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I still think our guys don't know how bad it is. From what I've heard, unless you're on the ground in New Orleans, you can't comprehend what has happened there.

I strongly disagree with the conclusion that 44,000 tons of dangerous high level waste can be stored -- above ground and below the flight path of Air Force jets -- safely. This fight is not over.

I think it will be important to have them all here to discuss not only the peace process, but the implementation of the process and the action they need to take on the ground to make it really hold,

It has provided a training ground for terrorists.

I thought it was an easy ground ball because I forget we had that big shift on. That's without a doubt the softest he's ever going to hit a ground ball off me, but Carlos made a great play.

I thought he stood his ground well. They have some real class skaters, and they scored some great goals.

I thought I had it. I hit the ground and it popped out. I was pretty disappointed. In the past I've been able to hang onto them.

I thought I had him (Monroe) set up for a ground ball, but I made a bad pitch.

I think the technology has allowed us to do a much better job of defining where the hazards are, where the strong shaking may be, where the bad ground is.

I think they played a very good game and totally brought it to us. On the other hand, we didn't help ourselves with dumb penalties and mistakes. . . . People were making a lot of mental lapses. And when you start first and 15, which we probably did three or four times, it's hard to make that ground up against a good defense like Carolina.

Justin does exactly what you ask him to do. He throws strikes, he keeps people off balance and gets you ground balls.

Just because it doesn't smell doesn't mean it isn't spoiled. Potentially hazardous things like ground meats, eggs and milk may go bad the quickest and you may not know it. Those are things that bacteria like to live on.

It is designed from the ground up for women. Previously, all (chemical dependency) treatment was designed for white males. Every element (of the Boulder facility) is designed for women.

It is evident that the United Nations cannot, has no means, is not present on the ground and simply cannot possibly accede to this request.

Melody kept the ball down and had a lot of ground balls. ... I think the more she throws, the better she's going to get. She's getting better with every pitch.

We need more pain at the contact area. There were times when we were going to ground too easily, arriving in ones rather than twos or threes. Matt is our best prop as far as his overall game is concerned. He's there for his mobility and work around the field.

We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory.

We'll be able to put a stronger team on the ground and we can hopefully get back to playing the way we have been over the past few weeks. If we do, we'll be very hard to beat.

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

The 30th anniversary of the Games will be hosted in a state known as a breeding ground for not only the greatest players to rule the game but also, and more importantly, for fans who make the game great. The regional passion for basketball along with Louisville's obvious charm and southern hospitality were key elements in this landmark basketball decision.

The advantage of the tower gun, other than the superb snowmaking, is it allows us to place them in stationery positions around the mountain. This allows our snowmakers to focus on other key areas on the hill using the ground guns and fan guns.

The Acura division hit the ground running this year. The strong demand for Acura vehicles indicates the popularity of the brand among luxury consumers.

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

The arts are critical to ground zero. There was a process. Maybe the process needs to be looked at, but it certainly shouldn't be abandoned.

That would be one place where Phil can hit the ground running.

That was something that was fun to do. My whole thought, in general, is to put my own stamp on things and not be walking over the same ground again. So I wouldn't have done that song again if I didn't think I could do something really different with it.

That was probably the best and worst weekend of the year. We broke ground and then Dick had his stroke the Monday morning following. When you talk about highs and lows, that was kind of a microcosm.

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

That was definitely not the best grab of choice to be strategic. If you see any of my races, you know I'm always grabbing. It helps get me on the ground as fast as possible.

That's three months of rain falling in one night, and there's no way the ground can soak that up. There will be serious runoff.

That's the way elections are won, a lot of feet on the ground and lots of hard work on the ground.

That's true. fresh snow will keep the temperatures 10-15 degrees colder than if it were bare ground. (It is) almost like the ground is being air conditioned. The sun's energy heats the ground, which in turns heats the air.

That's been a really good breeding ground for them this year ... It's one for the record books for sure.

I was probably a little tired. I was looking for a ground ball and I got it and it took a bad hop.

I was on the ground near Murphy Lake, northwest of Whitefish - it was around 1990 - when I came around a corner on the old highway that's no longer used and there was this wolf starting to walk away. Since then, I've probably seen hundreds and hundreds from the air and on the ground. It's been extraordinary.

I was on the ground and all twisted up. They were pulling the ball away from me and all yelling ?fumble, fumble.' But, my butt was already on the ground. I knew that it wasn't a fumble.

I wasn't very good in getting the ground balls I would have liked to have gotten today. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on. I would have loved to have done better without a doubt, Just like they wanted to beat me, they knew I was wanting to beat them, too.

I wasn't trying to strike anyone out, not until I got two outs. I just couldn't get them to put the ball on the ground for a double play.

My belief was that I had to put my stake in the ground and build the team around one player. It's not that one player can win or lose for us, but if you have to put a statement. And Marty is my statement player.

Mergers are looking to help us hold our ground today.

Who is right? The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.

Whoever works harder will come out on top. We want to focus on being tough and working on ground balls. Hopefully things will work out.

Whoever it was that set me up wants me in the ground as quickly as possible,

When the ball touches the ground on an incompletion or anything, coach wants us to pick it up and start running with it. He is just trying to put it into our minds that whenever it touches the ground, we've got to get it.

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

We have only been able to get outside one day, so the first few ground balls in the dirt or fly balls in the sun during a game may be challenging.

We invented a golf cart that puts less pressure on the ground than a human being walking. We found a way to equally distribute the weight, between 5 and 6 pounds per square inch, so the cart can go literally anywhere on the greens.

We just couldn't get over the hump. We got beat on ground balls, made a couple of bad decisions but overall, we played a nice game. I said that I wanted to leave this field with no regrets and that's what we did.

You'll spill more on the ground than you'll get to the trough.

You like to see someone like Sam do well. He's been in this series for quite a while, either as a driver or an owner. He's done a lot to get it off the ground and to see him get in the show is good for everybody.

Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.

While working with entrepreneurs, I gained an understanding of what it takes to build a business from the ground up, and Iowa has a number of flaws in its bureaucracy that don't allow businesses to thrive and succeed, and most are prevented from even getting started. I understand what it takes to create jobs. Most importantly, I know how to listen to a customer and deliver what they want. It should be no different in state government.

We continue to believe that while domestic express volumes may be close to a bottom, ground volumes, (international express shipments) and especially yields are several quarters away from bottoming.

We can't expect meaningful federal support to be on the ground providing provisions in an organized manner until probably the seventh day. Our emergency response system is geared toward everyday emergencies, not disasters. ... People need to be able to help themselves.

We'll be ready to hit the ground running as soon as we receive the remaining regulatory approval,

We were lucky the house wasn't more damaged. My sister's room is back there and it didn't break a single window. We've been asking to get the tree cut down. They were waiting for something - for the ground to harden or something - to cut it down. I guess we waited a little too long.

We can really make up some ground and put ourselves in a good position. All conference games are big games. It doesn't matter who you play. You've got to play well so you can win.

We can only win if the Iraqi people are able to play a greater role in peacekeeping, and we can only win if the president gives an honest assessment of what's really happening on the ground in Iraq. Staying the course and paying for good headlines are not a strategy. It's merely a bad excuse for not having a plan.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

Well I mean it's a great recipe. I mean it's the ground beef, it's marinated with a little red wine. We've got the vegetables in there, got our champ, which is our garlic mashed potatoes baked on top.

Well I love the way the world is your gardenAnd you plant your seeds and you let them growAnd you take things out of the ground just likeYou take what comes, but you never know.

We played better (on Saturday) and I think part of that was getting the first two matches out of our system. We were nervous. We're getting better but have a lot of things to work on including inconsistency in our ground strokes. We served a lot better today.

We hope to break ground on the station within the next year.

We hope to break ground in late June and our goal is to have the school set to open in August 2007.

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

We don't feel any pressure. We'll keep our feet on the ground and we know that if we play well, we will be able to get a good result.

We're building our program here from the ground up.

We're delighted, and I'm betting millions of Nationals fans are too. This clears one of the last hurdles in the process and gets us ready to finally break ground on a ballpark that gives the Nationals a new home and sparks an exciting economic revival in southeast.

We're definitely excited for our season to start. Everybody's itching to get outside and get some games in. We would like to get outside and get more practice in, but the weather just hasn't been nice enough yet. The ground is still frozen, which makes doing anything other than shagging down fly balls pretty hard. Hopefully when we head to Colorado, we'll have nice weather. We're all definitely looking forward to the trip.

We're definitely catching up with other parts of the state. Teams are making it further into the playoffs. One of these years, a team's going to break ground and win a state championship for the guys.

We're convinced it's not a human-induced condition but a natural condition brought on by wetlands and ground water. We'll recommend a re-classification of that stretch of the river so that it won't be encroached upon by human activity. It could not support a wastewater treatment plant, for example.

You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.

We're claiming that the ball hit the ground and went into the glove.

We ended up adding all these dimensions to Butters that I think were really great, ... He's always the kid that's worried his parents are going to ground him, but on the other hand he's got this other persona where he thinks he's this evil superhero, but even in that he does the most mundane things.

We earned it. There's no doubt we earned it. Things didn't go our way but we ground it out.

We're already gearing up for freestyle wrestling. The more matches we can get in over the summer the more it'll help us to make up ground with the OCC schools.

We really want to be ready to hit the ground running with this new government when it's ready to go.

We really think, hopefully, all three of those guys will hit the ground running June 12 when we start our summer conditioning.

We really struggled with making the routine plays. Every team has to make the plays when your pitchers work hard for you and get a ground ball. You have to get the outs.

We really struggled today due to our late tee start. The winds really picked up as we were playing, but we have to play better. Hopefully we will and make up some ground along the way.

We really need them to do well, ... There's a lot of ground to make up in the next few months if we're even going to be close to last year's attendance.

We finally got our offense off the ground in the first half. ... We sat on the ball and didn't get much offense in the second half. Luckily our defense saddled up and we shut them out in the second half.

We don't have a large team on the ground in Australia but they are in the scope for this review.

We have some pulp made from blue jeans and recycled artist prints. We'll put some seeds in one of the vats, so you can stick the sheet of paper in the ground and the seeds will grow. This will be a nice piece of paper to write on. They'll be able to scoop the fiber out of a tub, press it and form it and take it home to dry.

We are trying to do ground and air patrol to ensure that the problem animals do not cause any havoc and to try to drive the elephants back to the park.

We have agreed with President Milosevic on a ground verification program augmented with an important aerial verification program.

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

We wanted to keep the ball on the ground throughout the game and wear them down, and we were able to do that.

We wanted to keep the ball on the ground and play to feet so we could keep possession. In the first half, we were just making one touch and running all over the field.

We've got snow on the ground and it's cold. That's a pretty good thing.

We have completed a substantial amount of work, almost all the pipelines have gone in. We still have some minor distribution pipes to some households to put in, but all the mains have gone in. To date, the value on the ground is $21.6 million.

We have to pick up ground when they lose.

We're not beginning from ground zero. They have had a life here in the U.S.

We're used to this. The people that it really affects the most are the poorer folks that maybe are renting and might not have the means and transportation to get their possessions moved to higher ground in time. They lose everything.

Visa continues to gain ground and as Visa sends more and more transactions over its network, it just gets stronger and stronger. The money will be used, in part, to better compete for co-brand deals with airlines and large merchants worldwide.

Usually you put a tee in the ground to let someone know they've hit a ball into your group, ... It is a game with a code of conduct, where thoughtfulness should prevail.

With the ground as wet as it is we'll be back under flash flood warnings and watches by Monday.

We have already been in touch with Chang and they are working on the ground already and doing a lot of things to assist in that area. We want to work with them and do whatever we can to help.

We have a lower addition at ground level, so we already have a foot and a half. Our main level -- we hope it doesn't go above that.

We could have part of an enabling force on the ground in Kosovo within several days of a decision to do so.