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We take the best arm in the district - the region maybe - and have to move him from right field to second base because we have trouble there. We have guys not doing their job at second base fielding the ball.

We've done the same (offensive) things the last eight years, but we didn't run our base plays very well, ... That's unusual and a little disheartening. Personally, for me as a coach, Columbus Lakeview deserves to win because they've had a number of times in the last few years where they really had us on the ropes and we'd come out on the right end.

I have a lot of good memories about Kirby. When he used to get a base hit, he'd throw his bat and it'd be flying all over the field. He was a unique player. We need some more players in this age and time coming in the big leagues that play like Kirby.

I actually wanted it. I guess the fact that I was working so much at first base during spring training, I kind of (cut) back my hitting.

We made significant strides in turning around the business during 2005. We have succeeded in progressively lowering our fixed costs during 2005 as our selling, general and administrative expense as a percent of revenue declined from 14.5% in the first quarter to 12.1% in the fourth quarter. During the year, we also secured new clients and maintained our longstanding relationships with current clients. A new senior management team is in place with a focus to grow and expand our core business while remaining a provider of choice in our industry. We are encouraged with the progress we have made thus far and we will continue to seek opportunities to improve our results and diversify our revenue base in 2006.

He was outstanding, ... When we got guys on base he made the pitches. He pitched a great game.

He was on base three times. We'll take that.

We make that crucial error right at third base and they jump all over us like good teams do.

We may never see base salary increases in the mid-to-upper 4 percent range again.

He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben - he was my first dry hump.

I always assumed I would meet him. I never got to touch base from my heart to his heart, and I'm sure that millions of us felt the same way.

He was perfect. He walked a guy that I thought he struck out. He gave up a base hit and it was probably an error. He commanded his fastball, changeup and breaking ball. I've been telling him all spring he's got the stuff to do this. He's got to believe in it and trust it.

We made some questionable decisions on the base path but, for the most part, we wanted to come out and be aggressive today, and I felt like we did that from all aspects.

We made the decision to go down this path because we could see that Symbian was on the right track, ... Eighteen months ago, when we put the business plan together, there were still some question over the ownership of Symbian and whether the market share was going eventuate. But we made the bet that Symbian was going to be successful and we wanted to be part of that success. Now I think that is a forgone conclusion that Symbian will be successful. They are growing their customer base and the device volumes are getting into the very significant numbers.

We make an estimate on what we think the new loan limit will be and base it on that. If we can gauge where the new loan limits will be we can pass on the benefits to consumers.

He can really pitch. This is a guy who two years ago bounced a lot of fastballs that fell short of the target. He has worked hard. ... Today, he is right there striking out people, stopping rallies, fielding his position, getting base hits and challenging hitters.

He can steal a run for us here and there, put pressure on the defense, take the extra base and put pressure on the defense. That's what we felt he could bring and that's what we were hoping for him to do if he made the ball club.

He could play outfield, first base or even shortstop. He'd definitely compete at all those positions. He's certainly not afraid of any adversity.

He was converted from third base to second because he doesn't have big power but our scouts say he can hit. He has good makeup.

If we make a play here and there or get a base hit here and there, we could be 6-2. But we haven't done it. Sean Green struck out 13 in his first outing and then comes back with nine against Crown Point. John strikes out 14. Both have pitched well. We've just let ourselves down.

If the Turkish base continues attacking Iraq, it will certainly be (targeted) like other bases,

If someone came up with a 64-bit desktop application, then AMD would have an advantage. As soon as the application base on PCs demands more than 4GB to run any particular application, that's when you will start to see pressure on the desktop for 64-bit processors. But the average use for a Windows 98 configuration is just south of 128MB, so we still have several years, as that demand tends to crawl forward at around 50 to 100 percent a year.

If South Carolina provided an adequate base for funding ... we wouldn't need the tuition cap.

If the allegations of falsified studies prove true, appropriate disciplinary actions are unavoidable. We will base our investigations on first- hand interviews with Hwang and his research team.

If the guy ahead of me is hitting with two outs, I'm really hoping he finds a way to get on base because I want to hit in those situations. I approach it the same way, maybe mentally lock it in a notch higher, but those are the at-bats I really want to cash in on.

He developed a bond up there for a reason. Their fan base is the same as ours; they appreciate maximum effort, accountability, he's a genuine guy and he lights up a room. I look forward to our fan base developing the same bond he had with that fan base.

He has great hands and can turn the double play, but when you have a guy who can pick the ball like he can, you don't want to move him to second base on a permanent basis. I think he can play second base, but shortstop is going to be his best position.

He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue.

He was always goofing around. You always had a great time with Kirby. He would get to first base and start talking.

He's become the face of a big part of the United States, a big part of the New England fan base and he deserves it. He's a pro on and off the field, a very likeable guy, and he's true. He's legit. He's not faking anything for a long time now, and he deserves everything he's got right now.

He has methodically over the years built a fund-raising organization. Now it raises a lot of money. He does that the way you would try to build any organization, which is to develop a committed base and look to expand it.

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

Hitting is no problem, the question is if I can make throws. I'll give it a try at first base in a game in about a week.

Going after employees at a business site rather than at their home is the most economical way of getting a large customer base quickly. But how will they unseat existing dry cleaning relationships that companies have?

Going back to her days as first lady, she has had a large base of supporters out here.

There is always that guarantee that if a savings bond is lost or stolen, it can be replaced. And the only way we can do that is to maintain a massive data base to keep track of it all.

There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.

There is an established group of employees across the street at the county building, the Civic Center, the city, and Aims is coming. All of those are a really good customer base for us already.

The range from a base station is typically six miles, but in hills, that will be a struggle.

The packaging industry is undergoing swift changes, and Smurfit-Stone is in the process of assessing its entire asset base to determine how to stay ahead of the market,

His our number one. He came in with people on base and threw strikes and that's what we needed.

He shouldn't have gotten so many base hits.

He's hard to guard because he's unorthodox. He doesn't have a good base yet. Guys can certainly dislodge him from certain positions.

He's been really unselfish for us. He's been outstanding for us this season. He's got a great on base percentage, and he started out the season batting third for us. But we thought he'd be most effective at the top of the order.

He's been telling me little things about staying low and keeping a nice little base when I'm ready to throw. We're kind of doing the basics right now, and hopefully we can work our way up to where I can be just as fundamentally sound as he was.

Hopefully they'll be able to keep going and the program will get better. Coach Weber does a great job of recruiting and a great job developing players. They have a good base with a majority of players coming back. I don't see why anything would change.

He's doing well down there. He's playing third base today, but he's been playing mostly second base. One of his strengths is his versatility, but he's just not versatile. He's good defensively at a number of positions.

He's been doing great for us. He's one of those guys that gets on base even if its a walk.

He's freaky strong. Third basemen -- and third base coaches -- tend to play deep on him.

He's getting a lot of base hits to the opposite field, which is a positive. He stopped hitting the lazy fly balls to right field. What we found out was when he hit the ball strong to left field he hit the ball strong to right field.

He's bouncing around out there. He plays first base pretty good. He catches the ball really nice. I was pleasantly surprised.

If I put on my academic hat, I would have nothing to tell you to explain this. The only thing keeping people going is hope and optimism about the future that is unknown. The hope is the evidence of things not seen. I think that is the only way to explain optimism, because you can't base it on any analysis of our current condition.

What makes you a better hitter is getting a pitcher's tendency, or you see the infield moving early or maybe even the catcher tells you what's coming, because it would be very difficult to look for a light and then also on the release point. It's a lot easier as a runner at second base to relay signs or locations, but you can't even see the signs sometimes from second base. And lights from center field? That's not the case here.

What Microsoft is seeing is the proportion of their base that upgrades is not as high as it used to be. For a lot of people today, they buy their PC, they plug it in, it gives them access to the Internet and that's what they bought it for.

Today, many circuit simulation users are required to invest significant portions of their budgets for 3D EM tools that aren't part of their design flow. At the same time, our installed base of customers is asking us to invest in a 3D EM simulator that is tightly integrated within their current circuit simulation design flow, which is exactly what we have decided to do. I believe that we can offer our customers powerful technology at a price that completely redefines this market.

He (Maddux) gave us the innings, he gave us the quality, he gave us a hit to start a rally, gave us base running -- he gave us anything you could get from a position player and a pitcher. We needed it badly.

He made a couple comments to me at spring training that he no longer worries about going to first base and playing every day. He's more in a relaxed state. When you're a relaxed player, you'll do bigger and better things.

He gave the same old speech at 100 miles an hour and got a hard lesson in how far the base has moved away from that,

He gets on base and should help our offense quite a bit.

He gives up a base hit, no big deal. He gives up another hit, no big deal. Next pitch, groundball, double play and there you have it. It's a no-panic approach.

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

He helps us in a variety of roles, including the ability to steal a base and play almost any position on the field.

He hit a home run off Paul Byrd to right-center field when we were playing against him. It's the farthest opposite-field home run I've ever seen a right-handed hitter hit at Safeco Field. It probably went 15 rows back. He did the bat flip and the whole thing. I got to second base later and he told me that was the first hit he ever had off Byrd.

We talked a little bit about using our team speed, and we get walks and end up on second base and have a nice cushion there. We took advantage of the chances we had.

He needs to restore his Republican base and this is the way to do it,

He got off to a real bad start with us this year, ... but then he settled in. He hit about .260 with 14 home runs in about 350 to 400 at-bats. Mostly, he played first base and DH (designated hitter). He was pretty popular with the fans; he had that name.

We took advantage of runners on base and hit the ball consistently.

We took the lead in the fifth but they came right back and put some runs up. Rogers had some timely hits and they had base runners every inning.

We just have to get her on base and she makes things happen.

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

Jones County has a very serious school construction need, ... They have been looking for avenues since their tax base is so limited and their property tax is very high.

Just one statement would be: missed opportunities. We didn't get that one big hit, that stolen base or take advantage of a mental mistake they made. It's just frustrating, more than anything.

My perspective is the customer base isn't as active as they've historically been. We haven't see a whole lot besides an e-mail service.

My wife stood by me like a rock in the rough ocean of mankind. The base was made but I had to brush my knowledge day by day to stay in the race.

My strategy from Day One was to reconstruct the traditional base of the Democratic Party: labor, working families and agriculture, and the legal community. We have taken labor for granted. We think getting the endorsement of the union leader means you get the votes.

My idea of manufacturing a run is for someone to hit a home runs, that's the easiest way I know of how to manufacture a run, ... You don't always have a team filled with home run hitters. When you don't, you have to score runs in other ways and the stolen base is one of those ways.

Matt is a solid left-handed hitter and base stealer who will provide us with depth and flexibility. He can help us in a variety of roles, including the ability to play all three outfield positions.

looking for as broad a base of support and for as stable a government as possible.

Look at the numbers. How can you compare 25 million people to my core fan base of 2 million? Does it help? Sure. But they aren't the deciding factor.

Martin seems to have a very, very good base of the quarterback position. I think the position looks like it's in pretty darn good hands.

(Mary Greeley) is recruiting volunteers through its employee base to provide first aid. The hospital tries to do all the first aid.

That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

That definitely hurt us. It allowed them to get momentum, tie the game up and then they put hits together with runners on base. They left three runners on base and we left five. Their clutch hitting paid off.

That doesn't make them any less tragic, of course. But they may just not be the right kinds of cases on which to base broad social policy.

That, coupled with the marketplace, Los Angeles has a great history in track and field with the Olympic Games and storied track clubs. There's still a very large active track base here.

Some of the things that we've also implemented that are important to our customers and our channel base is our Wi-Fi multimedia support, which gives you quality of service over Wi-Fi.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Stand firm. If you get someone thrown out, you get someone thrown out. Sometimes the situation calls for you to be aggressive. If you coach third base and you don't get someone thrown out, you're not being very aggressive. It's just a matter of when.

Starbucks has learned several lessons in China. One is that it really doesn't need to go after the masses. All it needs is the upper 10 percent of India's booming middle class to support a base of 100 stores and then go from there.

Springfield's attempt to eliminate our base totally failed,

Sterling is now the only truck OEM to offer customers a full line of Class 3-8 vehicles, which allows us to reach a wider customer base and provides us with a platform for future product introductions.

People who use Novell on Linux really like it. We are starting to see acceptance of this combination in corporate circles. Its acceptance will be slow in the next year. But in five years, there will be a much stronger user base of Linux on the desktop.

Survey research can contribute to our knowledge base in so many different ways. We want to be a resource for state and local government. That's our job. If they need information accurately and quickly, they can turn to us.

Such an outcome would result in base metal prices falling well below our forecast levels.

Places where the residential base is just starting to build, there's less retail, but there's going to be demand and the rents are still what you might consider much lower than these other more popular areas.

Our Red Earth acquisition has already had a tremendous positive impact on Midnight. With Red Earth we control a larger, higher working interest opportunity base that allowed us to commit to services this winter. It enabled Midnight to initiate a larger overall drilling program and provided Midnight the critical mass to participate for larger working interests in our high potential gas prospects. Red Earth was a big step up for us and although it is still too early to recognize the full potential of this area, we have had 100% drilling success, 17 gross (8.8 net) wells and expanded the prospect base. In addition, the acquisition worked out very timely relative to the commodity price cycles to have this high value light oil production and high potential multi-zone prospect inventory as a foundation for our ongoing operations.

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Our overall talent base has improved. We have some young men that went home over the summer and improved their games. We're continuing to take it step by step. Is the progress we want to make as quick as anybody would like? Certainly not. But there is progress being made and we're going to continue to represent this university in a way that shows we're of high character.

Our polling shows that Congressman DeLay has lost more than 50 percent of his base support from 2004.

Our population base that's over 65 is almost double the state average. Obviously, we are particularly vulnerable to reimbursement cuts to Medicare.