Quotes About Operation

This was the "raid which went horribly right"...

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

so deep, "you could have brought the whole of ExxonMobil out there and they wouldn't have been able to operate that thing worth a damn," said Philip J. Carroll Jr., a former president of Shell U.S.A., who was appointed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to serve as Paul Bremer's

It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.

Convinced that trepanation would help facilitate higher states of consciousness, Feilding went looking for someone to perform the operation on her. When it became clear no professional would oblige, she trepanned herself in 1970, boring a small hole in the middle of her forehead with an electric drill.

No se trata de ir a la caza y captura de desperdicio en el proceso. El paso por las diferentes etapas de este análisis de proceso tiene el propósito de obligarle a examinar y hacer frente a los detalles de un proceso, para que así pueda definir cómo debería operar un proceso. Una vez que disponga de un estado objetivo, entonces podrá esforzarse en avanzar hacia el mismo, hacer las cinco preguntas e identificar aquello en lo que tiene que trabajar.

To preserve state consistency, update related state variables in a single atomic operation.

At its highest, this wisdom arrives at an understanding of how the human maker may act analogously to the Divine Creator, echoing the "art" of God's creating the phenomenal world from noumenal levels of reality in as much as he, the craftsman, makes from some already existing substance what does not yet exist in nature. He thus is said to "imitate nature in her manner of operation", in the words of St. Thomas that Coomaraswamy so frequently quotes.

More than a doctrine, preemption has taken on a life of its own. It launches into operation wherever threat is felt. In today's multidimensional "threat environment," that is everywhere.

A big farming operation like his was a challenging enterprise, relying as it did on rampant pollution and the systematic mistreatment of immigrant labor. For Red it was no small feat to keep the feds off his back while at the same time soaking taxpayers for lucrative crop subsidies and dirt-cheap loans that might or might not be repaid this century.

he was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

We are not purely material beings," he continued. "Dr. Bell would say that we are not material beings at all, although I would not go that far. But we are surrounded by waves of energy. You've seen them in operation, even if you have not seen the waves themselves.

The weakest S&L's paid the highest interest rates to attract depositors and they are the ones which obtained the large blocks of brokered funds. Brokers no longer cared how weak the operation was, because the funds were fully insured. They just cared about the interest rate. On the other hand

In the fourth level, for example, Alice, after a major operation, becomes separated from her body, and she has to chase through the hospital to catch it, like Peter Pan and his shadow. This dissociation was something Sam had experienced many times—the feeling that your body, when it was sick, was no longer your own.

There are, of course, many reasons to think that brains operate mostly in parallel. Individual neurons are too slow to allow brains to operate in strict serial von Neumann fashion, and ample data suggest that in any given laboratory task (and by extension, any real-world situation) many different parts of the brain are engaged simultaneously.

They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

The Kwajalein invasion, the first of these

Not men who ran the world, but who made it run.

Operation hotfoot

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.