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At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.
Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.
The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.
I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.
I've always thought MySpace sounds like a new estate agency in central London run by two men who favour large-lapel suits and goatees.
My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people.
I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
People are shaped in myriad ways by their upbringing and family. We also have agency in our lives, the people we become, and the lives we lead.
I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.