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Money is the biggest issue on The Knot. With the average wedding costing $19,000, people are asking how they can do it for $3,000.

No one is really that good at reading the crystal ball. (Dollar-cost averaging) puts in place a pattern of purchasing behavior that in time will average out to be good.

Of course it wasn't a problem for him. Our line was one of the biggest. I think our average size was 200 pounds.

My experience is that, for the average investor, for someone who doesn't spend a tremendous amount of time analyzing the market, it's too difficult to evaluate different markets against each other,

Potato? Why the potato? Couldn't they think of anything more original? To me that's what the average person would say. So why don't we pick something that is unique to this state.

Police/gangster films always have a huge following and huge audience because of the power, glamour, and certain fantasy aspect they have to them. When people watch movies, they like to fantasize being in a surreal world, and sometimes a criminal world can be attractive because you possess so much power and money, not like the average 9 to 5 guy.

Next year is going to be an entirely different case. The average salary for a major-league shortstop is not $1.35 million. Why should I play for that?

Next year, I think the average equity fund will lose 1.5 (percentage points) of its return to taxes. If you don't like investing in funds that have an above-average expense ratio, I'm not sure why you'd want a fund with an above-average tax burden, at least not for an account where taxes are going to matter.

Now, the average total amount of money given each year is $7 million, all donors combined. That's a wonderful support.

Now there are certain aspects of football that we all know. They are not your typical, average 9-to-5 jobs, but why do we have to get to the point that we have to accept stuff like this? This behavior is not acceptable. Romanowski is a bad guy. He is a jerk every day of the week, and I hated playing against him.

Obviously, companies split when the stock price has gotten beyond the pocketbook of the average investor.

Obviously, the average teenager doesn't know about Broadway or doesn't get a chance to see a Broadway show, so we're bringing Broadway to them.

People want a change because they want to see their government on the side of average Americans. Whether it's small business or gas prices, people think the government has betrayed their values.

People will keep using (Palm OS Garnet). For the average user, who doesn't use more than 20 percent of their device, they don't know the difference.

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren't slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.

Obviously I'm putting out information that's not very flattering. The average person today, including the average union member, doesn't have any idea how unions operate and what the realities are. Everybody knows what unions are good at, but not what they're bad at.

Natural-resources funds have been up and down thus far in 2001. In April, the category's 10 percent rise pulled the average return out of negative territory for the year. The White House has also contributed to the category's recent success with overtures about the need for increased exploration and production.

New Geeks visit pubs, clubs and bars more than twice as often as the average person, ... (A) new, more chic geek has emerged from the bedroom.

Right now inventories are below the normal average level for this time of year.

My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

I didn't want a model in the room for three or four months. It would drive me crazy, drive them crazy. But also, they gain weight, they lose weight, their hair gets long, they cut it short, they're awake, they're asleep. And a painting becomes the mean average of all those conditions. I simply looked at photography as a way to jot down the information.

I don't know what his points-per-game average against us is, but it's really up there.

I don't know that I've ever seen that let alone as an average at least as long as I've been here. That seems quite high,

If we didn't have those programs, we would have an additional 80-plus people at any given time housed in custody, which would put us well into the 300s, and we can only hold 305, ... This year we have an average of 275 inmates a day. If we didn't have these programs, we would have 80 more people on top of that average. The Corrections Standards Authority rate of capacity of the facility is 296.

If we do nothing and OPEC continues to constrict the supply of oil, the average American will pay $1,000 dollars more this year than ... last year out of their pockets,

If we do nothing and OPEC continues to constrict the supply of oil the average American will pay $1,000 more this year than they did last year out of their pockets,

If we had the average ticket price this season instead of $35, it would have meant an additional $8 million based on paid attendance.

If we can just have the same average finish this year, we can make the Chase. Finishing races is so important. That's how we got that top five finish in the Busch Series. We really weren't a top-five team, but we did it by consistency. That's what we want to do this year.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.

People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Many of these jobs are quality, middle-class jobs, ... The film industry is pivotal to the city's economy. ... In fact, the average scripted features -- television and commercial productions -- have a direct production-related economic impact of $150,000 to $250,000 each day they're in production.

Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously improved.

Last year, the Ninth Circuit had a caseload nearly 60 percent larger than the next largest circuit, ... This causes delays in a circuit where the average disposition time is now five months longer than the national average.

Last year, viewers spent 45 minutes on average watching the celebration on MSN Video and this year we are making it even more interactive by giving consumers the opportunity to choose the camera angles and the events to focus on, instantly shaping their New Year's Eve experience.

The plan is stupid because it's subsidizing Chevy Chase, Md., and Greenwich, Conn., as well as the inner cities. Universal service was never meant to subsidize places where the average price of a house is $800,000.

When voters see this bill on her desk, they will expect a signature. The average Arizonan will not want to hear about legal wriggling about a separation-of-powers issue.

When we see a change in payrolls that is dominated by a glitch in the seasonal factor, no change in average hourly earnings and only a small gain in the length in the average workweek, we know that the message is encouraging but not exhilarating,

When you average 50-something, I'd expect to score more than 28 (points).

We recommend that consumers shift their funds from traditional savings to CDs and from banks to credit unions. If everyone did so they would earn about $40 billion more in interest annually. That's an average of about $400 per household.

We're giving up 40 (points) a game, and I know they average more than that. If we keep them at 50, we'll have a good chance, but we have to control the tempo of the game because they're bigger than us, and if we limit the number of easy baskets, we'll have a good chance.

Lowe's was maybe a bit of a letdown this morning, and the other retailers and some of the homebuilding stocks are down. The Dow transportation average is also weak today, despite UAL's gains. There's really no new news today to push us too much in either direction. We've had a great run recently and a minor decline isn't so bad.

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.

Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

Since most women are kind of different from the top-model image, there is a constant losing battle of self-image, ... It's damaging when every woman that's portrayed in the media or who are on the covers of magazines are part of a stereotypical form of beauty, whereas the average woman is not.

Since quarter end, market conditions for our primary products have continued to weaken resulting in significant declines in average selling prices and higher inventory levels,

Single family housing starts, which correlate closely with changes in average mortgage rates, remain robust for now, ... We should start to see this series moderate in future months as higher mortgage rates keep a lid on borrower interest. However, mortgage rates have plenty of room to move before they even reach pre-recession levels. As a result, we may not see a slowdown in housing construction until the autumn months of this year.

Since the New Year, we've seen 1 and 2 cent increases almost every day. At that pace, the average price has shot up into the mid $2 range.

Motorists can expect two to three weeks more of price increases that could send the average price of regular as high as $3.10 to $3.20 per gallon.

Since the Shanghai index broke both the 5- and 10-day moving average today, further downside is expected.

Shannon is on track to set a new school, in-career scoring average record. I am going to miss both the seniors big time; they are my go to players. I depend on them on the course for a core during qualifying.

She probably could average 18-19 points a game easy, but she likes to give her teammates opportunities, evident by her assists.

She has been in six months, and she has already had more controversies than the average congressperson does in a career. You never bet against an incumbent. But I tell you, in her case I wouldn't bet more than a nickel on her.

She got off to a slow start in the fall, so her scoring average doesn't reflect how well she has played.

Make them pitch into his strike zone. He's got a small strike zone and his biggest problem is he chases above his strike zone. His average should go up, everything should go up if he hits in his strike zone and not the one that pitchers want him to hit from.

Many consumers were driven to the stores last weekend by great sales on electronics and toys. Now that many of the most popular electronics are affordable for the average shopper, people are picking up DVD players and digital cameras as gifts, but also for themselves.

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

So far, the prices are still pretty decent. Our bean yields are down 30 percent, but our corn just seems to be up to average this year.

So far this month we achieved 1.58 for the average of the first 18 days, and hope we can be for the rest of month we'll be close to 1.5-1.6. For the second half, we hope to do 1.6, maybe a little bit higher towards the end of the year.

Since 9/11, for the first time, average door-to-door travel speed has really dropped substantially due to a combination of increased security measures at airports and more road traffic.

Short messaging services has been the driver of the growth for these companies and I'm not sure if the average investor realizes this. They see an Internet company that recently turned profitable and that's been enough ammo to bid the stocks higher.

She would have to average just about what she's averaging now, and do it through the state championship game.

Security and compliance requirements should boost IT spending by financial services firms, while resurgent demand for networking technologies should give the telecoms sector a shot in the arm. Unemployment has hit new lows. Two years ago, 13% of IT contractors went more than 90 days on average between contracts; now only 3% experience this level of uncertainty and difficulty in finding work.

Serving small customers on a long-term basis doesn't provide enough of a margin. It might be a different equation for a company spending 10 times or more than your average retail customer.

Seven of the top-10 majors with the highest starting salary offers saw increases in their offers over last year. Engineering remains strong, and another high point comes for economics/finance graduates, who saw a spectacular 11-percent increase to their average starting salary offers.

On an average year, we'll see about 277 inches and we're already at 308 inches.

She's off to an average start for us. We've seen flashes, but she's been inconsistent. The most important things Jayme can do for us are on the defensive end and she's beginning to understand that and settle into a more consistent role.

She was pretty productive. We expect this kind of performance out of her. Some days are better than others, but she has a pretty good scoring average right now.

She's just an average teenager. She was an honor roll student but lately she's been in the boy world and her grades started dropping. Just stuff girls do.

The prime rate moves in concert with the Fed's interest rate moves, ... The average rate for a home equity line of credit has increased from 4.7 percent in June 2004 to 5.9 percent as of last week.

The prime rate moves in concert with the Fed's interest rate moves. The average rate for a home equity line of credit has increased from 4.7 percent in June 2004 to 5.9 percent as of last week.

The only people eligible to vote are the people who are living in the district. I would say there is an average of only five people per district.

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

What I do for people is I look at the weighted average of what their mortgage rate is.

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we could sacrifice was an average of a dollar an hour. Those employees are on the low end of the scale. They're making eight, nine dollars an hour ... so a dollar from them is a lot.

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge...

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

There are things he does that the average person doesn't see, but we see it.

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.

I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

I was just an average player on a very good team. I've tried to pass my Blue Devil experience on to today's players.

Kids have to understand that steroids will not make you a Division I player. If an average high school player starts taking steroids, he's not suddenly going to become a D-I player. These kids are also paying way more than they should for these supplements. Food is the best supplement they can get. Nutrition is the key. Kids don't need that stuff. At their age, they have so much going on with their bodies naturally. They don't need supplements.