And so trying to let people know how dire the situation is because most people look back and say, you know, I remember the good old times.

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Mr. FLASH: I can remember at a point when I would look - when I would think about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it was like this building that had a mote with sharks around it.

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But remember the look into the future I opened with?

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Heck, I still remember the 256 megabyte USB drive I was using just a few years ago even as I look at the 4 gigabyte one I have now (which offers 16 times the storage capacity).

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Mr. LASORDA: Well, and if you look at it back - and I remember the days I started in the auto industry almost 29 years ago - when I looked at the cars and the vehicles that were there.

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It is clarifying to remember an exercise that I have undertaken to look at the size of the federal government under different Presidents, look at the size of the increase in public workforce under different Presidents, and how they compare over the years.

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And look, I think in terms of school supplies and stuff -- look, I remember when I was in school in Alabama, we went the Tuesday after Labor Day.

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As I look back at 2010, I remember a year that saw a surge not only in the discussion of corporate social responsibility among the private sector, but a heightened interest from the Indian government.

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As it relates to what you said a minute ago, I think if you look back at where people predicted different efforts would be, remember, right after the North Koreans test-fired their long-range -- test-fired a long-range missile, it was widely presumed that there was nothing that could be done to address those actions, largely because the U.N.

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