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I can't even think, if it continued that way, what would have happened. It wouldn't have been very pretty. On the other hand, having the experience like this, with the comeback, can build great confidence. Do you want it to happen? No, you never want to be down 17-2. But, the best possible outcome came out of this.

I did children's theatre for three years, 1977-1979. We played at a school where three kids were killed in race riots that week. We entered the school under police escort. People threw bottles and debris at us on stage, but we continued our show about racism.

I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.

Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Packaging and Packaging Services segments and company wide productivity improvements and cost containment. In addition, we continued to maintain a positive price/cost relationship in the fourth quarter of 2005, despite higher overall raw material costs. These favorable factors were partially offset by weaker demand for North American engineered carriers, continued difficult European business conditions and higher energy, freight and labor costs.

Fourth-quarter results were adversely affected by production cutbacks aimed at driving more efficient asset levels and by continued weakness in our major markets,

Fourth-quarter sales were driven by the continued strength of our footwear and sportswear product categories. Outerwear sales were down in the quarter, but not to the degree initially expected, due to healthy outerwear re-orders from U.S. retail customers late in the quarter.

Four goals is a good night for us, but we should have had more. We let them back in the game, but we continued to attack and that made us more dangerous as far as getting that fourth goal.

Fundamentals point to continued strength in crude oil prices and Canadian Oil Sands Trust is in an enviable position to benefit from this market.

Funds' buying continued to boost stocks. The underlying tone of the market is still firm. The market may consolidate at around the 15,300 level before gaining momentum to advance further.

Further liberalization of the economy and infrastructure improvements will help India's trend growth. Such reforms coupled with continued fiscal consolidation will help India achieve investment grade over time.

Furthermore, it provides us with the flexibility of increasing the scope and breadth of our resort attractions and our retail and lifestyle offerings based upon market conditions such as increasing population growth, locals- oriented trends, and continued strength in the tourism and convention markets.

Gillette remains confident that the continued strength of its core businesses, benefits from its reorganization and its optimization of trade inventories, coupled with an improvement in international economies, bode well for a return to its historic high growth rates in the near future,

Give credit to Wilmington. They came out and took the fight to us. I'm proud of the way we continued to compete, but they're a tough team to chase.

Give Florida State credit. They continued to attack. They didn't quit.

Given its strong exposure to next generation products and continued cost reductions, margins should also start to show upside.

From electronic health-care records to drug interaction databases, we're already seeing the positive role that technology can play in modernizing our country's health-care system while protecting patient privacy. Carried out in the right way, these recommendations can bring about continued improvements to traditional health care that will benefit patients and providers.

From that foundation, Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and has continued to exert great influence down through the centuries.

From my side, we'll have the best field ever. The response has been tremendous. When the event was troubled, then continued with closer ties to the Navy, it seemed to increase everyone's desire to be here. This is the strongest entry list ever for Coronado.

I am delighted that Harry has agreed to stay for an additional year. His contributions to this company are far from over. We need his continued involvement as a change agent and strategist.

If we see continued liquidation, we can fall another three or four dollars. I wouldn't be surprised if gold comes down to $545.

If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect that they will seek to correct you and let you know that it's really a big band. Continued insistence over the years has only served to make those people think you are being pedantic.

Global protein sector challenges continued during the past quarter. High poultry inventories depressed retail poultry prices and contributed to declines in pork pricing in the US, although US pork industry volumes increased over last year. At the same time, extraordinarily high US live cattle costs in relation to finished box beef prices, combined with a continued lack of access to major Asian export markets, limited our beef operating results.

GM had some notable sales successes as we continued to expand in key growth markets around the world in 2005.

Given the poor grades that Texas received ... it is amazing that student achievement continued to improve over the last decade. We must, however, be concerned that the chickens will eventually come home to roost and the current inadequately funded system will no longer be able to provide the gains in achievement that we have seen in the past.

Fort Lewis has been a great partner over the years. They have worked hard to be good stewards of the prairie habitat on the base, even as they advanced their training objectives. We're pleased to have Fort Lewis as a neighbor now and look forward to continued collaboration to improve and care for our rich natural heritage.

For tomorrow to be successful we're going to need the continued support and growth of our membership and our community. Our vision is that downtown Mount Vernon and the Central Business District will be the choice for shopping, dining, entertainment, recreation and tourism in Ohio.

Fortunately, continued job and income growth and the overall economy growth will help to offset the fall in housing activity that otherwise would occur.

For us to sign Chris Simms for our future is something that is extremely exciting. (He is) A young man that has continued to improve, help our team make the playoffs and win an NFC Southern Championship, and a guy that we will continue to build our football team around.

From the city level, the district councils (became) viewed ? I think unfairly ? as a hindrance, and there were (efforts) to minimize their role. But despite those efforts, they continued to play a significant role and still do. You have people on the ground who have a real sense of what a neighborhood needs, and that knowledge is power.

For whatever reason, they continued to promote it was coming.

For the third quarter in a row, revenue figures mirror the reality of the marketplace, which includes advertiser success and revolutionary research that proves online advertising's effectiveness. Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.

For the service to be attractive to new and existing customers, we would have to invest significantly in its continued development. Without the benefits of scale, further investment in the KiT service would not be cost-effective, and due to anticipated increased competition in the digital TV market it is not viable to continue the service as it currently exists.

I expect continued weakness in exports because we are losing our market share.

I expect the market to be down today but continued concerns of winter season supply will put a high floor in prices.

I don't think we need to do anything differently. We need to do things consistently. That's been our biggest challenge this year. We haven't continued to execute for 60 minutes the way we need to. We haven't put together the 60 minutes on both sides of the ball.

I believe that it is necessary today to join forces to assure continued solid growth and to take our place as an oil major of the first rank at a time when the industry is restructuring on a global scale,

I believe the report needs to be put aside and the investigation continued till (the investigators) have convincing facts. This report could not be used in court.

IBM had a good quarter with excellent earnings-per-share results. We continued to improve our profit performance with our strategic focus on higher-value segments of the marketplace, as well as with our emphasis on productivity and global integration.

IBM has been at the forefront of establishing Eclipse as a premier open-source platform, and their continued commitment and contributions is an important part of our growing community.

Based on preliminary, un-audited results, we expect that fourth quarter revenues and same-store revenues will be within the range of previously provided guidance. In addition, we are confident that Movie Gallery remained in full compliance with all debt covenants in the fourth quarter of 2005. Looking forward to 2006, with the continued softness in the rental industry, we will soon resume discussions with our lenders regarding further amendments to Movie Gallery's senior credit facility. We continue to believe that our industry is long-term fundamentally sound, and we are looking forward to the introduction of next-generation, high-definition DVDs as a significant catalyst for our business.

Based on these announcements, we do not believe that Vail is on the selling block. However, we are confident that Mr. Katz, with his deep knowledge of Vail and extensive private equity real estate background, will actively work to maximize shareholder value through balance sheet management, cost cutting (cheaper Denver office space for one), and through the continued monetization of the company's valuable real estate assets.

Based on today's survey, we see job growth and continued investment, a winning combination at this part of the business cycle.

Based upon how we've seen retail stocks perform, any continued low (consumer confidence) number puts a crimp in the Christmas spending story.

Based upon the information known to use today, we believe that sales in the upcoming quarter will be between $3.35 and $3.45 billion. We anticipate continued stability in our components sales throughout the world will result in worldwide component sales between $2.6 and $2.65 billion. We expect traditional seasonal growth in our Enterprise Computing Solutions business, resulting in worldwide computer products sales between $750 and $800 million.

Business concerns about the potential for a sharp fall in future activity have continued to ease.

Business conditions were stronger than we had originally anticipated. We reached our interim goal of 60 percent gross margin earlier than we expected and at the same time continued to gain market share in the analog standard linear market.

Business demand consistently exceeded our expectations throughout most of calendar year 2000, and in an effort to meet our customer expectations we continued to increase our inventory and capacities to keep up with rising demand.

but the continued overspending and mismanagement of our tax dollars by the state.

But there are plenty of stops along the supply chain with weaknesses: the start of hurricane season, Iraqi production hanging on by a thread, recent problems in Ecuador, no sign of growth in Russian production and continued speculative interest in being 'long' in this market. The increases of the last month reflect that backdrop.

China is ready to work with Canada to tap the potential of continued cooperation in all fields in the spirit of equality and mutual benefit so as to better serve our two peoples and further promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.

China is willing to give continued aid to Pakistan and to promote two-way trade and economic cooperation,

China's leaders will not achieve their long-term goal of social stability and continued economic development without building a future that includes human rights for all Chinese citizens.

Because some of the methodologies have continued to be improved, I think there will be a migration toward more complex services, ... The envelope will continue to be pushed.

Barring an unforeseen shock, we would expect consumer confidence to continue to hover around current levels, indicating continued economic growth.

Because of the limited usefulness I see in my continued service, I have reached the conclusion that it is best to cease my activity in the public arena,

Basically this is probably the right thing to happen in the end. If it had continued in this way, we certainly wouldn't have released it. Perhaps this has saved that very difficult decision.

I have always given everything to the band and would have continued to do so if circumstances had not made it impossible.

We are extending our offer to provide shareholders with a continued opportunity to tender to our $16.86 offer, which we believe represents a full and fair price.

We are extremely pleased that Matt has decided to begin his professional career. We had tried to sign him last summer, but he was committed to returning to North Dakota and helping lead his team to the Frozen Four. He obviously had another great season at UND and he continued to mature and develop as a player. We believe he has a very bright future with our organization and we look forward to getting him to our summer conditioning camp, Traverse City Rookie Tournament and main camp in Tampa.

We are extremely pleased with the continued growth of laser vision correction procedures. Plans are under way to strengthen our commitment to this industry by making additional investments in the areas of marketing and research and development.

we are facing a number of significant short-term issues, including an uncertain global economic environment, ongoing weakness in some parts of Asia and Latin America, and continued price pressures in semi conductors.

What is called for at the present time is prudence in fiscal policy and a continued application of the brakes in Federal Reserve policy. That's the policy that will get us into a future that where we see continued growth and very moderate inflation.

What is clear is that our policy will be continued -- the policy of renewing our country in order to make social systems safe from crises and fit for the future, the policy of openness of our country, the policy of self-confidence in foreign policy, ... I stand for this policy.

What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

Gus has the best understanding of the offense right now. We feel like he hasn't played his best football yet, but with his knowledge and understanding and leadership, we're hopeful that he can show continued improvement, and that we can make some improvement as an offensive team. We've had spots of doing those types of things, and hopefully we'll continue to be more consistent.

He recently told me he felt he had completed the (organization plan) and wanted at some soon point to move on to a company he could really run. This is entirely amicable with no precise end date and he and the other key members of the company know he has my complete and continued support in whatever he decides to do.

What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to see a continued recovery in coming months, but nothing dramatic.

What you are seeing is deeper penetration into large, existing accounts and certainly the continued growth into net new markets like small to medium-sized businesses.

We are forecasting continued corporate demand for our server products.

With M&A activity picking up, productivity growth will stay robust, and that means continued new efficiencies, and a lot of that will overshadow new job creation.

With most economic data pointing to continued strength it's likely, and would be prudent, for the ECB to raise rates in March. There's not a huge amount of support for the market.

We've faced some adversity along the way. The guys have stayed together and continued to work. I'm proud of the way they found a way to win.

We've gone a long way in a very short period of time here, even since Mr. Greenspan's testimony or comments back in December about irrational exuberance, ... So we could see some continued volatility, some choppiness but I expect the economic data will probably be supportive.

We're obviously very happy to be able announce a second increase in our purses at this meet. Despite a couple of weeks of inclement weather which really impacted our turf program, horsemen have continued to support the entry box, which has enabled us to maintain our field size and this has continued to fuel increased handle.

I look forward to continued success of our racing program as our racetrack improves its product, physical plant and backstretch facilities.

HP is pleased to announce that VITEC Solutions, LLC is being honored to receive the HP Performance Excellence Award for Q2 2005. With partners like VITEC Solutions, HP can look forward with confidence to continued growth.

HP needed a carrier-quality and 'ready-to-run' operating system proven to address the demand for highly available, dependable and reliable communications platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is powerful, versatile and proven across a host of industries, including telecommunications. We're pleased to be working with our longtime partner HP on the initiative and look forward to our continued collaboration in support of our shared customers.

He wasn't pleased, but it was something we had to do, and I think we continued to play hard without him in there. He's got a fire deep inside, and I knew he would respond.

He wasn't trying to hide anything. He may not have been trying to show it to school children, however they were around, and he continued when I caught him trying to circle the block around Hillcrest Elementary School.

Hyundai Motor America is proud to announce its continued commitment to traffic safety by showcasing the new tools developed in conjunction with LAPD and LAUSD to raise community awareness among children and adults, and to help reduce the alarming statistics related to motor vehicle collisions. As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and to promote healthy communities, ... We created The ABCs of Traffic Safety Always Be Careful - in the fall of 2003 to remind drivers, occupants, and pedestrians about proper use of safety belts and child restraints; promote safe driving by commuters particularly in reduced speed school zones; and ensure children have been properly instructed on crossing streets.

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn't get down on themselves.

He was a late-inning stud all through college and continued in his first pro year. He has an 88-90 fastball with a good slider. He's an outstanding strike thrower, missing bats down in the zone with a low, three-quarters delivery. He has presence, confidence and instincts on the mound with a history of success.

He was a little bit down in shoot-around. We just chatted a little bit and continued to reiterate how much confidence we have in him handling these situations. I think he showed some resiliency today, and certainly when guys make shots your assists go up.

He kept working and working but for some reason things just didn't fall into place for him. But he continued to do what we were asking for.

He clearly is the leader of our team. He's the vocal leader. He's the guy that pulls everyone together. His effort and performance have been consistent ever since we came back to school. So I don't look at it as 'I see Mike Jefferson isn't going to be playing any more, so let me do more.' He just continued playing the way he was playing. It just so happens that his production has increased.

He continued the fight against inflation that Volcker began and has gradually managed to squeeze inflation out of the system.

He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy

He continued to shoot the victim while he was on the ground. A total of 4 shots were fired. Every single one hit the victim. You just don't believe it could happen to you, you don't believe it could happen here. You don't believe it could happen now.

He continued to wrestle well. He moved very well on his feet. He hustles all the time and never slows down.

We maintained our poise and continued to run through our offense. (Allen's) a really good player, and sometimes there's a letdown after someone like him leaves the game.

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

We look forward to seeing his continued growth as a player. Darko was able to play a lot of minutes during summer league this July, and we are happy that he is on Serbia-Montenegro's roster during the European Championships this September.

I am looking forward to our continued success and the opportunity to bring another championship to the Detroit Pistons.

He tried to wait as long as he could for an NBA call-up and continued to turn down different offers (overseas), so I advised him to go ahead and take advantage of this opportunity, then be ready for the NBA camps.

If sustained, these policies would provide a solid foundation for continued strong economic growth and poverty reduction.

If the first committing to memory is a very careful and long continued one, the difference will be greater than if it is desultory and soon abandoned.

If the goal is to modernize the agency and to train employees for continued service improvement to the customers, the producers, then he understands that reasoning.

He has answered the questions asked of him and continued to make runs for Australia.

He has continued to do a good job every time he's been out there, ... and I think that's something that's got to be taken into consideration.