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Anecdotes, including purchasing manager surveys and regional and national Fed indices, do little to support the consensus view of a 210,000 gain. Moreover, the market has a tendency to overestimate November payrolls.

It would seem that retailers have had a tendency to push the envelope with regard to marketing their sales events.

You have to go into the job description before you start hiring. There's a tendency that people worry about 'who' rather than 'what' too quickly." ()

You get to the point where the stage is set, but we just turned the ball over at the wrong times. We held a guy or clipped a guy at the wrong time, and that's part of playing sports. When something like that happens, it has a tendency to turn ugly, and that's what it did.

You look at it like you're losing 1-0 or winning 1-0. I've had a tendency in the past when I'm up 8-0 to lose focus on a couple pitches. Before you know it, it's 8-5. If you think about you're winning or losing 1-0, it makes things so much better. You get people out.

While it's important to look for foods made without trans fat, that's certainly not the only value to pay attention to. Americans have a tendency to overreact over the latest buzz term in the nutrition world. The low-fat craze of the '70s and '80s is the classic example that threw America off balance.

With everyone being in a rush these days, the tendency is just to do a quick hand-off. But the more successful companies, the ones that are the happiest with the results, are those that take the time to fully assess where they are, do the due diligence internally and clean-up house before they hire the service providers.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

We had a tendency on the road to sit back and see what happens but tonight we did the little things right.

We've had a tendency to come out sluggish on Saturday. However, this weekend was completely different. We came out strong and played like we know how to play.

We've had a tendency to hit a couple of flat spots in the games against England and Italy, ... We've got away with it so far, but against a side like France we could be in trouble.

We've had a tendency to rush against a zone and that makes us have to get out and work that much harder on defense. When we're patient we can use our speed and our penetration to try and get some good looks on the inside.

To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most of my childhood terrified of them - horrid bland mushy things. It's only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother's cooking - she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum.

To me it felt like it was just because I know how we are -- we have a tendency that when teams make a run on us it's a big one. To me it seemed closer than it was, but that could just be me because I'm always nervous.

Bonds have a tendency to rise when banks and overseas investors buy a lot in the market. Their demand to buy on dips has not slowed down.

Adam is a good ballplayer. He can play ball if he keeps his cool and lets things come to him. We have a tendency to rush too much, and that causes turnovers. But when we let it come to us, we have a good team.

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

The tendency has been to picture him as a bumbling, incompetent drunkard ... who didn't even know how to commit suicide. It makes him appear anything but what I had always thought of him.

The tendency has been when an arrest is made for a bomb threat and given a sentence, it sends a message to copy cats.

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

I wanted to come out and show really what I was made of. Good players have a tendency to come back. I really wanted to help my team.

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

Northwest management has a tendency to misjudge the will of the pilots group.

Facing a team with this type of record, there is a tendency to underestimate that type of opponent. But they're a solid team that has had a couple bad breaks at inopportune times and can beat anyone.

extremely dangerous, with the tendency to deteriorate further.

When mining is down, we've seen the cycles that forestry has a tendency to be stable. It's rare that both are down. So we try to hedge our bets to be two companies in one by servicing those two diverse markets.

Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both.

Sometimes, I think, when you're fired, you have a tendency to maybe question things that you do. For me, the firing almost entrenched me more in believing that philosophically, from a coaching standpoint, that this was the right way of going about doing it.

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Colgate has shot the ball really well at times this season. Thankfully, they haven't shot the lights out against us, but their tendency to get hot worries me.

Coach wants me to focus more on staying down low. I have a tendency to drift out, but we need rebounds and it's my job to get them.

I've been a fan of his management skills for some time. I have a tendency to get a little emotional at times, but Jeff is always under control when the pressure is on.

A smaller pack that's staying in line, you have a tendency to have cleaner air, more like conditions are when you're running by yourself,

You're seeing some back and forth movement because after three straight up days, there's a strong tendency to take profits. But any prolonged labor disruption in Nigeria would be devastating.

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

Americans are less secure. There's an uneasiness in the air and a tendency to look over one's shoulder more often.

Although the tendency in recent months toward stabilization in the East Asian economies is encouraging, clearly those economies are not out of the woods, as recent events attest,

Our tendency has often been to say 'Well let's let the government worry about that', 'Phone a politician', 'Send a politician a letter'. I think people have to step up and take some ownership of these problems that includes crime but not limited to crime.

Roosters have a tendency to disturb the neighborhood when they start doing their crowing.

Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.

Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.

Especially with the numbers actually coming out, the tendency for this market has been to get out of those stocks reporting earnings a day or two before the report because after they report, it's going to be downhill.

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

The only thing you can do is look historically. The next year tends not to be as high. Every cycle is different. The tendency is that orders will be somewhat lower than this year.

This will have the tendency to authorize police to make decisions based on ethnicity.

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

The way this animal was built, it must have been swimming. Swimming animals have a tendency to be dark on top and light on the bottom.

This animal is not interested in having lots of close contact with people. It has a tendency to ignore us and hope we ignore it.

Younger teams have a tendency to have a few more problems on the road.

This is a really tricky time for investors, because there is such a strong seasonal tendency for markets to struggle.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I'm not asking them to be Karl Malone, but I think I have a right to hold players accountable. If I do that, then I'm being a little bit too harsh on them at times. But we have a tendency to think that no work is the best policy and that will cause you a great deal of trouble.

In 2001, our overseas sales overtook domestic sales. Today, they account for 53 percent of our total. I think this tendency will continue.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

I'm afraid there is a tendency today that a lot of the guys take the game too seriously. That's why the Champions Tour is so great. We're all out here just having a great time.

In order to reduce the impact of this disease, it is essential that resistant bananas be developed, ... Chemical control is available but expensive and generally not available for poor farmers who depend on this crop. Moreover, the pathogen has a tendency to develop resistance or tolerance toward some types of fungicides.

In sports we have a tendency to overuse terms like courage and bravery and heroes, ... and then someone like Pat Tillman comes along and reminds us what those terms really mean.

In some of the early Internet infringement cases, there was some tendency to 'baby' consumers by assuming that Internet users are stupid and that domain names can easily mislead them away from the Web sites of trademark holders.

If you do fall once, the tendency is you have a fear of falling. Your body gets tense and you're really increasing your chances of falling by being more careful.

If you've had an injury and get a chance to be ambulatory, you have a tendency to want to get the most out of life,

If you fill your team with people that are used to winning, the tendency is that they will get the team to win, somehow, someway, eventually,

As January data are inflated by a growing tendency towards gift vouchers over Christmas, which are then turned into purchases afterwards, a return to normal in February is likely to show up in more subdued sales.

At every stage in the past three years, employment has disappointed relative to overall activity. It's a chronic issue, and there's been a tendency for economists to hope this will finally be the month when improvement occurs. But I have no reason to believe it will.

The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -

Stocks have a tendency toward a counter-seasonal rise in early January ... but the mild readings this time around make a further 2 to 3 million barrel build more likely than the 1.1 million barrel five-year average increase.

That greater tendency toward self-correction has made the cyclical stability of the economy less dependent on the actions of macroeconomic policy makers, whose responses often have come too late or have been misguided.

The airplane's out-of-trim condition became worse as the crew attempted to diagnose or correct the problem, ... The crew had difficulty controlling the airplane's tendency to pitch nose down. The airplane descended, but the crew was able to (stop) the descent.

The air was so fresh and nice and pure. (But) it was difficult to put on enough clothes to stay warm. No matter how many layers you had on, that wet air had a tendency to penetrate whatever you were wearing.

Not only are people spending more time, people have a tendency to purchase more things online, just because of the richer, more seamless experience,

Any time two competitors join forces, there is a tendency to stop competing -- a concept that looks good on paper but can be deadly in-market,

Any time two competitors join forces, there is a tendency to stop competing a concept that looks good on paper but can be deadly in-market,

This is just the tip of the iceberg. We now have a greater tendency to help owners fix things instead of force compliance.

It's natural. We're in a very different situation than a lot of teams. A lot of teams, the reason they play their bench is because they don't like their fourth and fifth guys that much. I like my fourth and fifth guys. That's why our bench doesn't get the minutes some of the other benches get. You have a tendency to go to a comfort level.

Conditioning is a big thing. We have this tendency to play 30 minutes of a 36 minute game. ... Half of it is conditioning, but then half of it is just the mental intensity to play the entire game.

It's ridiculous. It's just people playing people. That's all. Basically it's just common sense things, but over the years I think we have a tendency to forget them.

At the old site, there were always pilots who felt nervous. There was a tendency to just land the balloon. Now, they'll see all these open fields around them, and hopefully, they'll feel reassured and fly a little longer.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

The lapse we suffered was from our attitude. We have a tendency to fall apart when we're behind, but today we were resilient. We showed a lot of heart coming back against a good team.

The costumes have a tendency to appear on the screen in a very short amount of time. It's very hard to see the detail and the thousands of hours of work that go into each (one),

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

It's called, padding your pocket. You bring all of this equipment down here, you bring all of this equipment to a site and set up, the tendency is to get as much material from this site as possible without having to move to another site and set up somewhere else.

It was good to get that early lead and not let them back in the game. We have had the tendency to not close out some opponents this year once we get ahead. Hopefully the girls have learned to finish every game strong.

It will be a war between the desire for change and someone completely new and different, and the tendency to pick a stable political figure who won't embarrass the district, again.

In past years we as a team had a tendency to play down to our opponent at times and that wasn't the case here today.

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

In the long run, one of the great threats to this country is its tendency to dissolve along the lines of race, ethnicity and language,

Investors have an innate tendency to allocate money to sectors that make money, and the strong commodity bull market still has some way to run.

Because the game was close, our weaknesses got magnified. We had the same weaknesses against Kentucky, but when you win by 17 ... you have a tendency to look past all the mistakes and focus on all the exciting plays.

Certainly you have to make adjustments on the offensive end. When you have a player like that in the fourth quarter, you have a tendency to look for him and realize he has that ability to take over a game. On the defensive end, he creates some turnovers for us and easy baskets. And we haven't gotten as many with him out of the lineup.

Honestly, I have a tendency not to enjoy my work, and the one thing that I got from Samuel Jackson is ... he wants me to enjoy it, ... He tells me that all the time, 'Loosen up a little bit.' But the thing is, me coming from Mississippi, I understand these opportunities are not readily available to my people. So I have to make sure that everything that I do, I do it to the best of my ability because it's a reflection of more than just me. When people look at David Banner they see Mississippi, so I have to make sure that it's good. And you have to understand my acting debut was with Samuel L. Jackson, so imagine that flavor. If you suck and he is as good as he is, he's going to show you how bad you suck in front of the whole world.

I probably should have stepped down a little earlier. I felt it. Our guys' minds were just gone. What you have to understand is that they care about me, and I care about them, and sometimes when you try to play to keep someone's job, you have a tendency not to do anything. Right now, they're just playing basketball. Three weeks ago, this game probably would be a 20-point (loss). The game at Purdue (a 70-59 Indiana victory) would have been a 10-15 point loss. Right now, we're playing with peace of mind.

I probably should have stepped down a little earlier. Our guys' minds were just gone because what you have to understand is they care about me ... Sometimes when you're playing to try and keep someone's job, you have a tendency not to do anything.

He's one of those guys who has a tendency to sulk a little bit,

He's just about everything that you want. He's 6-foot-7 and has tremendous body control. He has three present pitches and a tremendous feel for pitching. He's aggressive and isn't afraid of contact. Young pitchers have a tendency to want to strike everyone out, but he just wants to get them out.

He's really pushed the ball. Last year he had a tendency to go more east and west. This year he's going vertical.