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Given the size of Morgan Stanley's position and the impetus to sell these shares, it will take a tremendous amount of aftermarket buying to lift this deal. I just can't see where that will come from.

Given the size of Nomura's business, it's not much of a surprise the earnings came in like this. I'm more concerned about whether Nomura can recoup the money it's spent expanding in investment banking, including overseas.

Given the size of the Linux code, it?s almost certain that it will violate a number of patents, and some of them, such as the ones on the FAT file system, may indeed be held by Microsoft.

For most positions on campus, the market isn't defined by all of the other D-I basketball universities. The competition here, for our academic positions, is schools similar to us in mission, size and geographic location. But in basketball, since we've garnered significant national attention, our market became national.

If a student completes all five classes the $50 will be returned, making the class completely free. However, class size is limited with spots available on a first come, first serve basis.

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

If anything, it stayed the same or maybe went up some. A lot of people will be impressed with my physical size and strength.

I don't remember many people who were not surprised at the size of the loss and the nature of the loss.

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

For the size of the deal, it did fantastic. That's a huge deal so to get any sort of price movement is great.

For us, one size doesn't fit all. We said we need to increase our relationship with the (18- to 28-year-old) group. We've taken steps to do that.

Fortunately, no one was hurt which is very, very good considering the size of the storm. It could have been very bad.

I expected the speed and the size of guys to be a little different than junior, and that I'd have to adapt to that. But as the first week's gone by, I think I feel pretty comfortable with that.

If it weren't for the faith-based groups helping out, the city of Waveland would be half the size it is now.

I believe that we have dramatically underestimated the size of the global market, including the number of points of distribution and the power of the Starbucks brand,

I bet if I asked anyone in this room, 'Who would you report an electronic crime to in the Police?', no one would know. We are ignorant of the size of the problem. There is a real lack of meaningful statistics.

Central Hardin brings in a good team with good size and we are looking forward to it.

Central's size concerns me a little. The first I saw of them was (last Tuesday), and they are extremely talented. I didn't see any weaknesses. Hopefully we'll be able to do our homework and come up with some way to hang around and have a chance.

Carelessness with debris burning is a leading cause of wildfires in Mississippi. Windy conditions increase the number of fires, size of fires and their intensity. Frost has killed grass and weeds, making this vegetation a fuel source for fires in addition to limbs, leaves and other vegetative debris in woods and on undeveloped property.

Casey and Maurice played very well and our guards did a great job of getting the ball inside. We had a good size advantage and we passed up a lot of perimeter shots to get the ball inside.

Cass is a very athletic team with good size and good speed. And they play well together.

But those guys are very skilled and very agile. Although the size and strength of some of the people they play against will create a problem for us, I think their skill and quickness and athletic ability will create a problem for some of those teams.

Based on the size of the applicant pool, we're pretty confident we'll be able to fill the second-flute spot.

But for an agency the size of Corvallis, they are advanced, relatively speaking.

Building a community of this size and scale is best served far and away by city water and sewer services. People moving into a second home want those services; they want a maintenance free home and don't want to have to pump out a septic tank.

Bureaucracies themselves should be assumed to be noxious, authoritarian parasites on society, with a tendency to augment their own size and power and to cultivate a parasitical clientele in all classes of society.

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

I don't know quite what they mean by that, whether they'll build the military back up in size to 2.1 million people to a Cold War-force size or whether they'll leave it at the current size.

Bryant's rebounding was key to the win, considering the size Laurinburg has. I was surprised we were able to press them. But they had a ton of turnovers.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

But the relationship was not as strong. But the point is, in women, whether it was verbal or non-verbal intelligence, brain size was positively correlated -- that means the bigger the brain, the better they did.

But the same issues are still lingering, particularly the constraints on capital for companies such as British Telecommunications; but we're fans of Vodafone, which has a stronger balance sheet, has doubled its size over two years and is debt free.

Chris is a good athlete. With his size and quickness he's not going to give you an easy shot.

Chris is committed to working hard, ... He always wanted to be the next Fred Russell. It shows that size doesn't matter. I never once looked at his size.

Chris McAlister is probably the toughest defensive back for a wide receiver. It's a combination of his size and strength. He's the whole package. Troy Vincent , Champ Bailey and Charles Woodson are up there, too, but McAlister is the whole package.

China has not played a role in strengthening the international trading system commensurate with its commercial heft and the benefit it has obtained from that system. An imbalance of this magnitude is not sustainable, either politically or economically, over the long term. One need only ask whether - if the tables were turned - China would tolerate a bilateral trade imbalance of that size with the United States.

China needs to develop regional air transport because of the country's size and population.

China will expand the enrollment of secondary vocational education to the same size as that of the regular high school education in the next five years, ... By the end of 2010, the enrollment of higher vocational education should account for at least half of the entire enrollment of institutions of higher learning.

Because of the size of it, just the sheer mass and configuration ... it would take me not only twice as long, but we have a situation for snow mass and where we would put it.

Because of the size of muskie, from 36 to 45 inches, carrying them in the live wells of boats would result in death for the fish.

Because of the size of the crane needed to safely bring down sections of the tree, we have taken the decision to close the whole road.

Because of the small size of the labor movement and because of the extreme struggle to organize in the state of Arizona, we're much more close-knit in and outside of the AFL-CIO,

Because this is not a race all boats, regardless of their engine size can enter, the winner will be determined by the draw of the card and not how fast your boat can run.

Because of their size and strength they can cause injury. People in other parts of the world who have gotten in the water and tried to disentangle them have actually been killed.

(Battle and Brinkley) feed off each other. We had a size advantage inside, so we had to take advantage of it.

Basically, there were concerns about the location, the size and the look. Other than that, they were fine with it.

To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,

Having sufficient equity . . . is now an essential requirement because it is no longer possible to secure cancellation insurance cover of the requisite magnitude for an event the size of the FIFA World Cup.

Having the CMA Awards in a venue the size of Madison Square Garden allows us to offer the public a chance to attend this very exclusive event.

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

He's a different type of back than what we see over here. In the Pac-10 we have smaller guys who are quicker and shiftier. He's a real straight-ahead kind of guy, real fast with a great combination of size and speed. I like playing against him. It's fun tackling a guy who's bigger. It makes for a bigger hit and he packs a punch.

He's a big back who runs hard and he has great feet. You just have to make sure you get lower than he does and run through him, don't stop your feet. You don't want to try to arm-tackle him, because he runs through arm tackles like they're nothing. It's almost not fair, him having that size and those feet. It's a crazy thing.

He's a big, scopey, nice colt. He's got a lot of size and scope for a Kingmambo.

Gulf Coast teachers who have lost or left their homes due to Katrina's devastation are being forced to make important decisions on how to continue with their lives, ... Here in Florida we have a critical need for qualified teachers and that need increases each day as our state population grows and schools struggle to meet class size requirements. We welcome these evacuated teachers and students alike with open arms and waiving the certification fee is one small effort to make this transition as smooth as possible.

What we found is that simply tagging a plant and measuring it weekly, over the course of a growing season, has a profound implication on the size of the plant. At the end, they tend to be smaller.

What we wanted to do with our defensemen recruits was add some size and reach to protect the front of our net. And we also wanted to add some offensive punch. All three defensemen are offensive-minded. One of the reasons we were average offensively last year was because we were seventh in the league in offensive production from our defensemen.

Here they are with similar size stores to Bed, Bath & Beyond. They're in similar kinds of locations. And they're in similar kinds of demographics,

Her size and the fact she is a presence in the post, that's the biggest thing. Playing her before, we have some experience, knowing when to double when she comes into the paint. She is a great player, and we will have to focus on her.

He's 6-10 and growing. He's got size 18 shoes. He's lean, but he has wide shoulders. He can get bigger and he has good basketball sense.

We've doubled our size of accessories. There's not another place in Southern Illinois that carries all the accessories we do.

We've found out that Seth is quite the mismatch. Ubly's defensive backs don't have the size that Seth has. Seth is 6-foot-3, he can jump, and he can run. That's a pretty good combination.

We're not worried about the size meeting the needs now and well into the future.

We're obviously very happy to be able announce a second increase in our purses at this meet. Despite a couple of weeks of inclement weather which really impacted our turf program, horsemen have continued to support the entry box, which has enabled us to maintain our field size and this has continued to fuel increased handle.

We're of a size and can do enough different things that we're not putting all our bets on one specific area,

We're operating in primitive conditions. The size and scope is bigger than anything we've ever seen.

I loved going to the games and introducing my husband to Massillon football. He couldn't believe that a city that size had a stadium that big.

How we square that is the potential safety advantage of the added size and weight appears to be offset by the rollover risk.

He was our first big guy off the bench and he played consistently. He gave us good size and strength, and we look for more of that from him down the line.

I actually cannot stand a room without a view - I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.

We may have to use different people. It's a tough match-up for us because of his size and talent. He's a tough match-up for any team. He's great in transition. He can also hit 15- and 18-foot pull-ups and post you. He's just a tough cover at the three.

We met one objective. We scored more than 35 points. We knew we were going to have a tough night with their size and skill and athletes but we're progressing. We're getting a little better each game.

He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it wasn't all that noticeable.

Have you looked around lately? There are more muffin-top, camel-toe, wedgie-assed women on the street than hotdog stands! These women need to take a hard look in the mirror, and be honest with themselves. No one knows what size is labeled on the inside of your clothes. Please, for the love of God, buy the bigger size, because we're all a bit tired of looking at the outline of your labia!

He carries more size and more speed than anybody. He has that combination. As far as his size, he can run you over. His speed, his agility, his ability to make people miss. I think the combination he carries is far above anybody else.

He certainly didn't look out of place at linebacker. In fact, I thought he was arguably the best linebacker out there. Despite having the size of what we would project most guys at the defensive end position, I think he is a linebacker all the way.

He was getting me early. I think a lot of the guys he's gone up against have been his size or shorter, so I think it was a different look for him.

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We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Grant Thornton, which has a strong national reputation and a regional structure and capability that's well suited for a public company of our size and needs.

We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationshipwith Grant Thornton, which has a strong national reputation and aregional structure and capability that's well suited for a publiccompany of our size and needs.

He can play center or guard. We'll be doing some pull schemes in our offense, so it's important that our guards can run. It's also important that your center has good feet to slip the nose guard and get to the second level and block the linebackers. There are some things with the guard and center where power and size aren't as important as speed and athleticism.

He can play either side. He was a starter all his years at Georgia. When you see him, you will see he has a little size to him.

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the annual report or quarterly report has to be the size of the New York City phone book, that's life, ... But the extent to which in order to help my investors feel better, they need to know more things and different things and see it in a different way - I'm always open to that.

If the General Assembly is going to pass it, it's our job to implement it. We've tried to increase the size of the plates and make them as easy as possible for law enforcement to read.

He has a nice live fastball. He is such a strong young man that he uses his size to dominate with the fastball. He is working on a change up and he has a good over the top curveball. He has got three good pitches going into the spring.

He had outstanding size with good movement skills. We believe his best football is ahead of him and he has a tremendous future.

He has great size and quick feet and he is also a very powerful blocker, ... He also plays every down hard. His work ethic is also tremendous. That is what makes the good ones into great ones.

He is being compared to Eric Steinbach. In 35 years, I've never had a kid who was recruited so much. He has size and character and athletic ability.

He was determined to make players pay the price. He used his size extremely well. We look for that type of leadership from him. ... It's developing into a little bit of a war, which is OK with our team.

He was a pioneer in a lot of ways. His punching power for his size was phenomenal.

He's got unbelievable vision on the ice. He reads the play so well and he's so hard to knock off the puck. He's got legs like tree trunks. For his size he's very strong.

He has a wonderful upside because of his size and his athletic ability. He's a basketball player. He's an athlete. He's just been a big part of our progress. He took on a leadership role.

He has not played much quarterback. I think the best thing is he throws pretty well and is a very accurate passer. He has good size and athletic ability.

He was the first person I met in pro ball because we both wore a size 14 shoe. He had interesting comments on exactly how far to stand away from the plate. He introduced me to the importance of being prepared for everything that you do. I took that in, on calling games and accepting responsibilities as a catcher.

His work habits and his drive to play the game are special, ... People talk about him all the time, about his size and his arm strength. Then you see the plays he makes. It's amazing.

Going in we wanted to solidify each position on our team. We feel like we have done that with these guys. We added athletic ability, talent and size - areas we needed to address. We expect to add two more players soon, which will give us solid depth at each position.

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

He's got the size and it looks like he has the tools. He just has to be consistent and learn all of his assignments.