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We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

We are ahead of our gross margin goals and we are continuing in the same direction.

West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.

We still play Dallas here, but the biggest thing we have to do is take it week to week and not get too far ahead of ourselves,

We're incredibly young, and it's a lesson that we have to learn, but at this point, we have to get ready for the next game. So, the biggest thing we have to sort out is learning to play ahead instead of behind. We're not there yet, but we are on our way.

We're in an environment where share prices are trading ahead of valuations.

Where lies the land, to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.

Until there is a positive indication in economic data that the economy is slowing down, the Fed has to stay ahead of the curve.

We believe that both BellSouth and Qwest will move ahead with their own terrestrial video strategy in 2006. We believe that recent comments by the CEOs of BellSouth and Qwest support our view and suggest a more favorable outlook towards facilities-based video.

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.

Whether we want to embrace the technology or not, we have to. Don't be too eager to move on, but look at what is working now. To get ahead of yourself can be disastrous to your work.

Whether the minutes will tell us with any great clarity what lies ahead remains to be seen but at least for the moment the market is basically pricing in two more 25 basis points hikes.

Whether OPEC chooses to make public the size of any output cut ahead of the ministerial meeting Nov. 14 is uncertain, ... But it may well choose to do so if prices remain weak.

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

When it came down to opponents, it killed us. We lost to Leland and Pioneer (both of San Jose). Everybody else ahead of us beat them. You really can't argue with that.

Tony is a hard-working guy, who physically is a work in progress. His best days are ahead of him. He's dramatically improved from where he was a year ago.

Tom Scully sent an e-mail directing that we not respond to these requests and warning that the consequences of insubordination were extremely severe, ... I took that to mean that if I sent the responses, they would go ahead and fire me.

To move ahead you need to believe in yourself...have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.

We're miles ahead of where we were after Katrina.

We remain optimistic that between now and the date of the scheduled vote we will be able to move ahead and address these community concerns.

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

We remain confident about the market opportunity ahead of us over the next three to five years.

We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious to receive only one of the candidates for prime minister just ahead of the ballot.

We're so much further ahead of the one practice that I had last year with the first one this year, it isn't even close. The comfort level is so much higher this year.

We're so far ahead of last year, it's not funny. This can be the year we challenge for the conference title.

We're getting there. We've had some tough games, we've gotten frustrated at times, but we still think our best play is ahead of us.

We're going to go ahead and get our petition certified so if we decide to gather signatures, we can do it quickly.

We're going to go ahead and close the cafeteria ... until we're sure that there's nothing that's a problem for the kids and the people who serve them.

We're going to forge ahead with every intention of keeping Mac as our coach.

We're going to enjoy this win for a few moments and we have a big game ahead of us (Wednesday).

What we're seeing now is a total reverse in what everyone expected ahead of the euro debut; retailers understood that the euro would add new pressures for competitiveness, so they chose to push prices down to attract customers.

What we're looking at, as we look ahead a few years, is a default, a half-finished site and a developer who walks away with potentially over half a billion dollars in profits and fees. We simply can't allow that to happen.

When we are selling time-saving products, we can appeal to contractors. But when we sell to homeowners, manufacturers need to advertise to people who will own these homes. We need to plan ahead for product launches. Frequently, manufacturers spring promotions on us with less than 30 days notice.

When we can get out here and play day-to-day, we're a different team. We've had a lot of inactivity between games, and they're a little ahead of us. But I like our team. When we get some games under our belt, we're going to be pretty good.

What a great race that was. We were head and head coming down the stretch, and He Wants It All started to move ahead and my horse got mad and he came back and dug in to win.

We got up ahead and that wasn't enough. So, of course, that falls on us.

We can control our own destiny. We can push some team ahead of us down a little bit and raise ourselves up at the same time. That's what you want. Just an opportunity to control your own destiny and we are capable of doing that.

We brought the (WBC) pitchers in early because we want to make sure they are farther along than normal so they can physically handle what is going to be expected of them. I'd expect them to start throwing batting practice (before the rest of the pitchers). Once we get them ahead (in conditioning), we don't want them to take a step back.

We broke down our scores to see how we did against the 4A and 5A teams we didn't run against, and there are several 4A teams who would have finished ahead of us.

We both have to move full steam ahead here and prepare for arbitration if we can't get something done. We have to settle this or start preparing our briefs. They're due on Tuesday.

We blew a couple of scoring opportunities in the second half but the main thing is that we got the job done in the end. The boys have taken a lot of confidence from that although there is another tough one ahead this week.

We believe we got a good price for these assets, ... comfortably ahead of where people thought we'd be.

What made it hurt is that we told them what the play was going to be. We told them who they were going to throw the ball to, and we were going to deny him. Obviously we didn't execute, which was kind of the story of the game. They just seemed a step ahead of us.

What lies ahead is more pain at the pump.

What's most important is that we've got demand and supply moving ahead fast enough that we're absorbing and creating jobs month in and month out -- that's not something to lament.

Usually if she takes a shot I yell at her. But tonight I actually told her, 'If they don't play you, go ahead and shoot.' But I was kind of hoping she didn't take me literally.

We're moving ahead with our WTO case to have a dispute settlement panel formed on July 20.

We're more worried about what we do more than anything else. It's definitely nice to see the top of the division lose. We've still got a couple of teams ahead of us. We've just got to take care of business.

With the merger, we'll become stronger, faster-growing and more profitable than if we went ahead alone, ... The strength of our branding will be across twice the number of stores than we currently operate.

With new initiatives under way in every area of the business, the revitalization of MSLO is firmly underway. Third-quarter earnings were modestly ahead of expectation, largely on the strength of our core publishing business.

We feel (business) is really ahead of our projections at this point.

We fall asleep and the guy scores. You can't forget who's on base. I call it always thinking ahead and knowing your base runners and knowing what the run means. We learned the hard way. Again.

We feel that numbers are not as bad as people think as a few high profile names have reported below expectations. Numbers so far have come down from where they were but have still come in about 5% ahead of analysts' forecasts ... We believe that growth rates are still pretty robust at about six percent growth for the year.

We're proud to say that we're moving ahead per discretion of law and making the right choices for the building of our recreation centers,

We're far ahead of last year. We were coaching on the run last year, on the fly so to speak, and it was hard. There's a big difference this year.

We're four months ahead of where we were at this point last year.

We're hoping they got ahead of the explosion and they are in an area where there is oxygen. He told his wife every morning before he left that he loved her, because he knew you never know what might happen.

We're back on the winning track. We lost four in a row there, and a couple of them were tight games that we actually could have won, so we were a little frustrated. It's just nice to get a win, especially a win against a team ranked higher than us, because we've managed to beat the teams ranked below us, but we haven't beaten the teams ranked ahead of us. So, that's one, and hopefully we can get another one next week, maybe two.

We're back in business today. The snow was a little bump in the road. We have a long year ahead of us. Obviously it affected business. We had some good traffic in the 59th Street store.

We're aware of the challenges that lie ahead bearing in mind other teams are coming in with a lot of good players, especially the Super 14 reps.

Three years after beginning our Action Agenda, Schering-Plough today is delivering a solid record of performance -- growing our business and moving ahead with the turnaround phase of our six- to eight-year plan.

Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in 'The Outlaw'. And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.

We're really at the mercy of Mother Nature. Unless we have a miraculous change in the weather, I think we can look forward to several tough weeks ahead of us.

With the rising cost of health care, we really need to stay ahead of this.

With the new 2007 Quest, we're staying ahead of the segment, while becoming more accessible to a wider audience. It's a synergy of style and flexibility that is unmatched by any other minivan on the market.

With various indicators showing signs of softening, the Fed will probably hold steady on June 28, ... We do not think they are finished for the year, but they do not have a compelling case to push further ahead after a 50-basis-point adjustment in May.

We let the game slip out of our hands. After we went ahead lucky 1-0, I don't understand what happened.

We know where we stand in this series, and we know we have a lot of hard work ahead of us.

We know what's ahead of us, and we need to take charge, especially in this last home game.

We know what lies ahead of us. We know who we're playing and where we stand.

We know we have work ahead of us.

We know we have an exceptional horse, we don't have to panic, there is a lot of money on the international circuit and a lot ahead of this horse,

We know he's a tough kid, we know he can play within his limits. It's just a matter of if he can stand the pain. There's some things we can do for pain. You don't want to push it too far with that. He does have a career ahead of him. We'll do everything we can to make him comfortable . . . we're going to give him a shot. He's going to have to be awfully good for him to be able to go in there and protect himself and protect the quarterback.

We know better than that. Ahead is going to be there; you just worry about Houston. That's the only team we are worrying about. I'm not worrying about anything more than Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.

Very few guys come along like that, once every 20, 30 years, guys who take the game by storm right out of the gates. Hernandez is just way ahead of most 19 year olds, that's the difference. Otherwise these guys don't get here that fast. Same thing with Gooden. I don't know about that comparison yet, but he'd be pretty good if he is.

Venture capital firm investments in the first quarter of 2006 were up from the fourth quarter of 2005 and they were also 6% ahead of first quarter 2005 investments.

With this merger, PacifiCare members will have the benefit of this technology years ahead of when we would have had it were to remain,

With this conference now, it's all coming together, ... All in all, I think they're ahead of schedule from where I thought they'd be, by this point.

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Would it be fair to put him out there ahead of these other guys who have played those positions for quite some time?

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Woody uses it more as a strikeout pitch. He's using it the way other pitchers might use a splitter or a cutter. There's no doubt it's a good weapon when you're working with it like he does, ahead in the count.

We're still moving ahead to get into direct marketing, but the name on the cover is one of the smaller considerations if you're trying to build a catalog or e-commerce site.

We're still in it. We are just getting started right now. It's nice to have a win against the last three teams, but we just have to go ahead and finish it up.

We're still hopeful he'll agree to testify, ... If he declines, we have a very important hearing next week and we'll go ahead without him. Ford has been very cooperative in providing information. They've offered two very high-ranking officials (to testify). We'll see what they have to say. One way or another we'll get to the bottom of this.

We're still fighting for that playoff spot and that just means those teams in front of us have to keep winning to stay ahead of us.

We're steps ahead of last year. We're playing more like a team. We have confidence in each other.

We're staying 18 months to two years ahead of ourselves

We're starting with something I believe was a generation ahead of what was out there; all it needed was scale. And Oracle can bring scale.

We're seeing some profit-taking of blue chips after Friday's gains but generally the market is very quiet ahead of the release of more U.S. economic data tonight and an expected interest rate hike tomorrow.

We're seeing a lot of profit-taking in products - heating oil and gasoline - ahead of the weekend.

We're seeing a little profit taking ahead of all the data. But as long as it comes in reasonably strong I'd say people will be looking for the Fed to keep raising rates in May and even beyond, and the dollar to start rising again.

We're seeing a combination of concerns over the Bank of Japan and feedback from the futures side ahead of special quotation day weakening the market.

We're not going to wait for federal dollars to arrive, ... We're going to go ahead and write whatever checks need to be written right now to take care of these people and let them know that people in San Antonio love them.

We've got Indiana (on Tuesday night) next. We have to get ready for them ? that's it. We can't overlook anybody because we know Philadelphia is right ahead of us.

We've got a week that's real busy ahead of us. We've got to stay the course, and that's important for us right now.

We've got a tough schedule ahead of us. I was pleased with the way we came out and the way we played overall tonight. I think we're where we need to be.

We've got a tough road ahead of us, but we've played good against guys like that, ... and we owe Oswalt a beating.

We've got a tough road ahead here in January. We got Bolingbrook and Trinity coming up and you've got to be ready.

We've got a strong group of referees who constantly push each other to be at their best so it's a tribute to Tim's ability that he has earned the appointment ahead of all others.