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Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant when we lost Timothy so suddenly.

Today's competitive grocery retail environment has driven retailers to utilize technology as a key customer service advantage for their shoppers. Giant understands that their customers lead busy lives and they want to make it easier and more convenient to shop in their stores.

We'll still need some new power plants, but this is a giant step forward.

What we saw from Troy last year, he went from a guy with a great ability to scramble and run to a guy who uses his athletic ability to buy time and find an open receiver. That's a giant step.

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once said, 'High expectations are the key to everything' and we agree. Since April of this year, Wal-Mart Watch has been leading the public education campaign to reveal the full effects of Wal-Mart's business practices. Launching Higher Expectations Week with 200-plus charter partners moves us into the next phase of our efforts. Unprecedented in size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad problems Wal-Mart creates. Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen. We are also a sponsor of the educational efforts for the new film by Robert Greenwald, 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices' and believe as people view this film, the momentum for our efforts will only continue to grow.

We're trying to wake up the little giant that we have here in Gilroy. We want people to know who we are.

We're trying to teach them to take five giant steps or 10 steps and we're teaching them to wait for the driver's signal to cross.

There are not going to be giant revelations. We're just telling the truth.

We call it the giant finale. We have video, lights, pyrotechnics, plus 1,000 balloons, confetti and streamers. All kinds of stuff to help you welcome the new year.

Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?

We have giant tents at all the entrances to Ford Field to keep people comfortable.

To avoid the giant ear of the NSA, journalists and lawyers now have to make expensive trips overseas to speak with their sources and clients. We are asking the court to halt the illegal spying program now to prevent even more harm to the free speech and privacy rights of Americans.

We're much more comfortable with one giant and us as a very small provider because we can make a business out of people who don't like the giant.

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?

Try to eat like you would at home. So if you do not tend to polish off a three-course meal with a giant hot fudge sundae at home, do not eat one on the plane. I guarantee it is not going to be the best hot fudge sundae you have ever had, so why blow it on a mediocre treat?

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.

But other sightings were of smaller, or very injured squids washed toward the shore -- or of parts of a giant squid. This is the first time a full-grown, healthy squid has been sighted in its natural environment in deep water.

Both the governor and lieutenant governor support renewable energy, but we think there are better places than Nantucket Sound to put a power plant consisting of 130 giant wind turbines.

We see that all the hydrogen gas in this region of the Galaxy is disturbed, with many smaller outflows closer to the plane of the Galaxy and then a giant plume of gas that forms a sort of cap on the whole thing.

The Grand's giant oak trees weathered the storm very well and today remain as majestic as ever.

Turkey has taken a giant step forward on its historic march.

We were driving to Vegas for a show, ... In the middle of the desert, a giant fight broke out. I was driving, so I was trying not to throw any punches, just stiff-arming people's faces and stuff and trying to stay in the middle of the road. We didn't pull over. It was pretty much an inside-the-car fight. It was little out of control. I thought I was going to die.

You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and have to pay those bills. People need to become aware that they have some rights, even when going up against these giant companies that try to intimidate.

We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests.

Up to now, giant squids were thought to be relatively sluggish squids that stay in deep waters without moving much ... But we found out that they move around pretty actively.

We've heard it for years. India's on the march, the sleeping giant will awake, India's the next big thing. But there are some signs now that India's economic progress is beginning to match at least some of the hype.

We have a crew onboard of over a million people -- their names are etched in a little silicon chip. As an astrobiology-type person, I'm intrigued by the thought that those names and that spacecraft will far outlive the Earth. When the Sun becomes a red giant and scorches the Earth, that spacecraft and those names will still be floating around the galaxy somewhere.

We have a choice...we can either rally up every miserable, single person in the city and have a giant pitty party, or we can put on our big-girl pants and celebrate singleness.

To a certain extent, Microsoft always has conflicts in how it deals with partners, and Symantec and McAfee won't be any different. You go to bed with a sleeping giant and he might just wake up and crush you.

What Peter and Fran and Philippa have been able to do is create all of these nuances that never existed. It's not just a giant gorilla and a damsel in distress.

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

We fully expect this is a giant step in the direction of growing the company and all its Disney brands and businesses in this very populous region,

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking for the giant fields because mature fields are declining.

To help allay customer service issues, Giant Eagle pharmacies are issuing seven-day medication supplies to customers in need of their medications immediately until claims are worked through.

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

When you play against ten men for so long you expect to win. That was a giant step towards the Champions League.

Through this kind of sex education, we expect to arouse the sexual instincts of giant pandas, enhance their natural mating ability and raise their reproductive capacity.

To obtain it was a big, giant battle.

We lost a giant of the conservation movement when Gaylord died a few years ago, but his legacy lives on among those of us he taught to fight to protect the environment.

We show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment,

We are trying to set up 30 helicopters to run 24 hours for the next couple of months for $100 million, and right now we can only run one giant MI26 and eight smaller helicopters, ... We just don't have the money.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

This timber project directly conflicts with the purpose of National Monument status. Judge Breyers decision helps ensure that the Giant Sequoia Monument will be protected and can continue to inspire visitors for generations to come.

We think that these orbital characteristics may mean that they were all formed closer to the sun, and then were tossed around by the giant planets before they ended up with the odd orbits they currently have,

Viewers ... may well have been hoping the famous giant ball was the only thing that would drop before the night was over.

We are taking a giant step forward in implementing this risk-based strategy.

We could take the movie around as well, and not just be playing as the Flaming Lips as a rock band. I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s--- falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want. There's something about the communal experience while something intense and unexpected is happening. I'm sure it will come out on DVD and there'll be a soundtrack, but that isn't the real experience.

Bode has his best shot in the giant slalom, since that's his most solid World Cup discipline. But he's also got a strong chance in the combined, and maybe the downhill.

Bruno Rossi was a giant at MIT, and as an MIT professor, I am humbled to receive an award named in his honor.

Even though she was starting 24 out of a field of 30 she never gave in, with each of her runs faster than the run before. Jessica ended up finishing 14th in the slalom with a combined time of 68.97 seconds. This combined with her score of 55.99 in the giant slalom gave her a combined final score of 124.96 seconds. Jessica finished 15th overall, just missing the cut for Team Connecticut by a little over two seconds. Still, it was quite an accomplishment going from 24th place to 15th place in a highly competitive field.

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Communities of immigrant and non-immigrants around the country are organizing in ways we have never seen before to send Congress and the Bush administration a message that what was once a sleeping giant is now wide awake.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Croatia is a small country up against a giant country that invented soccer and is one of the best in the game, only we believe in our strengths and our chances of winning.

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree.

And when I heard Yes, U.K. and Gentle Giant it was something that really got me interested. And those influences has stayed with me.

Employing 1500 people. And our employees see hope in the rebuilding process here on the coast. And the community sees this as a real first giant step.

'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.

Each year on this day we remember and pay tribute to this much loved working-class hero and giant of the national liberation.

Erik has been skiing the last two or three days. We're still going day by day. He has been on the snow every day, free skiing and doing giant slalom. We'll have to see. It is looking positive.

Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenship has remained one of the last bastions of untrammeled state sovereignty. As a result, citizenship creates a giant loophole in the international human rights framework.

First off, Microsoft does have a good product mix, ... It has a five-year earnings growth rate, which is somewhere around 15 percent because it is a giant after all.

First, we should make sure that the two be not near relatives and then consider that the couple can breed babies in Taiwan, so their age should be one to four as giant pandas usually get sexually mature at the age of four to five.

The results we obtained show that a giant impact could explain the Mercury we see today. They also highlight the fact that material can be passed between the planetswe already know of meteorites which came from Mars , but none have yet been found which came from Mercury.

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

There's a giant by this dock that I've got to try for. I'm talking 3 pounds.

The township did a study of its own prior to opening station 2. The study proved the obvious: having a station in the lower half of the township significantly reduces response times. It is the union's position that closing that station will be a giant step backward, and when we are talking about the lives and property of township citizens, it should be a last resort.

The total was up a little from past years. We had a target of 3,000 cans, which we always set a little high. We had some people bring in large jars of peanut butter and giant cans of chili, which is always appreciated.

The traditional factory town that helped transform America into an industrial giant must utilize new ways of thinking and new methods of innovation to remain competitive in the global marketplace.

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

It wouldn't be a giant leap of imagination for them to consider selling all of it. Even if they sold all of it, it's not clear that will generate significant stock appreciation for Time Warner.

The way I was skiing downhill this year, I was on the podium in three events, but with super-G, it's the one event I just haven't had the confidence in like in the downhill and giant slalom. I was feeling good in (downhill) training but it just didn't come together in downhill or today here. I just shake my head at the way I was skiing. I needed to be clean and smooth and I just wasn't doing that.

The way I was skiing downhill, I was on the podium in three events. But the super-G, it's the one event I just haven't had the confidence in like the downhill and giant slalom. I had the wrong thoughts in my head. I just wasn't super confident getting into the starting gate.

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

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The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window.

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

The snakehead is an exotic species capable of surviving and reproducing in Kentucky, ... They are top predators in their native range and we are worried about them. They are reproducing in Maryland and their biologists are tremendously concerned. They compete with native species and that is a giant negative.

The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.

The sleeping giant has awoken. I don't think Minnesota has probably seen a march this big in quite a while.

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

The threats to our architecture have surpassed the giant ape. Airplanes with jet fuel were far more dangerous than any primate, however big.

Ted is too fast in the giant slalom to count out. I wouldn't do that.

Promises are only as good as the giant teddy bears they are built upon.

Progress toward opportunities to learn in a setting designed for higher education takes a giant step forward. The college and the community will have an institution of higher learning to be proud of in the future.

People get a giant misconception about running backs in the NFL,

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.

Oil development in the arctic wildlife refuge makes as much sense as chopping down the giant redwoods for firewood.

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Despite my repeated efforts at getting Microsoft to speak on record about the events of last year, when the company halted development of Windows Vista--then codenamed Longhorn--so it could completely start over, from scratch, the software giant and its PR firm has consistently railroaded me and prevented me from sitting down with people who are knowledgeable about what happened, ... However, I had been briefed informally about these events, referred to internally as 'the reset.'

A real giant has got a little dinky building. I think a building would be something that would be enduring and visible and at the same time it wouldn't be divisive.

Apparently a new family had moved into town and found two giant penguins hanging in the garage. Everyone knew that they belonged to us, so now we have twins because I had already made replicas to replace the missing ones.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

A sluggish giant did not help our economy, ... I think the way to consider this issue is to consider the story of U.S. Steel.