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They are executing in line with what their plans are.

They are a terrific executing team. They are a very efficient basketball team.

They are outstanding, the best we have played so far in terms of those guards and their shooters. It was not one of our better efforts just in terms of executing the game plan. I think Tennessee had a lot to do with that.

This merger combines highly complementary product in terms of markets, geography, expertise and talent. As always, when you see that on paper the trick is executing and making it work. That's the task in front of us.

There were patterns we didn't run correctly and our execution was uncharacteristic in the first half, ... Our running game wasn't executing well. It was an all-around deal where we didn't execute well.

There's absolutely no doubt that executing him would turn him into a martyr.

They're home, they going to make runs, and we were able to respond with big plays. We shot free throws well. We just did a much better job of executing our game.

They're better than us, I mean, they are flat-out better than us. They just kept executing and throwing waves of kids at us. We gave everything we had, unfortunately, our tank was empty by the end of the game.

They're a very solid team in everything they do. Watching them against Minnesota, there were a good number of plays and series where they were really playing well and executing on both sides of the ball.

At halftime, we challenged the kids. We weren't executing on offense. After our first drive, we didn't score, and the fumble hurt us.

AT&T's strong second-quarter earnings reflect steady progress in executing our strategy. In fact, two of our growth businesses, AT&T Wireless and AT&T Solutions, grew revenue more than 40 percent each.

It's just a matter of going out and executing and making plays. If we do that, I feel confident we can win.

It's encouraging to see that we are getting some better looks, executing a lot better on offense and being more patient.

It's execution on our part. The fact we scored 12 points in the second half pretty much sums it up. We need to get back to working on executing and taking care of every little detail.

It wasn't one of our better executing performances, ... It was a little bit sloppy. I still think that the fight was very good.

I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have to carry that through for a full 40 minutes next time. I don't think anyone walked out of the gym tonight without thinking that we can compete at the highest level.

(It) poses a potential risk as the company has had little experience designing and executing on a project of this size.

It's not that we're better coaching; we are just executing better. When you add the right wrinkles and kids play better, it looks like you got a lot of things going on.

It's one thing that we've been looking forward to all season. We knew we could win these games (in sectionals). It just came down to executing and I think our defense really carried us through.

It's not too hard to be the underdog. We'd love to be sitting on the top, but we're confident we can compete. It just boils down to us executing our game plan.

It's more or less us not executing well and not getting good looks at the basket, something we could have did better.

It's always a good story when you can increase customer satisfaction ratings while you are also increasing business; it means you have the organization focused and executing on what matters.

It's always awkward playing somebody for the first time. Tonight I just stayed with executing my shots, stayed comfortable.

It's been a strength of ours, executing against the zone. We didn't do as good a job today. ... The key was that we didn't finish off the first half. We should have been up by more.

It's been about executing at the right times. The players are beginning to recognize and react on their own. They are starting to understand the situations without constantly being told.

It's probably been one of the worst years for the semiconductor stocks and for techs in the last 15 to 20 years. This company has done extremely well in a terrible environment by executing flawlessly an extremely competitive 3D graphics market. NVIDIA is a top dog in this niche.

It's my job as the captain and team leader to create shots when we need them. I honestly was looking to shoot. I knew what I wanted to do. It was just a matter of executing it.

Dan did very well in executing on the concept of citizens' media. He did develop a terrific site. What he didn't execute on was reaching out into the community and getting their participation.

Do I feel like they are threatening us, and are going to give us a hard time? ... Absolutely, it doesn't matter who we are playing. I don't think it is because of who we have playing, I think they have a loaded up offense. They have a really good philosophy with how they run their offense. I don't think it has to do with our personnel right now. That isn't what I am concerned about. I am concerned about teaching the game plan, and executing it well so we can hopefully give them some problems. I feel pretty much the same every week about that.

Considering the conditions and how bad it really was I thought the girls did a good job of executing at the plate. Our defense just got comfortable when they made the errors. We stopped being aggressive.

The offense wasn't executing like we should. We'll be better. It's a team effort. We've just got to keep working to get it cleared up in the fall.

That's the Brandon we all know and love. It was just a matter of getting out and executing tonight. Overall, I was very pleased with our effort.

It's not an easy business to be in. The market is largely efficient. These funds will only do well if they find inefficiencies in the market and (are) able to exploit them to the point where they are more than compensating for the cost of executing those strategies.

The biggest risk facing Toyota is executing their plans.

The beginning of the year typically marks a time of optimism as people recommit themselves to achieving their New Year's resolutions, and many turn to the Internet for assistance in planning and executing these goals. Rather than procrastinate until April, many Americans went online in January to file their taxes. Some decided it was time to shed those excess holiday pounds with assistance from online health resources, while others sought assistance with job changes or used the Internet to snag late-winter vacation deals.

taken a giant step forward in executing our bold new strategy.

It was a great day for all involved, for our young men especially. They did an exceptional job of executing the game plan. We were moving our feet extremely well against the complicated (Princeton offense) system that Richmond runs. It showed a lot about their character. It was a step forward for us for sure.

It was a great night. We did a good job of executing and taking advantage of their mistakes." ()

It was a close game all the way. They (the Bears) hit 11 threes again, but we changed defenses on them; went to a different press. We eventually wore them down and they couldn't keep up with us. And we did a great job of executing our offense.

They did a very good job of executing their offense. When they got shots, they knocked them down. You have to give credit to them for making every open look.

They did a great job of executing in the fourth quarter. It came down to putting the ball in the basket. Rip Hamilton closed us out.

They did a great job of executing in the fourth quarter and we didn't.

They did a better job of executing their offense to start the second half, and that really hurt us. When we aren't getting stops in the half-court, and they are getting baskets in transition, it is hard to stay in the game.

They are just executing better. They've got better merchandise, better fashion and better advertising.

They just did a good job of executing a good play. It was a good call. We felt like we were in a decent defense.

They'll be able to capitalize on some of our mistakes as far as coming out sluggish or not executing the way we should. Everybody is dangerous at this point of the season.

This is a very good report, as expected. It's clearly a very strong quarter, and they're executing very well to get gross margins to the high end of their expected range.

After that (Alabama) game we had a team meeting. I think everybody looked at themselves and everybody bought into what will win games. I think we've done a good job listening to coaches and just going out and executing the game plan and just playing smart.

It's not a mystery, and there's no special formula to what we're doing. It's what every team strives to do, but our guys happen to be executing it well right now.

It's Ray's game plan and we're just executing it, and I'm just here to make sure the film is organized and we get practice organized.

Any time you get quality teams playing each other, usually the team that loses is the team that beats themselves. If we can control what we have control of, and that's staying with our plan and executing the way we should, then we're going to be OK.

Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

The largest challenge is just getting out the door on time and coming back in. The tasks themselves are not overly challenging. So, overall, the biggest challenge will be just executing the overall EVA day timeline.

The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off. In 1998 we invested a record $7 billion in our businesses, and we continue to generate powerful revenue growth from sources such as data, wireless, Internet, enhanced calling features, and digital television.

I'm glad we played good defense. Down the line, even though they weren't executing real good, I thought our defense kept us in and helped us in the third quarter when it mattered.

I'm not going to feel that good and pitch that bad very often. ... I guess I can take that as a positive point. I made some mistakes that shouldn't happen. You learn from it and move on. It was all about executing pitches. I didn't.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

In fact, the very policies that we are executing today only alienate us abroad, strengthen Saddam Hussein and give him cause to reconstitute these capabilities once he has the means,

I know what I'm going to get. It's just a matter of executing, going out there with a game plan and executing what I need to do out there. It's never easy playing against Taylor. He's going to give me a target and I've got to take my chances when I get them.

I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.

I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.

I'm happy that he feels good physically and is healthy; he's throwing the ball well. I'm not happy he's not executing the quality pitches he needs to execute. He's not as effective as he needs to be.

I like the way we compete on defense. I'm proud of that. We weren't executing that well on offense, but to the girls' credit, they buckled down in the second half.

If you aren't executing and you're spending all that time in the box, it's tough to have success.

In the first quarter we were executing offensively. We were looking to score. We had open shots, we were taking them and they were being extremely aggressive on the defensive end which helps us out a lot.

I just think our guys are good at executing under pressure. We have good senior leadership and a solid junior class, and I think that really helps.

I really take it personally. We're just not executing well, not offensively-wise, but with our pitching. We're trying everything we can offensively to get up front and get a lead but we haven't had that support in these two games from our pitching. It needs to get better. Sooner or later it needs to get better.

International expansion continues to be a front-burner strategy for the company and these latest developments represent our commitment to that plan. We have experienced long-term success in the United States by executing on our business model, and we are pleased to see similar business goals now being achieved in the European Union.

I guess the box line pretty much speaks for what it was: two terrible pitches and gave up two bombs and everything else was pretty good. It tells me when I'm executing my pitches, I'm getting the results that I want.

I think our hitting has been our strong suit so far. We've swung the bats and we've been aggressive. We're playing good ball and the kids are executing all that we've asked of them.

I don't really care much for all this 'are they closer?' I really believe that it's all about us - if we are executing our skills I don't believe there's a side that can get close to us.

I don't know if you ever fool anyone, but you give them different wrinkles and you give them things that may look like something you've run before and you actually run something different out of it, ... It still comes down to executing and going out and blocking and tackling and running a route and throwing and guys making plays.

I didn't know it was that low. It's the result of too many turnovers, not executing on offense and not making shots. It's real frustrating.

Certainly, we'd be willing to talk to them, but in terms of executing against the deal we described earlier, we've got to get this right,

Chad (Burns) did a great job on the mound. He knew out game plan and did a great job of executing it. He stayed down in the zone all afternoon.

By every measure, our people did a superb job executing in what was really a very difficult environment: simply put, there was just a bunch of freight out there.

I definitely don't think it's effort, it's bearing down and executing the game plan. You can blame it on age. But we're all in the NHL and we're here for a reason, so we know how to play the game. It's concentrating for the full 60 minutes. We aren't doing that.

I don't think that we played our best the first two times we played them. I think at a part of that was them going a good job. We did a better job of executing this time.

I am pleased with our results this quarter, which reflect that we are executing on our strategy to move deeper into our existing handgun business while diversifying our company by moving into new markets with new and existing products.

I don't think they blew by us once in a pick-and-roll situation. Where in the past couple games, they've had a smorgasbord, tonight he did an excellent job of containing that, stopping that and really executing our defensive schemes.

I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us

I do believe these market trends are going to happen, regardless of Hewlett Packard. Time will tell whether we're capable of executing on the opportunity.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Their kids are well disciplined in executing their assignments and they do a great job of playing within themselves. They play good, solid, aggressive defense and coach Jorgensen always has a few tricks up his sleeve on offense.

This is a good example of a great system and players executing a game plan. We are like every other team in the league right now with injuries, but you are still a team and still have a lot to play for.

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(The Cavaliers) are executing very well, and their pitchers are doing a very good job of keeping our hitters off balance. Give them credit for what they are doing. We are hitting a lot of balls in the air and not putting pressure on their defense.

although Dell is executing well amid weak demand, we remain cautious on Dell given sharply lower IT spending and weakening global economies.

All week, we got a good scouting report. We knew their plays, but Lincoln good at executing their plays. They knew they had a game on their hands at the beginning of the second quarter. That's how I feel.

All week long we talked about executing better and about being football players, not spectators. We kept it simple. We got back to basics and got after it.

The girls are doing things we've worked on in practice, and that's all you can ask for. They are executing well and really working hard at the things we've asked them to.

The general takeaway from our moonlighting is that Amazon is executing on its near-term and long-term financial and operating goals. Customers are plentiful and active, customer service levels are high, and operations are becoming more efficient.

The coaches have given us everything we need; they're preparing us well. We're just not executing the game plan, not playing defense. That's been the most frustrating part. Because we all know that we're not doing our jobs.

The coaches have been doing a great job of putting us in a position to win. We've been doing a great job of executing it. Z did that tonight.

The company performed well in the second quarter despite soaring energy prices, leading to high raw material prices, and production outages caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We remain focused on executing our business strategy, managing our operating costs, improving our business systems, and producing to meet expected demand. At the same time, energy-driven record high fertilizer prices have caused many of our customers to delay their purchasing decisions. As a result we expect a challenging third quarter.

The company is executing quite well ... but there's nothing that made me jump out of my seat and scream 'Yahoo!'.

The main objective was to see what we could do in terms of executing the team strategy. We got separated in the women's side early and we had some difficulty keeping it together in the early part of the race.

The (Jays) did a great job of executing a game plan. You can't always think four or five years ahead. Sometimes you have to take advantage of an opportunity to win now. They made themselves a lot better and are very squarely on our radar screen.

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.