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One of the big pushes we have in Arizona is youth education. We really push making smart decisions and safeguarding yourself and all your friends.

Ninety-nine percent of the time he will make good decisions with the ball. We are lucky to have a good player like Dane running the point.

I wish there was a better word for it, because I can't use it in any of my marketing, but it really is the essence of what we're doing. People want to come to meet one person, make all their decisions and do everything in one place. In 2006, people want simplicity and convenience.

I wish we could be all things to all people. That may not happen. There will be tough decisions as we operate jointly.

I was scheduled to go to Paris next week and I was really sweating it until yesterday when the conference was canceled. Yes, I'm in the business and I understand that the statistics are in your favor when you fly, but I'm just like everybody else -- I don't make decisions based on statistics.

I was really proud of my decisions today. On No. 3, I laid up short of a bunker, even though I might have been able to carry it and get up and down for par, then hit a 3-wood on No. 8, instead of trying to smash it with the driver.

If we don't have the resources, it doesn't make any sense to make policy decisions that can't be supported. You can't make these kinds of decisions in isolation.

I was pleased with the decision of the board. I was confident that was how they would decide. The charge seemed frivolous.

Nobody listens, nobody reads. You have a very small circle of decision-makers in charge of decisions in the country. What do you expect?

Nick is an outstanding coach and makes decisions based upon the best interest of the organization. Dom is an outstanding coach. I enjoyed my time in Miami and am proud of what we accomplished. We had a good thing, and I expect the Dolphins to continue accomplishing good things looking forward.

I would have liked to play better. But I felt comfortable. I'll probably be disappointed with how I played, some the decisions I made. But that's why we have next week.

When I become a head coach, it might be anti-climactic after that. There's a lot that goes into being that person at the helm. The fact is, that in the moment, the kids look at you, and you have to make decisions and be confident with it on and off the court. That's something from this experience that will stay with me going forward.

When I looked at who would be the best choice to lead this district, I wanted to make sure that I endorsed a candidate who shared my commitment to the families, schools, and safety of this community. Janet Reilly understands the challenges facing Bay Area families. Janet is smart, committed, and policy oriented -- I trust her to make the thoughtful leadership decisions that will truly move California forward.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

My family, coaches and I are discussing it, but no decisions have been made yet.

My goalie played very well today. He played with some confidence, made some smart decisions and came up with some saves when he needed too and that's what we need from Evan.

Like every campaign, we'll be adjusting our campaign schedule on an as-appropriate basis. We're certainly not suspending all of our activities, but we will, of course, be sensitive to tone, to taste, to the national mood, and making scheduling decisions accordingly.

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Obviously, we've got to do a better job of taking care of the basketball. I'm not quite sure why we're turning the ball over more now. I don't think we're seeing any greater pressure than we're seeing all year long. I just think we're not as focused as we need to be and not making great decisions with the basketball.

Obviously what is being reported right now is an impasse. There are a lot of teams in similar straits that we are in, in terms of kind of waiting and hoping for the best. If no agreement is reached, I am sure there will be some very difficult decisions to be made. The players and the owners have to sort this thing out. It will take time. It is frustrating for, I think, fans and everyone.

Obviously we made some mistakes in the guild with leadership. But I'm sure we'll get together as a whole -- as one -- and make some decisions in the future.

No court is going to reach out with huge decisions when it is quite clearly in transition.

No decisions have been made at this time.

No decisions have been made, but it is a very exciting opportunity. I can't tell you how excited I am about it. The emerging markets could use another US$5,000 vehicle.

No decisions have been made. We want to know where the team's going to play its games as soon as we can.

No decisions have yet been made to put any of those properties up for sale.

No one believed a flood of customers would move over (to SAP) in the first year...We expect those decisions will take some time. Instead, we initially focused on customers most likely to convert, and that included PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers who were also running SAP.

One of the assumptions is that it becomes increasingly difficult to get things done in an election year, especially things where tough decisions have to be made.

One morning, all his stuff was gone. He's home in New York dealing with personal problems which have impacted a lot of decisions he's made here. We're empathetic and sympathetic towards that, but it's pretty tough to try to help somebody when there's no communication.

One of our decisions was to select a well-validated system and install it early in the process, when we could get by with fewer people to administrate it. You've got to start from the ground up. Trying to implement a PLM solution in the middle or the back end of a development cycle adds a degree of complication that may not be worth it.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

Morgan Stanley has tremendous strengths as a global financial services firm, but it is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, ... Our overriding goal for Morgan Stanley is to be the clear leader in offering premier, innovative financial services to our clients, while delivering superior returns to our shareholders. The decisions to keep Discover, divest the aircraft leasing business and strengthen our retail business are our first steps toward achieving that goal.

More important than the Milner Group's ability to influence opinion in the Dominions was its ability to influence decisions in London.

None of this is really that hard. You are making all these decisions anyway. Usually you just hire someone to coordinate them for you.

No one wants the blame for the bad decisions and everybody fights for the credit on the good decisions, ... When you need a consensus, what happens is maybe this year I side with you and the next year I side with another guy to balance things out. That's not making the best decision for the franchise.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them. Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.

People who are willing to risk their lives need to know the truth, ... They need to understand that they are there based on decisions that were made in good faith, by responsible people, and that this world is going to be a lot better off with Saddam Hussein gone and with that country on a path toward democracy.

Reynolds' goal is to make dealers aware of which third-party vendors are accessing their system and arm them so they can make informed decisions on how to protect their data.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on quantitative data

No final decisions have been reached. Everything is fluid. I could give you a time frame now and it could change this afternoon.

No chairman has been more deeply involved in more critical decisions involving our country and our security and certainly involving the men and women in uniform,

Now you're seeing their decisions are instinctive decisions. It took us a little bit longer to get some continuity.

Obviously, Buck's opinion is going to be heard, ... I think that's the case with all managers or at least it should be. But there will be a lot of people involved in all the decisions we make.

Obviously, business decisions are made in this league,

Obviously, business decisions are made in this league. Losing the players we lost the last few years, I'm not going to tell you it didn't hurt because it did. It hurt to see you build something with someone and they're gone, not by their own will but by the will and the decisions made by others.

Obviously decisions need to be made, but he certainly is helping himself.

Obviously, our proceedings and operations have been impeded, and if this continues we will have to take some very hard and critical decisions as to the usefulness of staying there if we cannot operate,

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Obviously the main uncertainty in the steel market is the level of production from China. It's really the key uncertainty and that will impact on decisions made by steelmakers.

Nuttall came to play tonight. He was solid with the ball and made better decisions than I've seen all year. He is getting better and better every game.

Now we see we have a downside to our good decisions. Is the public willing to stop up to the plate to help us catch up?

No other technology can collect and relay such sophisticated data to people making decisions in the supply chain.

People vote with their feet. We think that's telling. All of our economic policy decisions in the foreseeable future should be made with an eye toward improving that figure. We can't sit back while New York morphs from the Empire State into the emptying state.

People will be jamming the stores, trying things on, ... and developing their Christmas lists. While many (gift) decisions will not be made, the foundation for many decisions will be made.

Obviously, I'm pro marketing, ... I just think it needs to be regulated and families need to help kids ... You and I can make decisions about whether we want to eat at McDonald's and whether we want ice cream. Kids don't understand the persuasive component. They want the toy.

Obviously injuries are an issue and a concern of our clubs. Location of the Olympics plays into that, the significant time difference we had in Nagano (for the '98 Games) was a challenge and it led into a longer break than we would have otherwise liked. There are a number of issues that you deal with as you make these decisions each time around, and probably the most significant is our experience here and whether players are getting hurt.

Newlyweds make decisions that affect each other. Young couples need to think about the unthinkable. If you have assets that you want your spouse to keep if you die, you need insurance.

Rightly or wrongly, we made what we believed to be the best decisions ... while working under extreme stress and physical exhaustion.

Right now, each company has its own board and then there is a separate board that governs the joint venture. Now it will just be part of one company, with one set of share owners, and that's going to make decisions a whole lot easier.

I have great confidence in Judge Roberts legal scholarship, his integrity, and his commitment to the rule of law. His decisions will be guided not by his own personal view of what the law should be, but rather by a disciplined review and analysis of what the law is. The overwhelming bipartisan support that Judge Roberts received today speaks volumes about his qualifications. He is the right person for the job.

I have had a lot of tough decisions since coming to the University of Cincinnati, ... I wanted a bigger, more complex institution with a large medical program, a robust athletic program, all the complement of colleges and departments that come with a full-service, comprehensive research institution. And I got it.

If the Security Council decides to take decisions that are not within its competence, then Iran does not feel obliged to obey.

Idling plants and reducing staff are obviously very difficult decisions for all of us, but they also are necessary actions to help restore our North American business to profitability no later than 2008.

I'd like to thank God, first of all. I don't make any decisions without him. And I know my mom is looking down on me knowing that I'll make the right decision.

I'd missed some easy shots and made some ordinary decisions . . . but (coach Al Westover) encourages us to shoot. Mac gave me the shot from the play we drew up and it felt good.

I don't doubt every colonel wishes he had more in his area, but the decisions about how troops are (deployed) are made by the commanders above them.

I didn't make very good decisions tonight. I wasn't making the throws that I needed to. I flat-out didn't have a good enough game to win this game.

I don't have a problem with it. I just want to know how it's all going to work. Is Theo going to be the bottom line when it comes to trade decisions and stuff? Just tell me how it's going to work.

I don't have to make any decisions because when we started out, John David was well ahead of Mark. It couldn't happen at a better time.

I don't have any regrets. I hate we got beat and I hate we got beat as badly as we got beat. My dad called me after it was over and said there weren't any four, five decisions I could have made that would have changed the outcome.

If this law is implemented, it will not only limit First Amendment rights for Michigan's residents, but, by virtue of its vagueness, it will also create a huge amount of confusion for Michigan's retailers, parents, and video game developers. I'm confident the court will affirm our position given the rulings on similar statutes in other jurisdictions; indeed, the facts, the science, the law, and the U.S. Constitution have not changed since those decisions were handed down.

I don't know who he meant. I clearly wouldn't think that Todd Walker would have any reason to tell you I've never not told him the truth. Whether I'm right or wrong, I've spent 27 years of my life telling players what I felt was the truth at that time. My decisions don't always work out, but they're never done with any deception toward the player.

I don't know where it turns out. Some of the decisions are harder than others. With any team, there's going to be changes.

If they're going to have instant replay, they should have to let coaches challenge. Otherwise, you have a guy in the booth that nobody knows. He makes decisions on whether a play should be reviewed, and we get no explanation, and you use timeouts that you don't get back.

I grant you many more sleepless nights so you might make better decisions for this company in the future.

Many more decisions that can impact our members happen on the state level.

Many of these decisions are ultimately the responsibility of the local district, but we are trying to come up with guidance to pass on to them. There's no target date for this grand plan, but as ideas come to light, we'll share them in a timely manner.

Let's face it, he is a first-term governor who wants a second term. He is going to make decisions that appeal to those who got him into office and those who could return him to office.

Left to their own devices, (investors) naturally choose safety and it's one of the worst decisions they can make,

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time, ... The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Legally, we're not required to respond within any particular time. The governor's doing his best to be fair and give these important decisions the attention they're due.

Look, this is about the real-life decisions of real-life Americans, who to vote for, what to buy, what to agree with, what to think, how to act. This is the way it is.

Loudoun County came out with a lot of energy in the second half. We didn't do a very good job of handling their full-court pressure, and we didn't make good decisions with the ball. We had a really good first half, but the ball just stopped going in.

We made a lot of mental mistakes tonight. Unfortunately, the games we lost tonight were because we made poor decisions at key moments.

We made a number of decisions based on helping our special teams, (mainly) our coverage teams, ... We have two outstanding kickers and we need to get the most out of what they give us. We will be much better.

There are people who grew up in rough environments, and you just don't hear about it. And they make it in business. They're doctors. They're lawyers. But we're not talking about that. I don't think that makes me what I am. What makes me what I am is that you have success, but you keep your head on straight and you make the right decisions in life.

When to shoot and when not to shoot is one of the most difficult decisions in some circumstances that anybody could make,

We need to make decisions that get the biggest, strongest, healthiest dog teams to Nome.

We need to make informed decisions now in order to meet the future needs of growing populations and changing diets, and to improve the health and wellbeing of poor people.

We're confident given the court's past clear decisions on these types of cases that we will prevail in any future litigation as we have in all previous litigation.

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Much of what is being characterized today as cost overruns were actually conscious decisions made by D.C. officials . . . to expand the scope of individual projects from what was originally contemplated.

Much of what we do is for people who like to make their own decisions, who want validation of their own thinking.

Situations like this, you have to make your own decisions to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. This is my career, and I've got to live with it.

Meat packers have suffered the worst sustained losses in history, and I would not be surprised by any decisions that are made. Having said that, the major companies are doing their utmost to attempt to tweak their existing operations.

Meeting with tomorrow's leaders of Iraq was both an honor and an incredible experience, ... These are the guys that will be leading and making the decisions that will affect the future success of an Iraqi democracy.

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