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You don't experiment with a changeup against Alex Rodriguez in the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium.

We're all big Big Star fans and fans of pop and power pop, and we wanted to experiment with those influences a little more than we have in the past.

When you're teaching an average golfer, you can experiment a lot more, ... If that doesn't work, try this. You can't do that with a tour pro.

We have an experiment with kiosks in malls and airports. But that model has not proven out yet.

We are doing it as a communications experiment to study how we can effectively use this new medium.

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

When we practice we mostly just drink beer and go over some songs. Basically the live shows are where we learn. Every time we play we experiment and get better.

When I get data back from a polling experiment, I look at it as a legitimate experiment in public policy, ... The idea is to make games that have an agenda. I'm trying to advance people, not as an entertainment form but as a social commentary.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.

We don't know how long this pattern has existed because the kind of field experiment needed to detect the problem of low pollen transfer has been conducted by ecologists only for the last 25-30 years or so.

We're excited to play Samford. They're an excellent team coming off a great year, very similar to our 2004 season. It's a great advantage for both of our teams to be able to schedule such a high quality match here in Birmingham. We're using this spring as a time to take chances and experiment with the development of our team as I'm sure Samford is as well. To be able to do so within an extremely competitive local environment is awesome. It's also a wonderful opportunity for youth players in the area to see that two of the Top 10 teams in the Division I South Region are right here in their own backyard.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

The experiment is to ask the question; the observation is to look at yourself and see what happens. Being a science the law cannot vary. Any apparent variation is in you, you will have stepped off the way of facts into conclusions.

We came in 1999 to experiment with planting grapes - we wanted to see if we could get the quality. We started with 20 hectares of cabernet sauvignon and merlot.

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

We are certain that your experiment results will be another reason for all of us to be proud of you.

We will experiment with sensors and software that will help us manage a generator and batteries that provide power to a habitat, while we are living and working inside (of it).

We worry too much. Failure is inevitable, but failure is the mother of success. ... I'm never afraid to experiment (with) new things, to expand my horizons. ... In one year, I changed jobs six times. Some of them fired me, and some I fired them.

This whole week we're going to experiment with our lineup. Every player on our team is a starter. We're going to keep working and we'll get better.

We're trying to find where kids can help our team and get some confidence. Indoor meets are non-scoring meets, so you can move people around and experiment a bit. You can find out what you really have before you put together your full lineup for the outdoor season.

When I saw that study I was not convinced of the significance of the failure of the monkeys. There are many ways for an experiment to fail and most failures are not scientifically interesting. I immediately thought: we could do that in starlings.

The quick fix suggested by the district court is completely untested, has never been subjected to any comprehensive legal, medical or administrative review, and represents nothing more than a high stakes experiment with Mr. Morales' constitutional rights hanging in the balance.

This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

To be able to experiment with new forms of distribution and technology comes naturally to the group and we're excited about the reaction we'll get.

When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.

With everything I do, I am well advised to repeat the experiment I'm starting from.

Experiment with changing your pace in those runs, especially long runs when you feel strong.

The government must set us on the path to a clean, safe and sustainable future and turn its back for once and for all on the failed, and dangerous and expensive experiment of nuclear power.

This team from Cincinnati will be an older, more physical team. The spring is a time to try different things and experiment by giving different guys an opportunity to play and show what they can do.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.

We cannot allow anybody to experiment with our liberties.

We tried to experiment with new things like always. This season we tried to make them understated and not showy, much more discrete, and what the people are expecting these days.

We will use the technology in Germany next year if the experiment works. The technology will also be used along the touchlines to show whether the ball is out of play.

We're very much a rhythm-driven band. We still want to make people dance, but we didn't want to repeat the same beats. We did experiment with a lot of different rhythms.

Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts

We think Mozes may be even better at center and Hines even better at guard. It's an experiment we've tried.

There have been no violations and there are no doubts in the election process. There is always the first step or the first experiment followed by progress in the next step. In Egypt, thank God, we are making some progress.

Video was inevitable in digital audio players; to actually build the consumer demand portion of that, there really needs to be compelling content. What's promising is that you have one of the biggest content companies in the world willing to experiment with this. But I'm doubtful it will appeal (right now). What will be more compelling is $10 for a whole season. But with Apple and Disney talking, it brings the ability for innovative distribution deals to come to light.

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

Bill has a way of accepting whatever kind of art his students want to do. He's a traditionalist, but he's willing to experiment with different art.

Every farmer, whether he has 50 or 50,000 acres, should have a small experiment on his farm with replicated strips across the field. The data he collects can be used with other trial information to help choose effective varieties.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.

They and others are frightened really of this experiment to succeed. This is the bottom line. They don't want these values, these ideas to take root in a country like Iraq. This may affect them.

The way Apple is approaching it is very smart. They're able to leverage the popularity of their players and experiment with non-music video content.

These are the baby steps to financial recovery, and hopefully, the experiment will become habit-forming.

These products you can use for different purposes, so you can need fewer products. But once you get to color, it's what you love, it's what feels right, and what you want to experiment with. And that should be fun too.

The students see something that they find extremely exciting, something really interesting and they design a hypothesis around that observation. ... Then they design an experiment and write up the experiment.

I visited the labs at Caltech, and theyre running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months. Well, my face blanched.

Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.

Our families are not guinea pigs on whom we can experiment

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Actually, this is a test, an experiment for me.

Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother's makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that Wondered why I couldn't carry a purse,

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

As a society, we are in the middle of a vast, uncontrolled experiment on our infants and toddlers, growing up in homes saturated with electronic media.

As an experiment we decided to try a collaboration together between the three of us, and it turned out great, and we have been working together ever since the first experiment.

B&C has got to do what B&C thinks is best for their organization. It is an experiment that may be a bad thing in the long run ... This made Myrtle Beach what it is.

This is an experiment that isn't just enhanced by space; it absolutely needs space to exist.

This is an exciting international weather experiment that will provide valuable information to ultimately improve weather and climate forecasting.

This is the first experiment to show that chimps don't share the same concern for the welfare of others as do humans, who routinely donate blood ... volunteer for military duty and perform other acts that benefit perfect strangers,

This is really playing out much more like a sociology experiment than a reality show.

This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles refuel and work.

This is something that the huge chains are going to experiment with, just to see if ... there is an appetite for these types of deals.

This is a fun meet. It's getting down to crunch time and this is the kind of meet that we can experiment with our kids and it's fun for them. Plus when you do have the talent, it's fun to go for the records.

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

A lot of these trends are to be expected. This is the age when young people experiment with different lifestyles and behaviors, and when they move out of the house they have even more freedom to do that. We expect that when they settle into more permanent jobs and unions, these trends will abate.

They did that experiment in France, but there's never any proof that Franklin did it here. But I like the story.

They are recruiting tools. We use them to attract, siren-like, the people of Toronto to experience the film festival, to experience what we perceive as satisfying work and hopefully then to experiment with more challenging films.

This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 percent of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80% of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.

It's kind of experiment time, ... We'll see if people get behind us, and if the picture's any good. But it has to be that people will experiment with me. If not, fine, I'll just go back to writing books or something. But I have the feeling I'm onto something.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

It was a typical first game of the season, ... Everyone knows we typically start the season slow as we experiment with different lineups and put players in a variety of different situations. We started out the game that way for about the first 25 minutes. Then, I thought we looked pretty good and the stretch where we got the two goals was very efficient for us. We got a little out of shape just after the two goals. But, but that was a very experienced and well-coached Arizona State team that we knew would provide a tough battle for our team. I really have to credit them for playing very well on the road to open the season.

It's a classic physics experiment and will be a lot of fun to watch.

It's a different medium so we want to experiment and have some fun and try to get people into local news in a different way.

It's a great experiment this week. I want to see how the players are going to play it.

It's a fascinating social experiment in using private sector resources to deliver a social benefit. What Congress did was completely unprecedented they created new markets and new products.

It's a great time for content providers to experiment with a mobile play.

It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

It?s like a big musical chemistry experiment and thank God, it worked.

It just happens that because they're all doing it at the same time, it helps them catch the monkey. You really need an experiment to get at what they are doing.

It's a low-risk effort to experiment online but it's low reward right now. This is not big bucks yet.

It should start filtering on through. It's kind of an experiment for us this year. We're getting some good feedback and some bad. But these kids are young. This is new to them.

It's basically an experiment in how many birds could be killed.

It's great to have that out of the way. Now we can experiment a little bit and filter some of the guys into other relays, maybe qualify in a couple more events.

democracy may seem an attractive idea. But it is impossible to maintain in real life. An experiment in democracy would take us on the road to disaster. Look at what happened to the Athenians.

The big oil corporations say they can drill there without harming the land or the wildlife. Well, that's like our tribe telling Americans to trust us with an experiment that may end up taking away all their cars. We didn't ask for this fight. This is about our survival as a people.

The attitude was that if we caught one or two really bad calls during the season, then the experiment would have been worth it. Those expectations quickly changed.

It's an experiment year for us too. We had a young rock band last night, more of a kid's or college age and the night before that we had Loggins and Messina , and it was a little older group. So this is a trial for us. We'll see if people enjoy it, if they come, if they don't we won't do it again.

It's an experiment for us and our customers to see how it works. We think it will work fine.

It's an expensive toy, so I don't expect it to be under every kid's bed. But I am sure people will find ways to commercialize it, and find ways to experiment with it. Could it spread? Sure. But there is no evidence of that yet.

Not at this stage, not in the Australian side. I like to see the blokes go through the right procedure ... I wouldn't like to experiment too much.