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I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

We're a company in transition with new employees.

We didn't want to be too much in transition because we were already tired coming into the game. We had the tempo where we needed it to be.

This will perhaps be the fastest transition from ramp to store.

This promotion recognizes the considerable contribution Bruce has made to our company's transition to local search since joining us in the third quarter of 2005. He has put in place the structure needed to achieve our goal of being #1 in local search. Our team has a much tighter focus and the authority and accountability they need to achieve our objectives.

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated soft drinks and noncarbonated beverages.

This realignment marks the logical transition from the founder phase of CA to the next level of corporate activity, which is more focused on enhancing shareholder value,

We're looking to improve in every area and our focus this week has been looking at our game and preparing at both ends. Defensively, we want to make them try and score on seven defenders and get better in our transition game.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

We have made an important step in the transition from conflict to peace in Northern Ireland.

The rapid transition created by the network effect do not increase the digital divide.

The Ravens have decided not to franchise or transition Jamal Lewis. At the same time, we will still consider the possibility of talking with Jamal about a long-term contract with us. I've spoken with Jamal and his agent (Mitch Frankel) today to let them know.

We played well in the transition game and we were able to clear the ball 18 times. We did well passing and catching and we were much sharper in that area (yesterday) than we have been the previous two games. McCarthy has really picked up his game and Rooney obviously sets the tone on offense.

We played well in transition tonight. And did a good job forcing turnovers, too.

Wal-Mart highlights an economic transition from relying on consumers to relying on the private sector and capital spending. So, we're looking more at companies like Caterpillar rather than Wal-Mart.

Where do we all win? When we all make it through, and the bigger picture is all of us making it through. It's a transition from competition to cooperation.

We played well in spurts and I thought we hurt them with our transition game. We weren't rebounding well enough to get any breaks going in the first half. Rebounding is our Achilles' heel right now.

We are going through a difficult time with this transition but we are going to get there.

Tomorrow, I will be traveling to Crawford, Texas, with General Colin Powell and our wives to spend the day with Governor Bush and Laura Bush. This will give us an opportunity for an extended discussion on the transition between General Powell, myself and Governor Bush,

We agreed that we didn't want anything back. We wanted to get this money out to growers and quota holders, who desperately needed it making the transition to the new market.

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

We had some guys that were playing their first game. There's a transition period and we just have to get used to the new application. You have to think out there because as soon as you get your stick up or get your arm out you're going to be sitting in the (penalty) box. It's easy to talk about and it's easy to watch it on video but once you're on the ice, you only get a split second to think about it.

We play defense very well and transition well. The other thing we do well is taking the ball off opponent's feet. Our team doesn't shy away from that.

We played a patient game, and we were fortunate to get a couple at the end there. They spread you out, they play pretty offensive, those first two lines, which sometimes puts you on your heels, and I think instead of going after them in the transition game, we kept turning the puck over. But as the game went on, we adjusted to that.

We did what we had to do to beat Modesto, but there are still aspects of our game that we need to work on, such as serve-receive, passing, transition and defense. Overall, I'm pleased with the win and look forward to Taft.

We are accelerating the transition to digital technology with our broad digital copier line, including three new models introduced in just the last two months.

We are actually six months behind in hiring the transition team.

We are questioning whether those (U.S.) agencies doing reconstruction have plans to transition to the Iraqi government, and whether there are sufficient resources to support the Iraqis' ability to do what is now being done by the Americans.

We remain cautiously optimistic, as the industry continues along its path of recovery, that the company's position in leading-edge products will enable it to benefit from accelerating transition to advanced technologies.

We become a larger city, and we have already done a lot of work to try to make the transition as smooth as possible,

We began a significant period of transition in the first quarter of 2006 and we have made remarkable progress.

We want to help make the wafer-size transition as efficient and cost-effective as possible, by involving a wide range of industry players-especially the equipment supplier community.

We want to make sure Mary has the full benefit of Larry's creativity and strategic thinking. Our global marketing program is one of the critical drivers of our business. A seamless transition -- one that remains sharply focused on our customers -- is essential to our continued momentum.

We deflected a lot of passes and turned them into transition baskets.

We were able to make this transition with virtually zero downtime. No one at Kindred would have been aware of the change if they hadn't been told. We designed our new SANs to be extremely stable and reliable.

We were able to put more pressure on them. We were able to transition better because we had quicker guards in there. We attacked on the fast break and got 12 to 14 transition points.

We were able to score in transition in the second half. We weren't hitting shots in the first half. Mars struggled with our traps in the second half and we never let up.

We were a different team at the start of the season than we were at the end. At the beginning of the season we were a transition team that played good full-court defense. By the end of the season we were a half-court team.

We were a little flat early on but we battled through it and then got the transition- game going. Our transition game really got the ball from the defensive end to the offensive end well to get us some scoring opportunities.

We worked closely with state officials and our retailers to smoothly transition to ethanol ahead of the mandate.

We worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday (in Pittsburgh), and had three good days of work. I gave the team Sunday off as a transition day to take care of their families.

When a player makes that transition from high school to college, you never know what to expect from them.

The decision was a hard decision because we're fully aware of our heritage. But it's the final transition from a communications company to a financial services company.

We are more than happy to make the transition as easy as possible for these children and open our schools to them. They have already been through a traumatic experience with losing their homes and belongings. We not only want to meet their educational needs but also their physical needs.

When Yao shoots the ball more, we have a chance to be a more efficient offensive team. That's because for the most part he's going to shoot 50 percent and above, and get to the free-throw line, and close shots near the basket even missed are harder to translate into transition points, which allows you to get your defense set.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

The fact that the relationship holds across the transition between climatic regimes is a very strong indication of the important role of CO2 in climate regulation.

The critical thing they delivered on is what people, including analysts, were expecting. They have begun the Intel transition sooner rather than later.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.

We are the transition from one education to the other.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

We're trying to make this transition as seamless as possible. They know the students, and parents have confidence in them.

We knew those three were probably going to help us, but we're all a little surprised with how well they've made the transition to varsity basketball as freshmen. They've worked hard every day and have a great competitive desire. They've stepped up.

While other global media companies are struggling with transition and the search for strategic and structural reorientation, the cornerstone of our traditional strategy has once again proven its worth,

When John announced his plans to retire, we discussed how we would shift the duties. We plan to incorporate the deputy marshal and other qualified personnel from the fire districts to fill the gap during the transition of the department.

We picked up the tempo a little big and got some easy transition baskets. We also did a good job of getting ourselves to the free throw line.

Those will become official on May 1 but we're starting the transition now. They're great people and we certainly like to see our people advance. That leaves a few gaps that we need to fill.

Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

We were very pleased at how easy it was to migrate to AdManager, ... To manually transition all of our campaigns to the new system would have been a tedious and time-consuming task. Using Accipiter's XMLServer Module, it took us less than one week to successfully migrate our campaigns, saving us time, operational costs, and reducing the potential for human error.

We were working hard on defense, trapping and pressing, and that allowed us to get a lot of fast breaks. We didn't even have to go to a set offense in the first half, because our transition game was working good for us tonight.

We were worried about (Hillcrest's) transition game. They had the lead most of the game and spread us out.

We've worked very closely with all of the plans to ensure that they have appropriate transition policies.

We can't say to young people in this city that we support them and want to ensure their successful transition to adulthood and, on the other hand, undermine their ability to go to school and obtain employment by opening up confidential records.

We do have a lot of tough work ahead of us, ... how seamlessly we can transition through this adversity.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

We have gotten stuck half-way in our transition from the planned and command economy to a normal market economy. We have created...a hybrid of the two systems.

We can't allow someone else's style to take us out of what we want to do, and, first and foremost, that starts defensively. We've got to board to create easy opportunities for us in the transition game, and we've got to have poise in our half-court game. If we get rushed out of that, or we're making good decisions, then that has a tendency to affect everything else that we do.

We are clearly disappointed in our results for fiscal year 2000, ... We are looking at fiscal year 2001 as a transition and rebuilding year for Lucent.  Lucent remains a company with world-class products, people and knowledge of networks, and we are fortunate to compete in one of the world's leading growth markets.

We are clearly disappointed in our results for fiscal year 2000. We are looking at fiscal year 2001 as a transition and rebuilding year for Lucent. Lucent remains a company with world-class products, people and knowledge of networks, and we are fortunate to compete in one of the world's leading growth markets.

We've been running it (the sag press) all year. The key is to transition out of it and get quickly into our man coverage.

We voted for a statesman, and we got a manager, and not a bad manager. He has, at the same time, both built and torpedoed democracy. The weakening of the presidency has helped the transition because it made us realize that other (government) institutions didn't work.

We weren't able to execute down the stretch. We had every chance to win the game, but we made a couple of defensive mistakes at the end in transition and they got a couple of easy baskets.

We were settling for transition shots. Overall, I was not happy with our decisions. We needed to pull back and set up our offense.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

There has been a lot of interest in Software Assurance, but customers have said they want more time to plan and budget. Our response has been to extend the transition period.

There is a broad-based transition going on throughout the next five to ten years in the software industry. This shift, to run on the Internet, is only just beginning. There is a huge unfulfilled demand right now.

There is a concern out there that the problems may be a little bit deeper than a one time or a few weeks of sale issue. There may be some general concern about the longer-term growth potential of the company is in the face of a major transition to digital technology.

We would like to limit them to one shot on offense. We want to push the ball, get our transition game going. We need to do the little things, avoid turnovers, hit our free throws. I?m hoping we can stay close for the first eight minutes then hope for the best.

We will cross our fingers. That may mean a transition is on its way.

We will do everything in our power to make sure that transition is a comfortable one.

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

We saw a lot more full-court pressure than we were used to seeing in the Big East, a lot of different presses, a lot of different trapping defenses, just up-and-down transition part of the game. It's nice that we got to work on some of those things.

We saw an opportunity to streamline and consolidate our portfolio. We made a decision to transition from the hard-drive products to flash players at the beginning of this year.

We're trying our level best because the mayor believes in the work the shelters are doing to transition people into permanent housing. The more time they have to spend in a stable environment, the more successful they are.

We're trying to actually accelerate the transition of our narrowband customers who are inclined to leave for broadband anyway. Keeping them in our house and in our network and in our universe from an advertising perspective makes sense.

We're naming Scott to this position so that we have a transition plan when the time comes for Don to move on. Scott's got that rare mix of creative talent and business acumen, which makes him extremely well-suited to work with Don and follow his footsteps.

We just weren't getting stops. Part of our offense is the transition game, and every time we were just taking it (from) out of bounds, it kind of slows that. We got kind of stagnant when they have the momentum. They were feeling it. They hit a few tough shots.

We think this year, this wonderful year, was our period of adjustment, ... We think that transition is behind us and top-line growth will look a lot better this coming year. Our pipeline is just over the moon.

We shot the ball lights out. We got up and down the court and our transition game was great.

We should look toward implementing those in the short-term so that whichever option is chosen long-term, it will make the transition easier.

We should not read too much into this weekend's event. The Afghan public is starting to look for performance from the government and this is the more important transition we are in right now.

We showed a great deal of heart to come back and win against a quality team like Buckeye Valley. We scored in transition and we dug in defensively and made some big stops when we needed to.