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We're 16-1. I wouldn't want to be complaining about that. No one would listen. We're getting better and improving every game. Even (against St. John's), we got much better in the second half.

Yes, I think it's going to be a fantastic buy. I think we're going to pack the whole year's Super Bowl rate-of-gain, which tend to average 16 percent during the last 18 years, compound annual growth of the S&P 500, 16 percent a year. We've had zero so far and the outlook is improving very, very significantly for the worst worry that people have had. And that is the Fed rate-hiking. It really looks like the probability is increasing dramatically that the Fed rate hikes are over and inflation pressure is in check. And as that continues to happen through year-end, we can get a fantastic rally, 15 to 20 percent on the S&P 500 in three months.

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

We've seen, really across the store, improving results. Part of it seems to be better merchandising, part of it seems to be improved execution, and part of it is just momentum -- once people start going to a store, they tend to return.

The fact MEW did not fully correct the large Q2 increase supports our view that conditions in the housing market are improving and that this will, at some point, lead to increased household consumption.

The real answer to improving wealth in other provinces... is to pursue wealth-creating policies - especially in the largest province, Ontario,

The reading builds on the older child's skills, while improving the younger child's also.

The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

We're just trying to play the best hockey we can and go out there and get the job done. We played well as a team and we want to keep improving as the tournament goes on. I know it's tough for the other teams, but we've got a strong team and we've played well.

The outlook for first quarter 2006 has been steadily improving and we are now seeing less than normal industry seasonality impact in our business.

The outcomes NCH Healthcare System has experienced are a testament to how healthcare IT provides clinicians with the tools to improve quality of care This technology has helped dedicated physicians and nurses to become more operationally efficient, fundamentally improving how care is delivered.

We're growing each week as a team. We're not there yet. We still have things to work on. But we are improving each time out.

This promises to be a phenomenal year for the park and our Guests. We are literally pulling out all the stops to ensure that every visitor who walks through our gates has the best time imaginable. Every single day we will be focused on bringing our Guests a total entertainment package that they won't find anywhere else, and in addition to our amazing array of rides and attractions, we're making a big investment in -- and commitment to -- improving the Guest experience by providing a better park environment.

This program, we were struggling, we went through a lot. Each year we just kept getting better and better, improving our win totals. We didn't get 20 wins this season, we were right there with 19. Overall, we didn't do what we set out to do but looking back it was still a pretty good career.

There are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.

We've taken a disciplined approach to reducing debt, improving liquidity and increasing financial flexibility. We will continue executing strategies that improve operations, strengthen our balance sheet and reduce debt.

When I had the opportunity to win, I did. But I think I will play better. If I keep improving I definitely feel confident I can win it again.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

What I am very interested in is seeing that individual neighborhood associations all have a greater voice, that they have a more direct input in improving their community,

There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'

We're looking at every point in the process, from scheduling to post-discharge care, because our data shows that hospitals who manage their key service lines in this manner are successful in collaborating with their medical staff. That performance-based collaboration is the key to improving all aspects of performance, including reducing implant costs.

We're continuing to make upward progress, ... I think the improving economic conditions in Tulsa are helping, people are more confident to spend money on travel.

We're concentrating on continuing to better ourselves. You want to win over another team, but there's nothing you can do to stop them. We have to focus on improving ourselves.

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Layoffs always are higher late in the year. All (the layoff report numbers) suggest that we are still improving compared to last year and there is little real evidence of slippage this month. The slippage was from August to September, but September to October is good number.

Layoffs always are higher late in the year, ... All (the layoff report numbers) suggest that we are still improving compared to last year and there is little real evidence of slippage this month. The slippage was from August to September, but September to October is good number.

Leslie's extensive work with the U.S. Department of Education and her founding of the Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity and the Capitol Education Fund, evidence her commitment to improving education access and opportunity in our country. Her broad legal and professional experience and deep knowledge of the education sector will be a tremendous asset as Career Education continues its leadership role in the changing landscape of our post-secondary educational system.

Learn.com is dedicated to strengthening America's global competitiveness by improving the quality of education both in the classroom and online regardless of the size of the institution. We believe that providing cutting- edge tools to promote lifelong learning through the proper academic channels can help build strong, educated communities. We believe that facilitating these institutions' ability to extend programs to e-learning based delivery will allow them to leverage already overtaxed assets including faculty and facilities.

Many school systems are going to continue having to do more with less when they believed the improving economy was going to lift that burden from them.

shares my commitment to improving every Marylander's access to a college education.

Sentiment for gold is improving but the outlook largely depends on the fate of crude oil prices.

So far, we have 10 different players who have scored goals for us. And most of them have had multi-goal games. We took some positive steps in improving last weekend, and I'm happy that the players adjusted to the moves.

So far so good. Three percent is really good growth. ... I expect an improving job market -- 1999 was the last time people saw job growth like this.

Solid execution in the field, a strengthening competitive position, and an improving economy contributed to results that were above expectations,

She's still making sophomore mistakes. But she's working hard and improving every game.

She was our hero of the day. Our team is improving weekly and is right on target for many season's best swims at districts next month.

She's gotten better in a lot of ways. The biggest thing with Lady was her conditioning. I told her she had to come back in better shape, and she did. It's shown on the court. I think she has a tremendous upside. She has the opportunity to keep improving for next season. She has a world of talent.

simple affirmation of Roe v. Wade, a decision which has had a long-lasting, profound impact in improving women's health and lives.

Silicon Image continues to drive growth and innovation like few companies in our business while improving operational results. Our focus as a company is to continue driving the system architecture for the storage, distribution and presentation of high definition content in the consumer environment.

Signs that the U.S. stock scene is improving really helps lift spirits at home.

Significant investments throughout 2006 and an improving employment environment should produce substantial earnings growth over the next few years.

Shopping ensues when the environment is improving and we believe things seem to be on an upswing for Cisco.

She has had a really good week. She's beaten some good players. Just have to keep improving with every match. It's going to get tougher and tougher as you go along in the tournament.

She has been improving a lot, ... The coaches have been working on her on talking more. She so big that she can intimidate the opposing team. Now if we can get her to be a little meaner on the court.

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Since the 1997 model year, Ford vehicles have been improving on a consistent basis. This year is a bit of an exception. The Focus is one of those vehicles that hasn't aged gracefully.

SIRIUS, which has the best programming in all of radio, is committed to constantly improving its programming offerings in a cost-effective way. With these new channels, SIRIUS enhances our listeners' choices.

She is a solid player, the one to beat in tomorrow's final. I lost to a great player today. She is playing her best tennis. However, I wouldn't say that I am playing bad tennis. I am improving with every outing. I know there are certain areas in which I can improve.

Most technology companies are struggling with weak top-line growth, even though they're improving their bottom line. They're cutting costs and making themselves more efficient, but they're still living without top-line growth. That's tough.

Mobile CRM solutions are improving customer focus and putting field sales and service forces together at the center of corporate revenue responsibility. Mobile CRM is showing its real value by helping performance-driven organizations sell smarter, deliver highly personalized services, and enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction by delivering time-critical information to field personnel, when they need it most.

Milan has more experience than us and that's important. It's also true that they have won more titles and have had more success than we have but we are improving and we cannot stop now. We have a 50% chance to go through to the final.

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Motorola's growth in sales has continued to accelerate, and our earnings are on an improving trend. We are especially pleased by the results in our new Broadband Communications Sector, which was formed after the merger with General Instrument, the improvements in our network systems business, and the sequential growth in quarterly earnings for semiconductors.

No doubt bears will highlight the rise in continuing claims, up another 29,000, but we are unmoved: A rising ratio of continuing to initial claims signals accelerating productivity growth, not a shaky recovery, ... Labor market conditions are improving -- but we still expect a soft payroll report Friday.

One of the things that's unique about this is that part of the proceeds go back into improving the Christensen Field agriculture facilities.

One of the beauties of this program is that it can address troubled stocks of native, sea-run fish while improving water quality and boosting local economies, by increasing the numbers of anglers and boaters drawn to an area.

One-third of the production in OPEC is deteriorating and doesn't have very good prospects of improving in the short run.

One thing we will be focusing on in 2006 is improving our services to small businesses. We're setting up feedback groups to help small businesses and we plan to launch more programs specific to them.

My dad always says that Rome wasn't built in a day, ... We've come a long way in three years and I look for us to keep moving forward and to keep improving things.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Moreover, I don't see diminished housing-price appreciation as a major problem for consumer spending, since again, the primary determinant of spending is income, and we see solid and improving prospects for real incomes for the nation as a whole.

More North Carolina students are taking the SAT and they are improving their scores every single year.

My horse didn't start off too great, but he's improving finally. He was immature a little bit, but he's starting to fill out.

Now we have the best performance we've ever had in the Olympics. Bam! It's done. We did it on the first day. Now it takes the pressure off and we can just focus on improving the performance aspects.

Now we are not considered favorites, but we fear nobody. We have no pressure on us. That is to say if we don't win, we lose everything. Egypt are improving steadily, are confident and will have the little matter of 74,000 people supporting them in an incredible atmosphere.

Now the situation is so that we can proceed with improving this side of our production process. This is why we started this new product line. Stretched templates also known as liquid templates are available as both HTML templates and Flash templates.

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

Now that we've accomplished the monumental task of restructuring, our next focus will be on incrementally improving our operations. Going forward we will be challenging ourselves to operate as efficiently as possible, leverage our core strengths and bring customer service to the highest levels of performance.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Obviously, the economy is improving and business owners are optimistic. Small business owners are saying that they will be hiring people, expanding facilities, even investing additional funding in their business.

Obviously, the easy thing is to add more policemen, and we're doing that. A lot of communities in the U.S. have seen a correlation between improving neighborhoods and reducing crime.

Obviously my ball striking is good when it's on, and that's why I've had some really good results recently. I've been gradually improving my short game over the last couple of years. I'm just happy to be up and playing well early on in the season because I had my best year last year, and when you have a bit of winter break, you never know how it's going to start.

Obviously, his size is an advantage. He's got good feet for a big man. He played up front in his early days, so he's got good feet and is good on the ball. He needs to keep improving as he is certainly being pushed from behind by some of the young kids. It's good to have that competition as well.

Nothing is going to happen in terms of improving confidence until something happens in terms of an improving labor market, and that might well take until after New Year's.

Returns to airlines are slowly improving but are far from allowing long-term financial sustainability.

People wanted more hours. There wasn't as much mention about online appointment systems or improving technology in general.

People vote with their feet. We think that's telling. All of our economic policy decisions in the foreseeable future should be made with an eye toward improving that figure. We can't sit back while New York morphs from the Empire State into the emptying state.

Pharmacists have many clients needing help and they are trying their best. Getting through this period is just the first hurdle. They we have to work on improving the inadequacies in the legislation.

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Perez is developing into a nice high post player with a high shot release. His confidence is improving in only his second year of organized basketball.

Plenty of credit should go to Allison and Crystal for getting a high seed in their first year of tennis. Right now, they are good athletes playing tennis and rapidly improving their skills.

My task is to play a coordinating role between all stakeholders and encourage governments of this region to link humanitarian relief assistance to long-term development aimed at improving food security.

Nobody escapes from this. Everyone in the valley is exposed to some degree. But there are a lot of options to combat this, and the benefits of improving the air quality are substantial.

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

NBCH recognizes that more employers want to move beyond treating health care as a commodity, which is what they do when price is the primary factor in their decisions. Informed employers are looking for resources to help them make use of quality and other performance metrics that are now available. The good news is that improving the quality of health care contributes to cost reduction as well. The eValue8 data is one more tool available to our members in determining the best health plan for their business and employees.

On the first day of practice the running game was a concern. But the running game is one of the areas that's probably improving the fastest on offense. I'm really fired up about Jon Cornish.

One of the challenges is that when you get scores like that in the upper 80s or better, improving on that is increasingly difficult.

One of the primary reasons for improving wireless support is to give companies the tools to put FreeBSD into their wireless devices. The guy at FreeBSD who is adding wireless support is under contract from wireless companies to do the work.

I was pleased with our performance tonight in a pressure-packed situation. We're looking forward to improving on a couple events next year but overall our performance tonight was a big improvement from last year.

If we're entering a time when people can improve their health, then it's important to be improving your wealth as well. If you're going to live into your 90s in good health, then you're going to need money.

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

If they can keep improving week in and week out, they're going to have a fun year. If they go out, make mental mistakes and not stay focused, it can be an ugly night.

I have confidence in any keeper they put in the goal. We have a veteran defense that is ready to help her out and keep the ball from going into the net. They've all done a great job this spring with pushing each other every day and improving these last two months.

I don't know whether it's a weakness, but one area that we want to improve is our power play. Our penalty killing has to improve, too. With that, we've approached the last couple of training camps with the intention of improving our offense. Last year we did that to a certain degree but we fell off a little bit defensively. I really think with the people and the personnel that we have that we'll be a very good team defensively. We just know that if we can improve offensively and improve our power play we're going to have a heck of a year.

I don't care if the kid comes in last every time, as long they're improving and learning and having fun, that's the important thing.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

I am really looking forward to sinking my teeth into a new challenge. In the short space of time that I have been here I am impressed by what I have seen. It is a world apart from Aussie rules, but I am looking forward to working with the players on improving their physical capacity.

I am so proud of my brother. My dad's focus in life has always been to focus on improving your weaknesses because it will also improve your strengths. He is bringing the philosophy to his own team and it's a lesson that carries through not only as a hockey player but for everything you do in life.