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Freedom Rings has been closely analyzing the performance of its stores in the Philadelphia area over the past several months. After consultation with its creditors, it has been determined that closing the remaining four stores is the best way to maximize value.

Francesc has won three championships here. There are not many players that can say that. There are several players that we rely on. We were confident with the match riding on him.

For years, winning Key West has been one of the greatest achievements in U.S. sailing. Now the competition at Miami Race Week is just as stiff in several one-design classes. Winning the Acura Grand Prix Trophy shows a tremendous level of excellence. To put forth a consistent performance at two major regattas is not an easy feat.

Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.

Freddie Mac's new LIHTC Mod Rehab execution has several features that are important to our lender customers, including a less costly and more efficient execution with no interim financing. Freddie Mac is focused on delivering creative, flexible financing structures that meet our customer's business needs, and to ensure that more properties for low-moderate income individuals get the financing they need.

I don't think anyone really knew what it was. The family found several eight millimeter films and when we had them transferred to video, we were surprise, no shocked, to find Walter Anderson rowing to the islands.

Further adding, Increased intakes of polyunsaturated fat also probably explain most of the major declines in coronary mortality in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia over several decades.

Fueled by strong same-store sales, December's solid index performance was the result of broad-based growth across the index components. Three out of five restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain in December -- the strongest level in 12 months. In addition, the Expectations Index posted its fourth consecutive monthly increase, which points toward growth in sales, staffing levels and capital expenditures during the next several months.

Gale Norton has been a great advocate of protecting private property rights and improving the public's access to public lands. She has been a friend and ally of our movement. She has several major accomplishments, including the Healthy Forests Act which protects both people and forests from out of control wildfires, endorsing Endangered Species Act reforms to make the law work for a change, sharply reducing federal land acquisition because the government already owns too much, and greatly increasing the role of land owners and local elected officials in decision making processes.

From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

For years, Katie has had a fascination with Beetles, especially the newer versions that came out several years ago. She has a Barbie Volkswagen Bug and even one for her dollhouse collection. She can spot the car wherever we go.

Frequency is very important in order to retain the relationships and the continuity. Business moves a lot in a month, and if you have issues that need to be dealt with, you want to get together with people who can help you in real time, rather than have to wait several months.

Gillette has been off everyone's radar screen for a couple years. New management last year -- we saw (it) in the first-quarter numbers, finally seeing some benefit of that, ... Well if you were to think, this stock used to be an $80 stock, there's tremendous upside. Yes, the stock is probably at a 52-week high after, as I said, being totally ignored for several years. So I think what you're really seeing is the start of an uptrend.

Getting Tony under contract to remain a Diamondback has been on the front burner for several weeks.

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

For several days there has been quite intensive fighting,

For several decades, Hollywood has tried to ignore the increasingly overwhelming evidence that edgy, adult-themed entertainment usually constitutes a bad investment and a sucker bet at the box office,

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

For several reasons, this spring has given a lot of guys opportunities to show what they've got. And they're doing it. It's been a fun thing to watch.

For several years after '95, we had continuity with a core group of players. This day and age, keeping a team together is hard to do, and it keeps getting worse and worse.

For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.

For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.

For several years before that, I had a picture of the jet on the mirror. I used to look at it while I shaved.

For several years, builders put just a vent fan in a wet area, such as a bathroom.

For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better player than our own Joe Gedeon, but he has played better ball, and we wanted him. Well, how did I get him? I paid $15,000 in cash and gave away a number of good players for him. But what can you do?

For several years now, search engine marketing and optimization has dominated online marketing, and this data shows why: it's far more effective at converting visitors into buyers than most other acquisition sources taken as a whole. But as this data also shows, the best conversion rate still comes from good old fashioned branding and customer loyalty, where visitors either bookmark your site or type your URL directly into the address bar.

For several years now, we've been pursuing a product diversification strategy. To increase company value, we've tried to diversify our product line.

For several years our district student population has been about 475. Currently it is about 535.

For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two years ago where they found out the people who play fantasy football actually are their season-ticket holders. So now we've turned a corner from, 'Is this gambling?' to the realization that, 'Hey, this a fun hobby played by a lot of our fans.' And for the most part, it's bragging rights -- not money -- that people are after in fantasy football.

For several years, the administrations in Springfield had other priorities and were unwilling - I say again, unwilling - to support this ... over a few narrow interests,

For several years the Cumming plant has been experiencing significant growth and the time has come for us to expand our operations here. We are looking forward to continuing this growth pattern to better serve our customers, further expand our workforce and continue to contribute to the community.

For several years, we had been looking at options for better positioning the university as a whole in the field of energy. Between now and next year, there is going to be a great deal of shuffling.

For several years, we have tracked the strong affinity of the gay-lesbian market for travel, particularly for popular destinations at home and overseas. With fewer children and somewhat higher discretionary income, lesbian and gay adults consistently index higher than their heterosexual counterparts.

For several years we've allowed administrators to run our East Allen vision. It's time for the board to take the lead.

From my standpoint this was a great project, one I think the community can really be proud of. This is the first of several construction projects for Galesburg Cottage Hospital and we plan several new services for Galesburg and the surrounding communities.

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

If Bush is re-elected, I would suspect several justices would step down in the next four years.

I am biased, but I thought we had several more who could have made it. I am glad for Brian. He had a great year.

I am convinced that information operations from both sides are increasing and intensifying. I think both sides are beginning to understand that this struggle will be waged in both the kinetic and informational realms, but that the latter is the decisive area of operations. The insurgents target several audiences, including the Islamic world and the American populace.

I am delighted and excited to compete in New York. I have been at the race several times before as a spectator, this time I will be in action.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

I am expecting it to be done sometime in June or July next year. That's a real difficult job to do because there are several places where it gets choked down. In front of Sexton foods, Race is already three lanes, and they will widen it a little there. But further down in front of Midnight Oil, it's just two lanes so it will cut it down to one lane when they close a lane for construction.

If we see (broad economic growth in) Europe total at over 2 percent, that would be a significant increase from last year. At the same time, we're going to see Japan show positive economic growth for the first time in several years. What that's going to do is (encourage) money flowing out of the dollar.

I get nostalgic for the senior game anyway. The last game at Allen is always a toughie for us, because we're sentimental guys. I've been working on Colorado, reviewing their people, and I have to keep remembering that the game is the big story, even though we do have several sidebars this time.

I don't think it was a lack of effort, it was a lack of execution a few times. I'm really proud of the way several of our kids stepped up tonight. They became team leaders, not only on the football field but in the locker room too. We did some things that have not been done before that this team needed. Some in-house soul cleansing.

I envisioned myself as one of those guys who spent 20 years flying the same aircraft. I didn't plan on flying several types of helicopters, it just kind of worked out that way.

Global supply/demand conditions remain tighter than expected earlier in the year. As a result, we anticipate meaningful upward estimate revisions in the next several months.

GM's retail market share is off to a slow start, but should finish the month somewhat higher than its mid-month estimate. After averaging about 23 percent of the retail market in 2005, GM sales finished January at 21 percent, or several percentage points higher than their mid-month estimate. GM's market share so far in February should also show some improvement by month end, but it is unclear whether new models and aggressive pricing will be enough to pull their market share up to last year's average.

GM's success earlier this summer has really taken its toll on inventory levels for several models, limiting their ability to have another terrific month. And there appears to be relatively little momentum left in GM's employee discount incentive program now that it is in its third month.

Gnarly processes often display patterns at several scales. We find them fun to watch because they tend to appear as if they're alive.

Given the strong reports we've seen from many technology and industrial companies over the past several days, it's hard to make too much sense of today's GDP report.

Given the uncertainty on both service provider and corporate IT spending, visibility is the poorest in several years. We expect Cisco to be cautious on its near-term outlook despite indications that business in some segments has improved.

Given the value of the music ripped off was several billion dollars, the damages claim will be substantial,

Gladewater is a very talented team and they put five players on the floor that can score in several ways. They really shoot the ball well as a team. We will definitely have our hands full.

Fortunately, at this point there doesn't appear to be much in the way of damage to farm structures. However, these estimates are preliminary, and we won't know the full extent of the damage for several days.

I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the time. I think he was dissatisfied several years later.

For us, we are very optimistic. We understand where we are. We competed against several of these teams already that are in the mix and we have gained confidence because we have won.

From the information we have right now, it looks like it will be several weeks, but it won't be the season.

From then on it will likely take several more weeks for a decision.

I don't think it's fair to negotiate in the press. We've got a great relationship with Cox. We're in several markets throughout the country, and our expectation is to be on (in the Las Vegas) market come fall.

For the typical customer, their day-to-day interaction with the insurance provider has the greatest impact on their overall impression of the company and its brand. Having a dedicated local agent handling their insurance needs can be a big advantage in creating a lasting relationship between insurer and policyholder. However, some insurance customers with simple needs place less importance on a local agent and several carriers have made big strides in refining their direct communication channels with customers. GEICO, for example, has done an excellent job of attracting new customers and delivering quality service, whether through their Web sites or call centers.

For us last year, we had the problem of giving up the big inning a lot of the time. We got better as things went on, and this year we're a totally different team, and we have to put that stuff behind us. We've got several freshmen and sophomores we're going to live or die with. That's our future.

Fortunately we shot the ball well, we shot the ball better as the game went along. We expect that. We have several good outside shooters.

I even worked on my first city commission race as a volunteer when I was in high school. My candidate did lose. And, I've always been involved in these kind of activities. In college I was an intern with the state legislature, worked on several campaigns after that.

I expect several more months of these unemployment levels,

I don't think we know where the bottom is, ... We've had several quarters in a row where each quarter gets worse. We've been assuming things probably won't pick up a lot for another year or two and we try to plan our expenses accordingly.

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

If a truck bomb came through the gate, it would need to go through several layers to get to a sensitive site. But the fact that the process folks in the middle of the plant see that happening immediately, they take precious time to take action and begin shutting the plant down to avoid a catastrophic event.

I give the students all the flexibility they need. For example, we have had several student government presidents on our teams in the past.

If it was a huge one, we would have seen it - they would have had to buy it through several houses. If you're going to sell a large position of gold, people would see you coming and that can hurt you.

I had written several books about Kansas railroads and related places to see.

I believe we turned that corner several years ago.

I believe that several shareholders will sue over the takeover decision.

I believe the second largest concern in the community, besides moving out of downtown, is fragmenting the county services. People want one-stop shopping. People like all their service related things together, and we need to think about simplifying not fragmenting that. I've talked with several judges and they would like to see the courts together with a common jury pool.

I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting, ... Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.

Carlos has great interest in playing in Texas, which we have expressed to the Rangers management several times. We're not looking for any records, and we're not looking to break the bank.

Carlos looked good out there today. He's a big-time player. He's a very versatile guy, a guy who can line up at several different positions. He's going to be a big plus for this program.

Certainly, over the last several weeks, this has clearly been a top down mandate with very little faculty feedback or faculty involvement.

Based on the billion people in China, and the likely hitting of middle class status for hundreds of millions of people over the next several years, GM wants to be there early, establish a brand equity early. And their ambitions are to be a major player in China for the long term.

Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.

I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.

I don't believe my brother did it and if he did, I believe he would've broken down by now. He would have admitted it to me. I don't think Donnie could hold something like that in. I've given Donnie several opportunities to tell me, and it's not even a question to me - he didn't do it.

I feel we have flattened out. We have started several years knowing the net effect was going to be down, but the net effect this year has a chance to be up. A lot depends on how we play.

I felt going into selection day that Bethany, Lincoln, and Villa were going to be three of the four Pool B selections, so it would likely come down between Maryville and Huntingdon since we had defeated Fisk in the GSAC semis and several other teams in consideration lost over the weekend.

but the station also made several other changes around that time, including its music mix, so it was a combination of factors.

China Black Oil Well Services moved a work-over rig on the leasehold and began working today. We hope to have several more wells producing oil in commercial quantities in the next sixty (60) days.

China has undertaken several reforms related to the safety net, healthcare reform, pension reform, education reform in the hope to reduce precautionary savings.

China is very concerned about the possible hazards to Russia and has informed its neighbor several times of the pollution. Both have pledged to cooperate closely to handle the pollution.

Because of the situation that we are in, everything we've done in the past several years will be called into question. We have to look at what we are trying to do here.

Because of the success we've had at Fresno State, I have been contacted by several NFL teams regarding their head coaching openings. I'm not going to name the teams, out of respect, but only to say there is genuine interest. Since becoming head coach at Fresno State, I have never interviewed for another job, but with so much interest at this time from NFL teams, I owe it to my family to look and listen.

Because of those three seniors last year, the climate, the atmosphere around here has really changed. We have a chance to contend for league championships for the next several years.

Basically it was a traveling company the first few years. They had no home. They would travel around the county performing at schools and churches. And the group had several names along the way.

Basically, the industry has formed a standard, and Microsoft ignores it and does something else, ... They are freezing the market when we have an API that is ready to go now. We invited them to join us several times but they declined.

Batavia has the ability to come out of the gates and knock you out. They've served the knockout punch several times in the first quarter and teams haven't been able to counter.

I have been approached several times by the movie industry, who have sometimes taken out options on my work. So far nothing has come of any of this.

I have been at the New York City marathon several times to watch but this time I'm delighted and excited to be competing myself. The field is very strong.

I have been in touch with several rabbis around the community, and we're holding a meeting on Wednesday to see what collectively we can do, whether it's providing information in Russian to the Russian Jews, or holding meetings at different venues.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

I had asked on several occasions that the chamber conduct seminars for small businesses on insurance, taxes, what ever the case may be. But we really never saw anything like that and I haven't seen much else.