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Splitting up the assets makes infinite sense, not only from a financial perspective but from an operating perspective or competitive perspective.. No one wants market dominance to take place. The shipping community certainly doesn't want it, even the competing railroads out West don't want it.

Standing on the podium waving the American flag in a foreign country holding three gold medals while they play the national anthem, makes all the hard work and sacrifice worth it. She hopes someday to have that same feeling in the 2012 Olympics in London competing for the U.S.

Some of the controls that were put on the business two or three years ago are catching up with companies and they're competing to hire people from a smaller talent pool. Our clients are increasingly looking to recruit from Eastern Europe, South Africa and Australia because they can't find enough home-grown talent that they can afford.

Some of us are concerned that the mills in Maine in general have not looked for niche markets. Rather, they're competing in commodity markets where the competition is severe and the advantages that we have here in Maine are not fully utilized.

That campaign was all about the smaller guy competing with the big boys. That's what Sears tried to do (against discount department stores such as Target, Costco and Kohl's) and failed.

My new employees had been competing against me for so long, they were afraid to have their competitor become their new boss. They resented the fact that we were onboard. I didn't know how hostile it would be.

Nationally, our students aren't competing as well as they need to be with other countries when it comes to science and math. We need to increase the rigor for students, especially since science plays such an important role in the job market.

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!

Matt is a very special player. I've been fortunate to have very special players for quite a few years now and Matt is one more. Matt doesn't need much coaching. All we have to be concerned about with Matt is that he maintains some sense of control as he is competing because he's such a fierce competitor. He'll do anything to win, he's just an awful nice kid to coach.

I was very pleased with her effort and the way she's competing now. She's got that confidence.

I was very disappointed with the road trip. We had players injured and our team was not competing as hard as it could. The injuries hurt our team morale.

I was happy with the performance of the entire team. The team worked really hard since the fall and was extremely enthusiastic to get it started. They seemed to be in the meet 100 percent and competing hard. It was a great way to start.

I was extremely pleased with our scores today and the boys should be proud of how well they played. If we can continue to improve our short game, we will be right in the middle of the pack competing for a tournament spot.

It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

I think of the many outstanding athletes that went though that school. To be honored with them is something very special. I never looked at myself as a great athlete, I'm just a common old guy who enjoys competing in sports.

I think on the field I'm a complete corner. I'm going to be out there -- the guy competing 110 percent every play. Off the field I don't think you'll see me get in any trouble -- I'll go to practice, go home, get some food, get some sleep, (and) go back to practice.

I think guys are ready to go. I think guys are ready to start the games that count, competing for real. We take the field here and we want to win, but making it worth something. I think guys are ready to go.

I think it will stretch out (into the summer and fall). We've got three quarterbacks competing for the starting job. No one is going to give up, and nobody is going to let anyone step in front of them either, so I think it's going to be a battle to the end.

I think it will be important to do well in this meet. It's a quad meet, which means there will only be four total teams competing so it will be important to develop a team atmosphere. It would be nice to come away with a win.

I think Joe's overall game has seen him competing physically at a better level this season. He'll be even better after working out all summer.

I thought he was great tonight. And that's the way we need him to play every night. With that same intensity and that same drive. He's a fantastic player when he's competing and playing hard.

I thought I was fairly specific when I talked (with Davis) about ambitious and achievable goals and competing in the Big Ten, and competing in the NCAA Tournament.

Junior Olympics is just on my path. This was a stepping stone for me. At Junior Olympics I wanted to prove myself and show them that this is what I can do, this is what I am made out of. Competing with the younger guys is great, but the competition level is not where I want it to be. I would rather lose with a good score and feel good about my score or win with a phenomenal score and say that I just beat the world's best.

It is difficult to balance those two somewhat competing goals. But on balance, these (current) regulations seem to achieve that.

I?m sure both of those guys wish they were going to the playoffs and I?m sure they?re disappointed. But I think it?s great for our guys to see how they have handled this. There?s no quit in them. They still are working hard and competing hard, and I think that?s a big reason why we won those six in a row. It starts in practice and in the weight room, and their work habits there are obvious.

We need series like the NAPA Auto Parts Rocky Mountain Challenge Series competing here at IMS. Race fans will have a lot of fun and see a great race as we have put together a fantastic racing lineup this weekend.

The amount of the grant is really based on what they will have available to give us, ... We are competing with everyone else for grant money, but hopefully we may get something in 2006.

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

That was three freshmen and a sophomore. Zach showed a lot of speed in his 100 leg of the relay, so he looks like he'll be a good competitor in the 100 for us, and could be competing for a top three spot in the long jump.

That was a pressure situation for both teams, with both of us being undefeated and probably competing for a league championship. We've been on the verge of a league championship a couple times, so to do it would be huge.

That's the vibe I'm getting from everybody -- this thing is wide open. There are some good guys competing for this job.

That's very respectable. They're in the top 10 (for the weekend), and there were a lot of other independent films out there competing against it. We'll see how it carries over to next weekend.

That's the only one that took me by surprise. We all expected him to be there. He's a regular in Cincinnati. He's not competing for a job. But you can't say anything. This is voluntary. A guy has a right to say no. But he would have been good to have on the team.

I was out there competing just as hard as I could, working without my legs. I tried to go until I couldn't go any more.

I was on the bench watching and I wanted to be out there competing against him. He's a heck of a player. When you run into great players you want to be out there competing with them.

I wasn't going to die wondering why we didn't win, like we didn't win (when competing with) Brisbane or Melbourne. We needed to get our fair share of votes out of Africa.

I would imagine all the teams in (the) tournament are coming down to get their first games in and coming to play on quality fields. All the teams competing should be in the same boat. Nobody's got 15 games under their belt. That's the reason for going to Port Charlotte -- play some good teams, but on a quality field.

Most of the cities L.A. is competing with already don't charge for filming on city property. It's a state issue. The reason we're losing production to other states is the tax incentives.

Most of our athletes will be competing this weekend and the seven potential reserves have been spoken to by the chairman of selectors about the process that will take place over the next few days and what they can expect.

Microsoft recognizes that its better off in the long run if it can focus on competing and innovating, ... But it's clear they have limits to how far they're willing to go to make that happen.

You don't coach to win necessarily. You'd like to win, but you need to see most of your players, especially the ones competing for starting positions. This is the start of evaluation for next fall. We'll establish a depth chart starting now.

You'll probably see lower fares on competing routes, even on competing routes that involve a change of planes.

Will it be additive or will it be cannibalization? ... Certainly we're competing with ourselves but I believe because of the design it will open up new markets for us.

We continue to see a rising demand for custom home and large-scale remodeling in Loudoun. We won't be competing with residential developers, however. Our goal is to help existing homeowners improve upon what they already have.

When it's over, she will have put numbers on the board that will validate her greatness. I think that's unusual to be able to say about a freshman point guard competing in the level of competition that we do.

We played a strong game. We're all competing and battling for each other. We're just not getting too many breaks, but for us, we just have to continue to do this. We have to stay with it. Every guy is battling in here and that's huge. Everyone is going the same way and eventually it's going to turn around.

With all of the talks he had with American and Dominican players, he got a feel for this and made the right decision. I think he understood the importance of a player of his stature competing in this event.

We don't see ourselves competing against another soup. We see ourselves competing in simple meals. Innovation is very, very important to our program.

We expect an earnings recovery in 2001 ... by strengthening our operations, improving our strong product offering and through significant cost reductions. We expect to achieve this, even if the economy and competing environment preclude any revenue growth in the year.

We expect all of the acquisitions that we made to help our club, ... I expect us to be right up there with everybody else competing for the Stanley Cup.

We really went at it. I thought it was going to be hard for us to get back into team things. ... We played today how we practiced all week. We got in the mode of competing all the time, and it carried over into today.

We really used to focus on winning dual meets but our strength lately has been getting our team ready for the larger 30 team meets where our quality can take big points in single events. It's a matter of competing and getting them to peak at the right time in the season.

We care, we care about each other and we care about winning. I can't say anybody in this locker room is competing against one another. We're competing for one another.

We are tremendously excited and extremely fortunate. Mr. Nicklaus has been so wonderful in the Scarlet Course restoration project and this is just another act of kindness on his behalf. The Kepler will be a great success, and we are looking forward to competing on such a world-class golf course.

Well, we're just not good enough within the division overall. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are the measuring stick. They're playoff teams you're competing with, and we're not there yet.

Wendy is coming to Utah straight from international racing. Her experience of competing at a high level and her experience as a female role model in the sport will be invaluable.

We named it Just For Fun because of all the rules we were having. We didn't want all those people out there competing like it was the World Series. We were raising money for the community.

We had a little stretch there with the 100 hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the four-by-two where we made a good push in the track meet. Those kind of things spread throughout your team and then they all want to start competing a little better. There's a little momentum involved in track, too. Not everybody realizes that.

We had freshmen competing at the varsity level. We weren't concerned with wins and losses.

We have all been competing since we were 5 years old. He was the one taking us everywhere and he coached us. I remember playing one-on-one basketball all the time with him growing up.

You are competing against people holding the same cards.

We've got so many cross currents competing right now, and we're in this trading range. And I think we're gonna have this volatile trading range for a while.

We've got quality guys competing for spots on the 25-man roster that can fill in at many different positions. These are versatile guys that know how to play the game and defensively stack up with anyone out there. I think we'll be just fine.

Visa, MasterCard and their member banks have agreed not to issue cards on smaller, competing credit-card networks such as Discover and American Express. These exclusionary rules deny consumers the ability to choose among a variety of credit-card products.

We've done a nice job at the plate. There's going to be ups and downs and you just have to try to enjoy the times we're swinging the bats well. The last three games we've done a good job competing and putting up runs.

We've done all right in the first three. Now we hope to finish strong. I don't care what the sport is, tournament atmosphere is great. It's fun to be around athletes competing at a high level. Some of their energy rubs off on you as you go through the weekend.

We've developed a very inexpensive technology that can detect an infectious agent. It's clearly faster and cheaper than any competing technology. This is another step on the way to point-of-care diagnostics.

We're really not as interested in competing with other parts of the valley as we are with competing against those other cities,

We have a lot more competition in practice this year. They have bonded real well. That's easy for you or me to say, but it's not always easy for kids competing for the same position. The way we have approached it is that we have five move-ins ... let's get to work.

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

We have a lot of younger guys competing in the field events, so it is going to take longer to get them where we want them. It is an area where we have always been strong in, but right now we are just a little bit young.

We can't have games like San Antonio and Chicago anymore. That's not going to cut it. We have to be on the floor competing night in and night out.

We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes?

We just didn't hit the ball well. We are just not competing well at the plate.

We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow. We can get back to ... competing in the marketplace.

Today, the biggest force everyone is dealing with is celebrity magazines. You're not competing with other people's numbers, you're competing with Brad and Angelina and babies.

Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what you need him to do and he comes through.

True, it was a two-and-a-half-day match, but we do not want to insult the opposition and deprive them of competing with the big boys.

Today's releases represent the initial step towards some of our larger prize competitions. We want to know what adjustments we should make to draft rules and what collaborations we should use to ensure these competitions are challenging, achievable, and valuable to both NASA and the competing teams.

When I first came into this industry I was told that IBM was not someone against whom you would compete, ... That IBM was not a company. They were more like a country and a great country at that, and that I shouldn't even think of competing with IBM.

We need to equip ourselves with specific skills, such as change management, business process consulting and human resources in order to have an edge over competing markets or countries.

We need to win this game. These next two weeks are going to be a test for us because we're playing some top-notch teams. Memorial is greatly improved. They've got a good coaching staff over there, and they've done well. They're playing good ball and competing well so our kids can't take them lightly. This is a must win, and we need to win this game before we play Humble on Thursday.

We are now competing for students not only with much lower-cost state schools but with other private schools that devote more resources to scholarship aid.

We haven't moved very far from where we were. But we did try to help a little bit on the money side, knowing we were competing with governments. We'll never be cheaper than taxpayer money, but I think we've been incredibly generous.

We haven't had any steam all year. That was our best performance by far all season. All year long we've had error-filled games. Our last two games we played much better defense. We're competing better. Nothing but a positive coming out of this game. We competed the most (of any game) and forced the other team to play.

We anticipate long-term relationships with both Kimi, who is currently competing in his fourth season with us, and Juan Pablo (Montoya).

We are competing in a huge global grape market with an increasing world production. Competition is increasing, but California growers consistently produce such high-quality table grapes that they are able to compete strongly.

We are competing against ourselves. There's 28 million people who have Brooks & Dunn CDs ... The challenge is to come up with Brooks & Dunn music that's not something they've got already. That's what we are really up against.

We are competing against ourselves, ... It's a vicious competition.

Those middle-60 dollars will be spent probably at Target, Penney?s and Sears. They?re not competing with Meier & Frank, Chico?s or somebody like that.

Unfortunately the left ankle that I injured during the Australian Open will prevent me from competing in one of my favorite tournaments.

Those who had no wish to go international, who sought only to serve their local clientele, learned that they had no choice. Like it or not, they were competing globally because the global market was coming to them.

You know you're in every game, you know you're competing with teams that are in the playoffs and teams at the top of the league. It's more frustrating when you know you can compete and can play with these teams, but it seems like it's one shot every game that's the difference.

You didn't have the number of vendors competing in the marketplace like you do now, People are basically knocking each other over at the campus gates to get to this business, and that means students are the beneficiaries.

We did not want to be competing with Ray Kelly and the New York City Police Department because New York in general is already shortchanged.

When you set a national collegiate record on your first outing of the season, you're sending a statement to everyone else competing in that event. Trey (Hardee) was healthy during fall workouts, and the work ethic certainly was there all along. It just all came together for Trey.

When you're competing with such bigger companies and trying to fight so many battles, you're still a small fish in every large pond. You can be successful maybe in one pond or two but not on all fronts.

We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing for every point, I think we will be a very good team.

We are really competing like we thought we would. We're getting an overall great team effort, and it's because everyone is believing.

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,