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We have worked around the passionate way that Italians approach all things, good and bad ? the way they drive, the way they eat and the way they dress. We will have a very energetic show. There will be a lot of speed. Italians love speed.

We have always been disciplined in our approach to acquisitions, ... Being disciplined means knowing when it is time to walk away. That time is now.

I was on the 17th hole getting ready to hit an approach shot,

I was ready to do a biography, ... But obviously, I was challenged by the daunting prospect of getting him to do it. I had no real confidence. There was nothing about my approach that I thought would convince him.

The 50-plus market is extremely diverse and demands a different type of product and marketing approach than the mainstream. These awards recognize builders and other industry professionals for their innovation, and for raising the bar for the industry.

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Wind gusts will approach 35 to 40 mph, creating wind chills to minus 20,

Merck will remain a research-driven pharmaceutical company, but we need to change our approach to virtually every aspect of our business and we must act with a sense of urgency.

Merely being an onlooker will not entitle you to approach Him and be in His Holy Company. Cultivate His Friendship or Kinship by the attitude of Love and dedicated Service.

Most likely there will be tighter policies introduced in the coming months, if not weeks. The questions is: what is the right approach to deal with an increasingly market-orientated policy?

Most of our best indicators suggest that it will move back to the west and approach the southeast United States coast. However, it is much too soon to know if landfall along the southeast coast will occur.

You can definitely have a more narrowly tailored approach by focusing on individuals who show signs of intoxication or show drops of performance.

You just have to be ready to go. Hopefully you have a simple approach and not try to do too much. You try to get a good pitch to hit and let it come to you.

We just decided that this was a more practical approach and that's what we did. Hopefully, Monmouth County will have success with their project in the long run.

We, I think, are a really good fit for kids who haven't experienced success at a regular school. They have abilities and talents, but the 'one size fits all' approach hasn't met their needs.

That's a very different approach to what the CAW has done in the past.

That's the mentality we have ... and the approach that we're going to take.

That's the one thing we always go to. I probably, to a fault, work too much on our defense in practice. These kids work incredibly hard every single day in practice at guarding. Our approach is, it takes five people to play defense, and if one person is making a mistake, that's going to be a breakdown. Tonight, people really saw how well we can defend people.

We haven't seen the win column in a while. I was disappointed with our mental approach for this game. We were a little lackadaisical today.

The 2005 guidelines take a 'back to basics' approach to resuscitation. The association believes the new guidelines will contribute to more people doing CPR effectively.

That was the approach the architects took and that the Ross's wanted. They wanted to blend both.

We are now, we believe, more knowledgeable about how to approach the reality of this new, certainly more dynamic, video marketplace.

We came together and took a regional approach to determine what our needs were.

We haven't played our best ball lately. All we can do is learn from the last four games, look at the negatives and move on. We need to take the approach that the best is yet to come for us.

We needed to make a dramatic change in the way we approach welfare housing, ... There has been an increasing demand for welfare housing, while the actual supply of homes has continued to dwindle.

We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way than they have the first half of the season. I am surprised they've done this well so soon.

The problem is getting worse. What's needed is substantial reform of the entire approach China takes on the issue.

Mike analyzes everything. He works at his trade. He came into it new, and spent countless hours learning the craft, talking with people around the league to find out what it is he needs to do, and given that opportunity, how he would approach being a head coach. He's very detailed in his preparation. Mike's a very deep thinker and very passionate about the game, and those are two pretty good qualities to become a head coach.

While Americans generally support the goal of promoting democracy, they take the pragmatic approach of not making it a top priority in all cases.

While co-teaching may be a valuable strategy for delivering instruction, it is not an acceptable approach to meet the Class Size Amendment.

While demanding rights for Muslims, the MCB wants to deny rights to lesbian and gay people -- both Muslim and non-Muslim. It sees no double standard or inconsistency in its selective approach to human rights.

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

We do not expect companies to build completely from scratch, but have a composite approach with functionality from a vendor wrapped with the company's own intellectual property to reflect the way it does business.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

We'd seen Diaz last year, so we knew what to expect. We just didn't have the right approach tonight.

We feel good about where we are, but you're never finished. The business constantly evolves. We are in a lot more businesses than just football -- radio, TV, concessions, Internet -- and a lot of that is reflected in our approach with sponsors.

We received an approach by Portsmouth asking permission to hold talks with our manager. Permission was not granted.

We received an approach from Preston. Marcus feels this will best serve his interests for first-team football.

We can't deny that there is a new political dynamic, but it is piecemeal, ... We are against this piecemeal approach to change. There is either change or not change.

We don't feel the punishment approach is just and we don't believe it works. We are asking for a path to full legalization to allow immigrants to participate in this country without fear.

We intend to continue our negotiations with the City of Buffalo and Erie County for a balanced approach to the Niagara Project's relicensing that maintains the hydroelectric project's low electricity rates, ... Slaughter has talked with us about a reasonable agreement, as have others.

We believe the System One represents a revolutionary technology offering a simplified, less labor-intensive and yet more flexible approach for the treatment of kidney dysfunction.

We believe this is the first Fast Track Designation for a smoking cessation product candidate, which is unprecedented, and provides further validation for our unique approach to addressing nicotine addiction.

We must therefore approach the coming months, and indeed the event, with a sense of shared responsibility, knowing it is imperative that a committed and collective effort is required to successfully deliver this landmark undertaking.

We are thrilled to add another group of Disneyland hotels to our portfolio of customers. They have proven to be forward thinking in their approach to marketing their properties around the world and our international experience makes us a great fit.

We are treating it like a big deal. We have fought hard to establish credibility in the enterprise so we're taking a very aggressive approach in addressing this.

We do take very seriously how to find efficiencies so we can provide the lowest possible prices to our customers for the part of the business we control. If that's perceived as being more hard-nosed than we were in the past, I'm not quite sure. I think our approach has been professional and positive.

We can win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. No matter what I do, it's never going to be enough. I understand that. It's not going to change my approach to the game.

Well, were our own prisons. We each our own wardens & we do our own times. We get stuck in our own little trips & we kind a judge ourselves the way we do. You know, I cant judge uh, nobody else, best thing I can do is try to judge myself & live with that. See, what other people do is not really my affair, unless they approach me with it, & want me to do something about it, uh, then Ill uh take into consideration what has to be done. But other than that I just uh, try to do my number, & do my time.

We are the first in the industry to announce our support of .08 as part of a comprehensive approach and we're proud of that. It is our expression of our long-standing commitment to responsibility,

we will reconsider our entire approach to the nuclear issue.

We had to win this one. Everybody knows playoff momentum shifts real quickly. I think we'll wake up (this) morning and take the approach that we have to go in there and win a hockey game.

We had a little more of an aggressive approach at the plate and we started putting balls in play and making their defense work.

We've made significant changes, not so much in the format but in the approach and in the style of the evening news, and I feel like we're just in the beginning of the process.

We've moved from a team approach to a single portfolio manager, who is responsible for the inclusion of the team's ideas into the portfolio. Analysts are held accountable for the strength of their recommendations.

We've got some crow to eat. Our approach globally has been that we support the opening of capital markets and the lowering of barriers to investment.

We really want to have long-term commitments, so that we're not having to approach this every year like this. We're going to try to come up with a solid plan that's going to last us three to five years out.

We're always excited at the prospect of somebody new coming in -- a 'white knight' or somebody who might take a different approach with regard to labor -- anybody that's possibly going to take a less adversarial approach. We're always optimistic. But again, we're not going to get overly excited because we'll just wait and see how it all plays out.

We enthusiastically support Nintendo's next console because we believe their approach of continual innovation is very much in line with our own strategy of creating unique and innovative games for the next generation of hardware.

We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

That's the same kind of thing that employers need to be doing to be more professional and effective at training anybody, no matter what age they are. The sheep-dip approach isn't working any more.

That's the way they wanted to approach it. Miami made an offer but was told it was not acceptable. We chose not to. We decided to wait and see if we have a chance in free agency to get him. Unless we had permission to first explore everything involved, we weren't going to make an offer.

That was obviously another one of those games. They (Boston Celtics) played extremely well. They were focused and they had a tremendous approach to the game. They executed in the first quarter flawlessly. They did not feel our defense and they did not feel our presence. We were waiting for them to miss and they just didn't.

That would not be normal. That would not be the way I'd approach the door.

That year he learned to take a business-like approach to practice, not just coming in some days, be good and then take some days off like some players do. He's allowed himself to be more consistent by taking that approach to practice.

This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

We used to try to get it all done in one deal. But now we approach it more like marketing our grain crop. We don't aim to get 100% locked in at the very top of the market. We try to get some on the way up and some at the top. And then we live with how it averages out. It has served us pretty well.

The fact of the matter is that Hong Kong is going back to China and C.H. has the ability to work with China as well as the Hong Kong people. Tung's approach is by building a bridge to get to know China better, have a better relationship with China, so that China will let us have our way of life long into the future.

We've shipped a version of Office 2003 with an open format and we've expressed more commitment to the approach in our next Office releases. We feel that we're not being given enough of an opportunity to explain how openness is possible.

The real battle is being played out on the profitability front, the efficiency front, and the intellectual property front. Increasingly it's not going to be sufficient to simply put out whiz bang devices. You need to have a broader solution-oriented approach to serving the market, whether it's organic or partnership driven.

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

The problem with this rushed approach to fitness is that the body doesn't respond to sudden exercise and unhealthy dieting in a favorable manner. In fact, people who strive to get fit at the last minute risk injuring themselves from doing too much exercise too soon. The body needs time to adapt to a new exercise program through gradual increases in duration and intensity.

We have played to earn respect, and the way you earn respect is by going out and winning the next game you play. That approach has helped us get here. I don't know too much about Pittsburgh and what their year has been like. Let's just go out and take care of business. It sounds like that is the sort of formula that has helped them get here, too.

We decided it would be interesting to approach the music as a group solo.

We decided that in order to become an effective Web site, we needed to become much more comprehensive than just a Web site for the television news program. At that time, we decided to approach everyone in Athens who was producing news on the Internet and asked if we could 'point' to their content, and we received enthusiastic permission from everyone.

We decided to approach IAM after a rigorous search across the industry. They have exactly the combination of history, people and performance to bring critical mass to our fund of hedge funds business.

There are different tastes, so there are different ways to approach this.

There are some really good examples of where the industry has come together. The Internet Watch Foundation is funded by industry, and without legislation this approach has achieved fantastic things in the last five years.

We've been here a few years now. We approach each game as business.

We tried so hard to make this unbiased and to not insult one side or the other. To me, it's as balanced an approach as we could do.

We tried to approach it as a zero-zero game that we needed to win outright. But as it turned out, we needed that goal. It was a different way to win a game, but we'll take it.

We tried to approach the whole thing with a bit of humor. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

We're playing a team that doesn't lose at home. I'll be anxious to see how we approach it.

There are needs right now that are critical when we approach a dry season, as we did this year. It's important that we do not let a little bit of rain distract us.

There are no goals for the entire season. We have to approach each game separately and try and win. If that means we finish with six wins or 15 wins, who really knows. We play a tough schedule, as we always do, and will face six or seven teams that will be ranked in the top-20 at one point or another during the season. Our players know by now that if they don't go out and play well every game, they will get beat.

There is a professional business approach to dealing with issues and concerns. Yes, these people have made their point, ... I think it's now time to end the blockade and get down to the table to discuss what the real issues are with the customers that they serve.

What we really need is a broad approach that looks at every strategy that makes sense.

What we're doing at Dow falls very much in line with what the secretary was talking about. We approach security from a risk management perspective, and we try to identify the right level of risk and the right approach to reduce that risk at all of our sites.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

What we're doing that's different is we've taken a genetic approach to understand fertility.

Yesterday, I got my jitters out. And today, I took my normal approach to hitting. I got something down and in that I could hit.

We reached the conclusion that if we didn't change our approach and go after them seriously, they would continue to make a joke out of us.

We really felt the last 20 minutes, and how we chose to approach that, could set the stage for the rest of the series. We wanted to make sure we continued to play hard and honest and not compromise ourselves. We gave our opponents something to think about going into Madison Square Garden. Our objective was to be every bit as intense as we had up to that point and execute the best we could. We tried to send a message.

We really haven't changed our approach to training just because this is an Olympic year. I guess that I would say the only change would be that their intensity has ramped up more, and their focus and concentration is higher.

We didn't want the rough start. Our approach is if we win district games we are in the playoffs.

We had no idea where we were starting and where we needed to go, so we started a field force approach to workforce optimization.

This win will definitely go a long ways toward putting a positive approach to the game among our players. Simsbury has always had one of the premier programs in the state. When you beat them, you feel like you've accomplished something special.

This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much about each individual player and his family and about their experiences. It's a much more personal approach than most were accustomed to. Within the family, it became a small-college feel.