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There's not a lot of opportunities here, and if you ain't mining, you're living somewhere else. A lot of people did just that 20 years ago, but that's changing awful fast.

There's no doubt, if you want to be successful on the Internet, that aligning yourself with the postal service probably isn't a bad idea. We hope to play that trump card an awful lot.

There's one coach we all know cheats, everyone knows it. A few years ago, he made the Final Four. His president heard all the accusations, knew his graduation rate was awful and what did he do? He gave him a $ 1.7 million-a-year contract. What kind of message is that?

There's now an awful lot of development and growth within the industry.

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.

There's nothing I know of in the research world that (says) size itself matters. There's lots of small, awful districts in this country.

The tremendous rise in all these costs has been steep enough and has gone on long enough that it's putting an awful lot of pressure on business costs.

Is there apathy? At times, maybe. I think an awful lot of it comes down to priority of time, ... We're not talking about parents who don't care but parents who make a living so kids can have basic needs.

I spent an awful long time 12 years ago thinking to myself, you know, this can't be my final thing. I'm a big believer in the happy ending. I want a Pee-Wee movie to have a happy ending. Pee-Wee gets his bicycle back. I don't know what the ending is to my story. But I think it's going to be a happy one.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

I sincerely hope you have also learned from this awful experience. There is no room for vengeance in my life.

I simply think she is one of the greatest figures in British music over the last 30 years. There are an awful lot of people in the business wandering around claiming to be artists, but she is one of the few who can genuinely make that claim,

I share a lot of the concerns that I hear and I've read about. In a very short period of time, there's been an awful lot of progress made.

I've been coaching an awful long time. I've always wanted to be a head football coach, and I've been looking for an opportunity.

I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.

I've been on both sides of that equation. I've left my partners hanging out to dry, and it's an awful feeling. You're trying as hard as you can and you just can't make it happen. Without fail, it comes down to the crucial shot, and you're not the one playing well and you end up tanking your partner. It doesn't feel much worse than that.

It would have been awful tough losing a 17-point lead and not having anything to show for it.

It would have been an awful feeling had we not prevailed in overtime. We got rewarded for our hard work.

It would create an awful mess in Florida, where the labor market is tight by any definition.

I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.

Things are starting to come together. Like I told you guys, it was very important that we got something going before we dug a deep hole for ourselves. It takes an awful lot to come out of that. Slowly, we're starting to do that.

I've seen an awful lot, and I hope I never see it again. You see real suffering from people. It does a number on you.

I've told them if you get in trouble, you probably won't play. What an awful thing for you to make a 15-second mistake that cost yourself a chance to play or win a national championship.

I've spent my entire life in the game on different levels, and here was an opportunity on an international stage to represent my country at a time when our basketball program needed an awful lot of work as a result of the World Championships in Indianapolis a few years ago and the Olympics in Athens.

I've pitched for teams where there's been awful defense. It's good to have those guys back there, especially Dylan Frank behind the plate because there were four or five strikeouts that were foul tips that he caught, and that was big.

I've sacrificed an awful lot and put up with a lot to be here. Somewhere there's a not very long list of men who've raced in this race. To add my name here means a lot. I'm really not sure that's for sale.

It would take a perfect game to beat them. It would take an awful good game.

It would take an awful lot to make me believe that I could do more good for the world Logan (his 7-year-old son) will inherit with another four years as governor rather than with what I'm doing privately.

It was very unsettling, of little comfort really to the family to see their son-in-law, someone who they loved and trusted, being charged with such an awful crime.

It was tough for the kids. We were glad to play the second half. There's an awful lot of work that goes into a season opener.

It was an excellent ,thought-provoking exercise. I think we all learned a great deal and we have an awful lot to learn.

It was about this school teacher who went to Jerusalem and started bleeding from the palms. It just didn't make an awful lot of sense to me.

The smoke coming out, you can't get within 20, 30 feet of the building. The heat was awful intense. It went up as fast as I've ever seen.

The spectrum runs from the completely debauched, awful kind of stuff, to the most high quality, high tone stuff.

I've always wanted to be here. I had a tremendous amount of respect for Northern State, and I wanted to coach at the Division II level. I have nothing against the NAIA, I just want to be a Division II coach. So when the position opened up, I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to be here. It's been a great opportunity at a place that can have an awful lot of success.

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Teams and security firms hired by teams have to be very cognizant of the potential tragedies that might arise when fans rush the court at the end of games. I think we've been lucky, to be honest. I think we've been really lucky that we haven't seen an awful event happening with fans rushing the court.

Seeing people cheering for him and hugging him was almost sickening. He deserved every hardship because it was an awful thing that he did. It wasn't accidental.

Seeing Neil Entwistle standing accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and only adds to our pain and suffering. We never suspected that Neil was anything other than a loving father, a trusted son-in-law and a husband. Neil betrayed our trust in so many different ways that it is almost impossible to describe it.

Presidential campaigns have an awful lot to do with a sense of authenticity, and Romney's image seems to be, 'Pay no attention to anything I've previously said in my political life. I was only lying and pandering then.'

Sara knows an awful lot about the rally and the area, as well as how the weather can affect things there, and has already had a major impact on our planning for this event,

Schools identify the students that need the help. But it takes an awful lot of money to satisfy all needs.

Science has come an awful long way in the last 250 years.

Realistically we could be awful close to being 4-1, ... We had opportunities to win at Holdrege and against Chadron, but we didn't. We need to put four quarters together.

People think we have an awful lot of standards. That's a mere drop in the bucket compared to the number of contaminants that could enter the water supply.

Our seniors have accomplished an awful lot, but the only thing missing was beating Carroll, or winning a national title.

People ask, 'Will rush hour be one, two, three hours longer?' It is awful tough to tell. We expect it will take several weeks to a month to shake out.

Officials entered into arrangements they should have known were illegal, ... These were awful deals.

Oh, he was so mean to her. He would mistreat her, say awful things to her and cause trouble. He was just mean.

No question, these games mean an awful lot to us. Minnesota, Colorado College and North Dakota, those are the three teams we finish with. I don't see any way we can sweep the table. But if we're able to get a win or two...

No question in our mind that we know what we are getting into in Washington this weekend. It's going to be an NFC East showdown game, played in the latter part of the season with an awful lot on the line.

Adversity can reveal character, and I've certainly seen an awful lot.

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

Something like this is so devastating and affects so many people. He was such a great kid. It will be an awful difficult graduation tomorrow night, for sure.

Some people may have taken him for being arrogant or whatever, but there were an awful lot of people who enjoyed his style. He came from humble beginnings and he came on the scene at a time when he showed the world that the little guy, the guy who had to work from the ground up, could be a success in this business.

Someone said the best gift a man can give his son is to die young. When you think about it, it's true. I was in my early 30s and I did feel freed by it, awful as it is to confess.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

South Carolina will test us physically. They change defenses an awful lot and try to keep you out of rhythm.

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles

Despite the awful near-term financial outlook, the key value-drivers showed impressive growth.

Anyone who wants to be mischievous can have an awful lot of fun with the numbers. But we provide an efficient service for government, and the aggregation of spending creates efficiencies.

Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

As far as a camera store goes, they're phasing out an awful lot of what we do.

As awful as I am and as demanding as I am, they wanted me to come back and do it.

The cable and satellite companies pay an awful lot of money for content,

The Bush Justice Department better be able to back these awful charges.

Awful things happen to good people, and my daughter was an exceptional person.

Auburn is a very difficult team to play against, because they take so many threes. When they make them like they did - and I thought they made some awful difficult shots - they're going to hang around and play with anybody.

Back in America, you hear this sort of stuff -- if you don't knock out a guy in Germany, you get robbed. It was an awful, awful decision.

At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.

That's got to be our target. The big challenge is top six. There are a number of big names who weren't in it last year who have spent an awful lot of money and recruited very well to get themselves back to the standard that we set last year. I know it's an old cliche but it will be far tougher in 2006 than it was in 2005.

A lawyer is in an awful position about that. It's not fair to the accused who is charged with a serious crime if a lawyer says he's not going to take the case because it reflects badly on the accused and that's not fair to him. On the other hand, if a lawyer is deciding to take the case and hasn't made up his mind, it's also difficult for the accused.

You've got to tip an awful lot. It seems like we're tipping everybody.

You're always concerned about that. As I've told our players, half of our young men haven't played in a bowl game either, and of the half who haven't, there are an awful lot of them who are playing and starting. It is a big, big day in the history of South Florida to play in their first bowl. Hopefully, we can make it a day that they won't want to remember.

You're actually in better shape than an awful lot of school districts in your area.

You need to implement pay-to-play reform at the county level, because counties are the places where an awful lot of business actually gets done.

This is one of those games where I don't have an awful lot of complaints.

This could be Ozark next year. All of us small towns in the South survive day-to-day. It's tough. Just meeting your obligations, its hand-to-mouth. If we got hit by a storm, we'd be in awful shape. I'd just hope other towns like ours would come help us.

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage.

This is an awful fundamental and regulatory environment for the Baby Bells, ... You can paint flowers on a garbage can but it's still a garbage can.

This is a game where we were just dominated by a vastly superior group of players and coaches. We picked an awful night to not even be able to find the basket.

This had an awful lot to do with the magic that Walt believed in, ... See, this is magic for good ... this girl suddenly is transformed into the princess.

They spend an awful lot of money to raise their money, which usually is something that's not necessary when you have the star power and public relations rating of an organization like that.

They're unusual kids, ... They have an awful lot of poise. They are not hotshots. They like to play. They know their place. They have a little deference to the upperclassmen - in a nice way. They're just really good kids.

They're still very much concerned that the risk in the economy of a downturn is much greater than it is of inflation. I suspect they will restate that risk. However, they will probably indicate that the increments of easing from here on out are going to be smaller because there's an awful lot of easing in the pipeline.

They've given up an awful lot of yardage back there, so that's definitely something we'll look to take advantage of.

Although there is little doubt that fundamentals are tight, there seems an awful lot of hype in the market and with prices knocking on $6,000 a ton, the whole complex looks over cooked and in need of a reality check.

A lot of the old blues artists have influenced me. Then again, I'm sure the Beatles have... the Beach Boys, a lot of the older bands. I listen to Steely Dan an awful lot. Whether they influence me, I don't know, because they seem a lot more sophisticated than I.

Almost certainly on the table here is an awful lot more than the federal partial-birth ban.

Also, creatively speaking, we learned an awful lot from watching 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' I think, in terms of how to write this character with more heart to it. So it just helps the whole process to have him have other experiences .

They knew what we were going to do; we knew what they were going to do, and they just did their stuff a little bit better. We missed an awful lot of shots, but that's got nothing to do with X's and O's. We just missed a lot of shots we've been making.

They played awful hard. They're a lot better that I thought they would be. They shot the ball well.

They don't have Greenspan's practical edge to them, but they all have academic and government policy experience. I hesitate to say they won't live up to Greenspan, but that would be hoping for an awful lot.