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This is not Lake Woebegone, where every student athlete and every team can be above average. The 50 percent rate, while not sacrosanct, is a good rate to measure whether we're making progress.

This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure.

This is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation...and might have markets pricing in a more aggressive Fed.

The weekly updates were a little tedious and not terribly relevant. They generally don't measure trends very well.

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

The way we measure their interest is they go back and revisit the male after they've just had some sexual interaction with them.

This Earth Day we need to remember that Exxon will not spend its resources developing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy without the government forcing it to do so. Californians at least will have a chance to vote on a November ballot measure that takes back oil companies' windfall profits for a state fund that will provide practical incentives to make alternative fuel vehicles more available and affordable. We cannot rely on oil companies to create cheaper and cleaner fuels. American oil companies like Exxon will never want us to use less oil.

This company is very deep in skilled management, so my guess is that this will have little enduring impact, ... But so far, this stock market hasn't been applauding (Prince), and if that's a measure of how he's performed to date, he gets a mixed review.

This clearly shows that relying on the household survey's employment measure as a barometer of labor market conditions is not only risky, but also an incorrect assumption,

This bill will serve as a strong measure to prevent frivolous lawsuits.

This bill will make it harder for students from working families to go to college. This measure makes deep and harmful cuts to student loans that will not even pay for the new tax breaks planned for the wealthy.

This allows there to be no ceiling on the test we get a measure of what the students truly know.

This a great measure for league. We lost two close games to league opponents and when we see them again we will be ready.

This act of God has brought us to reality so there's no measure anymore for anybody's political philosophy,

This action is being taken as a cautionary measure to ensure the protection of public health, ... Public health is our number-one priority, and it is our number-one concern.

This 30-minute seating rule was a sensible measure when first applied, ... Now, almost four years later, significantly enhanced layers of security ranging from hardened cockpit doors to air marshals make it reasonable to eliminate this requirement.

This is an aggressive deficit-cutting measure that raises revenue for Uncle Sam so Uncle Sam doesn't take it from the taxpayers themselves. We will generate these new revenues by increasing domestic energy supplies at a time when American consumers need them most.

This is a measure we should simply never have to take. Our donors were really supportive in 2005 -- they cannot be less so in 2006.

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

This is a measure to ensure that all software used on government computers is authentic.

This is a measure of revenge after what happened yesterday (Saturday). At least we could get back to proper skiing. I did pretty well. It felt very easy.

This is a measure I undoubtedly hate as much as anyone on this floor, but it is far less odious than to do nothing. There's no possibility of improvement if we don't take the medicine that we need to get better.

This is a major issue because no one has determined an accurate way to measure the audience. Keep in mind that this is a self-regulatory rule adopted to head off legislation. It is not a law and if violated does not constitute an illegal act. So the penalty for violating it is non-existent. The point is for companies to use their best efforts.

They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:

They've all been rewarding. Each division championship you win has its own measure of reward. But this year is the most rewarding because we had to (overhaul) our roster in midstream.

Almost every measure of education, or cognitive ability, or talent is now associated with a higher income. All this is raising the incentives for people to invest in education, training, and in attaining new skills.

A lot of Americans don't pay attention to their leaders on a day-to-day basis. They measure presidents, governors and mayors on how they handle big events like a hurricane. This event is not over because the bodies are going to be discovered day by day.

Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theatre.

Americans, as they always do when they have troops in harm's way, are going to be watching the performance on the ground. While they may be encouraged by the elections . . . at the same time they are going to want to continue to measure how it's going.

A lot of those teams normally are district teams for us, so we can kind of see how we measure up.

They measure the breadth of improvement, but not the magnitude of it -- if a lot of people see things getting just a little better, that can produce a very strong ISM number.

They had to make changes to a few regulations here in the state before it went into effect. It was basically a cost-cutting measure that really caught on.

They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage. They took advantage of what they have better than we took advantage of what we have.

They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage, they don't measure basketball instinct and intelligence.

They feed them, clean the tanks, prepare the food -- even weigh and measure them. They watch them grow from thumbnail-size to full-size turtles.

You can't measure the value of a power forward who can score on the block and score from 25 feet.

You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.

You can't measure performance or success just on rate increases.

You can't measure a whole season on one afternoon because we had a great year. Looking at a 3-5 year in December to this, it's unbelievable. It's maybe one of best years we've ever had.

This more pure measure has a nearly perfect prediction pattern dating back to 1966, with leads of 9-20 months.

This meeting will measure how far we have come and to share practices about what works,

This measure would require a parent to decide when a child is 9 or 10 years old what his academic needs and athletic interests will be for the next seven to eight years.

This measure will reduce the amount of toxic mercury entering the waste stream. This is good for our citizen's health and the environment.

This measure will provide a strong deterrent to those who might be tempted to steal fuel,

This measure is temporary. We have kept enough staff in field offices to continue delivering services to the refugees.

This measure is about basic fairness for domestic partners. Domestic partners and their families deserve the conveniences and financial benefits that can come with filing a joint return.

There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriage after Measure 36,

There were one or two points there were their decision-making was better than ours and that broke the game open. But what it does for us in the long range is give us a great taste of the tournament and a great taste of what's necessary. The experience is so valuable, I can't even measure it right now.

There is obviously a need to acquire more open space and there are good reasons for that bond measure to pass, but there are so many other things that cost money that we don't have.

There is now widespread agreement that this measure will do next to nothing for the American people,

There is no way to measure accurately the number of lives Roger Neilson touched, inside and outside the hockey world, during his lifetime of devotion to our game.

The report argues that the (low) figure is not the best measure of success or failure of the act to this point. Many endangered species are making steady progress toward recovery under the Endangered Species Act.

This is the year they establish a benchmark. We don't know what kind of participants or spectators it will draw. We'll have to wait until after the event to measure what kind of impact it had. I think it's very important to be a quality event, and then build on it. ... Look at the Cherry Blossom Festival. ... It's not practical to think huge in the first year. It's something you have to grow.

This is wonderful news, and an important measure of progress toward reducing overall smoking rates in the state. Every teen we are able to prevent from smoking today will become an adult who will very likely remain tobacco-free.

They're holding up really well. The best measure of how they're holding up is that not more than a handful have crossed the line.

At least we can measure whether the company is meeting its goals or not.

A television event's ability to rise above the current prime-time average is a true measure of its success, based on the dramatic changes in the media landscape.

As we continue our efforts to secure a new ballpark in Oakland, we will take every measure to make the Coliseum a comfortable and fan-friendly facility. Our goal is to create a more intimate ballpark atmosphere and bring our seating capacity in line to what we have proposed for our new venue.

As we build towards the U-20 World Cup in 2007, our players will have great opportunities to compete against some of the top countries in world youth soccer. The King's Cup in Portugal is certainly a chance for our guys to measure themselves against some of the best from Europe and Asia.

A swab on the outside of a bag is far less invasive than rifling through the personal belongings. We don't yet have enough information about whether this is an effective security measure that does the least possible harm to personal privacy.

All operating and financial ratios by which we measure profitability and momentum improved versus the year-ago quarter,

It seems like it would be simple to figure out how weight is related to health. But you can't just measure height and weight and count the bodies.

It's early. They've been on an East Coast trip. I don't want to measure our team as far as predicting how good we are or will be.

It's a sign that the cycle is starting to turn. The job offer ratio improved for the second month, and that's usually a fairly reliable measure of market conditions.

It's a team game. Those guys didn't take a lot of shots. We were attacking what we thought was there. We don't measure value based on the number of points a guy gets.

It's a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.

It wasn't until the voters really started to pay attention and to look at what was in the measure and what the real outcomes would be that the vote began to swing.

It was either fund it out of the general fund or use Measure C. It was proposed in the budget, the council thought it was a good idea at the time, and therefore made the commitment.

It will be a good measure of where we're at.

It's a ceremony to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion for the freedoms we enjoy today. They did not die in a combat situation, but they were members of the military and were eventually going to be deployed to a military situation.

It is symbolic and relatively rare for a governor to allow a measure to take effect without his signature.

It's a good test. We have a problem with how it's being used. You're comparing third grade kids from 2005 to third grade kids from 2006. And the way it's being used to compare schools against each other is not an accurate measure either.

It's a good, solid core fund and has a good, long track record, so all of that provides an extra measure of comfort, and it's reasonably priced. Given the pleasing results there, we wouldn't be surprised if the newer offerings are attractive as well.

It's a good way to measure how we're doing. They were dominating everybody they played." ()

It never would have happened if I hadn't done that. It's one of the ways they take the measure of a man,

It really is a measure of the brands that are important in pop culture. These are the brands that have for whatever reason created relevance that really resonates in pop culture. It's the brands people are using to define themselves right now.

It's a great way to measure where we are at this point of the season,

It's a happy coincidence of his sponsorship of a popular measure and now a favorable budget situation. It's one bit of good luck after a line of bad luck and lets him wear the white hat again.

It's a leap of faith. It's a last-ditch measure when we feel we're at the end of the game. It has been very effective for some patients.

It perhaps is a measure of the kind of pressure that people are under now in Washington to produce information that adds to the dossier of evidence against the Iraqis.

It's not just another game, it's a huge game on our schedule. We'll measure our success as a football team against that game, and we always will.

It's not OK to just measure disease control and survival. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies,

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

For every two horses in our sample we were able to get a molecular measure of their relationship. It turned out that that was on average 47%,

It's one of the three that prepares us for district. They're one of the best teams in the state of Oklahoma. It's neat to see how you measure up. I don't know anybody that goes out thinking hey this game doesn't matter. But if we win this game and the next two it still doesn't get us into the playoffs which is one of our goals. We have to see if we can pass the test. We'll find out Friday night.

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

It's not the ultimate vindication we are waiting for, but it demonstrates the charges don't measure up.

It's tantamount to trying to measure the surface of the earth, from Mount Everest...all the way down to the height of a raisin, and be able to see it all in detail.

It is the measure of this memory of past cycles that allows us to make a forecast.

It's hard to measure what you really are doing if you're playing bad people. When you're playing good people you get a chance to figure things out pretty quickly.

It's shattered anything we've ever done before in terms of any measure you want to use, ... Especially the numbers, they're just unbelievable. The most we ever did before was 505 and the dollars are better than last year, which was the all-time record.

It's really hard to articulate the measure of success Mike's had, because you really have to consider where (the program was) when he started. We had had several years of poor performance and it's hard to get that turned around. But he's done it pretty quickly by being consistent and getting progressively better each year.

It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.

It sounds like this was a massive bleed, it sounds like he progressed rapidly to coma within the first couple of hours and I think the move to operate indicates that they were doing everything that they felt they could. It also indicates a certain measure of desperation.

It's unfair to measure him without the ball. He has those long strides... . He's just a joy to watch.

It's unbelievable that, in this country, the U.S., they would even consider a measure like this.

Creatively we just did not get the show to where it needed to be. All of us tried really hard. I think you have to measure your patience based (on the creative direction of the show). And there we felt like, unfortunately, it was not going to get better.

Don said he had done it a certain way and that it was illegal. The horse is out of the barn. It's gone, it's over. Other than to raise the question of how in fact the sticks are measured and training staffs across the league measure sticks the same way. You need some type of quick seminar.

Doing away with the country of origin principle reduces the growth effect of this measure by half.