Rapid Quotes

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(Painkiller Jane centers on the title heroine, a young Marine officer who gains rapid self-healing powers after being exposed to a biochemical weapon.) They`re slightly different, yet the same, ... Jane doesn`t become a different person, necessarily, but things happen in her life that change her perspective on life in general, on who she is, and she starts to question a lot of things. So in her transformation into Painkiller Jane, she becomes a little more hardened and a little more skeptical of the world around her. I didn`t treat them as two entirely different characters, but there definitely is a shift that happens.

- Emmanuelle Vaugier

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for `undermining support for our troops.`

- Al Gore

If something is amiss, such as a rapid gain in weight overnight, the nurse contacts the patient immediately. Our goal is to help manage our patients` conditions so we can keep small things from becoming bigger ones with even more serious consequences.

- Anne Meara

In a system which is expanding at such a rapid pace, there has never been a greater need to focus on our operations. We have been very fortunate in hiring Patricia and I am sure that we will quickly benefit from her extensive experience.

- Chris Moore

(The PDAs were loaded with customized Rapid Data Management Software (RDMS) developed by GRT and then transported directly to the Marine units onboard United States Navy ships deploying into hurricane stricken areas of the Gulf Coast. The customized software includes reporting capabilities on shelter, water/sanitation, medical, logistics and transportation requirements among others and can be quickly updated via satellite, cellular communications or the Internet. GRT is providing 24/7 secure Web-based data management support to the Marines and relief workers from its VNOC, which is manned by a team of communications, software, and computer specialists.) For the person in the field GRT`s service is a simple to use but powerful reporting tool that assists with gathering time-sensitive information from relief and reconstruction operations around the world, ... The GRT technology is currently being used globally by humanitarian organizations and the Marines in other operations.

- Michael Gray

IP Applications is a strategic partner enabling the rapid launch of our Internet services. We are pleased to add their comprehensive network management system to enhance the services Sage provides to its customers.

- Terry Lewis

Today`s tracking technologies can generate significant cost savings derived from more accurate data collection. This includes the passive collection of data concurrent with the seamless flow of patient information throughout the hospital experience. The goal when implementing any of these systems should include automatic information collection to allow for improving quality of care, improving productivity, reducing redundancy in processes, decreasing errors, reducing overall operating costs, while increasing rapid availability of essential information, all without placing additional demands on the caregiver.

- Scott Cohen

It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

- Werner Herzog

It`s funny, (...) for that sequence the director just said, say something insulting to him, it doesn`t matter what. So I said something pretty insulting, and they didn`t subtitle it, and they never asked me what it meant. (..) (Laughter) (on the insult he says in Cantonese in the movie "Rapid Fire")

- Brandon Lee

We built the extension of our factory in response to the rapid growth in sales of dairy cultures, and to meet the concurrent market demands.

- Lars Frederiksen

The thing that`s changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

- Kelly Miller

Our area`s transportation and emergency health care systems are being pushed to the breaking point because of both the rapid growth we`re experiencing and the severe burden of illegal immigration,

- Steve Adams

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

- Laurent Fabius

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

- John Boehner

No business model at any airline can sustain such a rapid increase in fuel prices,

- Jim May

had become quite difficult to predict this year`s holiday buying and shipping season and the prospects for any rapid economic turnaround.

- Scott Davis

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

- John Bright

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

- Lee Haney

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

- John Moody

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

- James Monroe

In an age when nobility has no true signature, an expensive designer bag is the most rapid social shorthand for status,

- Anna Johnson

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

- Al Ford

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don`t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

- Alain Bauer

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

- Alan Matsui

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

- Alejandro Queral

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

- Alejandro Queral

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

- Alexander Utochkin

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we`ve already been seeing in Colorado continue.

- Alison Lewis

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

- Allen Merritt

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

- Andrae Hernandez

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

- Andrea Zahn

The typical journalist`s typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

- Andrei Krivtsov

The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan`s case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.

- Andrew Groves

We have refined our appraisal of GSM/GPRS/EDGE versus WCDMA. The uptake of WCDMA is not likely to be as rapid as was once thought. It will show good growth, but there is still a lot of life left in GSM.

- Andy MacPhail

It is a phenomenon due to high volume as well as rapid changes,

- Ann Fisher

Terri`s eyes do look more sunken, ... And her breathing was a little on the rapid side.

- Appius Claudius

Rapid economic globalization is bringing about greater market access and new partners for development, but also putting the weaker economies in a more vulnerable and disadvantageous position, and in an uneven competition.

- Avel Solomon

One of the things that disturbed us historically was the backlog of cases that existed. We are very happy to see that a lot of that backlog is now starting to be chipped away at. We`re seeing a rapid turnaround of cases,

- Bambi Spahr

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

- Barbara Rosser

Our Rapid Start program was created because end-user customers realize the benefits of RFID in mission-critical applications such as in supply chains, and want access to the full power of these systems, available only by using Intermec`s patented inventions,

- Barbara Wright