77 Quotes by John Carroll

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    I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

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    That was an important play. Of course we missed him (when he was out). We scored a lot of points, but we're a different offense without him.

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    We've made slow progress all day because the winds have continued. Lines get repaired, but outage calls continue to come in.

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    The demand for coal led us to make a conscious decision to place coal cars at the very heart of our business.

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    When you apply direct financial incentives to ambitious and noted research and development projects, like what you see with what Maryland and the universities have going on, it's a compelling model for biotech. I don't know how effective Arizona has been in that respect.

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    The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

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    You have to burn the tape, ... You start over because there isn't much to learn from that game. So we're going to regroup tomorrow and go from there. There are two things you can do when you face a situation like this - give in or come back. We've got eight games left, and we're not that bad.

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