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(CNN)-- Dorothy McAuliffe is standing by her man, Terry McAuliffe, after Republican critics have attacked the Virginia gubernatorial candidate for not being the best husband based on some anecdotes in his book.

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Sebastian recounts this anecdote on stage at a glitzy event space in downtown Toronto.

«If I could pick one anecdote, one story in this journey that's had the most impact on me, it would be that,» said Don Yaeger.

In this anecdote - anchored piece, author and online advertising pro Perry Marshall lets you in on how to recognize your inner procrastinator and — surprise — why you should actually listen to what it's telling yoIn this anecdote - anchored piece, author and online advertising pro Perry Marshall lets you in on how to recognize your inner procrastinator and — surprise — why you should actually listen to what it's telling yoin on how to recognize your inner procrastinator and — surprise — why you should actually listen to what it's telling you.

From Hewlett - Packard (HPQ), Proctor & Gamble (PG), and the FBI to Al Qaeda, the Samoan government, and textile factories in India, they take readers on an enjoyable and informative romp, packed with rich anecdotes, meaty bits of social science, and all sorts of surprising factoids.

His character and personality produced several infamous anecdotes and references in pop culture, including appearances on various TV shows.

From the birth of computerized ticketing on Broadway in the 1960s (originated by a company bankrolled by Edgar Bronfman Sr.) to the ascendancy of Live Nation, Ticket Masters manages to be both thorough and surprisingly readable — even the end notes are full of interesting concert - business anecdotes.

One New York philanthropist she interviews writes anecdotes on index cards and sneaks peeks at them in quiet moments at events, to help him navigate the cocktail chatter of the fundraising circuit.

Simply acting on hypothesis or anecdotes won't advance women in a meaningful way.

That's just one anecdote, but it resonates with HR executives I've spoken to in a variety of businesses that rely on building trust with customers.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

His speech mixed anecdotes about his father's roots in the construction business with a call for less regulation and more school choice, plus a forceful attack on Hillary Clinton.

A lot of people say so based on myths and anecdotes, but an authoritative background study for the Mowat Centre Report on EI by Day and Winer found that «there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the employment insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.»

In Ishmael's House is not intended to advance the historiography on the subject, but Gilbert's popular audience may prefer his well - written and engaging series of facts and anecdotes.

The footnotes alone — in which Williams recounts many personal anecdotes and reveals strong opinions on many matters — are worth the price of the set.

Some of the most acclaimed American films are highlighted with lively production anecdotes and firsthand thematic reflections, including Singing in the Rain, On the Waterfront, The Sound of Music, The Sting, and Tender Mercies.

Multiple allergies showed up and we went right to Amazon to find helpful books on changing our eating habits to eliminate allergens in our child's diet.These recipes are easy and the book is written with great anecdotes which show the author can really relate to the difficulties we face as novices to the allergy free environment.

In 2013, The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Cookbook, written by Chef Sandy and Roy Finemore, let the public in on some secrets, with pages of insight into recipes, historic anecdotes, and all manner of expert information on buying, cooking, and serving fish and seafooIn 2013, The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Cookbook, written by Chef Sandy and Roy Finemore, let the public in on some secrets, with pages of insight into recipes, historic anecdotes, and all manner of expert information on buying, cooking, and serving fish and seafooin on some secrets, with pages of insight into recipes, historic anecdotes, and all manner of expert information on buying, cooking, and serving fish and seafood.

I connected with Kiesel to for his take on the IoT's place in food service, with his commentary and anecdotes making clear the importance of IoT - driven interconnectivity for multiple facets of the restaurant trade.

Where Beckenbauer gets four paragraphs, an anecdote, and a healthy dollop of awe — «Beckenbauer is not normal; he could see, or perhaps sense, everything behind me» — his notes on Gorgon's entry read, in their entirety:

Accorsi's candor (reflecting on the Giants» loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV, he says, «I would love to criticize our offensive game plan, but I don't think we had one») and anecdotes from more than three decades in pro football keep the pages turning, but Callahan succeeds most by revealing the psychological tension within a struggling team.

Clearly heavily intoxicated, the mascot told a slew of highly inappropriate anecdotes and went on a lengthy rant against George Graham and the Scottish in general before having to be escorted off screen by security, shrieking profanities.

I can see her dispensing all sorts of «advice» and anecdotes on how it was in her day, etc... I don't want her ruining these special moments by trying to «trump» my experience (which she has done the entire pregnancy).

But I also really, really, really hate breastfeeding - related articles (or TV programmes, or whatever) that cherry - pick the most outrageously negative anecdotes the author can get his or her hands on in order to «prove» that the choice to nurse or not is no big deal and / or that BF advocates are dogmatic ideologues and shrieking harridans.

The material on this blog is meant to be considered in this process, providing perspective, anecdotes, tools, techniques and information for your inspiration and consideration.

There's no obvious way to lead into this anecdote, so I'll just come out with it: a nurse on one of the postnatal wards in our local hospital told my wife that her (my wife's) nipples might be «too flat» to breastfeed.

The sudden access to loans from Zigama - CSS in 1997 is an abundant source of anecdotes even today: one soldier spent a year's loan on rounds of drinks in one night; another used the entirety of their salary to repay their loan from Zigama - CSS to buy his family a house, forgetting reserving money for his wife to survive while he was at the front.

«I can give you anecdote after anecdote that would break your heart,» he said, «but one in particular is a 7 - year - old lad being lifted from a dinghy on the beach at Lesbos, and my Arabic interpreter said to me that lad has just said to his dad: «Daddy, are ISIL here?»»

Instead we got «I had an anecdote about this guy I met in the park but I've forgotten it, so give yourselves a round of applause while I concentrate on walking around this goddam stage without falling the fuck over».

All this comes out strikingly in his book, which is packed full of indiscrete anecdotes, including a fascinating one about Clegg and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King holding a summit on quantitative easing while in their underpants.

A quick anecdote; I lived and grew up on an undesirable council estate in NE England - the drug dealer on the corner claiming incapacity benefit rankled much more with my father than when the chap down the street had a lottery win.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in AmericIN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americin his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americin a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americin America.

The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).

«So it could be that the polls have not been picking up on the true feeling on the ground but there's also a very good chance that people are being blinded by anecdote and posters in windows and that kind of thing.»

The Legg List was intended to confirm in cold print all the leaks, the anecdotes and revelations that have emerged over the last year and then allow the body politic to move on.

Still, Mr. Howe's testimony on Thursday — and in particular, his account of that 2014 meeting with Mr. Cuomo and the circumstances that preceded it — was one of the first times that the governor has emerged as a major character in one of Mr. Howe's many anecdotes of how he tried to pull Albany's unseen levers.

Cuomo also praised the diversity of the state and the Democratic Party, which he illustrated with a humorous (and perhaps embellished) anecdote: the high number of languages in which he was cursed as he directed traffic after a crane collapse on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

«Everybody's an expert on this issue, but we're relying on anecdotes,» says sociologist Michael Rocque of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

She sprinkles in personal anecdotes from her recent divorce, her trials on the dating scene and advice from her friends.

Lifelong equestrian enthusiast Williams takes on the topic at full gallop, weaving scientific analysis with cultural and historical anecdotes in this lively, fascinating read.

Most of the current debate, he adds, «is based not on data but on anecdotes, or in response to pleading by individual sectors.»

Through colorful anecdotes and commonsense explanations, author Richard C. Francis, who holds a Ph.D. in biology, delivers an engaging tour of the new science of epigenetics, the study of environmental influences on gene expression.

There have been countless literary descriptions of men miraculously breast - feeding, from The Talmud to Tolstoy, where, in Anna Karenina, there is a short anecdote of a baby suckling an Englishman for sustenance while on board a ship.

As an anecdote, one day before the deadlines for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting I have seen a publication on Facebook related to eight women who participated in the preliminary meeting.

There are many more cases; in addition to those on my «Results» page, many anecdotes can be found on PaleoHacks and in my comment thread.

You may have heard different websites or anecdotes in the past about these 3 substances and their possible effects on reducing the blood sugar response of a meal (taken either before or during a meal), which can, essentially help to keep insulin levels lower post-meal and keep the body from depositing extra body fat.

The turning point for me, however, was when I stopped listening to anecdote and reading studies (in the good one), and just put it all on pause for a moment.

The recipes, divided into sections based on ailment and target age group, are complemented by facts about herbs, how to grow them, and amusing anecdotes from the author's decades - long experience in herbalism.

That means that most of the benefits suggested about its role in weight loss are based on anecdotes and marketing claims.

Price also provided fascinating anecdotes from his clinical experience, wherein nutrient - dense foods corrected hypocalcemia - related seizures and chronic fatigue, made remarkable improvements in chidrens» performance at school, and wherein a surgical intervention to correct a narrowed palate induced puberty in a child long failing to develop through that stage of life, probably by releasing pressure on the pituitary gland.