“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.” IfsHardHelpingForceHoursLinesPowerfulNormalPaidTownsCompetitionWorkersBottomStoresOfferingUnemploymentEmployersBottom LineRobust Author:Christina Romer
“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.” TryingMindHelpingHomeMotivationalAsksFoundConversationTownsAssumptionUnexpectedDestinationOpen MindVisiting Author:Pico Iyer
“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.” WorldWarHelpingHomeYoungFatherKnownGardenTownsWar Of The WorldsInjuryWorld War IDeafDeafness Author:Bill Dedman
“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.” PeopleMeanChildrenHelpingSchoolMotherFatherVoiceStudyTownsFinancialFantasticDozenOperaDevotedMumHelping PeopleScholarshipProgrammesGreat Voice Author:Salma Hayek
“People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingCountryHelpingTogetherCitiesGroupsTaxesBenefitsTownsJust BeingHelping Each OtherLarge GroupsPaying Taxes Author:Michael Schur
“I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.” IfsI CanHelpingAbleTownsSticksFolksDefinitionsMelodyGesturesFlashAthleticsRibsWhatever It TakesFolk Music Author:Vance Gilbert
“Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.” ThinkingI CanHelpingTownsClownCircusSomewhere Out There Author:Dana Gould
“I have people who look after me and help me when I'm out of town. But when I'm at home in LA it's my time and I love to just get in my car, crank up the music and relax.” PeopleLooksHelpingHomeCarTownsMy TimeHelp MeRelaxCrank Author:Carmen Electra
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidDifferentHelpingCoursesLeftFieldsTownsGreenImpactNativeFarmingBeing CoolMassachusettsGreen Fields Author:James W. Loewen
“I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.” PeopleBelieveChildrenHelpingSupportExampleBenefitsTownsPaintDeterminedWelfareDesperateDependentScottish Author:Iain Duncan Smith
“And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it all, and then it'll work the better for you and your war. And if I'm really to be one of your advisers, Your Majesty, accept this piece of advise: Take happiness where and when you find it, because there is going to be precious little of it in the next few months!” IfsMindLittlesDoeWarHelpingFacesNextEffortAcceptingLaughingPiecesMonthsStressTownsMiseryMoodMiserableMajestyAdviseAdviser Book:The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark
“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.” KnowsMeanChildrenLittlesHelpingUniverseRealizingAchieveTownsHelping OthersImmortalFamily And FriendsGood HealthExamCenter Of The UniverseDeltaClose Family Book:Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize Source: Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
“Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.” PeopleThinkingLongStatesEnoughHelpingJobsLawPoliticalLostEasyNatureSimpleAnswersResultsPayEnvironmentHigherProveSolutionsConcernedTownsBillsCleanPlantCuresPushingMassiveLastingNutsPollutionEnforcementObsoleteClausesOratory Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.” ChildrenCountryHelpingSummerTownsElectionI RealizedHandleBoatIceHelp MeLakesTiedRescueCreamGrandchildrenIce CreamRopeRomneyGreat CountryMy GrandchildrenTied UpDocksHampshireNew Hampshire Author:J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
“Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.” IfsWorldCountryHelpingHappensGivenCausesFourStreetsPlanetsHugeHundredTownsImpactIncrediblesYou ChooseOur Planet Author:Tom Hanks
“Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best friend, righting wrongs and helping those in need. But when she stumbles into a town whose children are vanishing, and meets the haunted young sheriff trying to save them, what was a job becomes very personal. This is urban fantasy at its best, with all the magic and mayhem tied together with very human emotions, even when the characters aren't quite human.” NeedsTryingHumansChildrenCharacterHelpingTogetherJobsYoungEmotionFantasyMagicDogDangerousFiguresSmartTownsDragonsRidingTiedTranslateUrbanMotorcycleFolkloreBabaVanishingHuman EmotionsResourcefulBarbaraMayhemSheriffsThose In NeedDog Best FriendMotorcycle Riding Author:Alex Bledsoe