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The underlying fundamentals of the housing market are solid and sales will stay historically strong, but they will trend modestly down from current peaks. Masked by the data are early signs that housing is starting to wind down from a boom and will transition into an expansion - in other words, a soft landing.

The emerging industry transition to 300 mm wafer processing, combined with continued growth of 200 mm applications, provides a tremendous opportunity for Applied Materials to supply technologies that will enable our customers to deliver on the promise of the Information Age,

The entrenched providers today will have to shut and write off that infrastructure as you have the transition from analog to digital. Current entrants in the market have a disconnect in their cost bases that new entrants don't have.

The idea of having a real transition period makes eminent sense, and most member states would tend to agree in theory. The problem is, can they settle on a candidate by the middle of the year? It would be a major triumph, but I'm not betting the farm on it.

The major impact of Sept. 11 on privatization is the disappearance of the Social Security surplus, ... Before the attacks, it was questionable whether we had enough money available to pay for the transition to privatization. This makes the issue even more difficult.

The main thing we wanted to do was to stop them in transition and stop their points in the paint. Last game they outscored us by like 30 in the paint and that was the game right there.

The market environment was tougher than we expected. The console transition came on sooner and harder than we expected.

Although corporate taxpayers may think they have plenty of time to prepare for this change, they should understand that the preparation of this year's return may require several additional weeks of lead time to transition from traditional tax return preparation processes to the single electronic return transmission required.

The difference in the second half was the activity that we rebounded the ball with. Everybody contributed defensively and led us to easy transition baskets.

The Chinese government has yet to finish its transition to a modern administrative system.

The cold weather this week has triggered a real transition in our fortunes,

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

The concept is to be able to help the Palestinian people, to be able to help the Palestinian Authority during this transition period.

Their biggest strength is their full-court defense. They're very athletic, and they like to get a lot of transition points. They're also a very well-coached, and they run their plays.

The kids are playing well. Our defense was real solid and we were controlling the boards. We were able to get our transition game going.

The idea is to have a transition that's a soft of a landing a possible ... We're not looking to penalize him for anything he has in place. But there has to be at some point a transition to get him where everybody else has to be. We will work in the coming months and years get him to that without crippling his organization.

The dancing is in patterns. Lines transition and fold into each other.

You could not have asked for a better start, but our missed opportunities on transition we couldn't convert, that was the killer." ()

Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

This has provided the people of Pakistan and the international community with a clear timetable for the transition to democracy in Pakistan by October 12, 2002.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

For a smooth transition to the more protective ozone standards, it is essential that state and local governments work to meet one standard without losing progress. Asking states to meet two standards at once defies common sense and risks confusion and backsliding.

For children, Lacy becomes a transition object. If a child has been in some trouble, they may feel that (being here) is part of the punitive process. When they see Lacy, it's disarming.

For me it was a very positive experience. It helped me make an easy transition here.

For anybody coming in, she was the best person to be beside. She's grounded in the community and in the workplace. She made my transition to anchor so much easier because she's more like a sister or mentor.

It's the way to do it. You can't have total transition unless you want to have total failure.

Its more physical, a lot of transition and one-on-one. I think the main thing is that guys are just more aggressive and physical.

It's always a shame when folks lose their jobs. But we've had some good announcements lately. Hopefully, most of these folks will be able to transition into new jobs.

It's a lot to ask a defensive coordinator to come in and turn everything around in one year. It's maybe a one- or two-year transition period. You can't expect a miracle overnight.

It is time to say good-bye to an initially intended transition to a more flexible collective bargaining system and a reduction of non-wage costs for employers.

It perhaps helped him transition into retired life.

It's not that I'm dragging my feet on this. I'm in transition of buying a house, selling a house, getting established in a new city, opening bank accounts.

It's not that surprising that Apple wasn't up to par because they went through the transition from Power PC (chips) to Intel.

It's an ongoing transition to become the defense we want to be. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

It's a philosophical transition we are dealing with.

I told them that we were going to switch everything. And if they score, we've got to get the ball back out in transition as quickly as they can and push it right on top of them. We got as good a look as we could probably get.

I told the guys this was our game to win and the only way they were not going to win was if they turned the ball over, did not box out and not convert free throws. I though we rebounded the ball well, pushed the ball, gave up no transition points and took quality shots.

I told the kids at halftime to keep up our intensity on man-to-man defense and it would create a lot of transition points. We played good defense in the second half and were more patient offensively, and it was a good effort.

It really is a tough track for us. The entries to the corner have really given me some problems. We just can't get our car into the corner right. The transition is pretty abrupt.

It represents the transition from water to land - the part of history that includes ourselves. When we talk about the fish's wrist, we're talking about the origin of parts of our own wrist.

It's a little bit difficult because they are in transition right now. They are learning how to do things. They are learning about our work ethic and pace of our practices.

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

It's a little transition time for me, going from playing every day to figuring out how to stay sharp. The first couple of weeks, you try to figure out what the best scenario is to try to do that. It's been good to find out some different things to stay sharp.

As previously noted, we view 2006 as a transition year. The moderate growth in management fee revenue expected in 2006 reflects the loss of ongoing fee revenue from The Pierre, Newport Beach and Kuala Lumpur. As we look beyond 2006, we expect all elements of our growth program to make a solid contribution to earnings, including strong fee improvements from existing hotels (in particular those completing renovation programs), increased fees from recently opened hotels as they stabilize and the continued addition of exciting new Four Seasons properties around the world.

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.

Each of those players bring skill and experience that should help us this season. We will count on them to give us an edge in play during transition play.

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

It's not an easy transition to make. You try to be as prepared as possible. It's a fine line. It's trial and error.

That's something that Coach was harping on (during the break) at practice. We didn't have a game for like 11 days, but those days at practice, that's all we were doing, just running and pushing the ball in transition and trying to get more points off transition.

That's our goal. Right now, we're a cover band 100 percent, but we're starting our transition into being an original band.

That's our strength. We didn't have many fast-break points that I can remember in the first half. We had to take advantage of our transition game. That's where we score a lot. Coach told us at halftime we have so much depth and we have to play hard enough to use it.

That's quite a lot of job candidates hitting the market. It depends on what the timing is going to be. If it is gradual, that would the transition easier.

It's nice that my family got to be part of it. I'm just happy to be home and hope that there will be a smooth transition for everybody. It's been a different life for the last 14 months than we're used to.

That's one of the better, more complete games that we've played in a long time. It's the first time that Shaq, in a couple of weeks, has been running to the rim and we got him early in transition and that's what it was. We have to get back to that game.

That's one of the biggest differences with this team. We can get out in transition to hurt you.

As a whole, we are further along than we were last year. We want to continue that through the summer, making it an easier transition for next season.

There was a time of transition and adjustment. Now there's a seamless blending of those students.

This partial strike is a very smart move by the workers, as it places a great deal of pressure on the employer. Private bus lines, currently under transition to become fully under the public transportation sector, have no strike prohibitions attached to them.

This pivotal piece easily makes the transition from day to evening.

This places all the necessary ingredients for electronic information and commerce, from 'old' soup to 'new' nuts, into one centrally and aggressively managed enterprise. There is no excuse now for us not to be a dominant player as the world continues its transition towards interactive systems.

This population of kids who are really in transition with their parents are at a very critical time as common sense would tell you. For them to have any chance to succeed in school, they must have this component and aspect of their education that continues out of school. The out of school time for them is critically important.

There was a transition period going on at the time. The new ownership was in place, but parts of it were changing at the exact time Kenyon had to be dealt with.

There wasn't a lot transition for this team. I've taught and worked with most of the kids on our team and still do. The kids are kind of like family and it made it a very smooth transition.

The year 2006...is also the last transition year after China's World Trade Organization entry for the domestic banking sector. Doing good work this year in banking supervision has special and important meaning.

They feed on transition and they feed on emotion. We're at a crucial point of the season and to play a game like that...

They do a great job with their presses, their traps. They're extremely aggressive. They get out in transition probably better than anybody in the country, and they're really well-balanced.

They passed and set the ball extremely well. They're fast and they transition to the middle really well. And we've got a freshman and a sophomore blocking middle while they have two seniors. That made a big difference.

They made some more plays that we did. They are a scrappy team and their kids competed very hard. They got out in transition and made some buckets and got to the free-throw line.

They knocked down threes. That was the key to the game. We were bad in transition and they knocked down threes.

They had a couple of steals and easy baskets in transition and turned momentum in their favor.

They don't transition fast in defense, and we hope we can connect with Jennifer in the open court. They don't have a lot of depth, so we want to force them to defend her in the full court.

They are a well-coached team. Coach Eaves is a great coach and I really think he stressed clogging the neutral zone because he knew we had a good transition game. At the same time I think we still had our chances to win the game.

They get their hands on a lot of basketballs. They're going to get some steals and some transition buckets.

They got a lot of quick baskets out of their transition game.

They got a lot of threes in transition (last time) so we focused on that today. Our biggest thing was stopping the ball and not letting them penetrate and kick out for three's. We got a lot of stops on the defensive end and that created a lot of transition buckets for us.

They got fired up. They adjusted on the draw control and they got a couple transition goals. We were on our heels for a minute, and we didn't get back up there quick enough until the second half. They really took advantage of the last two minutes of the half.

They got some easy ones in transition and they played some good defense during that stretch. Our offense was a little bit stagnant.

There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You lose, and it's all your fault. I'm glad I'm on the good end of things. I could've been the sacrificial lamb.

It sets the stage for you to arrive at the campus. When you reach Neely and Petty it gives you that transition to campus and then you feel like you have arrived in the heart of campus.

There's a bigger transition period for a kicker. You're used to kicking off a tee in high school. You don't have the same rush. You don't get in as many pressure kicks. It takes maybe two years for a kicker to get everything underneath him. If you can get three solid years out of a kicker, I think that's a lot.

There is no time that'll be as precious for the transition to any new administration as these days and weeks ... a one-month delay now will be reflected in a six month to one year delay in getting things really started.

There isn't enough good news right now to really get people involved. Most professionals and individuals are just holding, looking for some clarity on the transition in Iraq, looking for some clarity on the presidential election, and, perhaps more importantly, looking for some clarity from the Fed on rate rises.

There's always a transition period. We've played pretty well for a while. Unfortunately we put ourselves in a bit of a hole earlier in the year and now we're just trying to play up to our capabilities and see where it leads us.

There seems to be a drop in performance at transition years, from fifth to sixth grade and eighth to ninth.

It was dirty with Reagan and Iran-Contra and Oliver North. George Bush the elder was a transition president. He didn't create a lot of waves. There wasn't a lot of personal hatred toward him - but if you think back, the personal animosity on the left was directed at Dan Quayle.

It wasn't the prettiest game we've played but this time of year, it's survival that matters. The thing that concerned me most is that they beat us at our own game a little bit. They created some things with turnovers and transition that we usually do.

It's a tough transition going from two championship seasons to a losing season, but it just shows we have a lot more to prove.

It's a transitional year. And we're going to be in transition for longer than a year.

It's a transition from playing to coaching, but I still get an opportunity to be around the guys and be able to impart wisdom, ... I could have tried it, but it's a good career move.

It's a transition from where we were last year as a team, and, with that, it unfortunately takes some time for a team that plays that way to find its form. Early in the season, you can make a couple of mistakes and lose games like this. We don't want to make anymore, that's for sure.

It's a transition in his mind, more than anything else. It's a matter of being aggressive and being in control, and he was in total control (Tuesday).

It's a transition market. I think (last week) indicated the willingness to look forward at the upside of the story. There isn't a lone voice expressing positive attitudes toward technology but this week indicated the ability of the market to look forward.

It's a transition period now. We're a constantly changing organism that is attempting to be a blessing to the community. The church is not pushing businesses out.

It's a transition zone that is compatible with two different things that are quite different from each other.

It was disturbing. We didn't want to lose. They played a good game, but we're just going to have to stop them in transition and cut down on turnovers.

It's just not like the transition from VCRs to DVD players, where consumers could slowly adopt the technology over time as the prices came down and the values improved. That's not happening here.