"The storm is so far away at this point, the cone of error from this point out is tremendous," said Florida Emergency Management Director Bryan Koon, who has been in constant contact with RNC officials about the storm threat.
"It's tremendous news," said Matt Muijen, director of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
"I think there is tremendous potential," said Rodney Brooks, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T.
"This was kind of an interesting moment in American history, coming off September 11, being at war, having national disasters of such tremendous impact," said AFI director Jean Picker Firstenberg.
"The effect has been tremendous," said Eric Obert, associate director for the Pennsylvania Sea Grant program, a research partnership between states, universities and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Some stars return from their time off to tremendous success (Bob Dylan, the director Terrence Malick); others return to find that it might have been better if they had stayed away (the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the comedian Dave Chappelle).
"The children that have that experience come back with tremendous needs," said Nina Piros, director of early childhood programs at University Settlement, a nonprofit agency that estimates that 400 of the 1,000 children served by its Butterflies program are returnees from China.
"The unmet need for affordable housing for this group is tremendous," said Rose Noonan, executive director of the Housing Action Council, a nonprofit group in Tarrytown, referring to seniors whose annual income is below $65,400, the county median for a single householder.
(Kehr) 'NEVER FEAR' (Saturday) Ida Lupino was best known as an actress ("High Sierra"), but she was also a director of tremendous talent and one of the very few women able to create a coherent career as a filmmaker in classical Hollywood.
"Everyone in the business is currently thinking about this issue, so there's tremendous competition for women directors".
