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In other words, Americans think you are just as likely to get rich by winning the lottery as you are by saving.

And in her latest book, The Money Class (Spiegel & Grau), she urges recession-battered Americans to be just as honest with themselves.

As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before Nine-Eleven.

Many Mexican Americans celebrate Las Posadas, a procession that re-enacts Mary and Joseph's search for a place to bed down in Bethlehem.

Like the majority of Cuban-Americans, Armando Alba said he strongly supports Mitt Romney for president.

In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycle as if it were a starling new invention.

Because the previous administration limited Cuban-Americans to one visit every three years, she had not seen her relatives for two years.

Although few Americans recognize the name, there's a chance that the name could become more familiar to shoppers over the next five years.

Except for the citizens of a few tiny oil kingdoms and Luxembourg, Americans on average live better than anybody else.

"I was referring to the Chinese government, and not to Chinese people or to Chinese-Americans, " he said of his "goons and thugs" comment.

The Americans, fed up at last with his wiliness and his human-rights abuses, began to part company with him in the late 1970s.

NARRATOR: It had taken three years -- three years of growing public anger, three years of real hardship for millions of Americans.

Since the 1950s, the polling firm Gallup has been asking Americans how much money a family of four needs to get by in their local community.

But he still boasts of his small, highly trained "Promised Day" brigades, who are said to be ready to hit the Americans at any moment.

Some Americans object to the power of superdelegates to nominate a candidate who did not receive the most votes in primaries and caucuses.

Unless the Afghans can hold what the Americans give up, he said, "more space is going to turn red. "

I take the conversation on to another presidency now held in revered regard by many Americans, that of Ronald Reagan.

The cost for this tonic seems to be a drastic decline in Americans' economic mobility.

The Americans probably include some of a small group who defected from the U. S. military during the Korean War and their families.

For many Americans, Thanksgiving is the only time when all members of a family gather. The holiday is a time of family reunion.

It will also want to know how much was reprocessed before the 1994 agreement (enough for a couple more bombs, the Americans think).

The family income of native Americans is only sixty percent of that of white Americans.

Can Americans choose not to be identified by any ethnicity or to use other social descriptors?

Many Americans will remember him because he tried to make science popular and easy to understand.

"As long as you see the Americans are providing you with a credible umbrella, why spend more? There's no pressure from voters to do so. "

In a nation terrorized by its own government, six extraordinary Americans dared to tell the truth.

He said that he wished that he could have had the luxury to spend more time collecting impressions, mingling with Americans and travelling.

Many Americans overeat, but a growing number of Indians do as well (even if the national calorie intake is still relatively small).

An enduring image in my head is that of a few Native Americans looking out from trees at a European sailing ship offshore.

For whatever reason, most of my closest friends were fellow African Americans. Was it a need for familiarity?

Attack on Iran would be Obama stabbing Americans in the back economically, and shooting himself in the leg politically.

By contrast, he said, nearly one million Americans a year die of heart disease and strokes.

ve continued to hear from many Americans across the country about why this is so urgent and important.

In fact, most Americans receive at least two or three credit card applications in the mail every month.

"We cannot be a party that strips working Americans of the right to a secret-ballot election, " he warned.

But the colonial authorities calculated that the Americans would have to leave everything behind anyway, so why pay for it?

Then war would end and Americans would be richer, because Islam (he claims) has no income taxes except the 2. 5% tithe known as zakat.

He got profits soaring, only to encounter a historic recession in which Americans said the first expense they were cutting was eating out.

Richard Carmona, the U. S. Surgeon General, only about a third of Americans have even tried to put together a family-health history.

Today the Fed is trying to reach out to Americans through ways like this video on its website.

Polls show that up to half of Americans support the demonstrators or at least believe they reflect public opinion.

Do you know how much oil the Americans consume daily?

others have been sold to North Americans with, like the Glazers, experience of "franchises" in American football or other sports.

Much of the world rejoiced, but for Americans the end of that monstrous division in Berlin had a special significance.

"Americans are going to make a lot of money out of these transactions, " he says.

"I see, " I said, putting on a smile and trying to sound friendly. "Most Americans cannot afford the shoes you bought at the Gucci store. "

How much have ordinary Americans actually invested in gold this year?

Their predicament reflects that of a generation of Americans facing one of the weakest job markets in modern history.

Even though Americans underestimate how much inequality exists, they still want less of it, as studies have shown since the 1980s.

Some Americans and Europeans, particularly human-rights observers, say that China has cracked down on human rights over the last few years.

By 1905, Americans all over the country were beginning to sew with electrically powered machines.

Mr Obama said he would veto any budget-busting bill that puts the entire burden for reducing the deficit on "ordinary Americans" .

Almost 30% of Americans tell pollsters that America is not ready to put a septuagenarian into the White House.

Ten percent of Americans and half of people in the lowest-income brackets, he said, have levels low enough to be concerned about.

It should not shock Americans that this disease is making its way across the globe when every location is just a plane ride away.

Americans began to seek changes in the hope that the black leaders of the United States for the new change.

But again, most Americans did not know of Wright's work.

Many Americans would no doubt vote for her if she made it through the primaries.

It must be replaced by a renewed sense of civility and a commitment to embrace our common purpose as Americans.

Most Americans have had access to safe drinking water since the early twentieth century, when municipal supplies began to be disinfected.

And indeed, for the majority of Americans, whether or not they summoned Spencer to their aid, the era was one of great vitality.

To put that in perspective, it would be as if 75 million Americans turned out to demonstrate against their government.

The president is trying to rally support for a war that a majority of Americans now believe is a mistake.

That may one day lead Americans to ask why they invest so much in a troubled region with such poor returns.

Americans were most willing to sacrifice their homes , while South Koreans were most ready to sacrifice their love life .

He said Beijing had made 'enormous progress' on human rights, and invited Americans to visit China to see that progress firsthand.

And Americans did not reduce their consumption of Chinese goods at all in response to the stronger renminbi.

Assertive Chinese and job-hungry Americans are gearing up for a trade war across the Pacific. Fortunately, cooler heads will likely prevail.

The State Department said it had not received confirmation of any Americans who had been killed or wounded at the airport.

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Michigan Democrat, said the Americans at all levels but notably the middle class continue to struggle.

Benjamin Franklin wrote of his desire to see the Mufti of Istanbul preach Islam to Americans from a pulpit in Philadelphia.

But she also said the health care reforms passed by Congress will improve the quality of care for all Americans.

This would have given much more depth to his treatment of the war - or does Moore confine himself to Americans only?

One out of every seventeen Americans is an alcoholic.

The international market for American entertainment means that Americans are not the only ones watching and waiting for a settlement .

The newspaper was a vision of what Americans would love to see under Barack Obama after he takes power in January.

Americans from the dominant classes were intensely moralistic, with a strong sense of civic responsibility.

"If you buy a solar panel from China, China is paying for part of it, " he said. "If I were the U. S. , I would let Americans milk it. "

And in his State of the Union address that December he said that two and a half million Americans were unemployed.

Putin began to feel he could not trust anything the Americans said. The distrust was mutual.

Some Republican leaders have said the election results show that Americans want much of the president's agenda reversed.

Mr Obama has pledged to ease limits on Cuban-Americans' visits to the island and how much money they can send home to relatives.

Israeli admitted that the statement is in the Americans do not know the name of the new country to be a good time.

He said the nation must succeed for the safety of future generations of Americans.

He said it is the responsibility of each camper to stand up to misperceptions and explain that Americans really are peaceful people.

These were areas which Native Americans had not occupied, or where they were weak enough for coexistence with the Inuit.

Earlier, the White House said the leaks "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security" .

How much open space are Americans willing to abandon in the drive to create new jobs?

That flow tends to keep long-term interest rates in the U. S. unnaturally low, discouraging Americans from saving.

Many Americans in northern states did not support the war policies of Union President Abraham Lincoln.

Americans from the dominant classes were intensely moralistic, with a strong sense of civic responsibility.

"If you buy a solar panel from China, China is paying for part of it, " he said. "If I were the U. S. , I would let Americans milk it. "

And in his State of the Union address that December he said that two and a half million Americans were unemployed.

Putin began to feel he could not trust anything the Americans said. The distrust was mutual.

The next year, he upset indigenous Latin Americans by saying that their evangelisation was not the "imposition of a foreign culture" .

Oddly enough, it was one that most Americans support: it would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

Some Republican leaders have said the election results show that Americans want much of the president's agenda reversed.

Mr Obama has pledged to ease limits on Cuban-Americans' visits to the island and how much money they can send home to relatives.

Israeli admitted that the statement is in the Americans do not know the name of the new country to be a good time.

He said the nation must succeed for the safety of future generations of Americans.

Putin began to feel he could not trust anything the Americans said. The distrust was mutual.

The next year, he upset indigenous Latin Americans by saying that their evangelisation was not the "imposition of a foreign culture" .

Oddly enough, it was one that most Americans support: it would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

But Republicans note the president also plans a new tax regime on energy consumption that will affect Americans of every income level.

Some Republican leaders have said the election results show that Americans want much of the president's agenda reversed.

Mr Obama has pledged to ease limits on Cuban-Americans' visits to the island and how much money they can send home to relatives.

Israeli admitted that the statement is in the Americans do not know the name of the new country to be a good time.

He said the nation must succeed for the safety of future generations of Americans.

He said it is the responsibility of each camper to stand up to misperceptions and explain that Americans really are peaceful people.

These were areas which Native Americans had not occupied, or where they were weak enough for coexistence with the Inuit.

Some Republican leaders have said the election results show that Americans want much of the president's agenda reversed.

Mr Obama has pledged to ease limits on Cuban-Americans' visits to the island and how much money they can send home to relatives.

Israeli admitted that the statement is in the Americans do not know the name of the new country to be a good time.

He said the nation must succeed for the safety of future generations of Americans.

He said it is the responsibility of each camper to stand up to misperceptions and explain that Americans really are peaceful people.

These were areas which Native Americans had not occupied, or where they were weak enough for coexistence with the Inuit.

Earlier, the White House said the leaks "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security" .

How much open space are Americans willing to abandon in the drive to create new jobs?

That flow tends to keep long-term interest rates in the U. S. unnaturally low, discouraging Americans from saving.

Many Americans in northern states did not support the war policies of Union President Abraham Lincoln.

These were areas which Native Americans had not occupied, or where they were weak enough for coexistence with the Inuit.

Earlier, the White House said the leaks "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security" .

How much open space are Americans willing to abandon in the drive to create new jobs?

That flow tends to keep long-term interest rates in the U. S. unnaturally low, discouraging Americans from saving.

Many Americans in northern states did not support the war policies of Union President Abraham Lincoln.

The report Thursday offered sharp evidence of how much the falling economy has touched Americans across incomes and races.

And I urge the Congress to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans.

The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.

Cable TV channels and news outlets have dutifully been trying to give Americans a crash course as the Games approach.

The number of such Americans seems to be growing; last month mortgage applications fell to their lowest level in a year.

And I urge the Congress to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans.

The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.

Cable TV channels and news outlets have dutifully been trying to give Americans a crash course as the Games approach.

The number of such Americans seems to be growing; last month mortgage applications fell to their lowest level in a year.

A democratic election has been held in Iraq, the violence is down and the Americans look set to leave by the end of next year.

A group of Americans is trying to save the house and its contents. Yet the US government won't let them.

The last thing the Americans want to see, as they pull out of Iraq, is a war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds.

It's been a fact of life for African Americans since the beginning.

Learn just a few more polite English expressions, and you'll be ready to face the world of Americans with confidence.

What's clear is that whatever love affair many Americans may have had with stocks is over, at least for the moment.

It's been a fact of life for African Americans since the beginning.

Learn just a few more polite English expressions, and you'll be ready to face the world of Americans with confidence.

What's clear is that whatever love affair many Americans may have had with stocks is over, at least for the moment.

All that seems impressive, but here's the rub: many Americans do not believe Mrs Sebelius.

How much influence this buys the Americans is debatable: they tread a fine line between giving advice and appearing to dictate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No wonder many Americans feel as if the economy never recovered at all.

Very early, Americans began trying to discover how a word "ought" to be pronounced by seeing how it was spelled.

Americans have something of an inferiority complex when it comes to China.

EVEN as they heap scorn on big business, Americans and their congressmen retain a place in their hearts for small business.

Americans very much mind their weight and rarely disclose how much they weigh . . . even if they are thin and in great shape.

EVEN as they heap scorn on big business, Americans and their congressmen retain a place in their hearts for small business.

Americans very much mind their weight and rarely disclose how much they weigh . . . even if they are thin and in great shape.

Americans do not like to talk from the two sides are too close, they are used to maintain a certain distance from the body.

And for those of you thinking that it might be the German participants who are unusual, these other studies were carried out on Americans.

The Americans have not had to deal with a true economic rival since the British more than half a century ago.

The debate among Americans about the state of the war in Iraq played out on this week's Sunday television interview programs.

One out of every six Americans works at putting together the parts of the cars, driving trucks, building roads, or filling with gas.

It is possible that within a year or 18 months a non-sectarian Iraqi army will be able to do much of the work the Americans do now.

Mr Soufan's main aim is to help Americans understand the enemy that has preoccupied them for over a decade.

You might imagine that Americans would be up in arms about all this.

Mr Soufan's main aim is to help Americans understand the enemy that has preoccupied them for over a decade.

You might imagine that Americans would be up in arms about all this.

This sense of service is what America is all about. It is what leads Americans to enter the military.

They see leaders who can't seem to come together and do what it takes to make life just a little bit better for ordinary Americans.

There is evidence that Americans will continue to eat what they want, no matter how much information they have available to them.

Although keeping the house neat is often a constant battle, Americans feel it's a battle worth fighting.

But where Americans get things wrong is the idea that these jobs are being "stolen, " as if something nefarious is going on.

As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its' hands off of their health care.

But how much are Americans willing to pay to fund those rural lines?

He said the Americans are in charge of security in the Green Zone, but no one dares to hold them responsible for this attack.

But how much are Americans willing to pay to fund those rural lines?

He said the Americans are in charge of security in the Green Zone, but no one dares to hold them responsible for this attack.

The economic recovery in the USA officially began more than a year ago, but to many Americans it hardly feels like the recession has ended.

While all three of these days helped educate the general public, some Americans already had a deep appreciation of nature.

Lots of Americans are tasting failure for the first time now and immediately trying to spit it out.

Americans, relieved to be getting out of Iraq, and caught up in a national row about health care, are paying little attention to the place.

He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports.

Americans who took the leadership in imposing sanctions on India have finally helped India get out of it.

The difference between pure Muslims and Americans, he said, was that Americans loved life, whereas Muslims loved death.

Obama does seem to understand what real Americans are going through, and to want to provide us with some relief.

Americans who took the leadership in imposing sanctions on India have finally helped India get out of it.

The difference between pure Muslims and Americans, he said, was that Americans loved life, whereas Muslims loved death.

Obama does seem to understand what real Americans are going through, and to want to provide us with some relief.

Throw in a few million more average Americans who will just love how the nice lady smiles, and 2009 could be a very interesting year.

Just as the Americans pull out of Iraq, the risk of a conflict between the US and a newly-strengthened Iran is rising.

You see, Americans (me included) tend to be quite admiring, and Shanghai's success in the PISA tests would seem to ratify that.

At a time of rising gasoline prices, we need to be sending a message to all Americans: We are not going to raise your taxes.

The country's dishonest bankers and shady mortgage-brokers never seem to be touched by economic cycles that grind other Americans down.

By contrast, at the time of the Loving decision, 70 percent of Americans said they opposed mixed-race marriage, he said.

There will also be some REAL leaders who are of the light, but I will inform Americans, Obama will not be one of them.

There will also be some REAL leaders who are of the light, but I will inform Americans, Obama will not be one of them.

So the effect of all this money sloshing around the world was to subsidize Americans in their favorite activity: shopping.

No doubt millions of Americans would be appalled to see religious leaders ritualistically blessing contraceptives.

In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.

She broke into tears at the sight of the heavily armed Americans, and all the soldiers could do was try to help her with the heavy pump.

After every one of these ceremonies, I made it a point to speak to these new Americans.

High unemployment, economic hardships and a growing sense of isolation could be putting greater stress on Americans.

She wondered why her mother and many others have such a negative image of Americans.

It has nonetheless come as a shock to many Americans to find themselves plunged so abruptly into a new war in an Arab country.

Some Americans don't even seem to have had any sex education by the time they're elected to Congress. Like Todd Akin.

Some Americans reckon that this sort of pressure works better.

Would you quit your job if you didn't need the money? Many Americans said quitting work was an important reason to be rich.

In short, Americans understand the need to protect the financial system, but do not want the events of a year ago to happen again.

But he never got to reach one of his goals: health coverage for all Americans.

As one writer points out, to ask people to stop eating it is the equivalent of suggesting Americans give up turkey for Thanksgiving.

He said gay Americans have fought just as hard over many generations and gave just as much to protect the nation.

She said Americans want to be judged by what they are as a nation and not by an aberration like the Quran furor.

Americans spend about 15% of their household incomes on things that they do not need to satisfy their vices or to keep themselves amused.

In advance of the House vote, President Bush said the legislation will help the U. S. intelligence community protect Americans.

Yet too few Americans, and even fewer across the world, seem to recognize the extent of these American initiatives.

How Americans adjust their household budgets to higher energy prices, of course, will determine how much spending rebounds.

At a university in Florida, Obama said the growing financial divide between rich and middle class Americans needs to be addressed.

Many Americans will regard it as an honor to help you learn to pronounce an English word correctly or explain the meaning of a slang term.

To Americans, the Korean War was the last thing they wanted to memorialize, thus the war became known as "The Forgotten War. "

If you're among those Americans who can't seem to save, it might be time to create a budget.

On school and work days, breakfast in most Americans homes is often a hurried meal of juice, coffee and toast or cereal.

So thank you for all that you've done this year on behalf of your fellow Americans.

It's been gone for years and most Americans would sell their personal data for a $50 a year, so long as you promised them a free Diet Coke.

And I join all Americans in offering best wishes to President-elect Obama, his wife Michelle, and their two beautiful girls.

The proportion of jobless Americans has risen steadily since the United States sank into a recession more than a year ago.

When the Indians fought and killed white people they said that this proved that Native Americans were wild and had to be controlled.

The Americans do not know this iniquitous division of duties and rights; among them the seducer is as much dishonored as his victim.

I suppose the opportunity to see how the other half lives and realizing I feel many Americans are rather whiney individuals.

There had not been so many Americans in the city since the US army briefly occupied it during the Korean war.

The hostage-taking was "such an outrageous act against the United States" that it pulled Americans together, he said.

Up to now, many Americans have been waiting to see if their current economic problems are temporary, or something more.

But because Americans often take this right for granted, it has not always been exercised as fully as it should be.

He explained to me that of the thousands of Americans who annually pass through England there are many hundreds who have no English friends.

No one here knew me, and most found that I did not fit their concept of what Americans are supposed to be like.

Bob and I will tell the children stories of the way things used to be for African-Americans, and sometimes still are.

The book was to be an account of what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

But the Democrats' bigger problem is that most Americans have pretty good health insurance and no idea how much it costs.

When Americans were getting ready to send men into space, they wanted to be sure that it would be safe.

"Our most urgent task, " he said, "is to restore our economy, and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work. "

The Americans begin firing artillery to ensure the SS infantry did not follow up the abortive assault made by the DR panzers.

Like Icelanders, Americans are individualists. Where we seem to differ is in our sense of community.

The best way out of stagnation, Americans counseled, was to let weak companies die, freeing up capital for a new crop of leaner entrants.

But on his way home, Hu must be thinking to himself: Who are these Americans to lecture us?

She said the Democrats instead want to steer personal tax cuts to middle-class Americans.

It is impossible to say how much Americans spend on illegal betting, but estimates run as high as $380 billion.

It would seem that Americans are ahead of their leadership in recognizing the benefits of a strong US-China relationship.

But he makes it sound as if Mr McCain is doing special favours for an industry many Americans regard as villainous.

Americans had been able to pay $9. 99 a month for DVDs through the post as well as the right to stream some films and programmes.

His work with young athletes as an unofficial ambassador overseas and a spokesman for freedom are a rich legacy to his fellow Americans.

This is not a question of interest to Americans alone. It matters almost as much to the rest of the world.

TO THE alarm of environmentalists and park managers alike, interest in the great outdoors seems to be tailing off among young Americans.

The key question may be how much patience Americans show in coming months.

The word "liberty" , however, is more loaded among Americans owing to its place in the country's founding documents.

Such was the suspicion between most Americans and most Muslims in the Bush era that it did not take much to improve the climate.

Minor adjustments await Americans over the next generation compared with the great changes affecting its prospective competitors.