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When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of the '80s, I was engaged in what could be classed as conventional operations - that involved digging lots of trenches in Germany.
Dick Strawbridge
Army
Digging
Late
Trenches
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Threat
Joined
Could
Involved
Operations
Real
Lots
Germany
Soviet
Soviet Union
Conventional
Engaged
Union
Europe
Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We try and manage our operations better than competition. Essentially, we try to be better than what we were the previous year.
Dilip Shanghvi
Competition
Better
Try
Focus
Year
Faster
Our
Launch
See
Previous
Industry
Operations
Were
Than
Manage
Essentially
Product
Growing
The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Intelligence
Military
Active
Battlefield
Collection
Russian
Tactical
Both
Support
Also
Operations
Overseas
Psychological
Warfare
Used
Measures
Strategic
Military Operations
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
Donald Rumsfeld
Drive
Think
Out
Day-To-Day
Operations
Planning
Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.
Doug Ducey
Independently
Responsible
Operated
Operations
Owned
Owners
Businesses
Whose
No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.
Edward Snowden
Knowledge
Trust
People
Think
Our
States
Draw
Independent
Kind
Would
About
Rely
Allies
Attacking
Argue
No-One
Countries
Operations
Always
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Line
Intentions
Where
Interest
Them
Turn
Us
Plans
United
United States
Need
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.
Eliot Spitzer
Safety
Plants
Corporate
Respond
Would
About
Investors
Leaders
Operations
Overseas
Wal-Mart
Capital
Really
Bribery
Standards
Manufacturing
Company
Cared
Imagine
Pulled
Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
Eric Schneiderman
Law
Our
Constitute
New
Operations
Review
York
New York
Gambling
Illegal
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis
Too Much
Too
Relation
Scale
Borrow
Borrowing
Tempting
Potential
No Wonder
Operations
Reducing
Effect
Up
Effectiveness
Wonder
Bank
Banks
Cushion
Lend
Lending
Capital
Much
Profitable
I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.
Evan McMullin
Work
Government
People
Otherwise
Secretly
Out
Case
Instead
Well
Known
Operations
Foreign
Go
Governments
Role
Officer
Behalf
Officials
Us
Convince
Al
Al-Qaeda
I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.
Evan McMullin
Intelligence
Liberty
Other
Other Countries
Say
Spent
Carried
Out
Ten
Ten Years
Hostile
Countries
Over
Undercover
Like
Well
Operations
Terrorist
Years
Covert
Overseas
Officer
Where
After
Central
Against
Agency
Who
Groups
Al-Qaeda
Serving
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
Ezra Taft Benson
Love
Spiritual
History
Constitution
Nation
Every
States
Latter
Constitution Of The United States
Prophetic
Inspired
Days
Operations
Lord
Saint
His
Which
Should
Base
United
Foundation
United States
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby
President
Arab
Some
Outraged
Outsource
Learn
Operations
American
Wanted
United
Ports
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
Frank Church
CIA
First
Past
Finds
Examining
Potential
Misleading
Concern
Operations
Covert
American
Committee
Public
Manipulating
American Public
Use
Inherent
Reasons
Media
Present
Two
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
National
Corporate
Worrying
Markets
Locations
More
Structures
Feature
Cheaper
New
Global
Operations
Overseas
Labour
Transferring
Capacity
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
Fritz Kreisler
Me
Wife
Nurse
Later
Cross
Insisting
Troop
Could
Hospitals
Allowed
Developed
Volunteered
Red
Operations
Go
Than
Front
Being
Order
Sent
Far
Rear
Farther
Large
Near
Actual
Her
Services
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann
Final
Photographic
About
Takes
Developing
Hour
Drying
Operations
Quarter
Series
Washing
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Georg Simmel
Logical
Result
Exhausted
Relationships
Indifferent
Individuality
Sophisticated
Reactions
Operations
Because
Genuine
Intellectually
Person
Cannot
Which
Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.
Gloria Reuben
Else
Enrich
Everyone
Everyone Else
Only
Only A Handful
Removal
Operations
Handful
Proximity
Mountaintop
While
Coal
Elites
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster
Political
Goals
Achieve
Power
Military
Thinking
Defense
Others
Must
About
Rather
Driven
Leading
Ideas
Instrument
Operations
Years
Iraq
Up
Than
Afghanistan
Just
Ends
Sustain
Regarded
Just One
Themselves
Successful
Wars
Military Operations
Coordinated
Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.
H. R. McMaster
People
Understanding
Lasting
Battlefield
Consolidate
Security
Hussein
Combat
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Taliban
Undermined
Although
Operations
Iraqi
Histories
Efforts
Afghan
Regime
Gains
Poor
Early
Recent
Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.
Howard Carter
Valley
Kings
Operations
Commenced
All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.
Hu Jintao
Business
Innovation
Enjoy
Enterprises
Operations
Foreign
Same
China
Chinese
Registered
Production
Companies
Treatment
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
Hugh Shelton
Truth
Quality
First
Important
More
Operations
Quantity
Than
Special
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
Ike Skelton
Seriously
Three
Nation
Our
Wounded
More
Since
Operations
Been
Years
Iraq
Began
Than
American
Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
Imran Amed
Best
Fashion
Day
People
End Of The Day
Way
Best Way
About
Glamour
Learn
Operations
Leaving
End
Done
Getting
Aside
Successful
Who
Therefore
Things
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