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We lost a couple of games and I think our confidence level dropped a little bit.

We had such a terrific start to the game. And to me, as soon as Peter went out, our whole energy just dropped right off the cliff. Our energy went right down the tubes. That's the second time that's happened and that's got to change.

The public is responding to unfettered access to Missouri-our load factors are really strong on our flights from Dallas Love Field to Kansas City and St. Louis. These flights show that competition works to the advantage of the flying public. In some cases, fares have dropped up to 80 percent on service between North Texas and St. Louis and Kansas City.

When it dropped off when I first took the job, I wasn't going to Penn State until we got competitive. There was an unfair advantage with our program being so down.

We figured it was somebody that ... maybe had a fight with their boyfriend or whatever and wanted somebody to benefit from it and probably dropped it in the bucket. That was one assumption, but you don't want to assume.

We felt they were 90 percent (effort) and we were hoping they would step it up that extra 10 percent. And they dropped it down about 30 or 40, ... If Somerset would have put one in the back of the goal, there's no telling what would have happened. Because you probably would have seen an even better and more energetic Somerset team.

You got to be a winner, and bring coaches and players that winning is important too, and want to do their best. I think another thing is that coach (Bowden) has hobbies (and) priorities that are set and he has ways to keep himself from burning out. I don't think his competitive spirit has dropped any.

You get up and you get a lead and you start feeling comfortable, you have to keep going. Our morale dropped down a little. There's really no excuse for it, but we really need to make sure we come out and play all seven innings.

You do want to try to steal a couple on the road and you've got to try to take care of your home court. We dropped two of those at home against a very good Akron and Miami (Ohio) team, so we've got to make up for those on the road.

We had some errors, and it dropped the girls' morale, then they lost confidence in themselves. It's our one bad game for the week. We are looking forward to playing Tombstone on Thursday. If we win against Tombstone, we'll go to state.

We had pressure on the passer, we missed some throws, we dropped a couple of throws and we really did not throw and catch the ball and protect like we needed to.

We went out with a call and said that we'd be cautious about buying the stock in the low 30s, because there's another shoe to drop. And in fact, that shoe dropped last night. We now view the story as being relatively clean. And I think they now have a base upon which they can build for the long-term. It's important to understand that the opportunity set for Dell longer term really has not changed very much.

We could've easily dropped back into the consolation bracket in the first round because we didn't know what Phoenix had until we got there.

Brian threw the ball real well. He was very accurate today and I thought he did his best job of reading and taking what the defense gave us because they played us a little bit different than we thought they would coverage-wise, dropped guys a little deeper, blitzed us more on first down. So they had a pretty good plan coming in and we had to adjust a little bit.

Brock knew that we didn't have a 215-pounder, so he unselfishly dropped down to make our team stronger.

Boy, did I look closely into Michael's shot. Because no one saw it go in, I had to talk to people in his foursome as well as the group ahead of him, which included the course's groundskeeper. The groundskeeper said he never saw the ball go in but did say there was no one around who could have dropped it in.

Even though there were hundreds of volunteers who took time off from their jobs and dropped everything in their life to help in the relief effort, there was absolutely no sign of the federal government except in the area with a fence around it.

Even though it's improving, there's still an awful lot of people who dropped out of work force and are waiting to be pulled back in.

Either Tom Lee and partners are victims of fraud or they dropped the ball in terms of due diligence. Today, we don't know which it is. This is not a good time to come to market with a new fund.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

Big mistake. We dropped back to the keeper and he was supposed to clear. He turned it back to the center which is a no-no. We don't do that.

Everybody 'knew' that two dogs went in the water and dropped dead instantly.

As the piles are being dropped off from the vehicles, they're spreading the material out fairly flat on the ground, and then the dogs are running through the piles looking for any remains they can identify.

At minute 43 you can see the patient's blood pressure drop suddenly from 125 down to 45 and their heart rate dropped from about 110 to 80, and the patient passed out.

Coming in and getting that bomb dropped on us was heartfelt, of course. I am so grateful for Mike O'Connell to give me an opportunity to live out a childhood dream -- to come to Boston and put on the Bruins sweater. On the flip side, I feel responsible for him losing his job.

Conceivably, as the number of households that refinanced dropped off, the ability for consumers to enhance cash flows and service other debt loads eroded as well, thus partially accounting for the upturn in late payments.

Competitors have dropped their prices, and this is a shot across the bow that Apple is going to go after the lower-end customers.

Enforcement levels have dropped so low that boosting them has become very easy.

EPO is a powerful drug, ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously, I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.

Early in the season, our pitching really came through for us. The pitching has dropped off lately but the bats have really picked up the slack.

Euro-dollar dropped about 40 points in the aftermath of the release but recovered some of the loss, reflecting the market's uncertainty about the veracity of the figures.

First of all, we appreciate the bypass. But they dropped the ball on the drainage problem.

There's no sense competing for existing union members - we have to ask the question, why has union membership dropped to seven million from 11 million in this country.

There's no flow when you drop passes, ... T.J. has dropped a ball every game. Chad dropped a ball.

The time to sell is not after the market has already dropped by 25 percent,

I started focusing all my time on being an Apple II hobbyist, dropped out of grad school to go to work for Apple in August of '79.

It would be great to think that this is the start of an 8-2 season, so we've got to get ready to win our next eight games. The things that didn't get done tonight are some of the same mistakes we've been making all season. We had an inability to tackle, dropped passes early and our protection of our quarterback broke down. A lot of those things have to do with our intensity, and that's my jobto motivate these guys.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

I use dropped D quite often and open G and open E sometimes. And sometimes I make up things, like dropping the G string down a step.

I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

The wholesale market for SUVs has dropped considerably.

The win was good. I didn't think we were as efficient offensively, especially in that second quarter, as we needed to be. Some dropped balls, some lack of execution. I thought we came back in the third quarter and got some things done.

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

It was unreal. Fumbles, dropped passes, not great throws -- it was like a whole team thing together, something that really doesn't happen. We regrouped. We just didn't regroup in time enough.

It was very promising until the temperature dropped a bit and more snow fell than expected. The weather forecast indicated clear skies during the race. So the assessment was completely wrong in relation to how things went.

It was very harsh on Dafydd. Ulster tried to take our driving maul down, and when Matt McCullough (Ulster forward) dropped to the floor, a few of our players went over the top of him.

It was a perfect ball. He just dropped it right in over the top of the safety. You couldn't ask for a better ball from Sanchez.

The sharp rise in mortgage rates that is now under way threatens to limit the refinancing boom, limiting the cash that will be dropped into U.S. consumers' hands during the critical holiday-shopping season.

These drug-plan companies can switch the nature of the drugs they cover. Seniors should be allowed to then switch out of that plan if the medication they are taking is dropped from their drug-plan provider.

The storms really threw a kink into our growing operations, especially around Immokalee. Some of the yield dropped by 80 percent.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

The stock has dropped over the last five to six years from over 30 yuan and now it's time to rebound with the good news.

The skew of the audience has probably dropped 10 years, ... Older people don't have the spontaneity and the energy. You mix in 15-percent young kids and the older people enjoy the show more.

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

The short-term impact is pretty clear and pretty obvious, and it's to be expected. Traffic really dropped off, ... The main effect of Sept. 11 was to exacerbate a trend that was already in place, and that is that consumers were really buying consumables and buying them in discount outlets. How quickly that will turn around? Your guess is as good as mine.

The suspect then left but one of them dropped his cell phone. The victim had a minor stab wound to the neck.

The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing their registration. In reality, we were suspending people for not sending in proof of insurance even if they had it. There was no other way of knowing if they were insured or not.

The thing I look at most is the individual pitchers. And I thought Bautista's arm slot was in a great position. It's something we've talked about earlier. Last year his arm slot dropped a little bit, but his arm is in great position right now, and if he keeps it that way, it's going to be tough to keep him out of the rotation.

I wanted to get everyone warmed up even though we dropped some balls. That first series was to get the blood going through arms and hands.

Thanks to our drivers, the districts liability insurance claims have dropped over the last three years in a row while the number of vehicles, drivers and miles driven continue to rise. Operations are about as lean as they can be and still remain safe and efficient.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand - I am tempted to think - there are no little things

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

Quinn was wrestling very well up until that point, dropped his hips and got in trouble.

Purdue is in the process of rebuilding their program after they dropped it for a year. This really wasn't a tough match, but I was happy with how the shooters responded and posted near some of their personal bests. This match gave us an opportunity to take a look at some of our other shooters.

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Our energy just dropped right off the board. Our energy just went down the tubes and we've got to figure out a way to recover.

On the way down I actually got to see what it was like from an aerial view, and it was just destruction...it pretty much dropped my jaw,

Offensively, we dropped so many balls and didn't make many plays. I thought we had good effort, but we have a lot of work to do. I knew there would be issues that would show up, and they certainly did.

Normally I probably wouldn't have been too sad about that record. It's the way we went 3-3. We started off 3-0, then dropped three to end it. For a lot of guys last year, it was a new experience. You can have a loss or setback and still do well enough to win your conference.

A deer hunter flipped the switch for me. He dropped two books on my desk 'Diet for a New America' by John Robbins and 'A Challenging Second Opinion' by John McDougal, and asked me if they were valid.

The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.

After Graham had given one or two a kick up the backside they were sent out because we wanted them to refocus. We knew it would be more of the same from Thistle and we couldn't afford to be lethargic. And in the second half we did start pretty well but then we dropped it again.

After our loss at Whitworth, we dropped to 3-5. And to go into conference at 8-6 is a great turnaround. We have won five out of our last six games and we have some great momentum heading into conference.

Something deep dropped in my stomach. I didn't even know what to say, I couldn't say anything, I was just sitting there holding the phone to my ear, just a bunch of dead silence... I was just like wow.

Somebody told me USC had dropped and I didn't believe them, ... How can you be the No. 1 team in the country, win five road games, three against ranked opponents, and lose ground? How does that happen?

Some people just dropped in what they had,

Now, I'm down to 162 pounds, and have dropped from taking seven meds a day, down to one med, after blood pressure and cholesterol began dropping dramatically, and my body began producing insulin, thus reversing the insulin resistance and that problem too has been eliminated,

Dramatic difference. I've even dropped a pant size and haven't dieted, haven't exercised.

During our visit with companies in Korea, each company acknowledged that June revenues for handsets dropped drastically, although they did not agree with the degree to which it dropped.

Defensively, I thought that our perimeter people helped a lot. We helped and then recovered. We've been preaching that all year long and tonight, it actually came to fruition. Once the ball went down to the post, we dropped down and got some help.

Deflationary pressures are building in China. In the December survey input prices have dropped for the second month in a row but output prices are almost matching the decline.

Compensation increases for CEOs, while far exceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.

(Cody) dropped one second since Tuesday and he's working hard to achieve his goals. He's getting better, obviously.

Detroit is very motivated for a lot of reasons. They're fighting for the best record in the league. They dropped a game to us, which will make them more motivated to win. We have to play our game and play it well.

Anthony Davis knew who Dennis Winston was, ... When he tackled Anthony Davis, he went backwards. I always said he dropped him like a dead bird.

A number of people are getting dropped off there. We call them kiss-and-rides.

Anybody who has been dropped will feel bad. It's the same with me. I do feel bad.

As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots.

The calls definitely dropped compared to last week. We have only received one call today.

The cab driver gave the officer an earring he found inside his cab right after he dropped the fare off,

August gave a little talk before the show about how he dropped out of school, regretted it and spent hours in the library educating himself, ... He talked about developing your intellect, being open to the world and life through books. It was one of the most brilliant speeches I've ever heard on that subject, and it really moved those kids.

Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life.

That's why I stuck around, to go out and win football games. It's a tough loss to know it was right there until the end. You can look at those last two drives, but it comes down on offense to missed assignments, dropped balls and bad throws. We were not very precise today.

(Albert Lea) lost a ball in the air and dropped a pop up. All of the sudden we were up 6-0.

You take away the penalties and dropped balls and we've been pretty efficient on offense, ... We have to clean that up.

You never know what the first game is going to mean. Last year we won our first game and dropped (five) in a row after that. Maybe this year we pick up a bunch after this.

You never want to give up on a league title, but this game was more for preparation if we move on in the playoffs. We dropped to No. 12 in the last power ratings, we can't afford to drop anymore games. When we get in the playoffs we're going to have to win games like this.

This is a true victory for a more rational nuclear policy. The proposed weapon, more than 70 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, would have caused unparalleled collateral damage.

This is not your father's B-52. This is not the Vietnam B-52, ... This thing has been modified over the last 29 years to the point where now the bombs that are dropped from the B-52, because of the global positioning satellite capability, (they) are as accurate as the ones off the B-1 (bomber).