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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

We played well in spurts. I thought our second quarter (20-4) was pretty strong, and we maintained that lead through the end.

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

I think eventually we would have evaluated and updated all our systems, but Y2K got us started early, and we maintained that foundation,

We believed that the system we proposed would have maintained access to our markets in a fair manner. We calculated the proposed tariff in a neutral and transparent manner, based on a comprehensive legal and economic analysis. We will now carefully study the decision before deciding how to proceed.

We are not a bunch of separate neighborhoods. We have maintained from Day One we are a community.

When you know you can finish second the intensity is not there. We still wanted to win, but we knew that if we didn't make any major mistakes we had league wrapped up. We're happy because we maintained the streak.

Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quarterly earnings increases, margin improvement and double-digit sales growth driven by acquisitions, improved company wide volume coming from significant new consumer product and market development, and geographical expansion. Our employees remained focused on meeting the needs of our customers while improving productivity and managing costs in all of our businesses. We continued our efforts to successfully hedge the majority of our natural gas needs to provide more certainty of energy costs, and we maintained a positive price/cost relationship, despite rising costs in most raw materials.

It is clear that the workmanship in some of these roads is very poor. They have to be maintained every time after the rainy season, which indeed is such a costly exercise to government and it is totally unsustainable.

It doesn't mean there's going to be a strike, it just means that they've maintained some of their clout at the bargaining table. This is a usual part of the negotiations.