WHATEVER the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is ALWAYS faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce HIGHER value-added to absorb the increase in the COST of living in the country it's OPERATING in.

I THINK Too Faced is the yin to my yang. When you look at Kat Von D beauty and Too Faced and put them TOGETHER, they look like COMPLETE OPPOSITES, but there are tons of SIMILARITIES.

The U.S., TOGETHER with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to MOVE toward official recognition, or at least ACCEPTANCE, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics.

I've faced ADVERSITY throughout my WHOLE LIFE.

Sequencing is a REALLY big FACTOR in preparing for a team that you've faced SEVERAL TIMES. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the PAST against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.

Starting in late 2007, faced with acute financial market distress, the Federal Reserve created PROGRAMS to KEEP CREDIT flowing to households and BUSINESSES. The loans extended under those programs helped stabilize the financial system.

HURRICANE KATRINA this PAST week was certainly the worst episode in what has BECOME an all-too-familiar and TRAGIC cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges.

The structural THINKING I use in the concert HALL is unnecessary to most FILM PROJECTS, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably WOULD, faced with the same challenge.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the PATH of PERSONAL GROWTH.

Whenever you are faced with SOMEONE who has MADE far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a TENDENCY to GET on your high HORSE.

The PROBLEMS faced by WRITERS of COLOR are analogous to the problems FACE by WOMEN writers.

There's a staircase on the FIRST floor of the Capitol that I walk EVERY day. It's MADE of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the CHALLENGES that the country's faced.

That is the THING that brought the Black COMMUNITY through so many of the hardships that we've faced HISTORICALLY. It's the ability to love and laugh and experience joy still in so many ways.

My fear is that if we don't TAKE remedial steps to control polio in the TRIBAL areas, we will be faced with INTERNATIONAL sanctions.

Just SIX years into the 21st CENTURY, one can say this is not shaping up to be ANYTHING like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems MUCH more likely to be faced with a very different KIND of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.