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It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

I thought in overtime we did a lot better passing the puck around, and we were more poised. We have to be more sharp on the power play, and you can't pass up any shots, either.

I thought I returned extremely well, which helped me get into a lot of his service games, and that won the match. I don't feel as sharp as I did in the summer but that's going to change shortly.

I thought he worked well. I think he came out of his last race as good as a horse could come out of a race like that, especially considering it was his first start off the bench and they ran fast over a fast racetrack. He hasn't missed an oat and has been very sharp since the race.

I thought Jake would play a little better. Jake probably wasn't as sharp as I hoped.

Josh came out with a series of moves, one after the other, looking sharp on all of them.

Lawmakers say that if the Hutton inquiry finds the government guilty of sharp practice in helping the media identify Dr. Kelly, then the beleaguered Hoon may have to fall on his sword.

It is a pretty sharp bounce the market has been weak for some time.

Roger wasn't as sharp as the other times we've faced him,

Paige threw really well tonight. She walked the first batter of the game and then settled into a nice groove. She looked pretty sharp for her first game out this year.

Over the last year, we've seen a sharp increase in our enterprise customer base toward voice, expanding beyond the early white-tile applications in healthcare and warehouses, and more into the carpeted enterprise.

Over the next few weeks, we expect oil service companies to post strong fourth-quarter results and likely provide bullish guidance for 2006, including positive data points on both activity and pricing trends, which should fuel sharp earnings growth for oil service companies over the next few years and ultimately push stock prices higher.

Our catcher, Wade Spurlock, had a good night at the plate. Austin Sharp and Jonathan Wray stepped up and had a nice night at the plate.

Our pit stops were great but we had something with me coming in and out. I had some difficulties. We could've got Sharp in one of the pit stops for sure. It didn't happen. It's just these kinds of things.

Our power play certainly wasn't as sharp as it was the previous game. They got a couple of bounces in the second period and that's your game.

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Our solid fourth quarter performance reflects our ongoing ability to execute consistent strategies for generating top-line growth, controlling costs and improving operational efficiency. We were successful in delivering a strong cash quarter as a result of our sharp focus on working capital improvements, particularly in accounts receivables and inventory reduction.

Our strength was broad-based, with solid earnings growth across every business, domestic and international, ... Our sharp focus on convenient food and beverages is paying off and we expect consistently healthy results to continue throughout 2001.

Overall, there are still a number of things we can do better. We had problems with penalties in the first half, no question about that. We weren't as sharp as we need to be in execution or in terms of assignments.

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

I think over the past 20 games or so the bench has done a good job of being sharp and focused. And this is an opportunity to continue that.

It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

It felt like we were sharp tonight. Our defensive pressure is where it needs to be for the tournament.

Kenny is a proven goalscorer and he has looked really sharp in pre-season. I'm just relieved the competitive stuff is back, because you don't really feel as if you have started with a club until you have played in a proper match.

I think the predominant focus was on the fall in the Nikkei, and the sharp drop in the Nikkei took the yen down. And I think the yen generally brought the rest of the market down with it.

It is one of the toughest in the country; teams are battling for every win. I think it is necessary for us to stay sharp and stay focused and keep our guys in that zone, and then we can do well.

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

It happened very quickly. I knew that I came down and felt a sharp pain in my leg. I got up and tried to take a step and my knee just felt shaky. I didn't think it was as serious as it is.

It happened very quickly. I'm not sure what happened. I came down and felt a sharp pain. I kind of stumbled back and I really didn't know how hurt I was until I tried to take a step and my knee just felt a little shaky.

I think we were just a little unfocused. We weren't really focused and sharp at the start.

I think we weren't as sharp as we needed to be and Missouri was aggressive and took advantage of our mistakes.

I think we were pretty sharp in that second game. Mercer was at a little bit of a disadvantage because they had to play back-to-back due to the schedule, but again we had a couple of goals we can be proud of. Missy finished hers nicely and Ali scored on some more great combination play.

I thought our guys played hard. We made some obvious mistakes. With all the hoopla before the game, maybe we weren't as sharp as we could have been.

It beats getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

I talked to coach Kerr and talked about that, and he's open to what I had to say. I thought maybe that the first three plays in practice, we need to be sharp again, try to make it like that's the start of the game. I really don't know. I'm looking for ideas. We need to start faster or it's going to catch up with us if we don't. It's definitely inevitable.

I thought we started the game sharp because we were spreading out the field and moving the ball quickly. But I thought we bogged down a little bit and you can credit Odessa High's defense for some of that.

I thought we tightened it up a lot in the second half and we only gave up 41. That was the difference in the game. I don't think we were as sharp offensively and defensively to start the game but your going to have that. We'll take the win and move on and see if we can keep it going.

I think we're definitely not sharp as far as my game and everybody defensively. I think it's a combination of a lot of things why defensively you're not successful. I don't think you can pinpoint it to one person. As a group, we're just not sharp and have been playing the price a lot.

I thought they did well. The second half we were better, we moved it quicker. Kenny (Cooper) got his goal, they worked hard. I just didn't think our passing in general was for the whole team as sharp as it needed to be in the first 45 minutes.

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

We need the Marines to be as sharp as possible.

Trends show a sharp surge on auto spending in July but little strength elsewhere, ... Most disturbing is the ongoing sluggishness for services. Demand there is hovering around (annual) gains of 2 percent. That won't create many jobs.

Trucks, construction equipment and buses are seriously affected by the sharp downturn in North America, ... The downturn could not be offset by strong performance elsewhere in the world.

We came out of our first eight days of spring practice relatively healthy. We're not as sharp as we need to be, but I really like our work ethic. I think we are ahead of schedule at this point.

We came out sharp tonight, and I really can't ask for too much more than what they did in the first five series. The execution was sound and we had a good of mix of runs and passes. Bruce did a nice job of executing the offense and we had other players make players for us. We just have to keep it going.

You know, the mayor is a very complex individual, and he and I have had some very sharp public disagreements, ... But he's a case study in how to maximize your power and authority, whether others like it or not.

We allowed two goals each half and I wasn't to happy about that. We weren't as sharp as we should be in our first league game.

Those black eyes I once so praised Now are hard and sharp and cold; Where's the love that through them blazed? Where's the tenderness of old?

Those black eyes I once so praisedNow are hard and sharp and cold;Where's the love that through them blazed?Where's the tenderness of old?

We didn't rebound, we didn't guard, we weren't sharp offensively at all. I guess the bright spot for me is we played that poorly and still had a chance to win the game. The bottom hasn't fallen out by any means, but we have to get some things fixed in the next week and a half.

Valuations on mining stocks look very rich. Any pause in the spot price is leading to sharp price corrections and sentiment can reverse quite quickly.

We're very proud of the effort of our players. The effort was there. It was the little things here and there that made us a loser. We're just not sharp enough right now to beat a good team. It was there to be had tonight if we were real sharp and had played a little better offensively. Holding them to 17 points should be good enough to win a conference game.

We have to keep everybody sharp and ready. There's a real possibility we could be mobilized again with little notice.

We have to limit our own mistakes and capitalize on their mistakes. When two good teams are playing each other, you've got to be sharp mentally. Every trip counts.

We just didn't think he was mentally as sharp as we needed him to be.

Most investors were expecting a correction this morning after sharp gains in the past few days but when they saw that there wasn't much selling pressure, buyers came back and pushed up the market.

You just don't like to see sloppy play. We're not playing good, crisp, sharp baseball in any aspect of the game right now. Period. It's going to have to pick up. It's focus, anticipation and concentration. That's what it is. We don't seem to really be there right now.

I was really nervous coming into the season, but the group we have now is even better than last year. The toughest lineup I've faced this season is what I see here in practice. That's helped keep me sharp during games.

That's unsustainable. There is an unpleasant adjustment in our future. We will have to adjust our lifestyles to our means. There will be a sharp recession if not a depression.

That was a key with Gregg. Paul Byrd wasn't sharp tonight, but he went as far as he could. I think Kevin Gregg coming in and keeping us in the game was very important, and the other guys followed suit.

That would be a real poke in the eye with a sharp stick,

That was the difference really in the game, the second period. We had battled back, we didn't look very sharp in the early going, then we kind of played ourselves back into the game, and then the power play for them did us in.

Unlike downloading a Hollywood film, which I think everyone intuitively knows is a clear violation of the copyright, people do not have that sharp line, that distinction, in their minds when they download free TV.

We haven't done a lot of training this week because of the trip back, but what we have done has been really sharp and focused and that should stand us in good stead.

We haven't ever before seen such sharp increases in costs as over the past two years. It's more than $200 per ton. It has to do with rising energy costs, with rising alumina costs. This increase puts pressure on the weakest smelters.

We do not believe our office was engaged in any sharp conduct here.

You always wonder how he's going to be. But he came back and was as sharp as he always is. But then, we kind of expected that.

We don't protect him to the extent that we go around keeping him away from sharp objects. But we're certainly trying to be aware of the pitfalls that are there and we try to steer him away from those.

We dropped a little on floor and weren't quite as sharp as we'd like to be on bars and they had just enough. We have a few things to clean up. We'll get back in the gym, work hard, and hopefully we can get to the state meet and change the outcome.

We were more ready to play than I even thought we were going in. Even during the infield/outfield drills before the game, I don't think we've been that sharp in over two years. That's the kind of things a coach looks for early on. The guys couldn't understand why I was smiling so much before the game started.

We have to throw them on a regular basis. If they are not in the game, it has to be in the bullpen. We have to stay sharp that way. I don't like to let guys go more than two days without doing at least something off the mound. We have to keep them sharp that way.

We played a team (Tuesday) that really wasn't sharp in their execution, and if we can do that against the playoff teams, then we'll be a lot more excited.

We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.

Why us? ... How could it be a storm would take a sharp 90-degree turn to the east? It's something that we're going to have to live with and prepare for.

We couldn't score, and you have to credit Monmouth for a lot of that. They took away our inside game, and our defense wasn't sharp at all.

We wanted to jump out on them early. I thought we were sharp and we shot the ball well for the first time at Marsh.

You are going to have some sharp birth pangs that go along with the implementation of Proposition F,

We've got several kids who can score in a number of different ways. Once the tournament begins, we've got to stay sharp mentally and come ready to play good defense and rebound every night. We've got seven seniors on this team and we want them to go out on a positive note.

That was just what the doctor ordered. He was as sharp as he can be. He really pitched great.

That was my biggest fear coming into the game, that we wouldn't be sharp offensively after the long layoff.

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We've seen a sharp decrease in phishing site activity since deploying the TippingPoint anti-phishing filters, and block more than 9,000 phishing attacks per hour.

We've seen a sharp sell-off, bond markets have risen strongly, equity markets have basically collapsed very, very quickly.

We've seen a steady, quite dramatic decline in a lot of runs, including ones we've had counters on and anecdotal information from towns. Over the past several years there has been a sharp drop. There's always fluctuation but it's been more dramatic than usual.

We decided Alfonso, being a big body, was probably going to be the best bet for us. (Defensive line coach) Don Johnson felt very confident in his ability. Alfonso's a very sharp individual out there, and he did a tremendous job.

There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years in the business on SCTV, ... I have more fun playing guys who are not the sharp pencils. I like the characters who are just average, if not a little below average, so the average person can look at my character on the screen and feel a little better about themselves.

Yesterday's sharp fall in bank shares is overshadowing sentiment,

We hit the ball well, but defensively we had six errors. And you can throw six or seven mental errors on top of that. We were not very sharp and not prepared to play.

We didn't think he was playing as well as he was capable. He did get in some early foul trouble, but I don't think he was as mentally sharp as we needed him to be.

We didn't want to play bad because the first time we do, we'll get beat. We were pretty sharp in the third quarter, which was the best part of our game. I wasn't real pleased with how we executed our offense or defense in the first half.

This was a solid performance in the face of continuing stiff headwinds from rising raw material and energy costs and currency movements, and reflects a sharp focus on managing the things within our control and the steady execution of our operating agenda,

We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is that the import surge reflects very solid domestic demand.

We are here as a community educational resource for adults. It's a good idea to continue educating ourselves throughout our lives. Not only is it a good example to set for the younger generations, but keeping the mind sharp ultimately increases the quality of life experienced.

We're gonna go on a losing streak, too, because that's the way this league is. It's difficult to be sharp for a long period of time. I understand that. I'm not thinking everybody should be perfect. But the team who will be on top at the end will be the team who perseveres and stays focused through good times.

We're looking sharp right now. We're running our offense and hitting our shots.

There is likely to be a sharp polarization on whether to retain a ceremonial monarchy or retain the monarchy at all.

Traditionally, the stock market does well in the first year of recovery because you have a sharp rise in productivity and moderating wage demands, so unit labor costs plunge and profits grow rapidly. All the data tell you that is happening. What's weighing on the market is the recognition that the last three years' earnings were largely created by clever accountants rather than strong fundamentals.

The only crazy drive I hit all day was on eight, but I still managed to save my par. I was pretty sharp out there today.

The prospect of favorable new energy contracts for PPL as existing long-term contracts expire, in conjunction with sharp increases in forward wholesale energy prices over the past six months, led us to increase our long-term earnings forecast.

The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines.