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We struggled this weekend. We didn't play with any effort or emotion last night and Princeton took advantage. Tonight, we had better effort but our confidence and execution wasn't good enough.

We are pleased to report strong earnings growth during a period of rising interest rates and a competitive industry environment. Our results reflect the combined effect of our improved brand mix and the successful execution of our key operating initiatives.

We are lowering our risk rating to High from Speculative as we believe Children's Place risk profile has improved through better execution and a rising cash balance. We reiterate our Buy rating and expect continued solid growth in sales at both divisions, and significant improvement in gross margin at the Disney Stores.

through a combination of increased transactions, exceptional store level execution and an appealing product mix, we delivered our most successful holiday season since 1994.

We know what we're supposed to be doing and you don't magically come up with a new plan. It's execution. At the end of the day, either your goalie stands on his head or you had better execution, and I think we had better execution.

Disciplined execution of our growth and operating strategies is driving consistent improvement in a range of key metrics, including customer counts, average revenue per customer, total revenue, and churn.

Down the stretch it's all about execution on defense. We got beat off the dribble, but Sean came in and made some huge blocks for us.

Considering what has taken place during the negotiations and in the execution of the agreement, it would be difficult not to describe this as a success.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

was aware of the sinister plans of imminent execution.

Virginia is now pursuing an execution schedule that leaves less time for argument and for court consideration than the court's rules provide for ordinary cases.

What I wanted from them is what I got. I wanted the effort to win and if you give the effort, that?s all you can do. No one expected a team that?s 9-11 to come out and beat a team that?s 19-1. Nobody. If we could have done just a little bit better job in execution and had some more continuity on the offensive end, I thought we could have played with them.

What really hurt was our offensive execution. We didn't move the ball quick enough.

To get the best execution every day in every single race will be the main focus, and if we do that well there can be a great outcome. She will be very busy, which is a good thing. She likes to be busy. She is fit enough (for the program).

TV is not about ideas. It's about execution. And writing and casting. That's why most of TV drama's biggest stars have been character actors, not romantic leads. Peter Falk. Telly Savalas. Angela Lansbury. They can inhabit a role for years, and that's the TV challenge. I like to say a successful movie lasts 110 minutes. A successful TV series lasts 110 hours.

When I teach about the Holocaust, I use it to try and get people to understand that the values that led to Hitler's election and the theories behind the mass execution of Jews were also prominent and are prominent in American society.

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitude, striking the landings. Every detail matters.

Everybody is an option. It's going to come down to good, solid execution. You've got to knock somebody off the ball when they pretty much know you're running it. That's what makes the game great.

Attacks directed against the civilian population, the summary execution of detained persons and wanton destruction or devastation not justified by military necessity are war crimes under international law.

I should be watching an execution. I shouldn't be watching this. It's a waste of taxpayer money. This is a cold-blooded killer. He ruined two families. (His execution) would be the happiest day in my life.

Conceptually, it sounds good. Execution will tell all.

The unique thing about Jaycees vs. some other groups is that the Jaycees are primarily solely responsible for everything from the idea generation all the way through the execution and the evaluation. The reason we do that is a lot of young professionals have great potential, but in their day-to-day business life aren't truly given the opportunity to lead projects. This is the way to help them get that experience.

The zone hurt us quite a bit. It was poor, poor execution against the zone in the fourth quarter. We couldn't make a shot and they never went back to man-to-man. They stayed with the zone and packed it in.

The winning bidder will provide the lowest execution risk to the Singapore government.

The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

Tuesday was one of those nights where the level of play at the defensive end of the court transferred to execution and success on the offensive end.

The defensive end wasn't very good and our offensive execution wasn't very good. This is the first time that we've had a team shoot more free throws than we have for a long time. That's terrible, when you give up 31 (free-throw attempts).

While we are encouraged by the progress we are making, we are still in the early stages of our turnaround efforts. We need to remain focused to ensure flawless execution of all elements of our business plan.

While we continue to make progress in growing our top line, there is work to be done to improve our profitability. As the board conducts a CEO search, our management team is focused on driving improved execution to serve our customers, strengthen our competitiveness and improve shareholder value,

While we fully expect continued strength in our operations going forward, course correcting adaptations are vital to the execution of a focused agenda,

We were in man coverage and I think we bit a little bit on the run. It just takes a little bit. That guy was gone. It was a good call. A good call and good execution by their kids.

We need to start playing with a little bit more consistency and get the execution that we need to get back to where we were. We're a different team than we were two weeks ago and we need to find out what we need to do to get back to the winning ways.

We need to get execution on both sides of the ball. Their running backs are very strong.

The soldiers thought they were rebels like us, Maybe we will stage an execution. Welcome to the party.

The tempo wasn't there, the execution wasn't there, so I told them to come back later, ... If they don't practice the way I want them to practice, that's it. We're done.

The simple logical substitution of running Linux on less expensive hardware does not play out on the client. Businesses don't look at the client and say they want to make a 100 percent crossover from client to client, unless I can do something to improve the workflow and lower the cost of execution and the cost of ownership. Some of the simple models that drove server adoption will not drive client adoption.

These results represent strong execution and Compaq's solid momentum in the marketplace,

The second quarter marked the continued successful execution of our strategic plan. Revenues were up 40% as we saw growth in virtually all of our business segments. We completed the production and final delivery of Season 3 during the quarter, and continued to grow our international television and product license businesses. The success of the show in the US, combined with strong ratings in international markets enabled us to broaden distribution into 116 territories around the globe. Further, we are moving forward with the Professional Poker Tour(TM) (PPT), and are close to signing a licensing agreement for it. Finally, we are pleased with the initial launch of WPT online.

These new enhancements will greatly increase execution efficiency and flexibility for trading CME Eurodollars electronically. We have significantly expanded electronic trading over the past two years of CME Eurodollars, and our continued technology improvements expand the trading of short-term interest rate products where users primarily trade complex spreads. With the implied spreading technology being implemented we will now link outright CME Eurodollar Pack markets with Pack spread markets.

When you have a badly-written law and a bad policy, it creates execution problems and implementation problems.

When you have a lead like that, you want to try and get some other players in. We got them in there and they did some good things for us. Our execution was good. It's good to have players coming off the bench that can run the plan efficiently.

We wanted to get out to a strong start. Before the game, we talked about execution. We didn't execute early.

Andy Warhol was a pioneer of looking at society as this machine. Warhol looked, in a good and bad way, at the power of media and celebrity images. He looked at violence, and he looked at fame. He looked at consumerism. He was looking at reality like a film, and editing it. His art is more about the idea than the execution of it.

It was tough losing games we should have won, based on execution and rebounding. It was the small things that good teams should do.

We think project portfolio management, the execution of how people work together, is the next great enterprise application.

We think the company has multiple engines of growth coupled with better execution against the goals of diversifying its revenue streams.

We should have played with that team. We did a good job at times but it comes down to execution. We don't tackle well and let kids go. We're always reaching instead of stepping through.

While I was very pleased with our consistency, hitting 23 of 24 competitive routines and 6-for-6 in exhibition routines, our execution still needs work. We gave away far too many deductions for missed handstands on bars and steps on landings on all four events.

To me, all I ever want to do is play, and nothing else ever crossed my mind concerning a career. Just playing. Only the execution of the songs.

We'll just keep working on the execution. Our next step of improvement is to be close to perfect on execution of your systems.

Tonight, execution was the key. Down the stretch, we made mistakes and missed on some easy opportunities. Amherst capitalized in those situations, and that's why they earned this game.

We had a good practice. I was pleased. The enthusiasm and execution were pretty good.

To win and to win decisively. It would give us some momentum having to play Savannah Country Day next week. To see some growth, in terms of execution offensively and defensively, would certainly boost my confidence. And I'm sure boost my guys' confidence.

Both HP and Compaq have been pursuing several common strategies: Becoming more services-centric, Wintel in the enterprise, storage as a technology growth engine, and moving to an overall solution sell. There will obviously be regulatory and enormous execution hurdles, but, with the addition of Compaq, HP should be better positioned to move forward on every one of these fronts.

Broad-based demand and solid execution across all our businesses drove outstanding results for the quarter. Overall corporate IT spending continued to improve and we expect to see healthy demand through the end of our fiscal year.

We went right back and talked about fundamentals and talked about execution and the way we have to play defensively. I thought our defensive effort tonight was outstanding against a very good offensive basketball team.

We had some execution lapses. We had our chances and we didn't get it done.

We are going to continue to work on execution and team defense to get ready for the last five games and hopefully a couple of games after that.

We are very pleased with our business execution and financial results. We are particularly pleased with recent traction with our DC-powered offerings and with our storage offerings.

We didn't make shots. We missed shots the whole second half. I thought we needed to change sides of the floor a little bit more. Execution wasn't there.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability on Cisco IOS may result in a reload of the device or execution of arbitrary code, ... Repeated exploitation could result in a sustained (denial of service) attack or execution of arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of this overflow condition could possibly allow a malicious attacker to create a denial of service disrupting backup systems or potentially allow execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges on a targeted system.

Thanks to the exceptional efforts of our employees, net sales, earnings and all key metrics for the year exceeded our original goals and surpassed the extraordinary results of the prior fiscal year. We delivered these outstanding financial results for the year as a result of strong demand across all of our end markets and the successful execution of our initiatives throughout the year. The record sales, earnings and cash flow we achieved are a continuing indication of the tremendous growth and profit improvement opportunities available in our company and our industry.

Offense is such a game of execution and that's what we need to improve. It's a matter of executing in all areas. We have to bring it all together and I think we can do that.

Every time our execution failed, we responded with our defense.

financed special research institutes investigating lethal gases and methods of execution.

But our execution still needs a lot of work. We still have too many drops in our concentration level.

Both the choice of a cover and the execution of a cover are crucial for any magazine. Every editor wants their cover to stand out.

We are excited about entering the luxury automobile segment in the rapidly growing Latvian market as we have experienced 86% growth in cars sold in our existing business last year. It is an honor to represent BMW, one of the leading luxury automotive brands in the world. We believe that by combining the execution capabilities of BM Auto and Baltic Motors' management with the recognized BMW brand, BM Auto is well positioned to capitalize on the Latvian automotive market.

We are excited to be playing a key role in Cisco's execution of their IP next generation network vision. As the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, Cisco recognizes that a policy-driven resource control layer is needed to effectively drive powerful triple-play features. With the Broadband Policy Manager, Cisco is able to empower their service provider customers to tap into the world of high-margin premium IP services that excite and attract both consumer and enterprise subscribers.

Despite increasing softness in the construction, transportation, building, and distribution markets, as well as significantly higher energy prices, Alcoa achieved record performance as a result of rapid integration of new acquisitions and execution of its cost-cutting initiative,

Despite the fact that we struggled so much, I thought we hung in there with our effort. I wasn't disappointed in our effort, but I was very disappointed in our execution.

A true remote execution has a tiny footprint and won't need much of a system.

Avalanche. Offensively, our execution was bad. That's one problem you have against a team defense like that. They turned up the juice, and we couldn't execute.

A solid running game is huge. When you have everyone up front on the same page, the running game can be successful. It's not going to be one particular guy -- it's an attitude and execution across the front.

Bad execution. We got even and then we went down on three straight possessions and turned it over three straight times. They scored on two of them and got it back up to a five-point lead, and that was the major turning point.

The most glaringly obvious fact about the present case is the significant media and public interest that it is generating. Michael Jackson is a figure recognized around the world, and the events surrounding execution of the search warrant, his arrest, and even the file-stamping of the felony complaint have received widespread publicity,

Alicia played outstanding singles today. Her strategy combined with her execution of points played a major role in her success against both Hettinger and Bloomberg. To play for an ESD championship in flight one is quite an accomplishment.

that the Carnival proposal is not as favorable financially to P&O Princess shareholders and would face greater execution risk than the transaction with Royal Caribbean.

That's happened to me a few times during my career. Generally speaking, most of the time it's the players who determine everything, anyway. We can run the same plays, but if their players do a better job of execution than mine do, they're going to win. If mine do a better job, then we're going to win.

As a result of strong product offerings and a successful execution track record, we believe the company is currently on track to reach the pivotal $1 billion annual sales milestone faster than most companies in the enterprise software sector.

Although it's not easy for anyone, LSI has clearly underperformed. It comes down to a lack of focus and execution.

All of our company employees and franchisees are focused on improving Wendy's performance, and I will be taking an active day-to-day role in managing the business, ... We will reinvigorate sales growth with a fanatical approach to execution in the areas of restaurant operations, marketing and R&D.

A lot of hard work went into the smooth execution of the tournament this year. We were pleased with turnout-the growth of the tournament to 13 teams and raising 1,4000. We look forward to building on that next year with more teams and more money.

AMD's superior product architectures and outstanding execution enables us to supply the highest performing processors in volume.

A lot of small brokers may not have a trading execution service, or have one that is heavily manual, which means it costs more to provide support services for clients. One way around that is to introduce automated execution services.

They're paying attention to their problems. They are aware that when it comes to store-level execution there are problems and they're paying attention to it.

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories,

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Same story in the third quarter, we had a tough third quarter, execution-wise and scoring-wise. They went on a 14-point run. I think we had a lead almost every game on this road trip in the first half. In the third quarter, I don't know where we go to. We go stagnant in the third quarter.

Our execution and intensity were up. We didn't go up one day, then way down another day. Every day we got better, which hadn't happened other weeks.

Our execution and passing wasn't very good. We had a couple of guys on a couple of shifts who couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play.

Our execution at the beginning of the game was perfect.

Our execution excellence strategy has delivered an outstanding first quarter. We have managed our cost structure effectively, responding quickly to changes in traffic. Our operations team has done an excellent job delivering improved fluidity, with average train speed increasing 17 per cent, yard processing time decreasing a full 32 per cent, and car velocity up 15 per cent over the same period last year.

Our execution in the half-court offense was the best its been all year.

Our execution in the second half was suspect in a couple areas.

Our execution level was nowhere near where it needed to be,

Our execution looked flawless. I don't know how good they are, but they appeared on paper like they were real good. They did control the ball pretty well. We only had four plays the entire second half, and that's kind of frustrating.

Our execution offensively was considerably better than it was in the first week and our defense did another great job against a physical and athletic team. With the travel and all the distractions that come with it, I thought the kids handled everything very well.

Our execution was good and we did some other things well.