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My understanding is that the last, absolute inventory that was taken -- that surely established where these hard drives were -- was part of the Y2K survey, which would be at the beginning of the year.

My sense is that January is going to be critical this year and I think you can see a good beginning to the month. I think you can see a positive January and my guess is that's how you're going to see money invested -- early and strongly.

My sense is that the high oil prices we've sustained throughout this year are beginning to take hold in the operating costs of a wider swath of US companies.

Personally, in the beginning of the year I could have come in in better shape, and been more focused on what other teams were looking at me to do. I really didn't come in as prepared as I should have been. But that's neither here nor there. It's over now.

One of the first things we do at the beginning of the process is to get opinions from citizens and officials.

One of the goals we always set is to improve from the beginning of the season to the end. Lawrence Central softball has never won a sectional title, so that's one of our goals.

One of the key goals at the beginning of the season was to get the county championships back. Today was the deadline for the state playoffs with the power points. So now we go into that arena. That's our next challenge -- that's the next thing we have to look forward to.

One of the biggest challenges, acting-wise, has been charting a character's growth through the length of an entire season. On stage or in film, I'm able to see a character's journey from beginning to end in one story, but on 'Lost,' every episode opens a new chapter for Jin. It's a lot like real life, actually. You wake up every morning and never quite know what's going to happen. All I can say is that so far, it's been a really great ride.

On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lost electricity. By Tuesday the water was coming in through the holes in the roof, the electricity and air conditioning were off and toilets were beginning to back up. People were getting frustrated.

On the fringes of the market, there is beginning to be some talk of the possibility that the Bank of Japan intervenes to sell U.S. dollars. While possible, the probability seems low at the present.

On the headline, it's a great report, up 5.8 percent. The recovery is under way. But we're also beginning to see a bottom in durable equipment declines, which is important because it's about corporate profits. But we still need that to be stronger to make sure that this recovery is here to stay.

Only now are people really beginning to research this very compelling phenomena and starting to give it the attention it deserves.

New technologies at more affordable prices gave people a lot of incentive to get the necessities and a little something extra last year. It's the beginning of a trend that we should see continue through 2006, which will benefit not only the consumer, but the manufacturers as well.

I would categorize the season as a success in many ways. We're saying it's only the beginning. Hopefully, we'll return a good bit of our squad and keep moving forward.

I would describe it as a pretty solid year for the industry and one that is above our expectations that we had at the beginning part of the year.

I wish I could pinpoint that (the reason) because that's the one thing I highlighted to the team; we need to get off on a good start. I don't know if there needs to be a greater focus at the beginning of games; I don't know.

I was struggling in the beginning with his way of acting on the court,

I was seven shots back at the beginning of the day. When you are far back like that, you are just trying to come out and shoot maybe a few under par. You just have to position yourself well, and hope the wind blows and guys don't hit good shots and you have a chance to be close to the leaders on the final day.

If we don't innovate, we don't have new versions. Nobody needs to upgrade. Nobody needs to buy. We have to have a variety of ways to innovate?We're at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline that our company has ever had.

I was pleased with the way I improved over the course of the match, ... By the end of the match, I was much more comfortable. But I was a little nervous in the beginning and the ball was really flying. I was trying to go after the ball so it didn't play me, but I wasn't quite committed to letting my swing go, so I was sort of moving forward and not finishing my swing, and I was losing control of a few shots.

No. 1 was the coaching staff. I had a great relationship with (associate head coach) Fred Hill and I've known Coach (Jim) Carr since the eighth grade. Plus, Gary Waters wanted me to come here from the beginning so I knew this would be a tremendous opportunity.

Nobody does a site plan at the beginning of the process. What's in place is perfectly fine.

Nobody really gave us respect at the beginning of the season, and we had a lot of doubters. But we really don't want to be called Cinderella. We're just here to win the national championship.

I wouldn't have necessarily predicted that at the beginning of the week, ... I didn't know how my game would be. Obviously I am a consistent performer, but the way everything has kind of panned out it's been a good week for me, just trying to win matches and trying to be out there and win and compete when I don't feel like I am playing my best, and looking forward to another opportunity.

I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.

We had a week off and I thought we played all right. I thought in the second half we had the ball more in their zone and they had it in ours in the first half because of the wind, but it was such a tight game. I figured at the beginning it would be a one-goal game and it was. We have a lot of new faces in there but we did pretty well.

My hope is that I can help them as well as they've helped me. It's great to have some (sponsorships) under my belt beginning the season. Hopefully, I can come out, play well and represent Vermont well.

My goal at the beginning of the year was just to win every game we could, but more importantly to leave this program going to where it's going to be able to win championships. To where it's going to be built stronger and stronger. I think we accomplished that. Obviously, we didn't win every game, but I'll be leaving this program uphill and really leading to great things.

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day path. How can we remember this with our actions?

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Oh yeah, this is a national story. Being here at the beginning of this era, the curiosity, the intrigue of him being back in this (SEC East) division now more than ever, this is the epicenter of college football.

On a daily basis, we are seeing not just attacks against coalition forces and security forces of Iraq, we are seeing a situation in many places which is beyond chaotic to the point which the Iraqi people are quickly beginning to assume that we not only are occupying but we are inept occupiers.

Obviously with each win our guys are beginning to believe more and more. We want teams to know if they come into our place they are going to have their hands full.

Obviously, we thought from the beginning that the penalty was excessive. Hopefully, everybody understands what has happened and we can put closure on this issue.

Obviously we weren't pleased with our record at the beginning of the year, but we continually looked at the positives. We have improved every week since North Carolina.

Obviously, what their goal is - and it's been their goal from the beginning - is to liquidate the company.

Obviously when things go horribly wrong at the beginning of your career, it's nice to know first of all that you're able to fix it and second of all than an organization gave you the opportunity to fix it.

Obviously, we had planned to have Sergei as part of our hockey club. Things happen behind the scenes, and you have to make adjustments. It's unfortunate that Sergei got hurt. He did everything right from the beginning of training camp, performed at a high level. I can't say a bad word about him.

One of my friends introduced me to the idea of in-line skating. I laughed at the beginning but realized that if I could play hockey and tennis, why not skate too?

One of the things not mentioned above that I'm most excited about is the work we've put into the Spaces platform itself which will enable us to innovate faster and smarter over the next few months and years. This is just the beginning of a wave of coolness.

One significant provision calls for ships to meet ballast water discharge standard according to a schedule of fixed dates -- beginning with certain ships constructed in 2009. These fixed dates serve as a signal to both the shipping industry and the emerging ballast water treatment industry of the need for investment, plans and ballast water treatment equipment inventory to meet ballast water management requirements.

One piece that looked like it was doomed - we were going to shoot it in this hotel hallway, and it was just my character musing that maybe this was just the beginning of something, maybe we were on our way out of obscurity or something, and then we were setting up to do it - and we just had to get this other shot.

One of the things that we've said repeatedly is that hopefully this is the beginning of a whole new wave.

One of the things we always wanted from the beginning was to have more business involvement with the project.

No doubt about it, facing Jackson is a tough test at the beginning of our season, ... But we're ready to line up, put our best against their best and see what happens.

One thing that Neil and I talked about from the very beginning was making this movie feel like a dream -- literally a dream concert that takes you back in time and takes place in a dream location.

Mortgages had been richening up for the bulk of the beginning of year.

Moses is doing a great job. Three or four years ago, Pasquotank was not competitive. They had a tough time because they were beginning a new program. They've moved well into contention now. I feel fortunate to play them that well today.

More manufacturers are requesting tests when they have new designs they expect to perform well. We encourage this because it means the test results will be released earlier, as consumers are beginning to shop for new models. When we do conduct tests early, the automakers provide reimbursement for the cost of the vehicles.

Of course, because I was at the beginning of my career. For me, as a musician, to have a chance for an icon like Miles Davis to play on one of my songs was something unique and unbelievable.

Of course it was a disappointment at first, having that as one of my goals at the beginning of the season. But at the end of the day you and everybody else knows how the West was.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

My doctor told me Thursday that I could play with as much pain as I could take. It didn't affect me in the beginning of the game, but in the second half the cut opened up and the Band-Aid came off. It started throbbing and burning.

My concern is that we're growing, and we've got to try to establish some vision for where we want the city to go with the growth - and we've also got to try to strengthen up the bases from which we're beginning to grow. We've got to get the infrastructure sound. We've got to go back and pick up some of these things where we've regressed so that we can provide a vision, and we can work from a solid place.

My confidence has really been boosted back up to where it should be. In the beginning of the season, I was kind of lost.

Online gaming has quickly grown from a closed circuit male teen activity to one embraced by the masses, and advertising dollars are beginning to follow. IGA Worldwide has emerged as one of the leaders in a hot area for marketing exploration in 2006 and beyond.

One thing we said at the beginning of the season was to work for the guy next to you. We demand that of each other and don't let each other down.

Maybe this horrendous crime is a beginning to a new conspiracy that we need to alert the international community,

Maybe this is just the beginning of it.

My father and mother were married at the beginning of WWII and did their best to enjoy a few years of wedded bliss before they had me.

My father, Ricardo, has been my biggest role model on and off the bike. He was a pretty good rider himself when he was younger. He got me into the sport and I really looked up to him. My older brother, Rich, was a role model in the beginning as well. We are very close as a family and we rode together all the time. My father taught us what was right and wrong. He taught us to work hard and strive to achieve our goals. He was very inspiring for me. My father really taught me that if I work hard enough, I can achieve anything. I think that is important at any age.

Plus, the group itself is going through kind of an identity crisis. Everybody is going through a process to become somebody else and most of them are still in the beginning phases of their transition.

Positive news flow from Cisco's carrier business surfaced last week with two wins from China Telecom and Global Crossing. We believe the company is beginning to regain momentum in the core router business. In our view, Cisco can stabilize this business over the next several quarters.

Pleasures derived from the contact of senses with their objects are verily the source of misery, and have a beginning and an end.

People were talking about us playing in the NIT in the beginning of the season. We proved everyone wrong. We're the champions.

Neither do I see the beginning nor the middle nor the end of Your Universal Form.

Neither team played particularly well. We struggled in the beginning and were fortunate to come out on top.

Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much relief from Asia for quite a while. I think we'll get tired of hearing about Asia before the year is over, but it's really earnings that's key. It's growth that's really the issue.

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

Nuclear conflict remains a very real, and very terrifying possibility at the beginning of the 21st century, ... This is the stark reality confronting you today.

Obviously, losing like we did and being with the same guys for four years and then going to a different level, it's kind of sad and kind of exciting at the same time. It all comes real quick, the end of the season and then the beginning of a new one.

Obviously it was a goal we had at the beginning of the season. At the start of the year, looking at our schedule, we knew we had a target on our backs, and I am proud of the way the team handled it.

Now that people are beginning to feel like things are back to normal again, then they start to expect more. People are asking the famous 'What's in it for me?' question.

Now that the schools are beginning to reopen I think we will see more people coming back to the city. They want to come back. This is their home.

Now they have no excuse for letting up ? ever. This is why I was so frustrated at the beginning of the season, because I knew we were capable of playing at a certain level. That we were able to play it with Artem out is proof we should have been doing it all along.

Now we just have to trust that the (selection) committee will not throw our whole season down the tubes. Hopefully, they will overlook this and look at our resume from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Obviously there are great coaches on both teams, but I just felt that energy in New Orleans. From the very beginning there was a genuine feeling that they wanted me there. They believe I can come back from this shoulder injury and lead them to a championship. They were as confident as I am, and that meant a lot.

Obviously the season Auburn had this year will really help them in recruiting. They are finding themselves in the hunt with players they wouldn't have had a chance on at the beginning of the year.

Obviously, this is a relief. The whole purpose at the beginning of qualifying is to quickly make the World Cup, and we did it before anyone else.

New Orleans and its music were meant to be. We couldn't ask for a better symbol of hope than the houses that are beginning to come out of the ground in the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village. The hard work of Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and the New Orleans affiliate has made it possible for others, like Dave Matthews Band, to support the project. On behalf of Habitat for Humanity International, we thank Dave Matthews Band for this most generous and sustaining contribution.

News has turned into a loop. You no longer publish a story and you're done. A news story is posted or viewed, and it's the beginning of the process.

Right at the beginning of the second half, we had a couple of guys that come out looking lethargic. Maybe we need to look at our first-half warm-up.

Right before halftime, they stuck it to us and began to score at will. We went on a massive run beginning midway through the third period.

Right from the beginning I could feel it. North Carolina has some great players and so do we. I just wanted to play confident and have fun, and that's what I did.

Right from the beginning of time there were these very very attractive bad guys. It's a life that most of us have never led, so that's what makes it so attractive. The jobs that they have, the world that they occupy, is very alien to us.

Right from the beginning of training camp and all throughout the off-season Mike was going with the No. 1s from the get-go,

Right from the very beginning it was clear that Virginia wanted the game. We did not at all meet their energy. I thought the game was physical and we did not respond to that.

Nobody expected us to be here from the beginning of the season. We had a heck of a run at the end of the season.

Nobody gave us a chance at the beginning of the season to make it to the Super Bowl. Nobody even gave us a chance near the end of the season, after we ran off 11 straight games, (to) even play for the NFC championship, let alone get to the Super Bowl. I feel like that's a sentiment we've had to overcome all year. Each time we've overcome that challenge, and I feel like we'll do the same this time.

Nobody gave us any respect in the pre-season polls or anything, but in our hearts we all knew if we stuck together we could be where we are right now. We can play. Don't think we can't play. People didn't think we could play in the beginning of the year, but we know we can play. We kind of just proved that we can.

I have been training hard since the beginning of the spring because I wanted to show a lot of ability in short time. Although I don't have a lot of experience batting here, I have a good feeling toward Tokyo Dome.

I have concerns about all of them, I would say, because we're in the middle of March and the season finishes for them at the beginning of May.

I have confidence in whoever goes out there. Even when Kolbie was struggling at the beginning of the season, I always felt like his last outing would be the one when he turned it around. It took him being demoted and he's figured it out. He's getting key outs. Reitsma will do the same.

I have had good talks with all three of them. From the beginning I have always said I want to play where I am wanted and the money is secondary. We will continue to talk.

I got us off to a bad start from the beginning of the game. The magnitude of the game and being in so many games like that, for me to be the one to act like I had never been in a game like that is unacceptable. I fully take responsibility for this one.

I don't have to pinch myself. I knew it was a good team from the beginning. It's just surprising to all of y'all.

I don't hurt. I don't wake up in the middle of the night hurting. ... Any time you're coming off an injury, you have to stay positive. And I knew one day it would all turn around for me, and hopefully this will be the beginning of a long time being healthy." ()