His
Trump
Off
Mocked
Mockery
Roll
Fiercely
Media
Publicity
We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
Michelle Dockery
Travel
Job
Lost
Nowadays
Think
Our
Bit
Has-Been
Take
Freedoms
Like
Been
Any
Where
Want
Little
Little Bit
Chivalry
Granted
Many
I want to be really clear that the Hispanic Caucus - well before my time on that caucus, and certainly before my time as chairwoman - has been very clear that a guiding principle for comprehensive immigration reform, and for issues related to Dreamers, is that a wall is a nonstarter.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Time
Immigration
Dreamers
Before
Related
Guiding
Has-Been
Immigration Reform
Comprehensive
My Time
Clear
Well
Principle
Caucus
Issues
Been
Hispanic
Very
Reform
Wall
Want
Really
Certainly
I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.
Michelle Obama
Respect
Law
Lawyer
First
First Lady
State
Secretary
Everywhere
Say
States
Has-Been
Admire
Arkansas
Hillary
She
Go
Been
Senator
Lady
United
Professor
United States
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