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You need a clearly defined objective of what you want to achieve. You should start small, and consider all the items that will be tagged. And you should know when to say 'no' if RFID doesn't make sense for your application.

You need a clearly defined objective of what you want to achieve, ... You should start small, and consider all the items that will be tagged. And you should know when to say 'no' if RFID doesn't make sense for your application.

This is the first time is has been possible for us to derive new cell lines in completely defined conditions in medium that completely lacks animal products.

This is not an ordinary criminal trial. This is an ad hoc trial in which all of the procedures are defined by the president. The public interest is best served by this court . . . . setting some limits.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

This could be setting a trend here. With this school, you have a gifted curriculum, but they're not limiting it to traditionally defined gifted students. That's where you get a truly innovative model.

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

They're the ones drawing a line in the sand as to what the absolutes are. We've already brought in consultants to help with some of this stuff. Once (the investigators) give their response, once we have a more defined conversation with DCFS, we'll be in a better position to make that decision.

American business is turning its back on the defined benefit pension system. They're basically leaving the employees who built these companies in the dust.

They have clear objectives, well defined and clear to all stakeholders who are pursuing these objectives systematically.

They have a very defined strategy for success at these games. They'll focus on sports where they've traditionally been strong, then they'll look to pick up opportunities in sports where they can, and maybe take a few medals from us in track and field and swimming. If you look at it, it's a very cost-effective, smart strategy.

They have a very defined strategy for success at these games.

They generally defined what these moves would be and some general targets to reach, but we're far from complete with the details, It looks like they got barely enough.

There's a huge amount of demand defined by lower prices and growth in broadband and wireless networks. Consumers in the U.S. are adding PCs to their home inventory and finding new and different ways to use them.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

This is yen supportive. People are starting to get quite a defined time line on when the Bank of Japan will end its easing and are quite convinced its going to happening next week.

There's a lot of people telling you that you can't do it but, you know what, that doesn't mean you don't go try. Don't let your journey be defined by history, let your journey make history.

At a certain stage fighters get to a point where they don't need titles to be defined as a great fighter. I think titles are a great thing to have, don't get me wrong. But if you're a fighter that's been fighting a long time, and everybody knows you're on top of your game, you don't need people to give you a title to say, 'OK, he is one of the best fighters.' All I'm saying is if you put the titles up there, I'll win the titles. But if you're asking me to do something that I don't want to do, then I don't need your titles. I want to be a fans' champions. I want to fight who the fans want to see me fight.

It's as much defined by the people who haven't gotten it as by the people who have,

It's a sweet deal for the firm. Most workers will wind up worse off as a result of the defined contribution plans. Some might be better off if they invest very well. Most people aren't sophisticated investors.

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

It really helps to have defined roles, and we don't really have that now,

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

For a period there, they defined the consumer-electronics space. They were the quintessential electronics. Their name personified quality. They were a heck of an innovator.

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices.

For a change, we actually have two candidates who have defined themselves, or are trying, as they go along. They don't fit into any classic pattern. They're appealing to more of a broad group, both of them.

It's the same story, year in and year out. You've got different factions; managers, advisers or promoters not wanting the other to get a leg up on them. But it's got to change. For the health, integrity and growth of our industry, we need a clearly defined heavyweight champion.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

It's making us look at the way we can preserve the history of the coast. We've lost major character-defining buildings. These were buildings that defined the community.

It's a very exciting first study, but there are still some things that need to be defined by a greater number of patients,

Davidson is a good, solid fundamental basketball team. We've got to take care of the basketball and (get it) to the right people. Everyone has got top players, but our team is defined by our strength inside and we have to make sure we get the ball to those people. At the same time, other people have to do their jobs and contribute.

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

You think about the guys who have been there the whole time and really defined the Miami Dolphins' defense... you think about Zach (Thomas), you think about Jason (Taylor) and you think about Sam. Sam was such a perfect fit under the press-and-go system under Jimmy. He was a guy that, just by his presence, made quarterbacks throw the other way.

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

The bank has a well defined performance reward policy implemented through an efficient human resource development practice.

It's clear that people currently working should factor into their retirement planning the long-term trend away from traditional defined benefit pensions. That means people need to be saving more than they are.

It's definitely pricey but people are willing to pay up for a company with well defined growth prospects, ... There are few companies out there that can command a multiple higher than other stocks because of their history of execution.

It's interesting that people are prepared to believe such odd things about us. Either we haven't really defined ourselves yet, or our fans are a little crazy.

I want to be a champion of African American work, but I'm defined by more than race,

It will be a bill that will protect workers' pensions of the defined benefit variety,

They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood but for those for whom they would give their blood.

They were trying to pocket the money they weren't contributing to the defined benefit pension plan, and we called their bluff on it.

a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is nothing the states can do about it, nothing the people can do about it.

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us, for it is the malady of the present age.

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

That means we have to identify an appropriate area adjacent to a commercial plant defined for storage. Clearly if you can have your storage sites as close to the commercial plant as possible, that would be more optimal.

The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It's not that these studies aren't valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as 'speeding.' In accident data, speeding is defined as both 'traveling faster than the posted limit' and 'traveling too fast for conditions.' Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.

The Census Bureau was more inclined to define people the way they defined themselves rather than impose a label.

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

Information technology plays such a critical role in the global economy, that a corporation's ability to compete in that economy is increasingly defined by its IT capabilities. Operating in this extended, multinational and multicultural environment places companies under greater pressure than ever to manage their ethical responsibilities. Businesses need to be thinking as much about how IT can be instrumental in promoting ethically sensitive and responsible business cultures and the positive outcomes that can be generated.

In Being; God is not limited by love, but is rather defined by it.

In a world of music where success is defined by gold or platinum, our friend Phil Walden was best defined by his heart of gold.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

I'm just tired. I've gotten to the point where I fully realize now that the fans don't care. Caring being defined as not going to the games or turning off your TV set.

Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.

If making the investment decision feels overwhelming, someone might not be included to make the savings decision. Part of the problem people now have is there are many more choices that they have to make. Before, it was a defined benefit plan, and you were done.

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

I'm concerned about how the mission has changed. When we sent in the 2,000-plus soldiers it was defined as a reconstruction mission, but they're not reconstructing anymore.

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

If 'project' were defined too broadly, it would throw off the balance between protecting corporate secrets and protecting an employee's right to work.

In this case, it's a stealth bull market. You can make money buying stocks of good, understandable businesses -- good being defined as good balance sheets, good rates of growth, good management, no off-balance-sheet financing. No nonsense.

In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.

In other words, Japan may now be in a technically defined recession.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

If you want to think about airplanes that have defined the air age, this would have to be on the short list.

I think 2000 will be defined by a flattish level of sales and a better product mix, ... I think that better product mix will feed through to better earnings for most of the major players in the U.S. auto industry.

Iraq's Kurds are an active part of Iraqi society... and Arabs consider them as brothers. The identity of Iraq cannot be defined in such terms,

I am an extraordinary fan of defined benefit plans, but the world has in fact dramatically changed. If the offset is that companies start aggressively encouraging people to save and provide financial literacy education, that may be a very positive silver lining.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

We are defined by how we use our power.

He's taken a very personal interest and a fairly significant interest in the issue of human rights. He fundamentally believes the character of the North Korean regime is defined by its human rights conduct.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

I didn't know Gate well, but I always appreciated him, most of all, his feisty, independent spirit and warm heart, ... Gate was the original contrarian, but there was always a well thought-out argument behind it. It wasn't just that Gate was unwilling to play the fool. He simply refused to live up to anyone else's definition or expectations of him. But I think this was part of his genius. From the start, Gate defined himself, both as a musician and as a man.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously: 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

George Bush doesn't want on his watch to say that marriage, defined as the union of one man and one woman, was lost,

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

I never wish to be easily defined.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

I can understand why Cal Ripken wanted to keep playing, ... It's a rarity. I think it defined my career.

I don't see her beholden to Bush. Because of this fastidious commitment to doing the right thing, she will get in there and understand the rules of the game, what the Court's already decided, and what did the legislation or administration rules say that defined the scope of conduct.

I do see that quality, triceps and quadriceps, really defined muscles, like a body builder.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

Carrying a very different cost structure than your competitors and having an element of unpredictability relative to competitors has caused many companies to move away from defined benefit plans.

He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggling days of ABC News.

For the first two years, we prepared all the documents, re-arranged our operating structure and defined our mission and scope of operations. They were not physical, noticeable changes.

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.