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There was a lot of pessimism being priced into the pound. – Francesco Pesole	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Taking a photo of yourself while you’re driving a 2,000-pound vehicle down the road at 50 or 60 miles per hour? That is putting your life in danger and putting the lives of those around you in danger. – Jackie Gillan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It came down to $2.65 per pound in early January, chicken wings were so expensive last year that consumers were looking for alternatives to serve at the party. Poultry producers then brought in a significant increase in supply and now it’s at the highest level of supply since early 2019. – Michael Swanson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
The British pound's just one blow after the other, i'm afraid I can't find any good news. – Martin McTague	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As we have arguably few-to-no effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease, prevention is crucial. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment, to know that people could potentially improve their cognitive reserve by taking simple steps such as going to classes at the community center, playing bingo with their friends or spending more time walking or gardening is very exciting. – Judy Pa	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This night – people yell, 'Close the gate!’and she runs to grab the gate to close it to keep the horse from running out and running over people or different things is what we are pretty sure was in her mind, and when she did, instead of the horse stopping, it ran through the gate and the impact and the force of a 1,400-pound horse as it comes through at 30 plus miles per hour – the gate came across and hit her and that is what did the damage. – Heath Chadwick	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Thus when Officer Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, 5-foot tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him. – Larry Krasner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The drawing room table at the governor’s mansion was completely flooded with letters, i consolidated my gear into a carry-on and checked in two 50-pound bags of letters as my travel luggage. This all happened the day before I left. – Dirk Astle	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It makes no sense to me that you can walk up to a bar anywhere you want and go up and down the amount of shots you want to pound and then go back outside, but I can't sell to a resident a bottle of wine that they want to have with dinner. – Rick Silverberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Bukowski was wrong. these words don't matter. you pound them out and send them off and they're gone just like that and all you're left with is a blank screen staring you in the face. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
It's a matter of us taking ownership of the good work that we're doing, we've really accomplished a lot of stuff in terms of the American Rescue Plan. The economy is really strong. We're turning the corner (on) COVID. I think there's a tremendous amount of opportunity for us to get out and really pound the drum on the good work that's gone on. – Rion Ramirez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My head felt like a 16-pound bowling ball, and I could feel my sense of smell and taste fading. – Dave Juday	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I came into work the Monday after Thanksgiving to the phone ringing at 7 a.m., john Burley was calling from John Burley hospital room saying,' Boomer is in the pound !' Boomer is in the pound !' Boomer is John's world. – Jennifer Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
pound for pound, the best one of the bunch, a fighter, scratcher, pit bull, she can nail ‘em to the floor in one second flat, her body’s beautiful, but her mind’s a work of art, whirling madly, twisting and turning, she’s a REAL woman and she won’t let you forget it – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice. – Randall Kallinen	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I certainly don’t want to pound him, i think he lost it for a minute. When you play nine innings, that shouldn’t have been the ballgame. But I think that’s what happened. – La Russa	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Early on I think the risks of the Delta variant were most apparent in British pound. – John Doyle	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I was a director of a half-a-billion pound industry at 22. But if I am trying to pay car insurance I am useless. Picking up my post? I am the worst person in the world. You are deluded in your growth. – Liam Payne	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Shoot, man, I do n’t want anyone to tell me anything is impossible ever again, to get in here with one of the greatest boxers of all time, proves that the odds could be beat. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Logan Paul weighed 189 pounds for the exhibition and attempted to use Logan Paul 34-pound advantage by leaning on the shorter Mayweather. But Paul’s lack of boxing skills left Logan Paul open to Mayweather’s short left hooks to the head and rights to the body. – Logan Paul	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Many positives are in the price of the pound and this is reflected in market positioning as well as FX valuation, there has been little focus on downside risks like the loss of the GBP vaccine advantage in recent weeks, the May 6 Scottish elections, as well as the potential for a renewed weakness of global risk sentiment in May and June because of a renewed spike in UST yields on the back of strong US data. – Valentin Marinov	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If U.S. 10-year yields were to test and break 1.50 %, that would be bullish for the pound, certainly against the dollar, i think the macro economic data( in Britain) is brightening, we’ve seen that in the economic numbers this week... we also have strong consumption. – Kenneth Broux	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
She’d have a hundred-pound package and toss it like it was nothing. – Michelle Parks	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

There was a lot of pessimism being priced into the pound.

– Francesco Pesole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Taking a photo of yourself while you’re driving a 2,000-pound vehicle down the road at 50 or 60 miles per hour? That is putting your life in danger and putting the lives of those around you in danger.

– Jackie Gillan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It came down to $2.65 per pound in early January, chicken wings were so expensive last year that consumers were looking for alternatives to serve at the party. Poultry producers then brought in a significant increase in supply and now it’s at the highest level of supply since early 2019.

– Michael Swanson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

The British pound's just one blow after the other, i'm afraid I can't find any good news.

– Martin McTague

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As we have arguably few-to-no effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease, prevention is crucial. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment, to know that people could potentially improve their cognitive reserve by taking simple steps such as going to classes at the community center, playing bingo with their friends or spending more time walking or gardening is very exciting.

– Judy Pa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This night – people yell, 'Close the gate!’and she runs to grab the gate to close it to keep the horse from running out and running over people or different things is what we are pretty sure was in her mind, and when she did, instead of the horse stopping, it ran through the gate and the impact and the force of a 1,400-pound horse as it comes through at 30 plus miles per hour – the gate came across and hit her and that is what did the damage.

– Heath Chadwick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thus when Officer Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, 5-foot tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him.

– Larry Krasner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The drawing room table at the governor’s mansion was completely flooded with letters, i consolidated my gear into a carry-on and checked in two 50-pound bags of letters as my travel luggage. This all happened the day before I left.

– Dirk Astle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It makes no sense to me that you can walk up to a bar anywhere you want and go up and down the amount of shots you want to pound and then go back outside, but I can't sell to a resident a bottle of wine that they want to have with dinner.

– Rick Silverberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bukowski was wrong. these words don't matter. you pound them out and send them off and they're gone just like that and all you're left with is a blank screen staring you in the face.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It's a matter of us taking ownership of the good work that we're doing, we've really accomplished a lot of stuff in terms of the American Rescue Plan. The economy is really strong. We're turning the corner (on) COVID. I think there's a tremendous amount of opportunity for us to get out and really pound the drum on the good work that's gone on.

– Rion Ramirez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My head felt like a 16-pound bowling ball, and I could feel my sense of smell and taste fading.

– Dave Juday

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I came into work the Monday after Thanksgiving to the phone ringing at 7 a.m., john Burley was calling from John Burley hospital room saying,' Boomer is in the pound !' Boomer is in the pound !' Boomer is John's world.

– Jennifer Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

pound for pound, the best one of the bunch, a fighter, scratcher, pit bull, she can nail ‘em to the floor in one second flat, her body’s beautiful, but her mind’s a work of art, whirling madly, twisting and turning, she’s a REAL woman and she won’t let you forget it

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice.

– Randall Kallinen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I certainly don’t want to pound him, i think he lost it for a minute. When you play nine innings, that shouldn’t have been the ballgame. But I think that’s what happened.

– La Russa

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Early on I think the risks of the Delta variant were most apparent in British pound.

– John Doyle

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I was a director of a half-a-billion pound industry at 22. But if I am trying to pay car insurance I am useless. Picking up my post? I am the worst person in the world. You are deluded in your growth.

– Liam Payne

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Shoot, man, I do n’t want anyone to tell me anything is impossible ever again, to get in here with one of the greatest boxers of all time, proves that the odds could be beat. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Logan Paul weighed 189 pounds for the exhibition and attempted to use Logan Paul 34-pound advantage by leaning on the shorter Mayweather. But Paul’s lack of boxing skills left Logan Paul open to Mayweather’s short left hooks to the head and rights to the body.

– Logan Paul

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Many positives are in the price of the pound and this is reflected in market positioning as well as FX valuation, there has been little focus on downside risks like the loss of the GBP vaccine advantage in recent weeks, the May 6 Scottish elections, as well as the potential for a renewed weakness of global risk sentiment in May and June because of a renewed spike in UST yields on the back of strong US data.

– Valentin Marinov

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If U.S. 10-year yields were to test and break 1.50 %, that would be bullish for the pound, certainly against the dollar, i think the macro economic data( in Britain) is brightening, we’ve seen that in the economic numbers this week... we also have strong consumption.

– Kenneth Broux

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

She’d have a hundred-pound package and toss it like it was nothing.

– Michelle Parks

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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