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While most people turn 21 and decide to go out and party, I turned 21 and decided that I was going to become somebody that I never thought I could be: somebody who cares about herself and her body, her future, and her health.

We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

The other test aircraft already had the system, so we decided we should install it on the other one.

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

We applied to summon more witnesses to appear in court and review the evaluation conclusions. So the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court has decided this case is postponed for one month.

We are proud that the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Khartoum decided to adopt the Jordanian initiative.

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

We started talking via e-mail for a couple of months. Then we decided to bring him over for a tryout. From the first time we skated together, we just knew.

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

We struggled in the first game, but in the second game we decided that we were going to come back and nobody was going to stop us. We came together as a team, and fed off each others' emotions.

We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.

We are pleased that Williams & Associates has decided to expand its relationship with Descartes, and we look forward to continuing to provide them with comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective logistics messaging services. Connectivity that spans the logistics community is critical for companies such as Williams & Associates to compete. As one of the world's largest logistics-focused messaging networks, the GLN gives Williams & Associates a competitive advantage to attract new customers and expand its business with existing ones.

We are a group of people that got together and decided to commit ourselves to making sure that the Rivas family needs are meet.

We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.

We believe that local people ought to make local decisions, and today, we've decided to open the roof in Houston, Texas,

While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public,

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Whether things really change year-to-year in golf, it's sort of a yes and no answer. I mean, there always seems to be something that gets a lot of buzz. But as with the big heads of the last few years, some golfers found that it was more like trying to swing a sledgehammer. They just couldn't get used to the size, so they decided to go a different route. Then again, you still have some companies pushing boundaries when it comes to how big the head can be. It's whatever you feel comfortable with.

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked that they had to pay $39 and that we had ads. We decided to eliminate these obstacles in order to attract users.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided let's do it competitively, and here we are,

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

When we were behind by 12, they could have said it's not our night. They could have decided on something else. They didn't and did a great job.

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.

When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.

Tom was outside during some of it and decided to go back in the house when he was having trouble standing up.

We remain in talks about what should be decided there, and what the role of the United Nations should be.

We responded to the hurricanes with between 200 and 250 medical, security and logistic support personnel as well as aircraft from the Army and Air Guard sides. This was huge for us because it came two weeks after the BRAC decided to take us off the base closure list, which would have taken the C-130s used to help following Katrina.

We're going to take some time here, think in terms of 30 to 60 days, to step back and decide the next step in this journey, ... There's interest among others for various forms of transactions. So we'll have options. We just haven't decided yet what makes the most sense for GM. In 30 to 60 days we'll be ready to try again with something that we expect will work this time.

What this amounts to is they decided to pay $1 million and not add three years to his contract, so this is his last year. At the end of this year, Steve will be a free agent.

When we began this process, we decided that we wanted to be a primarily private-sector-funded convention, and to limit the resources and finances from the city.

When we approached our next sessions in my house, we decided to completely go for things we couldn't even perform live. We went for a studio approach, really layering and cutting things down.

When we drafted him, people said he was probably the most ready for the NHL. But that to me was a bonus. It wasn't something we factored into when we decided to pick him. But he obviously played against men last year and played in the World Championships for the Czech team, and the thing that impressed me when he came in this summer is that he tested like a man in his physical testing. It transfers over to his game on the ice. He's a very mature player.

When we drafted him, people said he was probably the most ready for the NHL, ... But that to me was a bonus. It wasn't something we factored into when we decided to pick him. But he obviously played against men last year and played in the World Championships for the Czech team, and the thing that impressed me when he came in this summer is that he tested like a man in his physical testing. It transfers over to his game on the ice. He's a very mature player.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

When we decided to give this reunion a go, I hadn't even listened to 'Entertainment!' in more than a decade,

When we decided to do something to celebrate 30 years, I wanted to do something completely different, ... We wanted to do something we'd never done before.

When we couldn't find the right person, we decided to abandon preconceptions and look at people we hadn't thought of. She came in and her very first audition was so wonderful, so magical. She had this sweetness and innocence, but also something sexy and a little dark.

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

When we got here (as ninth-graders), nobody wanted to play basketball. We just decided we've got to do something about turning this program around. We really love basketball.

When we first saw the locations we would be using, we decided to use a different visual approach to each part of the story,

When we first opened we wanted the restaurant to be slow- paced, the bar area with its couches to be medium-paced and this bit to be fast-paced. That's why we had square tables and wooden padded chairs here. The furniture wasn't bad but it was harder than it is now. Then we had a rethink and decided that really we didn't want anywhere in here to feel as though there should be a quick turnaround, so we moved in round tables and curved, leather seats.

When we first moved to Sun City Grand from Minnesota we went to an orientation at the food bank, and then they decided to set up a day when we could go out and glean and see what that was like.

We would say it's a very favorable development for the state because the Supreme Court has decided to hear the matter instead of denying a hearing and remanding it the Court of Appeals, which could draw the case out potentially for years.

What he's doing best this year is keeping the ball up around the basket. He's running better. He's jumping better. He's chasing down shots a lot better than he ever had. But it's not like all of a sudden this summer he decided to work on these things. He's been constantly improving.

We found that patients who stopped their antidepressant during pregnancy were five times more likely to have a return of depressive symptoms than those patients who had decided to continue (them) during pregnancy.

We found ourselves walking downtown nearly every day last year. That's how we decided we wanted to live downtown.

We find it increasingly troubling when state and local governments provide our competitors a head start in the marketplace by subsidizing the construction of their stores. We believe the success of a retail business is best decided in the marketplace, not the halls of the state capitol.

We both decided not to eat there anymore. We'd make decisions together like that.

We both come from academic backgrounds in the health field and had been working as researchers at the University of Edinburgh. We decided to come back to the States.

We believe we have a duty to protect the image of our football and if that means putting out those who are disruptive, we are prepared to do. We decided on the replay because we thought that it would not have been a good idea to allow the players to suffer because of the indiscretions of their fans.

Unfortunately, I've decided to withdraw from the squad. I informed manager Sadaharu Oh of my decision by fax yesterday.

Years ago, when my wife and I first got the idea for a beach-based competition, we decided it should have its own name.

With my mother being Irish it was a close call. I nearly went, but I decided against it as we were going to be hindered as a club at Manchester United with the five foreigners rule.

We explored a whole lot of different avenues and decided NAU was the best available to us.

We?re hoping to be able to do it again. We already decided some things we want to do on the next one if we get a chance.

We're aware of the situation with Hassan Adams. I've spoken (with) head coach Lute Olson and we've decided to delay any further comment, or provide any reaction, until Monday.

To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.

Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

Through our meeting in Italy, it was clear Trend USA is a company ideally suited to take advantage of the unmatched accessibility Miami-Dade offers. As with many other foreign companies that have decided to establish headquarter operations here, Miami-Dade will be the perfect location for Trend to continue their success.

Yes, I'm scared. Very very scared. I have not been to an Arab city, and I don't know what to expect. All of the stories I've heard are one big jumble. I am interested, and I want to go, but I nearly decided not to.

Yes, Daniel Robbins has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue his passion for software development with an independent software vendor where he will be focused on building in .Net on Windows. This move also takes Daniel and his family back to their hometown community of Albuquerque?We thank Daniel for his contribution to Microsoft and wish him the best of luck on his new job.

With the recent multiplication of outbreaks in China they have now decided on countrywide vaccination, but at this point we cannot say if such a massive program is either possible or advisable, China can do it.

We knew we were bigger than those boys, so we decided we were going to pound the rock all night. It was real effective.

We lifted it completely. We decided there were so many exemptions that had been carved out over the years that it was getting harder for a volunteer board to supervise and enforce. We're going to give it a try and see if it affects the campaign. If it conflicts with the campaign, we'll obviously revisit the issue.

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 had trouble shooting from the outside. We had several reports about that. We decided just to go to the zone and see what happens.

We know women influence up to 85 percent of all (auto) purchases. We decided to create an event that's a more relevant experience for women.

We know he's got power. Sometimes, you don't know what you're going to get. I decided to give him a start to see what he does. We tell the kids they've got to be ready when they get the call.

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Very early on, I decided I didn't want smoking in the movie. It's not really a movie about smoking, but about lobbying. Tobacco is just the setting. It's not that I believe in the idea that movies should be responsible and not show smoking. But I think if the characters had been smoking, it would have seemed a pro-smoking movie, whereas it's about lobbying and spin and talk.

Vehicle exhaust is truly one of our largest exposures. We decided that people were really not aware of the seriousness of the exposure.

Ultimately, we decided to go in a different direction.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

With those types of concert promoters, they offer dollars that make it difficult for smaller venues to compete. After six months, we took a different approach and decided to make this more of a community event.

We're still looking at all decisions this week. Obviously, we have Carlos (Ruiz) missing. We have got to decide what's the best way for us to go. So, we haven't decided on a lineup yet.

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

We have no active talks between the Reds and the Indians involving Austin Kearns. Our baseball people met for the last few days and decided that unless we are overwhelmed with an offer, we want to see Kearns play here.

When you say programming costs have gone up, what you are saying is a vertically integrated cable company has decided to shift the profits from the left pocket to the right pocket,

We were bigger and we got caught up in a couple of picks and screens. I decided to go small late in the game with the match ups and switch picks. I kept one big guy in.

We were at the captains meeting last night and discussing the storm and we decided the only alternative to postponing was to move it up. That way, we figured we could get the boats back here Friday ahead of the weather and then they can either stay in safe harbor here or make it back to their home port. We gave them that option and also the option of withdrawing.

We were at a crossroads, and Barry and I decided we wanted to put more money in, and Glenn looked at the situation and didn't want to lose more money. You have to realize, as the majority owner, Glenn was taking the majority of the losses.