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They have report cards, and letters they wrote to each other when they were little. Various ladies in the Unser family have done a good job of organizing the family tree. The amount of stuff they have -- boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs and family stuff from when the brothers were just little boys, all of the houses, buildings and passenger cars they owned -- it's just astonishing.

They just owned us with their defense. They smothered us with their defensive pressure.

It was her last event of the day at 8:30 or 9, and it was kind of her hometown area. She owned up to it and apologized right away.

Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.

It's neat living downtown. I had built a house in Manitou, and I owned a couple fixer-uppers. I can see myself living here five or 10 years.

That's a somewhat unusual and progressive view compared to many others in the corporate sector. The fact his company was willing to create a benefit for companies he never owned is exceptional.

The lady we purchased it from had owned the business for over 20 years. I wanted to retire and my daughter is a flower designer, so we decided to purchase it.

The fact that you see banks on the streets, you don't know who the owners are. Many banks are owned by governments.

The fees collected will be used to improve services of the state- owned television.

I introduced my first plants in 1996 and currently grow 15,000 to 20,000 seedlings per year. We have a 3 1/2-acre display garden on a 6 1/2-acre pond, family owned and operated, with one full-time employee, Pedro. Through God's blessings, He turned a hobby into a full-time business.

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

Independently owned businesses drive Charlotte's economy. And for too long this so-called small-business sector has been an afterthought in the financial scheme of things. The needs of independently owned companies and professional firms are at the heart of everything we do.

In most instances, the retail location doesn't own the equipment that's operating there. That's owned by a retail operator and there are private contracts between those companies.

I know that the club is still facing financial difficulties, but I am confident Watford will come through. The key is that the ground must be owned by the club.

I liked the business more back before the war. Maybe there wasn't as much money then, but I know 10 men who owned agencies who have been murdered.

I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

I have never owned a gun. I don't carry a gun. I have no idea why the police came to my house and arrested me later that night. I had a cell phone and someone mistook for a gun. Guns are dangerous. You never know when they might go off.

I like the way I look in a suit, and I wish I owned more. Actually, I wish I owned suits that fit me, I should say. You can buy off the rack and think, 'Oh, this is perfect.' But then you get a tailor-made suit for you, and it's a whole different animal. You don't just look good in a suit, you feel good in a suit.

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do? It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.

I owned the house close to 20 years; nobody has ever cleaned it.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

If you have owned a home over the last five years, in some ways you've been a big winner. Over the last several years it's like having a second job without ever having to work.

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

In the first half, we owned the boards and controlled tempo. In the second half, (Mount Olive) got into transition, took control of the game's momentum and took advantage of their offensive rebounds.

In some cases those jobs would be here no matter who owned the companies.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

In the next century, when art will be packaged as virtual reality software, realistic paintings will sell the way Shaker furniture does now. Shaker furniture will sell the way Van Gogh paintings do. And teddy bears owned by Elvis will come to auction only occasionally.

It has definitely gone more upscale in recent years, and some of the smaller family owned places have closed up,

I really believed in the stocks in this book -- I own more of these stocks than I've ever owned in any other book I've written.

Capacity owned by weaker companies now is run by healthier companies. There?s less confusion, less noise than when there were so many smaller operators.

But you are normal!" said Harry fiercely. "You've just got a-a problem-"Lupin burst out laughing. "Sometimes you remind me alot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

I don't pretend to be perfect; I've made mistakes just like everybody else. When I have, I've owned up to the mistakes and moved forward.

I didn't think we were two goals worse. I thought the first 15 minutes of the second half we owned and then we give up the third goal and that takes the wind out of the sails so to speak. The adjustments were just guys needing to work a little harder.

By getting their owned skilled team, Celera can begin to tie together their massive data base with a research base and begin developing compounds on their own, ... That's all to the good and will help diversify their revenue base.

Gardner-Webb has certainly owned us the last two years. We're 0-6 the last two years against them, and they have flat-out beaten us. We've just got to take it to 'em.

Gap owned the white-wall-and-maple-floor look. But everyone caught up.

Georgia-Pacific is a highly respected company with great businesses and a strong history as a market leader. We believe that as a wholly owned subsidiary, Georgia-Pacific can be even more successful by combining the capabilities of our two companies.

I definitely think we are going into this one as an underdog. They have pretty much owned us the past four or five years. There is a lot of pressure on that team to win over there and I think we play better when we are the underdogs. Hopefully we can go there and forget history, and obviously they have history on their side. That first game, that first period is going to be huge.

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

I am not now or ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one, and neither has anybody on my behalf,

He owned and operated a used car lot. He was taking the proceeds from the sales and specifically the proceeds from sales tax that were collected from the buyers in this sale and he was not remitting that back to the state.

You could see (the change) immediately. On that very first series, we realized we were in a fight and we were going to have to bring the fight to them. We owned that second half.

You could say this is a normal business deal... but when it comes to companies owned by the prime minister, there are different standards.

You can't go home again. I have no say in the matter. It's owned by Paramount, and they will do what they want to do. I've hung up the jacket.

The home was originally owned by the Phelps family. Guy Phelps, who originally owned it, was a veterinarian in Montgomery. Actually he was more like the veterinarian for Montgomery.

An attractive aspect of this for them is that Albertson's owned a lot of the land under their stores. But there could be multiple reasons for buying these stores, including generating cash flow, the value of the real estate or to spin them off to another buyer.

The guy who owned it didn't want to put any money into it, didn't want to build it up.

The impression from the audience standpoint is that she's crazy. She's never really faced her grief. She's never really owned it.

ZSE is not owned by anyone at the moment but we will be expanding our shareholding by issuing out shares to the public. Listing the ZSE is also a possibility like the case with the Australia and New York stock exchanges.

The easiest solution is to do like in France and Germany, where the central bank's capital is entirely owned by the state,

The Ford is just a fun car and I've owned it for about three years.

The fuel in reserve would be owned by the city to be used during a natural catastrophe, terrorist attack, any number of things. If that should happen ... the city would automatically take over the facility.

The fraud comes in when you get vehicles owned by big-time salvage guys or small-time knuckleheads who wash the title through states that don't have strong title laws.

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

The current status on lots owned by the city is that they are exempt from taxation.

The city seized my property in eminent domain to widen 4th Avenue. Now I'm paying rent on property I owned three months ago.

The company has historically owned a lot of land, which is now developed. We're looking at new projects we can work on.

The condo hotel is a perfect fit for beach people. If they owned a regular condo, they would have had restrictions on how often they could rent it out. With a condo hotel, renting isn't a problem.

The difference in the game was as simple as rebounding. In the first half we didn't block out. We forced tough shots, but we gave them three or four opportunities. In the second half we owned the defensive glass and that made a difference because we only had to defend for three or four passes and then we forced tough shots and rebounded the ball.

A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.

A muni just means it's owned by the city. It doesn't mean it's an easy or hard course.

The master plan concept developed for the City of Kansas City, Mo., calls for the construction of a large, municipally owned telecommunications network in conjunction with current underground utility construction in the Kansas City Live Entertainment District, helping to minimize disruption to the area.

A father . . . knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.