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When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut.

There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still be in the play. On offense, there is more structure every down. On defense, you can play more on instinct and athleticism.

There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still be in the play. On offense, there is more structure every down. On defense, you can play more on instinct and athleticism.

We had a total of four structure fires that were of significant size, actual buildings that were caught on fire. And none of those were as the result of fireworks or grass fires.

This state has got to start living within its means. As soon as I talk to businesses, the first thing they ask me is about the tax structure in this state. Some of these legislators in Olympia have got to realize that taxing and spending is not going to bring prosperity.

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

This structure is a celebration of the thoroughbred horse. This is, we believe, by the time we fix it up a little bit, going to be the best facility in the world.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

We are going to achieve our goals by breaking down the existing silo walls and eliminating the highly decentralized structure we've maintained in the past,

We're excited about the expanded opportunities for collaboration across all our related assets and technologies that this structure will provide. Eastman has an 86-year legacy of customer service, operational performance and employees dedicated to excellence. By putting these leaders and organizations together in this new structure, we're building on those strengths and capabilities to help us achieve success in the future.

The overseas markets are more regulated and Chinese companies can benefit and learn to fine-tune corporate structure and governance. So listing overseas first and then coming back to list will also benefit the domestic stock market.

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

We are not agents of law enforcement, we are family consultants. Our goal is to face problems within the family structure to preclude outside intervention.

We would like the current structure torn down and use some of the old structure as part of the new one. This would save the community time and money.

We work out of a similar structure but all tinker about with it in different ways.

Western juniper has rapidly expanded into neighboring plant communities over the past 130 years. It has caused increased soil erosion, reduced forage production, altered wildlife habitat, changed plant communities and their structure and biodiversity.

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

The facts and the record illustrate that Microsoft desired to structure a business relationship with Netscape that would bring benefit to our mutual customers.

The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.

The fact that the house was already there was a critical component. It was a residential-looking house. The actual structure on the property that you see every day when you drive by is not going to change.

The crest is a very bizarre-looking structure. I actually had a chance to see the fossil last summer in China while they were working on it. It's remarkably well preserved. And it has this strangely open triangular structure that flares a little bit at the back. Very delicate.

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

What we're suggesting, and this remains to be tested by further work, that in men it isn't the size of the overall brain that is correlated with how well they do on all these mazes and three-dimensional perception tests, but it might be the structure, it might be the size or the anatomical microscopic structure of the region in the brain that is important for that kind of thinking.

What we've also got coming down the pike is digitalization of advertising and the video-on-demand channels. We've tried to structure it from the ground up so there are no surprises.

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

The deal in its current structure is not likely to go through, ... It's going to be restructured or Lycos shareholders will get a larger percentage of ownership and USA Networks shareholders get a smaller percentage of ownership.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

There are many possible directions to go from here. The current structure is folded only once. Like paper origami, it is possible to fold multiple times.

We're trying to get that kid who has all the gifts, but doesn't have the structure -- that home environment -- and give him the support, challenges, rigor and expectations that a boarding-school environment provides.

We're trying to understand the structure of a comet and also its composition. Once we hit it, we will open up surface areas that are exposed to the sunlight and see new subsurface ices for the first time.

We believe the approved structure will allow for a dock at this property while protecting important resources, including shellfish.

We lead a number of nationally recognized efforts in clinical research. This merger provides a more cost-effective, integrated structure for managing an important body of work. Working multi-regionally will strengthen our research capabilities and better leverage our network of scientific collaborators.

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

With a future emphasis on manufacturing technology, this structure may provide an important, low-cost and efficient means that will replace incandescent lighting in many different applications.

While Mike Snyder is focusing on strategic growth initiatives, John will provide the leadership needed to continue to improve the day-to-day customer experience and operational efficiencies in ADT North America. We believe this is the structure needed to build on the power of the ADT brand.

We like Quantum. The company's got $350 a share in cash and no debt, and it's generating a lot of cash flow. Storage has gone through a long period of decline, but we're seeing tremendous new demand coming in for storage every day. We think that pricing is going to improve, and these are companies with huge revenue bases where a nominal tick-up in the margin structure leads to tremendous profitability. We've got them earning over $4 (a share) over the next two years; the stock is at $12 right now.

We completed the first quarter with strong momentum, and we continue to improve our underlying cost structure in a difficult macro environment,

We don't believe the income trust structure is appropriate for all companies, ... We're concerned that many companies that need to grow, if they become an income trust, are going to find it difficult to access the capital markets at exactly the time where they need additional resources.

We have five year-classes instead of just a big '85 year-class. The management goal now is to preserve some of those older fish and get the age structure more healthy.

We will continue to explore ways to structure a combination that will make sense for the two companies and be acceptable to the commission,

We're returning to the structure we had at the beginning of the first term. All that changes is that the management of the day-to-day policy process will be put under Joel. Karl will keep the high-yield strategic role that he's always had.

We think that coming up on a regular scheduled basis ... has been very productive, ... It requires us ... to have a structure of policy that is coherent to the Congress.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

You have to be mindful it is not the individuals, it is the structure of the PSC that is failing the people of the Virgin Islands, ... I think the solution is for us as policymakers to bring legislation that will change the structure to make it work.

You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.

We were aware that we really had to change the cost structure of the company and change the investment profile and the focus to some degree and shed some assets in order to remain competitive, ... It is clear that just fixing our operational issues, although critical, is not sufficient.

We've tried to structure it so people spend the night, ... I heard that every room in Cache Valley is booked ... We've blacked out the entire valley for tonight.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.

Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Whether or not we are an investor in these stocks is irrelevant to how we feel the NYSE structure disadvantages certain investors by giving privileges to a certain few.

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

We both like to run and play up-tempo basketball. I probably have a little more structure to my offense than he does.

We found that out officially this morning, and it will cost us more to remove the debris. But there's more to that than just the cost for me. My father built that structure with his own hands (and operated it as a store for many years).

Union Square II will continue with the Class A and prestigious quality provided in Union Square I because we believe the market for this caliber structure is desired. Many of our current tenants are needing expansion space, and we are very pleased to be able to offer a top-quality building that will accommodate their needs.

United has made fundamental and sustainable improvements in our operations, cost structure and revenue strategy.

We're extremely proud of our entire sales team, and this new sales structure reflects our confidence in the team's abilities to maximize Take-Two's position in the video game industry. The individuals promoted today have played a leadership role in managing our sales initiatives for a number of years. We are further supporting our retail customer base to fit their needs and our growing business.

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

We're basically doing the same kind of thing. We're just doing different sides of the street. We plan to have one CEO. We're now in the process of figuring out if the merger is an actual physical merger with one entity or if it's just an understanding with one convenient structure that looks like an agency.

We are prepared to operate the airline with our new maintenance structure indefinitely.

We are seeing an evolving new international economy. We are in the process of learning how it works as we are doing it, ... Fortunately, the trauma that came out of the Russian default created so much risk aversion ... we probably have time to be deliberative in determining how the (international monetary) structure ought to be structured.

unprecedented attempt by Congress to structure the office of the president.

The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

We believe that the entire automotive value chain is just beginning a long restructuring process. Dana's bankruptcy is likely just the tip of the iceberg given the burdensome high fixed cost structure facing the domestic auto industry.

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

We're in the business of inspiring imaginative play. Creating a play structure that will build years of good memories to children, while maintaining its spot as a source of pride for parents is a dynamic Rainbow has enjoyed for twenty years.

With the School fire, you had so many structure ignite because they generally had continuous grasses right up to them. It wasn't that you had this big humongous fire. It was that at significant times during the fire, the intensity was high but the rates of spread were extremely high. And that's just very difficult to contain.

With these measures, we will create a structure that is geared to the changed conditions within our business, allowing short reaction timelines and improving overall efficiency,

We know from social research that traditional family structure is the best place that children can possibly be raised, So, yeah, I want my child to grow up in a Virginia that continues to put mom and dad as the model and holds them up and says, ultimately, what we want to see happen -- this is what we as a government want to protect and promote.

We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Coupled with weak PC demand, we believe Intel faces significant product transition risk to its next generation Pentium III microprocessor without a good cost structure in 2001.

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Each company will be able to adopt a capital structure and dividend policy that suits its business and strategic objectives and make acquisitions of appropriately valued assets.

Discussions related to structure and the due diligence process are moving forward. But we are not close to announcing a price or a structure of the deal.

Consolidation hasn't been big in New York State. We could be pioneers here. . . . Most of the government structure in New York State was set up when people traveled in horse and buggies. But in this day and age, we don't need two town halls when one can do the job more efficiently.

Customers transferring over to us would have to take one of our price plans, and those are different. It's unlikely that any carrier involved will offer the same price points and service plans WorldCom originally offered. WorldCom, after all, was competing with us. Basic structure might be the same, but some elements will be different.

We are as optimistic as ever about the accelerated adoption of broadband services by consumers, underlined by our strong year-end broadband subscriber growth, ... While content services remain a compelling element of our opportunity, it is critical that the cost structure of our media business correlate with the changing online media world. As we mature as a business and drive towards profitability, we continue to refine our core business.

Even though it has slowed things down a little, we wanted to make sure we got it right. We didn't want the chance of having to change the structure once building started.

Every city has something unique that something nice could work out. This is something that is not in town right now, this type of structure or this type of theme. I am really going for a Charleston look in a small town.

Every community should be ready to respond quickly. (The task force is) set up in a way that every community is set up to respond to their community. Because we've got the structure in place, we can respond quickly and we can be flexible in order to respond to what the needs are.

A trans fat is just a different chemical structure to a fat.

I sincerely feel that the present structure and lines of authority grant me what I need in regards to accomplishing my mission. The secretary and deputy secretary always have their door open to me, and we've had many of discussions.