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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

The problem with last year's group was they watched the selection show and had their hearts taken from them. And maybe more hurtful than that was they heard all the speculation for a day that they should have been in, as much as I told them, 'It's over, move on, we're in the NIT.' ... This group, there's no drama.

What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models.

We didn't turn the ball over. We made the extra pass. We limited them to one shot and our shot selection was good.

We didn't use the (shot) clock real well. Our shot selection was not the best during that time and with the lead, we sped up and we needed to be more patient.

We did get a little bit of respect from the selection committee as far as the five seed, but we played ourselves into that respect. We played a great season.

This ramp-up of openings, which represents the largest store opening program in five years, is in direct response to the enhanced performance we're seeing in new stores opened under our more rigorous site selection process.

We have issues on jury selection and evidence.

Today we are announcing the selection of Lockheed Martin, ... This effort will deliver a new helicopter that provides essential improvement in the range, speed, communications capability and survivability necessary to efficiently and securely transport the president of the United States.

Wal-Mart, Walgreen's and Sally Beauty Supply in La Crosse, Wis., have a small selection of Black hair products. When I visit Milwaukee or Chicago I usually try to pick some up, but I don't get there as often as I would like.

This study should ease the fears of some of people who believe that sex selection technology will become widespread when it is readily available in the United States. There is no evidence that the technology will have a significant impact on the natural sex selection ratio.

When we're not standing at the three-point line, we're a pretty good team. The key for us was shot selection. Our shot selection was very good tonight.

We're excited about providing our customers with the organic alternatives they're wanting at the best value. We've found that many of our customers are interested in purchasing some organic food and, by offering an expanded selection that meets their needs, we feel we're better able to help them complete their shopping list in our one-stop location.

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.

We did what we had to do. We came out and played with energy, I thought we had good ball movement. Our shot selection was excellent, and I think they were a little bit off.

We are acting as facilitators, as mediators, as brokers if you will. We are helping them bring this list down to the 28 that they feel would be perfect to serve their country in the next six months, and we are also going to assist them in their selection of a leader.

We are pleased that we are able to make this announcement today. We recently concluded a rigorous site selection process, and while each location had much to offer we reached the decision that the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area is the appropriate location for our finishing facility.

We didn't have a lot of good shot selection early. We've basically lived or died with the perimeter people.

We want to know how broad a trend these two genes represent. Did we get really lucky and hit on two rare examples of such genes? Or, are they representative of many other such genes throughout the genome. I would bet, though, that we will find evidence of selection in a lot more genes.

We want to make some noise. And we know if we make some big noise, big things will happen and hopefully you'll see us on selection Sunday.

We won't know the true ramifications of a quality schedule like this until the end of the year when it comes selection time. That's what our goal is. We don't care about wins and losses.

We don't know what we have to win. And nobody else knows, either. Despite what all those people who get paid to act like they know, they don't know. The selection committee knows who's going to be in the tournament. Or they will know. They're the only people who really know.

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly).

The defense didn't close out like we should have. Our offense execution wasn't there and we shot poorly. ? The right people need to take the right shots. We had some poor shot selection (during High Point's 15-0 run).

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

The decision is made on the merits, not based on U.S. television interests, ... The reason why bidding took place before the selections was to take that factor (U.S. television money) out of the games selection process. If the networks were able to vote, they'd vote to know the cities before they bid.

The decision to award the contract to Reveal was based on the source selection team's conclusion that it offered the best value to the government.

We've been working diligently to introduce new, healthier offerings that give schools a broader selection of better-for-you-options than ever before. We're also providing incentives to our bottlers that will encourage compliance with the new policy. As an industry, we are part of the solution.

Well, the stuff on the album we are a hundred per cent sure that we'll never get sick of because that was a very careful selection process.

The fact that the association is statistically significant despite the crudeness of our estimates suggests that the true biological association is very strong. Darwin's famous book was called 'On the Origin of Species,' but it was really about natural selection on traits rather than species formation. Since our study suggests that natural selection is a general cause of species formation, it seems that Darwin chose an appropriate title after all.

There are many, many pricey streets in the Hamptons. There's South Hampton, Bridge Hampton and East Hampton, the three major towns. East Hampton has the largest selection of celebrities.

We let ourselves down with some poor shot selection early on and it took the youngsters to show the way to bat.

While much work lies ahead, we are pleased that recovery efforts are under way in the communities affected by Hurricane Katrina and that almost all of our stores have resumed normal operations. I want to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of the countless number of our associates and partners who are responsible for getting our stores up and running. We look forward to continuing to provide our customers with our outstanding selection of movies and video game rentals.

We really came out and stepped it up. Our shot selection in the second half was much smarter and our defensive intensity was better in the second half.

We were not smart on our shot selection early in the game. We've got people on the floor who still have to learn their roles.

We were really limited in shot selection in the second half because of their man-to-man. We just didn't have an answer for them after halftime.

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

There is a bottom-up selection process that's underway within the party. The party is not made up of two people.

We've got John Roberts, a brilliant man. We've got Antonin Scalia ( search ), a brilliant judge. And now with this new selection ... he's a brilliant judge. The conservatives are going to have intellectual firepower that's going to last for decades.

was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that she did not do well in her interview with the president and now is out of the picture.

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

With their merchandising savvy and competitive drive, these three talented executives will be instrumental in improving our ability to serve our customers with product selection and pricing that leads the industry, while building operational efficiency for our shareholders,

We believe this success is a direct consequence of companies' improved management of the M&A process, from target selection and pricing, to due diligence to implementation. In the future, this learning curve will certainly continue. So, while gaining competitive advantage through M&As is now a legitimate business strategy for growth, long-term success will depend on increasingly sophisticated M&A capability.

We find evidence that natural selection is, in fact, maintaining those 16 genes. In fact, the human Y hasn't lost any genes over the past 6 million years.

We found that only 8 percent of people would use pre-implantation sex selection for non-medical reasons.

We're just happy to be here. It's been a great ride. Selection Sunday our name pops up and we're excited and 6 days later we're in the Sweet 16 and things change quick.

We strictly abided by the selection criteria we had set and we did not want to go back on our words by diverting from it.

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. Regardless of today's decision, Amazon.com is still committed to providing a great selection of toys at great prices for our customers.

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling. We remain committed to sharing a great selection of toys at great prices for our Web site.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

Biologists are split on this point. A lot of scientists regard natural selection as one of the means through which God accomplishes his ends in the world.

Complaints that the selection process was inadequate are significant and come from people in a position to know the facts, ... I think such an investigation is not only appropriate but very much needed.

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Craig has always performed extremely well for Australia and it's great to have him back fit and in calculation for selection again.

We are asking a specific question -- should sex selection play a role in terms of family balancing,

What I've been telling my teammates is let's go out and win. If we just go and lay down and get beat the first round, the (NCAA) Selection Committee is going to say, 'I told you. They can't even win a game in the NIT. What makes you think they deserved to be in the (NCAA) Tournament?' So I just told them let's go out and play hard and win it, just to prove everybody wrong.

With Liam Plunkett and James Anderson performing well in Pakistan, and Simon Jones now available for selection again, the selectors feel the priority is for these players to gain as much experience of one-day cricket as possible ahead of the World Cup and as a result Darren misses out.

Everyone was talking. We were working as a team. Everyone was boxing out. Shot selection was good. Everything was just going really well for us.

I've never had a freshman like Courtney Paris, and I'm not sure there's ever been a freshman like Courtney Paris. I think her dominance was well reflected in that small little selection show that we had.

It would mean a lot to win it. The last two years, we've kind of had to watch the celebration, then nervously and anxiously await the tournament selection show. It would be great to turn things around this year and know, especially now that we have to wait until Monday, that you're going to go to the tournament.

It would be impossible for her to keep improving at the rate she has in the last two or three years, so her goal at this stage is to improve steadily, in smaller increments, ... She already has a great golf swing, and she's going to get stronger, her balance will improve, her shot selection will improve.

The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about.

The show was really put together well with a nice selection of sounds and the overall placement of the musicians was perfect to create a better sound for the audience.

The selection by WesCorp to protect their servers with PatchPoint underscores the capability of the solution as well as the business benefits to WesCorp. We are gratified that our system is solving a major problem and allowing them to, in turn, provide a consistent level of service to their customers.

(The selection committee is) designed to be a filtration process, to, in effect, kick the tires. In my judgment, it's a systemic (problem). This is simply the tip of the iceberg.

The selection looks quite exciting, it's a competitive starting XV.

The selection of a shortlist, the judges felt, was an unusually difficult process this year. There was sufficient quality for two distinguished lists.

The selection of Coach Paterno as the 2005 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year was an easy and unanimous decision. We congratulate him, Director of Athletics Tim Curley and the entire Penn State football program.

The selection of the final design moves us one step closer to memorializing this extraordinary group of heroes.

The selection of the league's all-time leading scorer in our nine-year history and the inclusion of one of the top youth prospects in the world helps recognize the founders of this league and celebrates the promise the future holds.

The selection of these actors portraying foul-mouthed, drug-using, petty criminals as representative of East Coast music is ludicrous at best and an insult to every music-loving Canadian in general, and East Coasters in particular.

The selection panel had a daunting task to choose 20 players for the game, but we do fell that this group of young, talented players will put on an excellent display of basketball skill and good sportsmanship.

The selection process was an extremely difficult one and that's a terrific statement for hockey in the United States. It means our talent pool in this country continues to grow.

This selection clearly indicates that Mellon is not for either sale or dismemberment. It is more likely to go on an acquisition binge.

We've played some teams in the past couple weeks that really like to slow the tempo. While they've dictated tempo, what I've been pleased with is our ability to be patient. Our shot selection has been good, and that's important when you have fewer possessions. I tell the guys all the time that teams may dictate tempo, but defenses can't dictate shot selection.

We always talk about equal selection and how it's fair to all the conferences and schools. Well, (the selection committee has) a chance to prove it.

I've talked to members of the selection committee, and to at least be considered for the NCAA Tournament, you have to win some road games. They also put quite a bit of emphasis on what a team does in the last 10 games of the season.

I understand and recognize that it's not an easy decision for the Canadian selection committee. Regardless of their decisions, it was going to create some kind of controversy with the talent pool.

It was a long and extensive process and frankly it was not an easy decision, ... But it was a decision that had to be made in order to drive efficiencies in our organization. We felt that the synergy, focus and enthusiasm that Garber Bros. provided our selection committee would help us realize our combined business goals.

It was an easy selection from the point of view that everyone was fit. It's unlike previous times, when we have had to get players into the mix after injury or find another player because of an injury.

We tend to prefer focused businesses and then have a selection of them, creating our own conglomerate, if you like. Within a conglomerate, it's always a bit hard to be on top of everything.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

Variety selection is the most important factor in soybean production.

We shot very well, but turned the ball over too much and gave up a ton of offensive rebounds. Now we're kind of at the mercy of the (NAIA) selection committee. Hopefully we can sneak in.

To my mind legitimate questions have been raised by several of our witnesses about the standards of the application and selection process, questions which must in fact be answered by ICANN,

We all know there are going to be teams left out and there are going to be discussions, and that's just part of the selection process. That's just part of sports.

We had a strong feeling about Jordan after meeting him last year at Road Atlanta. Obviously BMW feels he will be a top competitor and represent their brand well, as noted by their selection of him as a BMW Junior Driver for the 2006 season. As a team, it is our responsibility to help develop his skills to their fullest potential and put him in a position to excel both on and off the track.

This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the widest and most diverse selection of nominees possible.

To be given a nine seed, the highest ever for a team from the Patriot League, shows that our program earned the respect of the selection committee and college basketball followers across the country.

Boone has run the fund seven years, his long-term record is good and he has a substantial personal investment in it, indicating his confidence in the selection process. This is a good fund for a core investment holding--even viewed apart from its social considerations.

Boeing is delighted that DBA has announced its selection of the next-generation 737 to replace its fleet of 737 classics, ... The 737's schedule reliability makes it the perfect airplane for high-frequency, short-haul point-to-point routes within Germany and to other European destinations.

Even though the site selection process is a bit off in the future, we feel the old high school, because of its in-town location, meets our needs better than any other site we've looked at.

We want all youth soccer teams to play the same soccer. We intend also to create a single selection system.

We went through a lengthy selection process ... narrowing it down to Florida and New Mexico. Both states provided us their best and final bid and they both offered very attractive opportunities.

Strictly speaking, Natural Selection is not a cause at all, but is the mode of operation of a certain quite limited class of causes.

ADC's Fiber Distribution Hub best meets our network requirements relative to product features and functionality, performance, cost and proven success in the industry. We are very confident in our selection of ADC as a key supplier in support of our FTTX network deployment and are excited to be able to respond to the growing demands in our communities for advanced communication from the home.

Rana has consulted specialists and had an MRI scan and he has no tear or wear in his shoulder. He is available for selection for the final test.

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.