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Having three kids in double figures and having five other people score was a benefit. And it was definitely a benefit to have home-court advantage.

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.

He's a crafty pitcher who figures out ways to get outs.

Gold lost some of its impetus with the release of lower than expected US trade figures and this prompted profit taking in gold. Earlier in the day gold's upside had also stalled.

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

He's been averaging double figures for us the last seven-eight ballgames. So, he's really improved a lot over the season and been a consistent scorer for the last three weeks probably.

There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we'll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are able to win, if we win a peace agreement, if we succeed.

We looked each other in the eye and told the truth. The facts are: Last six games, 11.5 points a game, three games out of double figures in the last six and every one was in double figures before then. You tell me. He just had to pick it up.

He can really be a presence. When Brandon figures out how to grind it out and how to play hard with high intensity all the time, he's really going to be a handful.

He certainly held his own, and that's not an easy thing to do, to be asked as a young player to play with two guys like that and not be intimidated. He figures things out pretty fast.

He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.

I would say that the figures for 2003 are an improvement over the previous years, the first steps in an emerging growth cycle.

Just wondered if you know the audience figures for the Brilliant 'Trisha Goddard show' on Five? Which show is doing best in that time slot? Also how is Five's 'Wright Stuff' doing against 'this morning'? Look forward to your column every week.

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

I think it's good news for the economy. When you take away the GM strike and average last month's figures with this month's, you see employment growth at moderate levels, which is good for sustainable growth.

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

I think we've put three people in double figures just about every game. or pretty darn close to it. You have to focus and key on Crystal, but now with kids who can shoot it and can rebound it, we're a tough team to defend.

I think balance was the key. Up until a couple games ago we've had five players in double figures and we've been balanced, but it's good to see everybody contribute.

I think we are taking after the markets in Europe, most of them are down today. I think the guys are just taking profits on banks because there's still good news especially with credit demand figures this morning.

It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

I think that in general the company showed good results, and some financial figures (net profit, sales profit) even exceeded our targets.

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erroneous.

I think they're probably going to do one more at the next meeting for another quarter per cent because they think that inflationary figures are still running a little higher than they would like.

January's UK retail sales figures confirm the evidence from the surveys that the pick-up in spending growth over Christmas was short-lived.

January's record trading figures continue the pattern of accelerated SETS growth.

Last week, beside a sell-off in the 30 shares being excluded, there was broad, index-based selling to make way for the more expensive shares coming in. Now the market figures it was overdone.

I think everyone right now figures that these people are going to transition into long-term housing. I don't think anyone has an answer on how long that is going to take.

People are reading these figures as bullish for the German manufacturing sector.

Over the last year we have understood to a much greater extent why the '04 car was good and the '05 car less so. People forget that we are still, compared to some of the others, a young team and I think we've learned a lot. The aerodynamic figures for the new car combined with what we learned from last year's experience gives us cause for optimism...at the moment the figures look very promising.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Our program is attuned in such a way that we intentionally want to provide positive male role models for the boys due to the lack of father figures in their lives. Most of the boys in our program are brought up single-handedly by their mothers or, in some cases, their grandmothers. Usually it's the mom who signs the child up to the program, because they want our male leaders to be around for their child.

Our problem tonight was we just didn't have enough contributors down the defensive end, we just didn't get guys in the right position and (only) two guys in double figures ain't gonna get it done.

Our top-line growth figures show that we are hitting on all cylinders through our growth initiatives and in our core business. And much of that top-line success is flowing to the bottom line, despite incurring higher-than-anticipated dilution from our growth initiatives. In short, as we near the finish line in our Qwest merger, we're continuing the transformation of U S West into a growth-oriented vehicle.

Overall, the headline figures are solid. January inventory figures are still on the path for solid growth in the first quarter.

Overall, the figures look OK, but if you dig down deeper you see that European sales performance has been very weak, and that all the growth is coming from emerging markets.

Our young inside people just dominated the game. Any time we get four guys in double figures and get 89 points, we usually come out on top.

Retail sales figures for January indicate that the momentum that built in the months preceding Christmas was not maintained into the new year.

Retailers have been pinning their hopes on Christmas bringing some festive cheer after months of depressed trading, and these figures are better than expected. They reflect the efforts made to entice customers back into shops, but the question is at what cost as prices are so heavily discounted.

Residents told us that some people had died and others were injured but we do not have any figures yet.

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.

Recent figures have been erratic and this quarter's are disappointing. However, taking the year as a whole the number of people in work is up by over 200,000.

Our latest figures from Egg demonstrate that the e-commerce revolution in financial services is already here,

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.

Survey respondents are facing flat job growth figures and are mirroring the concerns expressed in other surveys about the national economy, which has slowed considerably from solid growth in the first three quarters of 2005. Purchasing managers are displaying mixed signals looking forward into 2006.

Suddenly these inflation figures have a psychological impact.

Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

Some investors will use strong consumer confidence data as a reason to buy the dollar. The figures will likely show the U.S. economy is still robust enough for the Fed to keeping rates next year.

National figures show the local market increased by about 8.35 percent through the third quarter of 2005. We think the final number will be close to 10 percent for residential property.

Looking at the manufacturers' output forecasts for January and February, even if the March figures are flat, we should see output be positive again in January-March.

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

Marshall is playing his best basketball the last two games. He has been really good for us and hit for double figures in both games. He will help from an offensive standpoint.

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Little will be done to stop these things if public figures consider themselves beholden to some overarching efficient markets principle and do not even recognize over-speculation as a real phenomenon.

I was happy with the performance. When we have four people in double figures we're pretty much set.

It figures to be a slower-developing market just from the standpoint that if a player and his representatives feel that he's the key in the market, they're going to want to make sure the last dollar's on the table and that teams have exhausted other avenues to try to improve.

I think putting four kids in double figures tonight really shows were growing as a basketball team and that's an encouraging sign.

It does not surprise me that we are seeing those job losses. Certainly what happened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and with gas prices increasing last summer, we should be revising the figures downward a little bit.

I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

It definitely shows what the figures have shown all year. Home sales continue to be strong.

I think (manager Phil Garner ) is trying to push me into my utility-role career, ... He's seen enough of me behind the plate, so he figures if he can make me a utility player, he can get me out of here.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures..

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.

The abbreviated week will bring with it a rash of economic numbers, culminating in the May job figures on Friday. The Street would like to see some signs of a slowing economic pace so as to assuage the inflation junkies on the Federal Reserve.

The army needs to be neutralized, and the best way for doing this is to make sure that certain top figures and second-tier commanders are unwilling to cooperate with the regime should it opt to crackdown.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a woman's dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

The 2004 sales figures are impressive, especially as we enter the twilight of this hardware cycle, and more significantly, looking ahead, the video game industry shows no signs of slowing down. No other entertainment industry has posted the sustained growth over the last decade generated by the video game sector, and given the technological and creative advances ahead, all signs point to surging growth and more record sales for many years to come.

The 1999 figures came in at the higher end of expectations. The impact of the devaluation had not been as traumatic as had been feared. This is a clear sign of the economy's steady recovery.

I was most pleased with our balanced scoring, (especially) Micah and Grant. I don't think they've both been in double figures in the same game, and they were sharing and passing the ball, so that was the best part.

My bookkeeper is working on those figures now.

My careful re-evaluations of published figures and tables, along with new problematic information, now casts substantial doubts about the paper's accuracy. Over the weekend, I received allegations from someone involved with the experiments that certain elements of the report may be fabricated.

Merck figures that the odds are with them over the years to fight them.

While the drop in gasoline prices makes these sales figures look bad, it is of course good news for spending in real terms, which is what really counts.

Willie Mays is an American icon and he is obviously one of the most recognizable figures with Negro League baseball. To have someone of his stature and to take his time to come, helps to legitimize the event and show how important it is to recognize the event.

We have talked about these problems for two years, trying to figure out from all directions how to have full 24-hour coverage for our ambulance services. Now we are giving all the information we have, all the options and figures into the hands of this committee. We'll go with whatever they recommend.

Whether it's from Kelley Blue Book or the N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Guide Co., or any other source, you want to be sure that when you present figures to your customer you have some third-party validation to support your trade value that you're giving the customer for their vehicle. And you need that in print.

Whew that was some work out there. ... We took a gamble tonight. I have raced here 4 times here this year before tonight and all 4 nights the track got slick. So we decided to go with our 360 tonight and use the less horsepower to our advantage. It figures the track would be heavy. We gave em a good run though and we feel real good about our finish. Next weekend barring any unforeseen problems we should win the VRA/Bandit Sprints Grand Slam. No worries!

We have to prove to Kane County that we can fiscally handle it. We're doing all that now. Our first set of figures shows we can do this.

We expect an increase of about 300,000 jobs. Strong figures in the data are likely to spur dollar buying.

We got down by double figures and fought back.

We finally got five kids in double figures. We've had four in double figures four or five times. I think we have to (have scoring from everyone).

We believe the rise in Chinese crude oil imports in October signals a period of stronger Chinese apparent demand figures over Q4 2005 and Q1 2006.

We had it on very good authority from figures who ought to know, the governor and a congressman, that those miners were alive, and we reported it. And as soon as we knew otherwise, we reported that too.

We had four post players score in double figures and that just shows that we're playing our game and playing unselfishly.

We had four guys in double figures and we had 22 assists. That means we were sharing the basketball and we were making some shots.

We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word we have on the radio is accurate.

Valdosta State had five guys in double figures and shot 50 percent ... and we win the game. It's amazing. We're lucky to be sitting at this table as poorly as we shot.

Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures ... and that generates fear and insecurity and an inability to empathize with the other side.

We have had some bumper figures from Exxon and that augurs well for Shell later in the week.

We had our chances at the end and couldn't finish those chances. They continued to win every ball in the middle. Every high ball, they won. That was it. That's going to kill us all year until someone reads the paper hopefully or figures out what we're going to have to do.

Today's trade figures are a stark reminder to the structural deficiencies of the U.S. economy and the reason for our negative dollar outlook for the year despite (its) recent bounce.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief

Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005, ... The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.

Today's manufacturing output figures were mediocre and disappointing overall,

Today's in-line figures mark an interesting contrast with the above forecast results received recently from rival Legal and General -- where improved UK business underpinned well-received figures.

Today's inflation figures will reinforce the belief that the Fed only has one or two more interest-rate hikes up its sleeve before it rests. The lack of any significant upward pressure on inflation should help persuade the Fed to raise rates no higher than 5 percent.