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We are at the very beginning stages today.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes.

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

There are countless artists whose shoes I'm not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer! I'm beginning to doubt my judgment!

We struggled at the beginning and I think we just ran out of time at the end.

We still need to come out with intensity at the beginning of games. We need to carry the second half of games into the first half of the next game.

We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.

We're in a period with some of the most disruptive technologies I've ever seen, and the Internet is the most disruptive. The beginning of the new millennium is not the end of this period of change, it could even be the beginning of change going into hyper-drive.

We started out the game down 8-2. We were up by 20 at the beginning of the fourth.

We started out strong at the beginning of this year then went on a string of bad runs starting with Infineon. That really hurt us in the points. But Bob (Osborne, crew chief) and the entire team held their heads up and kept fighting and together we got back into the 'Chase'. Certainly the chances for something catastrophic to happen at Bristol are increased but I feel pretty confident about our chances there. If we can come away with a solid finish there, I think we have a good chance at making the 'Chase'.

We started off playing well in the doubles and won there, but at the beginning of singles, things went in the opposite direction.

We started focusing on defense, and really working hard in practice. It was a change from the beginning of the season when we were a little lackadaisical.

When you take over in the middle (of the season), you don't know what kind of groundwork was set. We were able to set the groundwork from the beginning (this season) on what we expect of the guys, how we're going to do things, what type of players we want. This definitely is the direction we want to go and feel good about.

We're not going to rush into the season. We're going to let it play out in the beginning stages, see how guys react to one another's play and develop a chemistry.

There is no question that the U.S. economy, especially in relation to the world economy, is beginning to exhibit signs of imbalance and strain.

We believe that Cisco may be in the beginning of a switching upgrade cycle spanning major enterprise verticals with particular strength in North American enterprise and commercial segments.

We've always had our event in the second week of January, beginning on Monday. They're the ones who changed the date.

When we were there at the beginning of the year, they handed it to us pretty good. We have to make sure we come out, play well and play smart. We have to be very strong in our own end. Defensive zone coverage is going to be key.

When it came right down to it, we did what we needed to do to win. We kept our heads in the game from start to finish. Finally, we're beginning to show people that we have a good team.

We're going to shut him down a little bit. Hopefully, he'll be back at the beginning of next week and we'll know a little bit more. Hopefully he'll be ready to play. If not we'll worry about that then.

We're going to show up and turn around this country. This is not the end of the day, this is the beginning of a regeneration of a movement.

We're going to go about business. We're going to work hard and see if we can't dig deep and find that drive we had at the beginning of the year and make that final push to make State.

What we're hoping is that this defeat for Buchanan is the beginning of a whole series of small and large defeats over the course of the next couple of weeks until Buchanan goes back to the Republican party where he belongs.

What they might lack in skills they make up for in heart. They each keep on coming back against tough opponents and want to learn to get better. Both Sean and Brady have great stamina and are beginning to bob and weave and counter punch much better. Sometimes you can take a kid like Brady who has natural talent and move him up to take on fighters with a little more experience.

When we collect enough evidence we will propose the plea, probably at the beginning of April.

When we got there, it obviously was in the beginning stages of the fire. It was coming from the middle of the church. Then the fire began to rage. Then it engulfed the whole church.

When we got that lead at the end of the third quarter, beginning of the fourth, I thought we're in pretty good shape.

We would prefer to have won our first game at the beginning of the season. But we'll take it. What we hope to do now is take this win at the end of the season and build on it for next year.

What he had from the beginning is a natural charisma, ... a thing that makes you interested in watching him and hearing what comes out of his mouth. As frustrating as it is to all the wannabe actors out there, that's God-given. You either have it or you don't.

We found ourselves in a big hole in the beginning. We had four penalties before SPASH had one, and they were able to score a couple of goals. It was a pretty big swing in the game.

We felt like we were back as a team like we were at the beginning of the year. We made the extra pass, we got a lot more physical, we played team defense, got some great stops, made some big shots.

We felt like we made a lot of strides and are beginning to put some things in place that are going to help us become a winning team. We know we have a long way to go. Being in a tough division with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati will elevate our play and elevate our standards. In order for us to compete in our own division, we're going to have to get a lot better and a lot quicker.

We felt like we had an opportunity at the end of last season to do something great but we didn't. Now it's over with and we've been focusing on this game ever since we first came in at the beginning of OTAs.

We're going to make this work. This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

Union Pacific has been a bit behind the other railroads in improving efficiency and the fruits of its efforts to catch up are beginning to show.

Usually, it's hard to get organized before the fact, but we're hoping that this is the beginning of a cumulative process that will enable us to learn as much as we can about disasters.

Usually, business spending on software doesn't happen at the beginning of a recovery but once the recovery is undeniable.

Usually around the beginning of the marijuana harvest season, we begin to see an increase in the seizures in this sector.

With the lottery beginning in N.C. this week, the need for the quickest possible resolution of these issues is imperative.

With nothing hot to buy in decorations this Christmas, many stores started selling two weeks earlier than ever before, beginning in mid-September. Many stores skipped Thanksgiving altogether and went from Halloween to Christmas.

We feel that the concept of holding a new car launch at the beginning of each year, just for the sake of it, is outdated.

We're finally jelling. It took us a while, but better to have a fall in the beginning than in the end.

We're just a completely different team than at the beginning of the year, and far more mature.

We're getting real close to having the team on the floor that we envisioned at the beginning of the season. Hopefully, soon, we'll have everyone healthy.

We're getting more confident with each win. We've come so far from the beginning of the year.

We're getting her the ball much better than we did at the beginning of the year. We're doing a better job at getting her the ball in positions where she is more able to score. Kate is a very strong low-post player. She's six-foot and solid.

We're getting better at some stuff and there's a will to win. I think in the beginning they were in the backseat watching the Big Ten. ... There was a newness about the Big Ten that they had to understand. Now, we'll see if they understand.

We're hoping for a big year. We have a lot of people back from last year and we think we can be better than we were last year. We have a tough schedule in the beginning so we're going to see where we're at right away.

We're beginning with a blank sheet of paper.

We're beginning to think we are the only people he said no to.

We're beginning to see the change. I'm excited to see it on Sunday, for it to be our home field advantage and to be back the way it ought to be when we play at Paul Brown Stadium, no matter who we play. ... It's an exciting week for the city.

We're beginning to see some signs that the economy is starting to weaken in the second half of 1998, ... We're going to see 1 to 2 percent growth. If we see those numbers, then we can move down even lower below 5 1/2 percent on the long bond.

We're beginning to see price declines in most eastern markets in the fourth quarter of 2005.

We're beginning to see people move out of Singer. Some of the people are starting to get placed in longer-term housing in the community, which is really our focus now.

We're beginning to see greater levels of mergers as the economy improves and as executives that have been reticent get more comfortable with their own business.

We're beginning to see a bit of personality in the other three lines. They can contribute, game in and game out.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

We're beginning to get backed into a corner. It's something worth trying.

We're beginning to focus for the first time on expanding our international market,

We're beginning to fall behind as a nation in technology. If (the Challenger Center) can stimulate students to become more interested in math, science and technology, we've done our job.

We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover over the next quarter or two,

We're beginning to catch a few good trout along the south shoreline. But it's still very slow fishing with various mullet imitation plugs and Old Bayside tails in white/chartreuse or shad colors.

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

We're beginning to accumulate relief supplies for distribution.

We're beginning the process of putting him in there. But that's a huge learning curve.

We're beginning some big plans for celebrations all year long.

We're beginning a whole new cycle of important product launches,

We're beginning a dynasty. We want to have something like USC. The way we (taught) the underclassmen I think we have a real good shot at doing that.

We're back to step one no respect. We're just going to grind it out like we did at the beginning of the season.

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.

We're really beginning to analyze what's going on the last couple of years, and how can we best use that to our advantage,

We're really at the beginning of the movement. We need to establish statewide policies that support parents in teaching their children to make the right choices, rather than continuing to allow the financial interests of soda and fast-food companies to win out over the health of our children.

We're ready to make a run. That's been the girls' goal from the beginning of the year. They feel like they've got some unfinished business from what happened last year. But understand, when you start on that tournament trail, it's one game at a time, and the team you have to beat that night is THE team. You can't look too far ahead.

We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.

We knew what we wanted at the beginning of the year. This was the best way I could think of to go out.

We knew what he was capable of doing at the big league level. He's still a developing player, and I feel in my heart that he benefitted from getting four at-bats a day in Scranton vs. being on the bench here at the beginning of the season.

We knew they would be pressing us and trying to set the tempo they wanted. We tried everything at the beginning not to allow that. But they're just such a good team that when they decided they wanted to run, they would run.

We knew they were rooting for us in the beginning but they changed. We thought it was funny.

We know what's at stake and what we have in front of us. Good teams know in the beginning of the year what kind of destiny they can bring to themselves. I think we recognize that. My class and (the senior) class, we've been here quite a long time and we're at that point where this is our year and we'll try to make the most of it.

Ultimately, it's something that we've worked for all season - to win a championship and to be one of only two teams in the nation to end on a win is huge for us. Everybody kind of underestimated us at the beginning of the season. We proved to ourselves and everybody else that we are a team that is going to compete, and we're going to do good things.

With three sub-300,000 numbers in the past four weeks, it is beginning to look as though there has been some real improvement in the labor markets this year.

With this announcement we are one step closer to beginning our renovation of the building.

Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

We're still in a negative trend. Long-term interest rates are too high, earnings estimates are still too high. We've had seven out of eight down weeks, so we saw a little bounce in the beginning of this week. But the downward pressure hasn't eased.

We're still at the beginning of a huge effort, ... The tasks before us are enormous.

We're seeing the beginning of much higher prices, driven by problems with the dollar. People need to protect themselves in this environment, and investors are getting more defensive.

We're seeing the beginning of a change of heart on the part of Iraq.

We're seeing some of these guys beginning to escalate themselves in the direction that you want to see them going.

We're seeing industry-wide demand for solutions to make compliance sustainable and, at the same time, more efficient and more effective. Many companies are beginning to act on improvement opportunities identified through their Sarbanes-Oxley efforts. Increasingly, companies are undertaking projects to better leverage technology to improve information quality, automate internal controls and enhance monitoring and reporting capabilities.

We're seeing indicators that are beginning to show the first real recovery in five to six years. The health is there.

We're seeing clearance sales that are early by at least three to four weeks. Going back to the beginning of summer they had a lot of inventory on hand and they need to get rid of it, ... Second-quarter earnings are going to reflect the markdowns. Everybody has been caught in the downdraft.

We're right where they want us to be -- between 2 and 2.5 percent increases in the core CPI. But last year there was more inflation than they were anticipating at the beginning of the year, and the concern you hear being expressed is that they don't want that to happen again.

We're looking for a place for Matthew to play. At the beginning of the year, we weren't sure if Adam would be back. Now, he's going to play most of the games and Steve will back him up.

We've got a pretty tight time frame here. It'll be firmed into a situation that will reasonably address the beginning of the league year.

We've wired it so we can have a computer lab in here as well as a library. We are beginning to compile a library now. Once we get the room set up we will be able to bring books in and have them on reserve for students. Ultimately we hope to have a library. We will have a full service institution down here.

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

We have said from the beginning that we are taking responsibility for this incident.

We have said form the beginning that if he would work with us we could reach a bipartisan compromise, ... He chose not to, and he got beat.

We have no protection against it and that is the beginning of a pandemic. We don't know what the next pandemic will be like or where it will start. It will be much more than a health event. It will cripple our economy.