Word: tooled
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...avoid the challenges that others have faced, especially in an industry that has, until two years ago, been relatively nonexistent in the state. While proponents of film incentives argue that movies have continued to fare well despite past economic downturns, history may not be completely reliable as a predictive tool...
Challenges to Proposition 8 will be a key tool in our arsenal. Having dialogue with people who voted against us is going to be an important part. We also need to become much more sophisticated in conducting campaigns. We didn't respond quickly and incisively to some of the mistruths and fearmongering of the "Yes on Prop 8" campaign. They were masterful at some of the most despicable kind of campaigning. We have to know how to respond to that while still maintaining our integrity...
...going into economic prognostication. But I do think that, in essence, the computer is a tool of productivity, and in typical, traditional downturns in the past, tech has done better than other industries for that reason. The other thing that has happened since the last downturn is, the PC has become indispensable. This is the first time in our lives when, if you go home tonight and your computer breaks, are you going to say "Oh well, we're in an economic downturn, I'm not going...
...Laughs) Yeah, try writing your stories on that. Whether it's for work or entertainment or resume creation, computers have become an indispensable tool in the daily lives of over a billion people, and there are another billion people who are going to buy them in the next few years, so that's a different dynamic than we had in the past...
...South Lawn of the White House and seeing President Obama signing into law quality, affordable health care for everybody, and voting in a big majority for clean, renewable energy and smarter economic policies. That's what I'm all about, and I'm going to use every tool at my disposal to bring it about...