Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Quotes for Today
Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Epictetus
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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Monday Practice Report - Scout.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT
The USC Trojans returned to the practice field on Monday determined to bounce back from their upset loss against Oregon State. SCPlaybook's Kevin Carden was there and brings you ...
Canadian dollar closed at 95.79 cents US, down 1.03 cents - Canada East
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:02:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 1.03 cents to 95.79 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 104.39 cents Canadian, up 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8889 ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
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Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Epictetus
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
More Quotations
Monday Practice Report - Scout.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT
The USC Trojans returned to the practice field on Monday determined to bounce back from their upset loss against Oregon State. SCPlaybook's Kevin Carden was there and brings you ...
Canadian dollar closed at 95.79 cents US, down 1.03 cents - Canada East
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:02:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed down 1.03 cents to 95.79 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 104.39 cents Canadian, up 1.11 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8889 ...
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
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Great Quotes
Marcelene Cox
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
Adam Smith
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
Thomas De Quincey
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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Sanofi gets approval for new Zentiva bid expansion - Forbes
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:41:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Czech central bank said on Tuesday Sanofi-Aventis can go ahead with its improved bid for Czech drugs maker Zentiva. Sanofi, which is Zentiva's ...
Quotations by Paul Newman - Miami Herald
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Sundance Resources is seeking a strategic partner for its more than $3 billion Cameroon iron ore project, sources familiar with ...
McCain contracts fall more than 10 percent - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:12:00 GMT
Prices for Republican presidential candidate John McCain tumbled more than 10 percent in trading on the Iowa Electronic Markets over the weekend, so traders now think he has less ...
MCCAIN WON DEBATE ON WISDOM - MichNews.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:00 GMT
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time. Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there. If America wanted perfection, it would have ...
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Straight to the Quotes ...
Marcelene Cox
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
Adam Smith
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
Thomas De Quincey
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
More Quotations
Sanofi gets approval for new Zentiva bid expansion - Forbes
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:41:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Czech central bank said on Tuesday Sanofi-Aventis can go ahead with its improved bid for Czech drugs maker Zentiva. Sanofi, which is Zentiva's ...
Quotations by Paul Newman - Miami Herald
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Sundance Resources
McCain contracts fall more than 10 percent - Iowa City Press-Citizen
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:12:00 GMT
Prices for Republican presidential candidate John McCain tumbled more than 10 percent in trading on the Iowa Electronic Markets over the weekend, so traders now think he has less ...
MCCAIN WON DEBATE ON WISDOM - MichNews.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:25:00 GMT
There is nothing like wisdom accumulated over time. Of course, every mortal has his flaws. John McCain being mortal fits right in there. If America wanted perfection, it would have ...
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Famous Quotations Update
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Anon.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Marcel Proust
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.
James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Real Live Preacher
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Miguel de Cervantes
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
H.L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
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Here are the Famous Quotations ...
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Anon.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Marcel Proust
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.
James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Real Live Preacher
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Miguel de Cervantes
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
H.L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
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Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
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Jeanne Phillips
All the world's a cage.
Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Plato
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Anthony Powell
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
John F. Kennedy
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Frida Kahlo
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Lucretius
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
Lillian Hellman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
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Livestock report - Houston Chronicle
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Monday's opening cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE — Estimated receipts: 7,500; last week: 9,450; last year: 7 ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Sundance Resources is seeking a strategic partner for its more than $3 billion Cameroon iron ore project, sources familiar with ...
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Check out these Quotes:
Jeanne Phillips
All the world's a cage.
Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Plato
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Anthony Powell
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
John F. Kennedy
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Frida Kahlo
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Lucretius
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
Lillian Hellman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
More Quotations
Livestock report - Houston Chronicle
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are Monday's opening cattle and hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE — Estimated receipts: 7,500; last week: 9,450; last year: 7 ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT
HONG KONG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Sundance Resources
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Quotes Update
Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]
Bertolt Brecht
Why be a man when you can be a success?
W. Somerset Maugham
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
D. H. Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
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Quotations by Paul Newman - Miami Herald
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see you in an entirely different way. ... You have to constantly learn ...
Clinton supports Obama as she preps for DNC speech - Newsday
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:49:00 GMT
DENVER - As she greeted party colleagues and delegates from around the state and country Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton encountered rising anxiety and frustration here over the stubborn resistance of many of her primary-season voters to transfer ...
Bailout: Quotes - Columbus Dispatch
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:05:00 GMT
"The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us." Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker "We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House
Quotes of the week - SkySports
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT
"Not many batsmen can average almost 50 in Test cricket but still look as though they are capable of better." "I didn't make a statement last minute of the transfer window - I made it the week before so I could get my head round doing a job for Aston ...
Bailout: Quotes - Columbus Dispatch
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:05:00 GMT
"The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us." Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker "We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House
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Today's Quotes:
Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]
Bertolt Brecht
Why be a man when you can be a success?
W. Somerset Maugham
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
D. H. Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
More Quotations
Quotations by Paul Newman - Miami Herald
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:00 GMT
"The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see you in an entirely different way. ... You have to constantly learn ...
Clinton supports Obama as she preps for DNC speech - Newsday
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:49:00 GMT
DENVER - As she greeted party colleagues and delegates from around the state and country Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton encountered rising anxiety and frustration here over the stubborn resistance of many of her primary-season voters to transfer ...
Bailout: Quotes - Columbus Dispatch
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:05:00 GMT
"The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us." Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker "We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House
Quotes of the week - SkySports
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 GMT
"Not many batsmen can average almost 50 in Test cricket but still look as though they are capable of better." "I didn't make a statement last minute of the transfer window - I made it the week before so I could get my head round doing a job for Aston ...
Bailout: Quotes - Columbus Dispatch
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:05:00 GMT
"The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us." Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker "We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House
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Daily Famous Quotations
John Holt
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Barbara Sher
Isolation is a dream killer.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
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Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:23:00 GMT
SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - U.S crude oil futures fell by more than $2.00 a barrel on Tuesday, extending losses after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion plan to end ...
Prize-Winners as Pioneers of Sustainable Management: Ernst Ulrich von ... - Yahoo Finance
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:25:00 GMT
OSNABRüCK, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2008, the German Environmental Award, presented by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), focuses on the careful treatment ...
Canadian dollar is trading 0.34 of a cent lower at 96.48 cents US at ... - Canada East
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:28:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 96.48 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Monday. The U.S. dollar was trading at 103.65 cents Cdn, up 0.37 of a cent. Pound sterling was at C$1 ...
Grain quotes, High Plains & Gulf - Houston Chronicle
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:43:00 GMT
— Texas High Plains cash grain markets closed: mostly 51 cents to 54 cents lower on grain sorghum, mostly 35 cents to 41 cents lower on wheat, 65 cents to 70 cents lower on ...
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Here are the Famous Quotations ...
John Holt
...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Barbara Sher
Isolation is a dream killer.
Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
John Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
More Quotations
Posted Monday, September 29, at 11:54 PM - Fort Scott Tribune
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:38:00 GMT
My grandfather is a "retired" roofer. Why the quotations around retired? Well, that is because the only thing retirement changed is one word of his vocabulary -- work. That's right ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:23:00 GMT
SINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - U.S crude oil futures fell by more than $2.00 a barrel on Tuesday, extending losses after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion plan to end ...
Prize-Winners as Pioneers of Sustainable Management: Ernst Ulrich von ... - Yahoo Finance
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:25:00 GMT
OSNABRüCK, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2008, the German Environmental Award, presented by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), focuses on the careful treatment ...
Canadian dollar is trading 0.34 of a cent lower at 96.48 cents US at ... - Canada East
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:28:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar traded at 96.48 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent on Monday. The U.S. dollar was trading at 103.65 cents Cdn, up 0.37 of a cent. Pound sterling was at C$1 ...
Grain quotes, High Plains & Gulf - Houston Chronicle
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:43:00 GMT
— Texas High Plains cash grain markets closed: mostly 51 cents to 54 cents lower on grain sorghum, mostly 35 cents to 41 cents lower on wheat, 65 cents to 70 cents lower on ...
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