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But at the beginning of this year, once the ratings were in for the first three or four stations, the sceptics became apostles.

Basically, gift cards extend the holiday buying season well past the first week of January, when it traditionally would end, until the beginning of February.

Because they don't speak, people are free to project all sorts of ideas onto them. People are always telling you what dogs are thinking . . . But dogs don't think like people. We're beginning to lose sight of that in our neediness.

China A-share market just reopened and we've had a very strong rally, and some of the interest is beginning to spill over into H shares.

Chris is beginning to take charge out there for us now. He is looking to score more and is taking good shots.

I'm also beginning to engage myself more in the public discussion of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to which I was diagnosed five years ago.

I loved it, and hated to see it all end, but things happen for a reason. (I loved) the whole experience, and it was my first team. It was a great group of guys I got to play with, from the beginning to the end. The only gripe was the weather stayed cold too long. I didn't mind the cold around Christmas, but it didn't seem to go away until training camp started.

I had it in mind from the beginning to speak to him and ask him to reconsider. Then we spoke and I said to him that while it is a personal decision and it must be respected, it is disappointing nonetheless. I reminded him that his Test form of late had been brilliant and that while he may not be an automatic selection in the eleven, he is an essential member of the playing squad.

I have a studio at home where I record all of my solo material from the beginning 'til the very end, thus also the ideas which later on will find their way onto yet another Mike & The Mechanics album.

I have last been inoculated in my records beginning in '99, and since December 2000, I am as susceptible to anthrax as any of you.

I have never been too bullish on the US market and have been looking for signs of the end, and if this trend continues into November I am afraid this may be the beginning of it.

I felt pretty confident out there and I took it home. It was my goal since the beginning of the season. I won the districts my freshman and sophomore and junior years and this is the first time winning the regions. It feels good. I reached one of my goals.

I felt pretty comfortable. As the game went on, I got a little bit more comfortable. At the beginning of the game, I had to get used to the pace of the game. I hadn't played a game since January.

I felt I could have thrown but it's the beginning of the spring season so I decided to take a break. I didn't want to get a serious injury.

I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.

I felt good today and controlled the game from the very beginning.

I felt kind of down in the beginning of the year down in the bullpen. But the bullpen helped me out a lot, getting my confidence back, and I'm taking that out there every day now.

I felt like once (Johnson) did that, it took the life out of them. You could see it in their faces that they weren't the same team that came out with that energy in the beginning of the game.

I felt like I was playing fairly well at the beginning of the year but nothing happened. I couldn't hole any putts so I was finishing 35th every week.

I felt good from the start. I controlled the beginning of each set and that was pretty much it.

I felt good, especially when I attacked about 5km to go, but I couldn't keep going because this climb isn't that hard. The hardest part was at the beginning and Menchov was glued to my wheel.

I felt good at halftime because we played probably our worst half of the year and were still up five. Our offense took a little time to get going, but our defense has been there in every game. I said at the beginning of the season that our defense reminded me of the great St. Anthony teams, so I have confidence in our defense.

I felt comfortable out there. Even if I have not been starting, I have been around the team all year, so the guys know the way I play and I know the way that they play. I am just glad that I could get out there and help as much as I could. It felt almost like the beginning of the season again for me.

I feel we are equally strong (as last season). We have depth, and we have prepared and worked toward this since the beginning of season.

I felt at the beginning of the season, and I still do, that we have one of the top backcourts in the league. We just have to continue to play like it.

I feel that this is a potential disaster on several levels. They are reducing scholarly texts to paragraphs. The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue.

If I said in the beginning I'm happy I'm coming off the bench, that would be a lie. I thought it might be last year all over again, but it wasn't because it was different. I was more prepared.

I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.

I feel like I'm improving game by game. At the beginning of the season I was (slowed) by an ankle injury, but that's coming back and getting better and better every day.

I feel more confident in myself and with the system. I don't go running around like crazy at the beginning anymore.

I feel like we sold ourselves a wonderful future. This is just the beginning of a new page in and around the western edge of the panhandle. I think we will get the Joint Strike Fighter.

I can tell that the boy I help is getting better. He is more comfortable and I push him with harder books to better himself. In the beginning he would not look at me and then we started talking about the dogs and he opened up. When we got finished with the first session, he said he wanted to come back again.

I can't discuss anything she's told me. But I think you have to look at the entire picture. You can't look at the end of a story and determine what the beginning and middle were.

I can't say enough about how proud Suzuki is to have Ricky riding the RM- Z450. We signed him at the beginning of the year knowing what kind of champion he is and the amazing work ethic that he has. It's been a joy to work with him this season and we truly appreciate his bringing home the 250 Motocross Championship to Suzuki.

I can tell you every game is going to count this season. You can not just wait until the end to do something. You have to start strong in the beginning and finish strong, too.

I can't program every step of the way of what would, we would hope, be a coordinated series of steps. But the intention is to go to the next round of talks and to begin addressing these issues in a way that's appropriate for the beginning of the process.

I fought on the Ali-Bob Foster under card against Henry Clark. After the fights he was down in the bar or lounge area with a bunch of ladies. I came down and kinda stole part of his thunder. He jumped up and said I'm gonna box you and started yelling I'm gonna kick your butt. So that was the beginning of the end for Ali.

Growth going forward is becoming the big issue for stock investors. Things are still OK on the earnings front, but some companies are beginning to be more conservative with their guidance.

For me that was like the beginning of a system that I could use to really find my way in what I wanted to play.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

From beginning to end this situation is a tragedy, and it remains a tragedy. There is a man murdered brutally in a park -- that's a tragedy. His family, the Rivera family, are the forgotten ones now.

From beginning to end, they had a lot of energy. They were more hungry than we were. I think we kind of put it in the back of our heads that we were going back home.

From beginning to end, they had a lot of energy. They were a lot more hungry than we were. Tonight we needed everybody from our starters to our bench players to give us a lift. I struggled on down to the last person off the bench.

From beginning to end including the primary, I've always said it's going to take $5 million-plus to defeat Melissa Bean.

Further, while we are hopeful that, in aggregate, we are seeing a bottoming in activity levels, there is no convincing evidence that our North American markets will rebound meaningfully before year-end. In addition, European, Asian and, to a lesser extent, South American markets are beginning to decline in lagged response to the North American weakness.

Furthermore, this lawsuit is just the beginning of other class action lawsuits highlighting Wal-Mart's practice of unfairly or illegally exploiting their workers.

Futures are still trying to point this market up. People are now beginning to say this market could reach 11,000 by the year end.

Future generations will look back at the beginning of the 21st century and marvel that intelligent people actually tried to stop biomedical progress just to protect their cramped and limited vision of human nature.

Fuel diversity is something we've been striving for for a long time. I think the nation as a whole is beginning to reassess its options.

Frustrations are beginning to bubble out a little bit,

From the very beginning, we wanted it to be a print production. It seemed strange to us in the MFA program to not have that.

From the very beginning, the West has been against scientific progress and economic growth in our country. They do not want to see our young generation gain access to nuclear fuel technology.

From the very beginning, the fuss that the community raised over the process in the beginning made a difference, not the least of which was cutting it in half.

From the very beginning of the Great War steps were taken, on my instruction, to institute medical control of troops in North Africa.

From the very beginning of the design process, our goal was to create a hotel that would become a true urban resort, taking full advantage of the outstanding views.

From the very beginning of Spring Training, he's been telling us that. Get out there and get ahead of the guys, and that makes your job a lot easier.

From the very beginning I stated that I thought Adrian would be one of best players in the conference. ..There?s some serious matches left to go that are going to prove whether he?s one of those best players in the conference. Do I think he can compete with those kids? Without question. Do I think he can beat a lot of those kids? Yes, I do.

From the very beginning he has just wanted to resolve this case.

I don't think anyone was looking for a big upside on revenue and earnings. What people are really looking for is some sort of evidence that we're at the beginning of a turnaround.

I don't think anybody in their wildest dreams at the beginning of the year thought they would do this well.

If any good comes from the catastrophe, it will be that it signaled the beginning of the media's reassertion of aggressive, in-your-face reporting, in which it confronts government wrongdoing, rather than just swallowing the government's public-relations handouts.

I don't think we have any weak events right now. We fixed everything we had trouble with in the beginning of the season. I'm confident about every event.

I don't think we've taken a couple steps back. I definitely think we're better than we were at the beginning of last season. But we haven't progressed like I think we should have. But it only takes game for that spark to go and for us to get back on track.

I don't think we were together at the beginning of the season. I saw a better group effort today.

I expected (the pressure defense) from the beginning of the game. It's not as if we weren't prepared for them to do that. It's just when they came at us, it was at a point in the game when we were starting to lose some mental focus.

I expected some growing pains, but that was beginning to hurt. As of late, they are playing with confidence and they have figured out how good they are and how to use the tools they have.

I expect to win every game, I don't really care who we are playing, whether it is Notre Dame at the beginning of the season or Cincinnati today, I expect to win every time I lace them up,

If a child scored a 300 in reading last year and the score improved to 350 this year, the child and their parents would each receive the increased difference between the two scores in tickets to use as cash in an auction of many large-ticket items at the beginning of the next school year. The kids may use their tickets separately or combined with parents' to bid on items such as big-screen televisions, bicycles, DVD players and more.

I don?t think it will take a year for me to get on the field. I have confidence in my athletic ability, and I will get on the field next year. The draft is only the beginning for me.

From the beginning we were the only people in the world to believe we could be here right now. I think we're hungrier. You get tired of losing and falling short every season. Everybody bought into the coach's philosophy of playing defense and sharing the ball.

From the beginning we've said we are going to respect the rule of law. If the Supreme Court of the United States says no more votes will be counted, then that's the end of it,

From the beginning we thought we had a chance to win the game. We all kind of looked at each other and in unspoken words said 'we can do this.' What we said all along is you just have to hang around, which we did. We just didn't make the plays down the stretch to get the win.

From the beginning this was about money and how much.

From the beginning, this truck was supposed to be for both of us. But then I got pregnant, so we're playing it safe, ... When we started building it, I didn't want him regretting anything, or buying something that he would want to upgrade later. So I told him, 'spare no expense.'

From the beginning they scored the first basket and we were always catching up. And it's hard to play when you are down. The last two games we had the lead. I guess we play better when we are ahead early.

From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project.

From the beginning, our goal with Juiced: Eliminator was to design the game from the ground up, creating the next evolution in the Juiced racing experience. While the game will be immediately recognizable to all Juiced fans, we're very excited to bring a new dimension to the brand by tailoring to the inherent capabilities of the PSP.

From the beginning our goal was to help employers adopt a product development approach to their health care benefits, The old methods are just not enough anymore to control health care costs.

From the beginning our goal was to get to the final and play for the gold medal. It's always tough to go all the way, and we have had some good luck. Tonight we had a great effort from 20 guys.

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

From the beginning of time, the key has been driver behavior. You can have all the skills in the world, but it is how you choose to drive that is going to make a difference.

From the beginning of time in the NFL, you need to distinguish what stars can get away with and what others can get away with, ... You can't tell me the Philadelphia Eagles wouldn't have loved to cut Terrell Owens. They can't cut him. He's too talented. They don't have people to replace him. You learn to tolerate stars and their antics.

From the beginning of this, I've done everything I can do try to keep it.

From the beginning of the year we were concerned with their cohesiveness as a team. It's fun to see how they love being with one another. ... We have a lot of great individuals that have come together and made it more of a focus on the team and less on the individual.

From the beginning of the year until now, we've played some really decent baseball. When we're on, we're a good team. When we get our thing together, we can play with anybody. Our chances are as good as anybody's. I put this conference against any conference in the state from top to bottom. Throughout this season we've just beat each other up. On any given day, 1-through-11 has a chance to win it.

From the beginning of the year, from the beginning of practice, we wouldn't even practice shooting at all. All we practiced was defense. We try to think defensively most of the time.

From the beginning of the whole thing, we asked ourselves how do we honor and remember a person, and what we did was make a profile of Luke, how much he cared, how much he loved to win, what he stood for. We've made that our responsibility and used that as our rally cry. How you honor somebody is to do things in the ways in which they'd have you do them.

From the beginning of the season, Tel has improved 100 percent. He's beaten some very good kids in the past two tournaments. He's just been tearing it up.

From the beginning of the Islamic revolution, they made the embassy a place for planning conspiracies and these activities led the students to attack and take over the embassy, ... If somebody wants to write about the crimes of the United States, it would be a big book.

From the beginning of the game, we really didn't give much. We weren't hitting, or anything like that. That's a tell-tale sign right away that we weren't into it.

From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers.

From the beginning of bowl preparations, he's been on point. I think he's back, 100 percent, full speed.

From the beginning, I thought he had a tremendous amount of talent. He is a guy who is versatile. He can strap on a guitar and give you an authentic musical performance.

From the beginning I said I was going to give my heart to both sports and whatever worked out in the end was going to be my decision. After this season my decision has gotten exponentially tougher. Still, I'm not worried about it. I'm not leaning one way or the other. I'm just trying to have fun with these guys. It goes so fast. Before you know it I'll be playing my last home game at Notre Dame Stadium and trying to figure out what I want to do.

From the beginning I just wanted to play confident and have fun out there. That's what I wanted to do, just have fun.

From the beginning I just didn't have it. I was out of control.

For this year, hopefully, it's the beginning of the recovery. In the meantime, it probably will be lukewarm.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in

GM is beginning to take some strong action. The question is whether those moves will be able to somewhat diminish the risk of bankruptcy.