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There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

Paul Craig Roberts

Gun, Police, Historical

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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Walter Kirn

Insightful, Fiction, Stories

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In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

Steve Whiteman

Technology, Years, Insightful

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The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

Dick Gephardt

Political, President, Helping

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It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

Janet Napolitano

Technology, Tsa, Would Be

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Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Elaine Stritch

Wine, Glasses, Shopping

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Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Fire, Talking, Police

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Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Lois Capps

Years, America, Energy

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In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Lois Capps

Years, Justice, President

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Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.

Tim Cook

Creativity, Doors, Innovation

"It's Time For Apple To Take A Cue From How Other Companies Innovate" by Greg Satell, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2013.

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HR?'
'Human Resources.'
'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

Peter F. Hamilton

Office, Sound, Kind

Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

Neelie Kroes

Agreement, Cooperation, Aviation

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The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

Umberto Eco

Art, Uncles, Hair

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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

George Stigler

Issues, Intellectual, Mind

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Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.

Ken Blanchard

Jobs, Service Culture, Inspirational Customer Service

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Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.

Ken Blanchard

Jobs, Should, Customers

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Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

Tony Hsieh

Service Culture, Focus, Satisfaction

"Your Culture Is Your Brand" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Tim Holden

Technology, Government, Years

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The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

Loretta Lynch

Betrayal, Lying, Police

"New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

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Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

Jon Jones

Fall, Stories, Six

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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

History, Rhyming, Physics

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The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Joseph Wambaugh

Police, Onions, Fields

Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

J. Willard Gibbs

Knowledge, Views, Simplicity

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Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

Judy Biggert

Office, Energy, Research

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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.

Jack Kornfield

Responsibility, Mind, World

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