Lances Quotes

A series of ad hoc special-interest provisions put in that messed with the checks and balances of existing bankruptcy code in a negative way, in favor of a number of special-interest groups. - James Sprayregen

A resumption of full-scale hostilities could have negative implications for the country's already stressed fiscal and debt position, and likely impair its previously adequate level of external balances. - Agost Benard

A lot of people will transfer their balances (to a lower-rate card), but then fail to send more than the minimum due. - Michael Kidwell

A flourishing industry of so-called 'information brokers' now openly advertises its ability to obtain information about personal account balances, stock portfolios and other financial holdings. - James Leach

[With better credit, he said, Chinese families would be able to spend more money, buy more goods and perhaps reduce China's huge trade surplus with the United States.] Good credit facilitation and consumer finance is going to help consumers buy more things, ... We see consumerism and consumer credit as going directly to the thing we have most on our minds - the global imbalances. - John Snow

[When Day lined up his 29-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in the second round ofthe Western Open, time nearly stood still. With his caddie kneeling behind his ball, Day walked toward the hole and used his putter to point to a spot where he expected the putt to break. Then he circled the hole as if he had to draw up some blueprints. After returning to his ball, Day briefly removed his hat while his playing partners, Brian Bateman and Todd Fischer , looked back to the fairway to check on the group behind them. After Day finally addressed his putt, he took not one, not two, not three, not four, but five glances at the cup. Then he struck the putt well, missing by less than a foot. By this time, nearly 80 seconds had elapsed.] He's a good guy and you don't want to point fingers or anything... but [a guy] in the group behind us asked me, 'Was that hole moving for him? It must have been moving.' - Todd Fischer

[Schwarzenegger wants power] without checks and balances... I think that's too much power. - Fabian Nunez

[On the morning of Sept. 11, Read awoke to the sound of his mother's tears. After learning what had happened in New York City, he joined a task force of rescue units that began arriving from New Jersey within a half-hour of when the North Tower was struck. Read reached Liberty State Park, 15 minutes after the first tower collapsed. At the scene, rescue crews created a staging area and field hospital with other units. The group included 250 ambulances, 100 surgeons, 50 paramedics, 50 nurses and 350 emergency medical technicians.] It was an impressive staging area... We had everything we needed. Organization just sort of happened. - Jason Read