Largely Quotes

[It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level.] There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers. - Tom Ferguson

[In addition, wage increases of between 3 percent and 4 percent have largely been agreed upon, though agreement on those issues could change in response to concessions on other concerns.] We have seen some positive movement on some of the issues, but this is a situation with a lot of moving parts... Those issues could change as we move to other issues. - Eric Rabe

[He said Parks' death also made him reflect on the many other African-Americans who had similarly refused to abide by the rules of segregation, but whose names are largely lost to history.] I kept asking myself today, what made this different... I think what made it different was people were willing to stand behind her. - Rosa Parks

[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship... I think as with any strong leaders, you're going to have points of contention where they are going to express their strengths. That doesn't mean they don't respect one another. - Anthony Adams

[But he is under such scrutiny that city leadership is largely ineffectual, some local officials say.] If I were a millionaire or entrepreneur I would not come to the city... It's a blow to the city whether he's exonerated or not. - Robert Anderson

...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. - Carl Gustav Jung

...most of the gains in the level and the growth rate of productivity in the United States since 1995 appear to be structural, largely driven by advances in technology and its application -- irreversible in the sense that knowledge once gained is almost never lost. - Alan Greenspan

(Our) statisticians (said) that if we told them the teen pregnancy rate and the child poverty rate of a city, they could almost predict where (it) would finish in the overall scheme of things. That is, (those two indicators largely) drove the results. - Tim Cline

(Collinsworth) was the difference in the game. That lead was largely because Chris decided to play. - Craig Drury