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Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.

I've followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

One of the problems is the ground gets saturated, and the trees are more likely to fall over followed by a stiff wind.

One of the neighbors actually followed him as far as he could.

On the other hand, it let Tony Stewart move into new prominence and establish his name. He has probably picked up more popularity this year than any driver that we've had in a long time. He's at the point right now where he's knocking on the door that had been reserved for Earnhardt Jr. and Gordon. I've followed Stewart since he was 18 years old, through his success at Indy, and he has a lot of appeal to women.

I was seven years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. From that point on, I followed the movement.

My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Oh yeah, I was watching them. I went to a couple of games last year and followed them pretty closely.

Oddly, it took a while, but resorts discovered that it's a service industry over the last few years. It's likely a product of the aging baby boomers, and as they get older, they expect more. Resorts have followed suit by adding more frills and service.

No disrespect, but North Dakota State went in there with a pretty good game plan, followed their game plan, challenged some shots -- they went in there and they were able to win. It's not impossible; a team just did it two days ago.

One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.

None of this sort of news is good for the athlete or good for the sport. We're just going to focus on making sure the policies of the organization and the policies of our partner organizations are followed and that the due processes are put in place so it's done fairly and equitably.

My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.

My dad definitely fills up my closet. Running is something we've always done together as a family. My dad did it, then my sister followed and I saw how much she liked it.

Nobody was hurt, fortunately. We have a lot of training, policies, and procedures in place to help protect the employees. The employees have done a wonderful job making sure they followed all those and protected themselves.

obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.

(Richard) is glad that the city followed their attorney's advice and chose to accept the reasonable settlement. And he trusts that the relations with the neighbors will be restored over a period of time after the operation of the helicopter, once they realize the situation isn't as serious as (they) believed it to be.

I got my first real inkling of this (Monday) night. The long and short of it is our compliance office, in doing the things they do, checking and double checking and making sure that everything is right, brought this to our attention. We followed through (Tuesday) morning.

If the school at the time had done its job correctly and had followed the federal guidelines set up to protect students from campus crime, ... might have been able to enjoy her time as a young coed without the suit looming over her head.

I didn't ask to be followed by five video guys from 'Hard Copy' that harass you with bright lights in your face and ask you questions and try to incite you. I didn't ask for that. I never went into acting for that, or to be in the public eye simply by walking down the street, not being able to eat a meal without being interrupted.

If we can put together a memorable season on defense, that will help his chances to get a head coaching job. Ted definitely deserves it. He's a player's coach I've followed to two teams. If I had it my way, I wouldn't play for any other defensive coordinator.

If they didn't buy an animal, they gave the child add-on money. When other companies heard that, they followed suit, also pledging to give something to each child. That hasn't happened before.

Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.

We're looking at the severity of the conduct, whether a player wound up and followed through. It was a hard foul, but I did not feel it was flagrant -- and I've reviewed hundreds of these.

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

Max is absolutely livid that these companies have not followed through with their promises. We have been assured by the host committee that folks are going to get paid.

She followed in her mother's footsteps. She graduated with honors in high school and college and taught first and second grade in San Antonio 40 years.

She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a small apartment across the street. She supported me pretty much for about a year while I tried to get work. Her parents had said that we could marry once I had a job and good prospects, and the seven-year contract qualified.

She (Russo) played very well ? she got a lot of steals. Offensively, she continually followed her shots. It was a case of us getting her the ball. She played a heck of a game.

Many (tech and telecom stocks) are undervalued. If we have a period of slow growth followed by an acceleration in the economy, I think we could see money flow back, and the one thing that's been very consistent in this market is the rotation factor, ... It tells everyone money is not leaving the stock market.

Solar stocks as a group are probably up 4 to 6 times more than most of the commonly followed indices.

Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.

Seven beers followed by two Scotches and a thimble of marijuana and it's funny how sleep comes all on it's own.

She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started.

I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven't followed the rules, because I don't see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don't follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation.

Kirk carried us. I had some good looks in the fourth quarter, but the whole game I struggled. But I thought Kirk stepped up, and we followed him.

I was in their shoes last year and had no idea what to do. I just followed what everybody else did.

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

There are still some procedures that have to be followed but I expect he will be released within a day or two.

I credit the whole company for this success. They did a good job in Europe of keeping it a premium brand, and the U.S. followed suit. That drove this phenomenon.

Given significant, secure and continued funding, ... the Open Rivers Initiative could make a much-needed contribution to our nation's overall aquatic health. We have seen the resurgence of life that followed dam removals in waters like Maine's Georges and Wisconsin's Onion Rivers, so we know that such efforts can lead to positive change. And we can't wait to see the improvement in fish populations that will follow a series of small dam removal projects in communities country-wide.

Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.

I am sure that this meeting will be followed by more meetings in the future. We hope that finally it will lead to full diplomatic relations with Pakistan as we would like it with all Muslim and Arab countries.

I am the one with NHL head coaching experience and no one has followed this team as closely as I have since training camp. As of this point, I will take full responsibility as the head coach.

I am a little chagrined that other fund companies haven't followed suit.

I echo those comments. No question, Wagner has made us a much better team than we were last year. There's no guarantee, we still have to play, but we have to be pleased with what we have. We made two major deals and did as much as I think we could have done. It's awesome. I'm excited. They put together a game plan, a road map to success, and we followed the map very well. Now I just hope the directions are up-to-date.

Global macro will produce the highest returns, followed by equity hedge funds.

Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the legislative and executive branches embodied in our Constitution and our nation's history, we do not believe that it would be appropriate for the president to appear before the committee,

Given the seriousness of the allegations, the National Investigations Service, our major crimes unit, followed up, which resulted in the charges being laid.

From the time she went through the first manned checkpoint, she was followed by airport operations officers and security guards and was brought to a stop quickly. Police arrived immediately and she was placed under arrest.

I expect the Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair and dignified hearing in a timely manner, followed by an up or down vote by the Senate.

But this thing stinks. It's not good for me. And the unfortunate thing is that you potentially dealt with something that you have to face for the rest of your life. And like I said, the protocol wasn't followed and there is no backup sample to confirm what they say is a positive test.

But what matters now is whether the agreement is followed as it has been outlined to me, other members of Congress and the public,

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

I don't care who you bring here. I'm not going to be a fan. I've followed and lived and died with the Dallas Cowboys.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

Bubba (Stewart) was in front of me and I followed for a lap and a half and then made a clean inside pass on him. I heard his bike revving wide open and saw his fender coming closer and then suddenly he crashed. It can't be fun to hit the mat as many times as he has this year. I think it comes down to learning to be patient.

Businesses are the most sensitive to changing economic dynamism, followed by households and, lastly, the government. Right now, the household sector is catching up.

But there are no studies that have followed women long enough to solidify this.

Chinese courts at various levels strictly followed the principle of meting out penalty to the guilty in accordance with the law, and setting the innocent free in time, and pronounced 2, 162 criminal defendants innocent in year 2005.

basically just didn't care if we followed Justice Department guidelines.

I have a really good group of fans who have followed me through thick and thin over the years and the last thing we want to do is to make it look like we are sloughing them off, ... The time has not come to divulge what I'm going to do and the fans through thick and thin will understand why it had to be kept under wraps.

I had a son who wanted to play college basketball, so this is what we did. We made up a resume sheet that had his picture, academic and athletic information, and then put together a good tape that showed some highlights of his season. After that we picked out 50 or so schools that he was interested in, and then mailed the packets. Then we followed up with phone calls. We ended up getting a great response. He signed with a school in Nebraska (York College) and got to play a few years before hurting his knee.

Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.

To follow a man is easier than followed by so many.

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

What would happen to the Biological Weapons Convention if other countries followed suit and built large biological production facilities at secretive military bases known for weapons testing?

What Yeltsin is doing is a political default which will be followed by an economic default,

We've followed all the steps that Barcelona have instructed. The injury is improving well in the way we had predicted.

We've followed the same pattern that Visit Florida showed, with regards to last fall. We were down in the fall.

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

Hundreds of thousands of women would get unsafe exposures to mercury if they followed the FDA's advice and ate freely of all fish in the food supply except the four that they've prohibited during pregnancy,

He was removed from the national team because he didn't comply with some rules that are followed around here.

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.

If we only followed strictly market analysis we should be doing some trimming of volume.

If supporters of RU-486 believe the FDA followed the law in approving RU-486 for abortion, they should have nothing to fear from the proposed review. But if the FDA bent the rules to expedite approval of RU-486, the agency clearly valued the 'health' of the abortion industry over women's health and should be brought to account.

He (Holman) got us rolling by attacking the basket all the time. And all of the other kids followed suit. He was huge.

Had somebody even followed up and sent a policeman like they did on the later call, really, to admonish Robert, rather than to help his mother, perhaps we wouldn't be here. But no one came at all. All that happened was that Robert was threatened and, really, intimidated from doing what his mother had taught him to do, which was to make an emergency call in an emergency situation.

Had the intelligence community concluded the threat was imminent or credible, we would have followed ... different protocols.

He has not lived up to his responsibilities or expectations with the team or academically. He also hasn't followed through on the disciplinary measures that resulted in those areas.

He was trustworthy, ... That's why people followed him.

History cautions that extended periods of low concern about credit risk have invariably been followed by reversal, with an attendant fall in the prices of risky assets.

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

He's got something about him that people enjoy following. I don't think you can be followed if you don't produce, and he produces. He's got a certain confidence and aura about himself that, hey, if you guys will follow me, we have a chance, and I think he's grown a lot.

He's been to the Web site. He's followed some of the guys up to the A's. That's what I want to try to encourage. That tie between teams. There's probably half of the guys who would know who the River Cats are and probably four or five who would know exactly that they are the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland A's.

He said, 'We think you've got a lot of potential and what we'd like to do is put you up against Gene Miles, who was playing for the Broncos', and I said, 'No way, I'm out of there'. I don't think I was really built for the game but I've always followed it.

He's been a tremendous help. I'm not a stat person; I look at the player. I know when they're playing well or not. He followed every stat probably the last two years and was on the computer every night bringing up this stat or that stat. I'm surprised he didn't tell me how many times they ate during the day.

He's followed in his father's steps. Young Hoover has topped his dad, and his dad was an icon in his day. I give a lot of credit to his dad for Jim's achievements.

He's followed my career through high school, college and through the NBA. You want somebody who knows your game inside out, who knows what you like to do in certain situations. I'm excited about this opportunity and truly blessed.

He's a wonderfully reliant public servant. I followed him for a while, but haven't lately because he satisfies me that he's doing the right things, and I know he's doing a great job in the various places that he has power.

I feel that the committee followed UIL directives and UIL procedures.