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Our game plan tonight was to attack more than hold the ball and slow the tempo. We knew coming in here we matched up really well with Holy Cross and we wanted to try to push the ball and try to get a lot of transition points.

Our goal is to give these people a safe, comfortable place to rebuild their lives until they can go home to a rebuilt Gulf Coast. We had everything in place ready to accept our brothers and sisters from the south, ... State and local agencies, businesses, nonprofit organizations, health and human service organizations, and volunteer citizens have worked tirelessly to provide a comfortable setting for these citizens, and if necessary, transition them into transitional housing in our state.

Our goal is to ensure a smooth transition to the next commissioner, who will build upon the tremendous legacy commissioner Tagliabue will leave behind at the end of his tenure. This will be a collaborative effort, involving all the owners, and our work will be extensive and thorough.

Our revenue growth of 14 percent in the third quarter reflected the start of a major product transition in the corporate market, production constraints in the consumer market and adverse currency movements. Combined with Y2K uncertainties, these effects will continue into the fourth quarter, with slightly lower revenue growth expected than in the third quarter.

I think I'm most excited about traveling and shooting and spending time in L.A. I have a great talent agency there and, you know, working with my acting coach and really putting in the time and effort to transition into the acting.

I was trying to get back in transition and my body was going one way, my feet weren't going the same way. I'm all right.

It evolved that any child we could take out of institutionalized care, while waiting for adoption, could transition into their families so much more easily when they had one-on-one care.

I think he's capable of governing and giving a smooth transition over to the next governor,

I think he's going to be able to be better with these changes. Where he probably has an edge is with his speed. So if transition means you can go to the far blue line very quickly, there's probably very few people in the league that can get there as fast as him.

It doesn't matter whether funding comes from a dedicated budget or from R&D. The trend is to remove funding from commercial ties to better comply with new industry trends. Some companies still rely on marketing or commercial ops for funding, but transition takes awhile, especially with larger companies.

It doesn't surprise me that this conflict is coming to a head, given the old-boy mentality that still pervades over there. They are still in a bit of a honeymoon period. Everybody knows the transition from a clubby atmosphere to being a public company isn't going to be easy. I think people are willing to cut them some slack for a little while, but that's not going to last for long.

It feels pretty good to be able to know that I have made the transition into college and that I can contribute to the team.

Keegan Herring has been outstanding, but he is making the jump from high school football to the largest stage in college. I just think it is much better for us to have Randy help transition Keegan in as well.

I think the key for us is we finally started moving in our defense better, and adjusting and having quicker feet. And being able to contest every shot....We did that. We boarded and then we were able to run and get transition baskets.

I think it's really important in any kind of business transition that the person who's the owner drills down as deep as he can.

I think it started with our defense and getting open shots. We shared the ball well and when you start off well in transition the half-court becomes easier.

I think it's that we got a chance to practice a few days, give ourselves a chance to focus on how we want to get our shots and where we want them to come from. I think we're doing a better job of slowing down offensively when we don't have anything initially in transition and calling our sets and getting to the spots we want to get to. At least for the most part we're not forcing Baron or Jason or somebody to make a play against the shot clock every time.

I think it's obviously a little transition time for me. Going from in the past playing every day to really figuring out how to stay sharp. And timing is the biggest thing. I'm going a few weeks without at-bats, but I certainly feel the last few days better with my work and what I've accomplished there. So we'll see.

It has been a good year for many Denver merger and acquisition professionals. Many private equity firms have made and exited good investments, and are having success raising their next funds, while investment bankers are helping broker many deals. It's a hot and competitive market right now. Additionally, the first baby boomers turned age 60 in 2005. We are beginning the early stages of what is projected to be the greatest wave of business transition in U.S. history over the next decade.

It has been a tough campaign, but once again Nigerians have proved themselves and turned out in numbers for this historic day, at least in my constituency, ... We are hopeful the transition to democracy will be smooth, and with the rest of the world watching, Nigeria will once again regain its former glory.

I thought our transition game was really good tonight especially in the fourth quarter. Our guards did a really nice job of pushing the basketball up the floor and we are lucky enough to have big guys who run the floor as well as ours do.

I think we did a good job of going inside and out, and we just made a few more. Once you start making them, it's contagious. When more people are making them, people get in better rhythms. We got transition offense in the second half, which we didn't get in the first half, and I think that got us going for the 3.

I think we did a good job rebounding and pushing up the floor. We got some easy hoops in transition and we did a good job defensively.

I think we've been playing good defense. I think our team is starting to come around ... but we still have a lot of work to do. We've got to slow them (the Red Raiders) down and take away their two main scorers. We've got to get our transition game going and run our half court offense better.

I think we've got the transition set up pretty seamless. Obviously, weather plays a role in the painting of the field, but that's something we can't control.

I thought we got out to a good start, had the transition game going pretty well. Everybody played well, everybody had about equal playing time, so our depth made the difference in the game.

I thought we played great team defense for about three quarters. We were able to transition our offense off our defense and that made a difference. The girls know that they control their own destiny. If we keep winning, we'll have a shot at making it to district.

I thought we did fairly well on defense and played a strong transition game. They have some tough girls and we did a good job shutting them down.

It almost has the feeling of going through two-a-days in training came, so it hasn't been a hard transition at all.

I think it's a credit to the players themselves. And I think (coach) Scott Gordon does a terrific job with the team in Providence. We play similar ways, so from a tactical standpoint there's not a lot of difference. I think all of those things kind of make the transition a little more seamless.

I think it's good news. He's from the area and he's worked very hard with the transition in that court, ... I don't see any problem in confirming him.

I think it's going to be an easy transition for me.

I thought we ran a little. I thought we got out in transition pretty well. I'd like to see us do more of that. That's when we're at our best.

I wasn't really aware that the blues was making the transition from acoustic to electric then, but that doesn't mean it didn't have any effect on what I was doing at the time.

We had open shots and we didn't make the shots that we made in the first half. They got in transition and we had some turnovers.

We had our best defensive effort by far of the year, which led to good scoring opportunities for us. Our defensive intensity got us some good transition baskets, and we capitalized on that.

We have the right team for the job at hand and it is time for me to allow them to grow even further and transition into the new roles that await them. It is because of these individuals, and the people they lead, that I leave Ford with confidence in the company's future.

The quality of junior golf is such that players can step up and make the transition to the college game much quicker than ever before,

We'll make some decisions as we go. This is a transition year, and we want to maintain flexibility because we're unsure how teams are going to use it.

Uniforms will be changing just slightly, but it'll be basically the same transition as though the TSA were working at the checkpoint at this point, and you won't notice anything.

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our existing and future customers. We continue to expand and upgrade our network so the solutions we provide our customers exceed their demands today and can help them transition into the future.

We are in an exciting time because we are in the transition phase from planning and design to actually having it on the ground.

We are in a transition period right now. There is still some snow on the ground, but some areas have been completely melted for a while. Even though it has been chilly, a fire can spread because of the lack of moisture.

We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership

We didn't block out, and we didn't rebound. Not only did we shoot too many threes, but we took them too quickly. We knew going in that we couldn't play at their pace, but we got caught up in their transition game and that hurt us.

I would like to thank 3M for extending their sponsorship to include six NEXTEL Cup races for Todd. He has exceeded my expectations in the Busch Series so far this year and we are going to do everything we can to make his transition to NEXTEL Cup as smooth as possible. Having him compete in six races later this year will certainly help advance his learning curve.

We have a motto this year that says, 'Katrina crushed our school, but not our spirit' and we've tried to live by that. The toughest part is that most of my team is living in FEMA trailers. That's been a huge transition for them. And then we've not only lost key players, but friends.

With the transition game we had going, I realized it could be over real quick.

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.

We need to improve on our transition defense in preparation for Globe and Coolidge. They are both really quick teams.

I was really brought in ... to do a certain piece of this turnaround. This is a very different transition than has happened in the past.

I was pretty miserable where I was at. It was a nice change of pace (coming to Bozeman). I had a great host family that I lived with, and they made the transition really easy for me.

That's to make the transition as easy as possible. We're gearing our park toward progression.

We jumped on Washington with pressure and our pressure was the difference early. We got a lot of transition buckets early and that put it away early.

We jumped out early. We went to a faster lineup and it allowed us to score in transition against them. We pushed the tempo of the game and the girls really played well, especially on the road.

The 10-0 run put the game away for us. We got some transition opportunities and converted on them. It really ignited our play in the game.

That will help us (to) transition people out of the hospital and into the community.

I would love to be part of the team when we will play against the U.S., even though the date is a bit of a problem as it is right after Wimbledon and before Stanford. However, should we be playing on hard court, that Fed Cup tie would be an easy transition and a great preparation for the hard court summer.

We need to work on our communication on the court and our transition game.

We've been going through a transition phase for a few years. We have Europe trying to find more playing opportunities for its members, sanctioning tournaments here and there, picking up half of their playing opportunities for members. It raises as many questions as there are answers.

We got off to a pretty good start and I was impressed with our shooting percentage (58). We got a lot of easy baskets from our transition game.

We had to make sure that construction stayed on schedule. Our current plan is to use the month of June to slowly transition freight operations to Louisville and other facilities.

We had too many turnovers. They had too many easy baskets in transition and that tore us apart.

We haven't done any speed work yet, so the next couple weeks, we'll transition into speed work. The hope is that with the strong foundation their peak will be even higher. We want to keep the kids healthy.

We know they like the flanks and like to serve it in and that Love can create on his own. We were worried about him being free, especially in the 18-yard-box. They basically scored on what we thought they would. It was a transition play.

We have a tendency to get helter-skelter when we start our transition game. I think we did a better job of keeping the floor spread in the second half and not committing as many turnovers.

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Microsoft's vulnerability to the PC market reaffirms our belief that Microsoft's continued success depends on its ability to transition itself from a desktop software company to an enterprise solution vendor.

We can score from the inside, the outside, in transition or in the half court. Then we can play some lock-down defense too. I am just really proud right now.

When it's fully in place, it will make us stronger and more secure, ... There will inevitably be a time of learning who your new partners are, what the new rules and expectations are, and during that transition time, we may actually see some degree of lessened homeland security.

We were able to box out and get up the floor quickly. Transition baskets really helped us weather the storm whenever they put a run together.

We were able to defend at the highest level I've seen from this team. This game was decided with defense and our ability to take away their transition game.

We were able to get out in transition and get some quick baskets. I have always said missing shots can be contagious, but today making them was contagious.

We were able to get out in transition and share the ball extremely well.

While every quarter is important, we view AZO as a company in transition and would discount flat comps or sluggish gross margins as more a reflection of near term weather trends than a concern.

We went with a little different starting lineup and we were a little out of rhythm to start. We are usually a pretty quick-starting team. Once we got on a roll with our transition game the defense picked up a little bit, too. Everybody has a little more fun when the ball starts going in the basket.

We do not expect significant upside to our estimates. As we have said before, we believe the company is going through an awkward transition from a hyper-growth, revenue momentum story to a long-term growth and earnings story. Despite its growing pains, we continue to believe long-term, patient investors will be rewarded.

We continue to see improvement in our execution across the globe. Most importantly, it brings to an end our transition year.

We have to rebound and stop their transition game. Their speed is incredible.

We were two points away from making it an even game. But in the second half we didn't get those stops and convert those points in transition like we did in the first half. That was the difference.

We were up four and they came right back and got a 3 in transition and got right back in it. This was a tough one.

Will did a great job tonight of really leading our break. He got a lot of defensive rebounds and just started going down the floor. ... Just great looks down the floor and if Will gets us out and going in transition like that, we're tough to beat.

We believe this means there is a significant opportunity to transition those who are buying music in physical formats to online music services, We also believe this transition will occur gradually. Today, online services may still be a secondary or tertiary source of music for most music consumers.

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia -- countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

We capitalized on a few rebound opportunities, fast breaks and transition buckets. It came at the right moment.

We certainly acknowledge there have been some problems. This is a $30-$40 billion program. It's a big transition for many people.

We've lost our transition game, we've got to get that back and the fast break. We're working on trying to get out and get down the floor a little bit better and work on our break. We have to find our spots and push it.

We had a lot of transition play, got some rebounds and created some turnovers.

We played very good team defense and that led to easy baskets in our transition game.

We estimate the assumption of these contracts by Tennessee Tire Recyclers and the pending closure of our Tennessee facility in September will relieve us of obligations that have negatively contributed to our operating losses over the past several years and will positively impact our overall corporate cash flow by over $150,000 per month. We anticipate the transition of assigning all contracts to be completed within 90 days and will redeploy all remaining Tennessee equipment to other locations during that timeframe.

We finally beat them when it mattered the most. Our defensive effort, we did a much better job in transition defense.

We got a whole lot of shots in transition there and got a good lead.

We really stepped up our defense in the second half. We were able to get some transition baskets which triggered our scoring and we maintained our intensity on defense.

That's their type of game. We're able to create some turnovers, get some loose balls and make some plays in transition and that's where we're at our best.

The process of the transition has gone very well for both companies. We've had intensive engineering meetings between the two companies, so we are thrilled to get these products out.

We have rooms that leak due to poor roof conditions. Also, take a look at class sizes. Thirty-plus full-grown seniors are stuck in a 600-square-foot room. At class transition times, students must cram into the small hallways. It is a safety issue.

We have so many guys returning. They have a better understanding of what needs to be done. You need that kind of leadership coming through the transition between offense and defense.

We have really been so successful because of the hard work and dedication the girls have put in. It was a difficult transition for the freshmen coming in, but the seniors really stepped up and got them used to high school level competition.

We declared a ceasefire nine months ago. It will hold until the end of 2005, after which there will be a transition period towards resistance.