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Soil gets saturated and loses it's structure and when the wind gusts come; basically, the soil can't hold up the tree.

The primary advantage of controlling the speed of the dough divider according to the dough type or size is that the pressure on the dough is reduced. The more gentle dough handling minimizes the amount of damage done to the dough cell structure and ultimately results in improved product quality.

The primary intake structure only has one gate that's functional. Once the dam is complete, it will have three.

We won't be better because Boomer's gone, but it has forced us to structure some things differently, and I think that will prove good for us.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Greenspan has to give reassurance that, if things deteriorate, the Fed is willing to act. But the underlying structure of the economy seems pretty good.

I'd be even more worried if I belonged to DC 37 or another public-employee union - the idea that you could actually make a pretty radical change in the structure of pension benefits so that the next generations of workers will have inferior benefits.

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.

fundamental military and social and police structure intact.

FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria,

Further, the board is concerned that Comcast's multi-tier voting structure would put AT&T shareowners at a disadvantage in matters of corporate governance,

From our perspective, we're probably not going to change the structure of our plan, but we're probably going to have to have more resources to carry it out.

From my perspective, I'm not sure why a new organizational structure is needed to accomplish that.

I am drawn to projects that can become unique gems. I see good bone structure here.

If we wish to preserve the diversity of natural ecosystem processes, we must preserve the larger ecosystems where the longest food chains are found, ... As ecosystem size decreases (e.g., through the fragmentation of forest patches), we may see the loss of large, often rare, top predators. Those top predators that can survive in smaller ecosystems will likely feed lower in the food chain, which may alter the feeding relations and community structure through out the food web.

I don't think it's a deal killer if we don't get it. It just makes it that much more difficult to structure a deal.

GM is the most vertically integrated auto manufacturer in the world, and some people blame that, or attribute at least part of the blame of GM's cost structure to its internal components operation.

GM's opportunity for shrinking its cost structure appears to be narrowing,

Given the turnaround plan that we announced last month and my new role in the company, it was imperative that we have a management team structure that ensures efficiency, accountability and faster decision making.

If all you're doing is changing the financial structure of the company, you can count on one of two things: being back in Chapter 11 or being gone.

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.

From the softer ad market and the organizational changes in 2005, Fisher is poised in 2006 to capitalize on an attractive business structure going forward as well as other opportunities such as the recent Seattle Super Bowl (that pitted the Seahawks versus the Pittsburgh Steelers) carried on our Seattle and Portland ABC affiliates.

I don't think people are looking at him from an ideological perspective, ... They're just energized by someone who's going to bring new people into the party structure and help to activate and energize the party.

Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms and strengthen our financial structure. As a result, our financial regulatory structure and regime have been very much strengthened.

I believe there is great value for Time Warner if it were broken into parts, ... get away from the huge cost structure and excessive layers of management at the top, both literally at the Time Warner Center, and figuratively.

But we have an opportunity with the new board and a new structure to take this event to the next level. But that depends on where we fall on the schedule.

But we have made sure that we will have the support structure in place so we could add an upper balcony in the future, making capacity go as high as 80,000 to 85,000 in the future.

CC means 'condemned by the city'. If a structure is a threat to public safety or public health, it's going to have to come down. If you seen the CC in front of the sidewalk at your house, there's no reason to fear. We're not going to come down tomorrow and tear your house down. That's just another step in the process.

Basically, we're going to either have a hollow force or a truncated force structure -- the message here is that we couldn't really afford Iraq and our current military. If Boeing and Lockheed Martin aren't thinking like that in public, they are in private.

Based on the direction of the board, I will examine and adjust the pricing structure of all of our services. Once all those changes are taken in aggregate, the increase in the overall rates charged by the hospital will likely be somewhere between 15 and 16 percent.

Because they (NASA) had abandoned the military style of command and gone to a corporate style, they lost the ability to have clear communication. It (Challenger disaster) is a great lesson in organizational structure and how to achieve high-risk goals.

Basically it was a structure that we had to have in order to accommodate all we were trying to accomplish with this deal.

To construct something as complicated as our bodies, we turn on different genes in muscles, skin, and so on to structure them.

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

Having someone close within the family structure and friendship structure that they can look up to can make a difference.

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

What I?m hoping is that there will be enough people there with enthusiasm for this to decide to develop some kind of structure and set up an executive committee, drive the thing, and set up the next meeting.

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

We've found that the growth of actin is dependent on its loading history -- not just on the load it feels at one moment, as we previously thought. This means the structure of a cell has some 'memory' of its physical interactions.

We're pleased to implement this new, single pricing policy to better serve all laboratory clients. We are making this important change to our pricing structure so it more accurately reflects our commitment to treat all our customers in a fair and consistent manner.

I always feel that with a president, an owner - it depends on the structure of the club and the country - the players generally like to see him.

Hunters in this stage are always learning new techniques and improving their skills in an effort to become better hunters. They tend to be more focused on one targeted species and spend countless hours in the field. They are usually more interested in applying management and harvest techniques, such as intensive fertilization of forage crops or limiting the buck harvest in a deer herd to improve age structure and antler production.

He was not responsible to the structure of our academic program. I think this should take care of it. He dug himself a hole in the first semester, and I expect a sense of urgency we haven't seen.

We may change the number of points available, the evaluation and so on. But the structure is OK, it works. It doesn't mean we cannot improve. Like a Renault or Ferrari keep improving their cars, we will do that too.

We may want to go ahead and structure an organization for revitalization and transformation work, so that people know what is being done and can contribute if they'd like.

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.

If the tax structure does not change, we'll clearly have to do something else.

He had to learn how to be a selfless player. He had no structure in the past, so he was pretty raw. He went through some growing pains, but he's just getting better and better now.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

Going forward and based on current operating realities, we will take aggressive steps to reshape the company's cost structure and to best position the company for the future.

There is an increasing belief that we need to understand the structure better,

Under current economic conditions, we have to position ourselves on world markets and thanks to a structure of this sort we could achieve a competitive position.

There is a law about the banners themselves and then there is the part about a permanent structure sign being erected without approval, ... I received a complaint from somebody who didn't like looking at them.

there is a law on banners. ... Then there is the part about permanent structure signs without approval.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

We feel it is impossible to present a Buy recommendation on a stock which is capable of being declared insolvent within two months and for which we have no clarity on the prospective group structure and strategy.

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

We can learn about the pattern of evolution by looking at the structure of genes and comparing the structure of proteins.

He is a good athlete. He is the bell cow of their defense. They structure their defense around him. He makes the calls and he runs the alleys well. He keeps everybody aligned so that they do not get out of position. He is a dangerous football player.

He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).

The people here are not going to change. The structure isn't going to change.

My smaller cabinet and more streamlined cabinet structure are designed for work -- not for show.

My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place.

Let me suggest something. What if you move away from having rates tied to whether it's a small business, large business, or residence - what if we structure entirely based on consumption?

Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.

Spring cleaning doesn't have to be a dreaded list of chores. It can be a rewarding experience that helps provide some structure and organization in your life.

Surveillance video is the largest mass of unstructured data out there, but if you bring structure to it, you can build new capabilities. There are three incidents a decade where you can afford to do that (get a large number of agents to watch).

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Our management team remained focused and active in early 2006. We have taken several actions since year end that will greatly accelerate our capital structure improvement and provide a stronger platform for future growth.

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Our nation will have the capacity to build this critical component of our national security structure for the 21st century. It was a great risk in my view to have a diminished number of these vessels if we didn't have this base.

I support the new structure and I think it is the best way forward for England. I was as disappointed as anyone with our Six Nations performance and I am confident that these changes will help us move on.

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

I think Bristol-Myers is an excellent takeover candidate. It has a bloated cost structure and some really good mid- to late-stage products.

I think that as a director you have to at the very least shape the script; structure it. Otherwise you're not really doing your job.

I think that as I've asked the stock exchange several months ago, they're taking a good, hard look at the way their board is organized, I hope the way the compensation structure is organized, ... We'll see what they come up with.

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

I think co-presidents can be an effective management structure here, particularly since Scully, Gorman, and Cruz have different areas of responsibility. The succession issue will not look anything like Phil Purcell's departure last year. Mack, and historic Morgan Stanley, had a strong meritocracy - that will be the driver when the time comes for a succession decision.

Our intent with this report is to provide policymakers and program managers a ready reference of programs worthy of emulation, These programs provide models of how best to structure and provide programs that can help keep energy costs affordable for low-income households.

Our initial reaction is to add structure to unstructured information. That is the wrong way of looking at the problem.

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.

Management is a clear leader in anticipating how to manage the cost structure during difficult conditions.

I think they're looking to align themselves with a much bigger player and I think that means someone tucking in Imax within a bigger corporate structure that can then help them ... attain some of these goals.

I think the story is going to be: revenues are fine, margins are not great, what do we do to make our cost structure work better? They haven't got a lot of options.

It is fair to say global Islamic jihad wouldn't exist without the Internet. Today, the structure of the Web is the structure of terrorist organizations. Without it, they would be reduced to local cells.

It is far easier to do it with other people's money, that's true. But we think we have the management structure that's strong enough to handle the growth at this time.

It damaged what is called the structure course. It's a base course, not the top layer.

It all builds . . . it goes beyond kindergarten, because when they are familiar with them, then we can expand the skills, cut the words apart from each other and put them together, learn sentence structure and beginning sounds.

I think, for the most part, people understand that we can't undercut the private sector, ... If anything, our price structure was a little low when Secretary Host got here.

It is good for Continental and good for the flight attendants. Continental got the cost structure it needs. That is what the company needs to make it.

I think the governor and I had an appreciation for a more coherent and organized communications structure than was employed by prior administrations,

It is much depending on how much evidence we can find by looking through photographs and maps. It is also important to try to maintain its original structure to represent its past.

It is an exciting time. Things are coming together and we have a good structure in the team and are playing the sort of rugby I would be happy to watch as a spectator.