His business has since blossomed to four cherry-themed stores and a brisk cherry-driven mail-order operation.

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Technologies need to advance in a logical supply-and-demand-driven order rather than the fits and starts of porkbarrel science.

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Why would pragmatic, hard-charging, achievement-driven leaders pause in order to accelerate performance and growth?

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Commercial and impact-driven lenders must decide where to apply resources in order to match their capabilities with the most appropriate need and opportunity.

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The point is, in order to truly effect change, we need both top-down government-driven approaches, and bottom-up initiatives like crowdfund investing.

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And, by the way, we want our sons in that, but we also want our daughters. (Applause.) I don't know if you were listening last night, but, see, we don't have to order up some binders -- (laughter) -- to find qualified, talented, driven young women to learn and teach and thrive and start businesses. (Applause.) And when these young women graduate, we should make a very simple concept the rule: Equal pay for equal work.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at Ohio University, Athens, OH

So we are making sensible choices that reflect our need to get our fiscal house in order, and we are making those choices driven by a strategy rather than just giving the Defense Department an across-the-board haircut, because that would be irresponsible.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing