#stems

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. ↗

— William Weld

#afford #districts #grown #had #lot

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat. ↗

— George C. Williams

#crossing #descendant #digestive #each #end

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#cutting #education #education programs #me #physical

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #drove #english #field #history

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. ↗

— John Major

#banking #bonds #could #create #crisis

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#alternative #clear #collapse #expect #happen

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#company #detection #dollars #encryption #essentially

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving