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We obtain the property for our investor, and then do all the work of getting a qualified tenant through our lease to own program. The way we do this results in higher rents than traditional rentals, putting more money in the investor's pocket each month. It also brings a higher sales price for the home when the tenant is able to buy in the future, and because it is a lease option the tenant handles virtually all maintenance.

We continued to enjoy quality growth in virtually every area of the company during the fourth quarter and throughout all of last year.

We have been exploring a strategy for entering the Asian marketplace for some time and have indicated that our entrance into this hugely populated market would be through one of our existing brands. These cruises represent a first step in this initiative and will serve as a platform for future expansion into other areas of Asia. Although all of our brands are virtually unknown in China, we chose Costa because it is already very international in nature, serving guests of many different nationalities, languages and cultures.

We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state,

When one does all these things to increase the attractiveness of the place, does that not drive us toward a place where only the rich are able to take advantage of it? That was a concern of ours from the very beginning. The cause is what might be called non-price sensitive demand, people that can pay virtually anything. We were thinking ahead enough to realize it would get worse very quickly. We started thinking about this in '75. It may be the most aggressive affordable housing in the country. It wasn't enough.

This requires virtually no investment by Northwest and represents about 5 percent of their inventory. For business travelers like me ? I am 6-foot-5 ? this is going to be very appealing.

There has been sort of a selective amnesia. If you look at the Will Smith movie 'Ali,' it virtually washed away Ali's history in the Nation of Islam. People are being told that Ali stood up for his beliefs, but they're not being told what those beliefs are.

There has been virtually no motivation on the part of state government to address these changes. Whether it's the governor, the Senate or the Assembly, it seems like the people in power are insensitive to it. We've never held them accountable as a business community or as voters.

We think this is unfair, unworkable and unacceptable. It virtually ensures that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions go black.

Truth be known, I am actually looking forward to this round, ... The West Series has never competed on this track, so it is pretty much like sailing into uncharted waters. There is no open test so everyone will be on the same page when practice gets underway on Saturday morning. A lot will depend on the crew and that is one of the areas where we excel. Our Lynch Mob crew is very good at getting the job done in short order. Once we have run the track a few times, we should be able to get our Mr. Gas Dodge in race trim in with virtually no problem.

To be sure, heretofore there has been virtually unanimous acceptance of the belief that the middle of the universe is the earth.

The regard in which he is held by people from every walk of life in virtually every corner of the world has added incalculably to our ability to cover such historic events as the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

Worries about an interest rate rise have virtually disappeared, the consensus is now that the Fed won't raise rates, ... Volume is a bit better than yesterday but most of the buying is in half a dozen stocks. Unless we start seeing a broader rally on more volume we can't be convinced that we're out of the woods yet.

With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed,

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

The performance of GO.com continues to reflect the nascent stage of both the Internet economy and our Internet business. As with virtually every other Internet company, GO is investing as it builds for the future.

Whether you call it consolidation, rationalization or getting your competitor to go out of business, it's a way for these companies to effectively deal with the collapse of commodity prices. In virtually every sector involved in something that comes out of the ground, we've seen consolidation.

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a

We removed the right engine from the crater and it's virtually intact. It's heavily damaged, of course, but not broken apart.

We're going to learn a lot by using this vessel. The top of the vessel is virtually identical, and the hull is identical. That will be enough to give us what we need to know.

We break it down in terms of value for money, product quality and service quality. For virtually all of these retailers, with the exception of Wal-Mart, it is really the service quality that seems to be driving the satisfaction.

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

We're ready to ship in the morning, ... It should be on the shelves at some pharmacies on Friday or Saturday and available virtually nationwide by the first of next week.

Yes, I learned about that, the federal government learned about that (Thursday), ... And that shows how difficult communications are in the situation where there was virtually no communications, except for our teams on the ground.

This suggests that approvals are bouncing along the bottom, with virtually no change over the last five months.

Top games now debut with the same hype and anticipation accorded top movies and music albums, and often outsell them. Tremendous amounts of time, money, and talent go into developing today's games. And whatever the platform, there is something challenging, interesting, and exciting for virtually everyone.

Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork.

Doug has played some outstanding rugby for Auckland recently, while Rico has played virtually every Super 12 and Test match since mid-February.

Doubtless, the substantial improvement in the access of business decision makers to real-time information has played a key role, ... Today, businesses have large quantities of data available virtually in real time. As a consequence, they address and resolve economic imbalances far more rapidly than in the past.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Currently we have construction job levels reaching toward the ceiling but manufacturing jobs are virtually at the floor. With hardly any room to fall further, it doesn't seem likely that problems in housing and in construction will spread to manufacturing this time.

There have been little donations or grants and no sugar daddies. That's virtually unheard of in the theater business.

To get it away, they are going to have to virtually give it away. There are too many uncertainties about the outlook to get it away satisfactorily at the moment. I think they ought to put it on hold.

Twenty years ago, pneumatic cylinders controlled virtually every axis of a case packer. New case packers today are often all servo-controlled. We are taking old case packers and adding two-axis pushers and servo-controlled elevators to provide significantly more speed.

With fewer job cuts last month and virtually no let-up of demand for skilled workers across all industries, one would expect far more wage pressure than has been seen,

At our current rate of sales, that's about 600,000 hybrids in the U.S.. To achieve that goal, we will have to look at offering hybrid power systems in virtually all of our vehicles, including trucks.

Things are going a lot better than the press has been reporting on virtually all fronts. We're going to be there for a while. It is dangerous, it is dirty, it is hot, it is not pleasant, but it is moving forward and the strategic doubt does not exist.

The trains are rolling and there's virtually nothing happening as far as cleanup. They're telling us there is, but we're not seeing it.

You are much safer on a cruise ship than you are in virtually any community in the United States.

While the immediate 'rollback' of 24 percent offered by the union would materially improve league economics for the 2004-05 season, there is virtually nothing in the union's proposal that would prevent the dollars 'saved' from being redirected right back into the player compensation system, such that the league's overall financial losses would approach current levels in only a matter of a couple of years.

Issuance of equity and of bonds by lower-rated corporations has come virtually to a halt -- even investment-grade companies have cut back substantially on their borrowings,

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

These decisions pose two major problems, ... A lack of stability or predictability in the law because the two cases, decided three years apart, are virtually indistinguishable; and, two, the court's judicial activism in functioning as a super legislature.

The stronger data virtually assure significant changes in the Fed's directive this week. The new directive will probably include a grudging acknowledgement of the stronger labor market and inflation statistics.

The second quarter marked the continued successful execution of our strategic plan. Revenues were up 40% as we saw growth in virtually all of our business segments. We completed the production and final delivery of Season 3 during the quarter, and continued to grow our international television and product license businesses. The success of the show in the US, combined with strong ratings in international markets enabled us to broaden distribution into 116 territories around the globe. Further, we are moving forward with the Professional Poker Tour(TM) (PPT), and are close to signing a licensing agreement for it. Finally, we are pleased with the initial launch of WPT online.

The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of those two houses to be close friends under those circumstances. It would lead to suspicions from their respective caucuses.

These breaches compromise virtually every part of the immigration system itself, leaving vulnerabilities that have been and likely are being exploited by criminals and adversaries of the United States.

There are really not any state guidelines on who can and cannot be a sonographer. What's lacking here is that virtually anybody can buy an X-ray machine and say that they do sonography.

The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.

When you are running on a distributed environment that is loosely coupled, you can scale virtually on demand by throwing in more power.

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

What's high on the radar for environmental organizations has virtually nothing to do with what people think. If you dig deeper, and ask what environmental problems are you concerned about, water from the tap and the local dump tend to outpace global warming. People, when they think about environmental quality, think about it in their own town.

When we start, we start them with a very flat roller and therefore the bike will virtually stay up on its own.

We've offered our hourly-wage earners a health-care plan that's virtually identical to what we've provided to thousands of our salaried staff. It's a plan that gives them five options to choose health coverage that best meets their economic and medical needs.

And virtually none of them had ever worked in the gaming industry before. You can count a small handful that has any experience at all. These really are regular people.

I've virtually packed the game in now, so there's no chance I'll be coming to Bath City.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races.

With real energy prices on the rise, more rapid decreases in the intensity of energy use in the years ahead seem virtually inevitable,

With hundreds of breakthrough features, including Spotlight, a lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac, Tiger will fundamentally change the way people use their computers. We're thrilled that Fujitsu has developed a solution that allows Tiger users to Spotlight search their collection of scanned documents, photographs, and other electronic files.

This soft revenue performance is seen virtually through all of our businesses. While we are not yet seeing any precipitous decline, we certainly see no signs of a recovery.

We think the chances of a hike next week are virtually zero.

We'll have to take Kosovo from virtually nothing to practically everything in the next few years, and that entails entire administration, the rebuilding, bringing the refugees back.

We've gone to virtually every shelter in the state.

We all know that Washington is a town in which the flow of important information is virtually nonstop,

We've had tight battles with virtually every time we've played them. It was a playoff-type hockey game tonight.

We've had very little economic growth, virtually no job growth. The only way you'll get income growth is through wage increases or through tax cuts.

brings a breadth of experience and knowledge that is virtually unmatched.

Even though we prevailed in virtually every research class action that's been adjudicated, we are settling these cases because we want to avoid the distraction and expense of further litigation.

We are virtually playing with no post presence on either end of the floor, and every game we have still been right there. Considering what we are and where we are coming from, we are doing a great job.

We didn't leave anything in the bag. We played virtually every defense we could play. We ran a bunch of sets we hadn't run in a long time. Both teams really gutted it out.

Subcontracting is open to companies from virtually all nations in the world.

Proxim's brand name and distribution channel are recognized around the globe, and we are building on these strengths with an expanded product portfolio to enable our partners to pursue new revenue opportunities. Customers can expect to see even more benefits from our combined company as we continue to expand our portfolio of best-of-breed wireless solutions in virtually every arena, from Wi-Fi through wireless Gigabit Ethernet.

The thing I thought was Jerry's greatest strength ... was his endurance. I thought he was a guy who was able to go hard and run hard on virtually every single play of the game. It didn't make any difference if it was fourth quarter, in the middle of a two-minute drive or the third play of the game. He was always very, very close to his top speed. Nobody else was like that.

Thanks to a fairly decent IQ, I can write on virtually any subject, and have done so in order to make a living.

Progress is running far behind Iraqi expectations in virtually every area. In their view, most Iraqis are not seeing 'amazing progress.' All too many of them live in constant danger, with less electricity in many areas than under Saddam Hussein.

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.

Exports are off in virtually every category. I don't see much near-term improvement for the trade deficit. The trade deficit will probably shave about 0.5 percent off of third quarter Gross Domestic Product.

Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Few United Nations officials have demonstrated the calm, grace and professionalism that you have in the face of virtually unprecedented pressure and attention over the past several months.

Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don't want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn't be good at it; they're too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren't capable lawyers. We're saying the same thing. Let women in, we'll show you we can do it.

Degradation is a continuum, ... In virtually every ecosystem we visited, humans have colonized the landscape. Very few places are wild. The places to find wildlife are in protected areas. This is a good indicator of how deeply human species has penetrated the continent.

I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.

A single facility using the best liquid clear-coats in application equipment available today could emit 200 tons of hydrocarbons a year and create about 100 tons a year of over-spray sludge from clear-coat alone. These waste streams could be virtually eliminated with powder clear-coat.

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just as much but all must realize they are important to the team, and it is the team that is important.

At which point he, very gently, without virtually saying a word, escorted the little boy from his seat.

Back when the program was created, elderly people were dying because they had nothing to eat and no health care. Social Security has been incredibly successful at virtually eliminating poverty among the elderly.

Zayed, who was simply an employee of the sheik, did virtually nothing.

That's huge. If you get 60 percent, that's a lot, but 80 percent is near virtually everyone.

That (shutting Granville out in the first) brought our bats alive. We had a similar situation (in the season opener) against Hamilton Township with virtually the same group on the field. We got them out early and got right to work.

As a result, fears over a significant near-term increase in personal or corporate taxation have virtually disappeared. Most expectations, including our own are for a broadly neutral stance.

A lot of the content deals we've closed and will be closing for our Web site -- and virtually all the pay content -- is protected by Windows DRM, so it made sense for us to license it.

American Beauty' really reinforced in Hollywood's eyes the idea that Toronto could actually break a film that was very important. They came here and gathered acclaim and critical support that lasted through the Oscars. Subsequent to that, virtually every year, we've had a significant number of films here that later came out with nominations and Oscars.