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The president, in our perspective, is in uncharted territory because he has a really long tenure left and yet he has very low job performance ratings in just his sixth year. Whether he is able to turn it around depends a lot on Iraq. But the events in Iraq seem largely out of his or U.S. control.

This was a largely punitive operation. It did not cripple any of Saddam's capabilities.

There are all sorts of things that you can do during non-race times to help pay the rent. We've had eight different things going on at once where people were renting the track. If you drove by, it would largely look like the place was quiet, that the grass was just growing. But we use this place all year long.

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.

With energy prices reaching unprecedented highs, investments in energy efficiency should be a top priority in every state. However, our analysis clearly shows that many states are largely ignoring and failing to capture this lowest cost energy resource that also yields significant environmental and economic benefits.

While it is clearly premature to sound the all-clear on inflation, the October consumer prices data are largely reassuring for the Bank of England and boost hopes that inflation has peaked,

With the CBA right now, we've got a good thing going. The owners, the players and fans are the ones reaping the rewards because there hasn't been a strike in 20 years in the NFL. It's been great. We're the No. 1 spectator sport in America and why is that? It's largely because of the CBA and the parity that exists because of it.

We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,

When we started with Manchester United Vodafone was still largely a UK-based business with a growing set of international interests. Manchester United fitted very well at that point as a very big sporting brand, a UK-based team with quite a good international fan base. It fitted us at that point of time. It is part of the evolution from a UK-based business to a multi-national one.

Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.

Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while.

But since such reconstruction demand will weaken sooner or later and demand for new vehicles in the US is largely believed to fall this year, I must say there may be some downside risk going forward.

We're talking largely about the secondary schools because we know elementary schools are neighborhood schools.

Turnout was high and the day was largely peaceful, all communities participated.

Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you're over 50, different rules apply.

We were encouraged that the premiums in the Medical Segment increased from the third to the fourth quarter, ending a long trend. In addition, we were pleased with the sales results that rose substantially compared to last quarter, the same period last year as well as overall for the year. We attribute this sales success largely to the Advantage Series of major medical products introduced in mid-2005. These plans, which offer customers a wide choice of benefit levels and prices, have been well received by our agents and by consumers. The Advantage Series is built on a new rate manual that allows for pricing consistency for all our individual/association products and distribution channels.

While traders and investors have focused on strong demand growth, sizable additions to supply have largely been ignored.

While the news media has largely focused on New Orleans, Biloxi and Mobile, there are lots and lots and lots of rural communities where you have populations of maybe 30 to 100 people that we haven't even talked about yet," ()

Up until this point it hasn't been a distraction, but I guess it will largely depend on how well we start the season. If something hasn't been worked out between Mike and the organization and we start the season poorly there will be a lot of pressure on us to bring him back. We're looking to have a good year with or without Mike.

The opportunity to return to the Carolina region was one that interested me. My decision was based largely upon that opportunity for my family. The decision was increasingly difficult as my situation here at Drake ... has been extremely positive.

We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.

Those tax cuts were directed largely to those who needed them the least. New Jersey wants a senator who will stand up to George Bush instead of blindly following him as he plunges the nation further into record debt.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

What's causing the bunching is unclear, and likely involves unknown features on Titan's still largely unexplored surface.

What really drives the stock is merchandise sales and that is largely stimulated by theatrical releases. And all my media sources, including those at Toy Fair, were positive about the Fantastic Four movie.

What I would emphasize is that he called this morally reprehensible, ... I think it's largely making a mountain out of a molehill.

We focused on redefining the station assembly sequence in fact to concentrate on assembly, and we are largely deferring utilization and we are paring logistics to the bone. We don't like that, but confronted with a choice between having a high confidence to be able to complete the assembly of the station and deferring utilization, or utilizing it heavily as we built it and possibly not finishing, we chose the former course.

We don't see another rate rise, but we recognize that the risk is still there, due largely to oil prices -- the oil market remains vulnerable for both supply and demand reasons,

What this means is that India, which has had a good record in safeguarding technology, but has largely stood out from outside the global nonproliferation arrangements, is moving inside those arrangements. It is adopting practices and procedures, export controls and other safeguards that are much more in line with the international community's efforts to police proliferation and avoid proliferation.

We were on the ropes at 29-10 behind, and the fact we were able to come back from that was largely thanks to our talented backs.

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

We truly deliver our basic training program largely through facilitated, small group instruction. We've been so successful with it, and it is so unique, that we have academies across the United States that come to us and try to see what we want. To see what we're doing now.

When all is said and done, Nokia is primarily a mobile phone company. Any additional activities are largely incremental.

We feel we have solved these issues and feel they are largely behind us.

We expect the new management team to rationalize the product portfolio and wring out supply chain improvements over time, but we think 2006 is largely a transition year.

We see a $US2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity. This sale was largely unanticipated by the market.

We see a $2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity. This sale was largely unanticipated by the market.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

U.S. economic numbers alone can't explain the strength of the market movement in Mexico. The fundamental factors, which have been positive and which were largely ignored because of U.S. market gyrations, are getting recognition.

To what extent a pension reform plan attracts and retains teachers will largely depend on what percent of our salaries the General Assembly asks us to sacrifice.

We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.

Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real -- and brutal -- enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.

We are very excited about the release of Ultimate Survey Enterprise version 3.0, as it has been largely built on customer feedback and our company's underlying goals,

Both gas and electricity markets are still largely national. (Incumbents) seem to have limited interest in going out and competing in their neighbors' territory.

Based largely on this trend, I believe that the creation of greater than human intelligence will occur during the next thirty years.

As the market has largely anticipated an end to the current monetary policy soon, buying of the yen will not last.

At this point, I believe inflation and inflation expectations will be largely contained by competitive market forces and continuing adjustments to the stance of monetary policy,

Computing is no longer just about PCs, laptops or even cell phones, but rather about the promise of pervasive computing -- which will largely be enabled by sensors. This announcement will allow Java -- just as it did with cell phones and the Internet -- to play a pivotal role in enabling the coming wave of sensor driven computing.

Contrary to what you might read on the editorial pages, this is not new tax relief for the so-called wealthy, ... Rather, it is largely an extension of current law.

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

Could it be that my indictment -- curiously issued two weeks before the Democratic National Convention -- is largely political?

Customers can largely blame themselves and not the vendors for these problems. Users have been clamoring for a one-stop shop for all their security needs because they had so much difficulty integrating all these disparate technologies.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

Editors finally began to understand that the audience was largely self-selecting, and that the readers the feature attracted were unlikely to be offended.

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

Early on, treating (sleep apnea) was largely a lifestyle issue because people were falling asleep in the day and this would help them feel better.

European governments have a card they could play in the current crisis: token assistance in the rebuilding of Iraq, which would largely stick the United States and the United Kingdom with the entire tab.

ESA-related costs are paid in an inequitable way. Although Congress determined in 1973 that the preservation of endangered species was in the interest of the U.S. as a whole, Congress did not arrange for the nation as a whole to bear the costs of recovery. Instead, these costs are largely borne by the private landowners on whose property rare species are found, regardless of the ability of any particular landowner to bear these costs.

Established companies are existing community assets. They're time-tested, and largely what happens with small companies is they're hit with a sudden change in import competition that they don't have the internal capabilities to respond.

First of all, this is a very large market that is largely underserved.

There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.

There's going to be some disappointment in the Big W result, but that is going to be largely offset by continued strength in the hotels division. Hotels seems to go from strength to strength.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

I've been dealing with Page Six since it started. They drive me crazy on a regular basis. And yet, people like me are employed on a regular basis largely because of this type of thing.

I've been getting more and more clients, largely because of recommendations made by CPAs to their clients. Things have been going so well, I was even able to double my revenue this year from last year.

I've been largely undecided about everything for most of my life. I can barely commit to a phone bill... Somewhere along the line it has become my career due to continuing work.

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

They are a highly compelling sector, but their Achilles heal is they're largely dependent on the Bell companies. Line growth is what we look at. And the strike raises another yellow flag in minds of investors.

The WTO decision is largely irrelevant to this, ... The fact is, that what we are talking about are NAFTA rules, NAFTA panels, which we have won consistently.

The rise of unemployment claims in June, largely due to a fallout of the since-settled General Motors strike, drove most of the decline in the leading index.

The Rio Grande Valley area is an established corridor that smugglers use largely due to the geography, population, and an expanded smuggling network on both sides of the border.

I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

I've spent the last several hours in an appearance before the grand jury largely detailing the operations of the White House and the physical setting of the White House during the time in which I was chief of staff. I believe I've answered all of the questions that were asked of me. And I will not comment any further on my testimony,

I've never known a transfer happen quite so quickly. It was all done within 24 hours, and that was largely because of Robbie's passion to rejoin the club. He really was that desperate to come back.

It was a largely in-line quarter. The outlook was in-line to modestly better from a revenue perspective but a bit below on earnings per share.

These bids have not been driven by an overarching vision or an attempt to foster innovation in the industry. They have been largely driven by attempts to leverage the cash flow of European telecom operators.

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.

The stock now seems relatively fully priced, having largely achieved our $76 price target.

The strength was largely driven by promotions and did not provide as strong of a start to the holiday season as some retailers would have liked.

The slowdown in futures orders clearly signals that revenue growth in the second half of fiscal 1998 will be below our previous expectations. This is largely a result of the slowdown in the Asia Pacific market, where we now anticipate more moderate revenue growth in fiscal 1998 after increasing 84 percent on a constant dollar basis in fiscal 1997,

The spring slowdown in factory activity, due largely to an inventory adjustment cycle, is now history,

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

The Supreme Court only hears patent cases approximately 7% of the time. Therefore, the Supreme Court's rejection of the case was largely anticipated and the Appellate court decision remains in place. Merck has exhausted all avenues to regain U.S. exclusivity beyond February 2008, at which point generics are expected.

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.

Some were simply overwhelmed and largely destroyed. However, many miles of levees performed satisfactorily, even many that were overtopped.

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.

Scene It? increased its sales in this category by more than 60 percent, fueled largely by new items such as the Harry Potter, Disney and TV versions.

Public policy has largely ignored these issues for a generation, and it takes awhile to undo that level of neglect.

RAC delivered a good set of results, while our cost savings are on track and the integration is largely complete.

Public schools are largely secular institutions. I would expect my kids in science class to be instructed in those things that are somewhat quantifiable and based on thorough and rigorous empirical research.

Racing is the No. 1 growing sport in the country, and it's largely an untapped market. We need to let people know we're around. We've probably got our most aggressive schedule this year.

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.

Our consolidation was largely driven by crisis. US Airways needed it to survive. And as the industry improves, there will be fewer crises.

Our data clearly show that SIDS is now largely confined to deprived families, and if we exclude deaths on sofas, the numbers of babies dying whilst in bed with their parents has fallen by 50 percent over the past 20 years.

Our expectation for gross margin percentage in the third quarter is 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of points. The change from the second quarter is driven largely by lower average selling prices of microprocessors.

People reacted badly, largely because it didn't reflect where they are today. Maybe Mary was taking a concept that was lying around a while, or making a return to the roots of where she started out. Or maybe the market for the show isn't actually here, but on the mainland. So if you want to talk to a mainland audience, you give them a caricature they know.

Operational efficiencies resulting from management interventions over several years, in terms of improved cost management, better quality of new business, more focused premium collection and more competitive investment performance in particular, are largely responsible for this incremental value-add for stakeholders,