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We're in a period with some of the most disruptive technologies I've ever seen, and the Internet is the most disruptive. The beginning of the new millennium is not the end of this period of change, it could even be the beginning of change going into hyper-drive.

We're in a period when capital spending has slowed to a waltz, corporate profitability is hardly visible, and balance sheets are just inundated with debt ? that's not a comfortable picture. Each day is a new adventure in the market. There's lots of money on the sidelines but no willingness to commit.

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

We're in a period of great greed right now,

We're in a period of great experimentation. The studios are pretty committed to traditional theatrical distribution, but it's been changing.

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

We started off the second period and the Senators looked like they were really moving out. They came out strong; the second period was a really tough period.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

We started off a little bit slow in the first period. Saskatchewan came out and were physical. We responded to that in the second period and we stepped up our level of play.

We stand ready to assist Georgia in the period ahead,

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

When you've got this many people maneuvering, it eliminates the period of governing that used to be guaranteed between elections.

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

We believe that major consolidation cannot occur until some of the weaker trusts are exposed, and that this will only happen during a period of downward trending commodity prices.

Whether we're into another period now where employers are turning really cautious again ... warrants close observation,

When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice.

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

We're so proud of what he's done. He really unified this group and became the quarterback of this group and the leader of this defense in a short period of time. My hat's off to him.

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. You're seeing that today, ... There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy and about the change in Bush's economic team. We're also coming off a period where the Dow rose for 8 weeks and so you're seeing a little pullback. You saw it last week and I think it's continuing.

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. But the pullback so far has been orderly,

We're going to see a period of real public stability, but there's going to be maneuvering behind the scenes,

We're going to see a new, emerging period of higher long-term interest rates that are going to start now, and I believe they're going to carry on for some time.

We're going to go through a period where we find out what tech companies are really what they thought they were and which were hype.

We're going to get to a point where the market is going to stabilize. Keep in mind that really what's going on is that we're taking excess out of the market, and we're doing it in a relatively orderly fashion. In the long term, I think this is very healthy for the overall market. I would call it a period of rebalancing.

We're going to do what it takes to serve these children, ... We're going to try to make a very chaotic period in their lives as transitional as possible.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

When we do a gather to control populations, we remove down to the low end and allow it to build up over a period of three to four years, ... We allow them to have an increase over a period of time then take the population down to the low end of the range.

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

We believe we are in a period of new demand for products made from the corn wet milling starch stream as we find opportunities to replace products derived from high-priced petroleum. The strong demand should lead to improved long-term returns from corn processing operations.

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

What's scary is that we're just moving out of the lowest period of demand for the year and OPEC at full stretch was unable to keep prices down,

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I beli

What's interesting now is we're seeing a period where dividends are growing faster then earnings,

We're going to have to see better news and slow steady incremental gains over a prolonged period of time in order to build the market.

Unless the show is a period piece, shouldn't they have reflected the new reality that baseball has returned to D.C.?

Unfortunately, many times the church is that place that provides that quick and easy access to children. This imposes a six-month period of time in which you're going to get to know this person better.

U.S. military forces executed the largest, fastest, most comprehensive and most responsive civil support mission ever. In a domestic relief operation unprecedented in scale, over 72,000 federal military and National Guard forces flowed into the Gulf Coast region over a 12-day period to assist fellow Americans in distress.

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

We're going to be working seven days a week. We want to get on with things and get as much done in as short a period of time as possible.

We feel the first quarter will be a quite good period based on messages from our major customers.

We're expecting good conditions up until about 11 o'clock. Then there's that midday period we have to watch out for. After 2, we'll maybe have some thunderstorms and hopefully some moisture.

We're in this transition period right now, getting ready for interest rates to start rising, which will happen June 30, and for second-quarter profit reporting season to start, which will be early July, ... Those things could get the market going again.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

We're in this confessional period where there's nothing but bad news coming into the market place now and investors have become really cynical.

We're just monitoring the dikes right now and making sure the water isn't staying on them for an extended period of time.

We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind their 'D' and making things happen and coming through the neutral zone with speed. After the first period I think we were a little slow, but we got going as the game went on. We blocked shots and killed penalties, and to win games you have to do that.

We regard Microsoft's loss to be a foregone conclusion, which subjects it to damages that will likely be undetermined for a period of months. We also believe the issuing of the conclusions of law opens Microsoft to a flood of civil lawsuits seeking monetary damages.

We're gambling with other things in the environment or genes or both, ... The fact that Jennings smoked for a long period of time increased his risk of getting lung cancer. How much that risk was dissipated by stopping for 20 years I don't know, but it was obviously not entirely.

To picture him doing what he just accomplished? No. From 5½ to a mile and an eighth in a short period of time and beat the kind of horses he did, that's asking a lot.

Yahoo's branded business should benefit from a combination of volume and pricing growth, driven by the holiday shopping period and by continued migration of ad dollars online.

With the seven-day period we have, and the daily feedback that we're going to be getting and the ability that we have to instantaneously almost change the airworthiness directive when we want to, I think we've taken fairly conservative action and fairly aggressive action to deal with an issue.

With what's happening in the market, we see that confidence is going down in terms of older Americans feeling comfortable with their nest eggs. We got ourselves into a period of false confidence, expecting double-digit returns on all our investments. Now, we are seeing people reassessing where they are with respect to what the market is doing and what the economy is doing as they see their 401(k) funds and IRA accounts go south.

We knew they would come hard with a lot on the line. With us playing last night, we came out a little sluggish and took too many penalties. Obviously, they were buzzing but we survived it, and got better and better. In the third period, we had a heck of a period but I gift-wrapped their second goal, then we tied it up.

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that through.

Ultimately, he was widely outvoted. We had to wear him down over a period of time. Finally, I think he realized there wasn't a whole lot he could say about that if that was the way the university wanted to honor him.

would not be able to support our corporate office and our support center for an extended period of time.

Would Corey Perry have won the scoring title last year if he sat out in the third period all the time in the games that weren't close. I don't think he would've won it. You have to think about things like that. It's important.

would accumulate (over a period of time) and cause argyria.

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

We're still in a seasonally weak period of year, where companies are trimming workforces. It weighs on people's minds when they hear about companies cutting back.

We're still in a period of rising commodities prices. Even if they started to soften, the big mining companies have still locked-in long-term contracts which translate into a degree of earnings certainty.

We're still in a building/rebuilding stage. We're still trying to find an identity as a team. We've had success in doing that so far, but it's kind of in it's infancy stages. I think we need to do the things we've been doing for a longer period of time before you can really say we've turned a corner and established ourselves without him.

We're still getting more negatives on the economic front today, and this is a period where we're really looking for economic growth to avoid a Fed rate cut.

We've got a very quick turnaround. We're going to have to get a lot done in a very short period of time.

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Whenever you advance to the Super Bowl after a period of not having success in the playoffs, you think about that as a potential springboard for the future. I think we've got great people in the front office and great players on the team. I told them that. Let's keep it together and keep going next year.

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

We want people to be aware of this period in our country's history. As generations move away from the WPA era, people forget this wonderful program and the beautiful art that came out of it. We want to give visitors a sense of the history and understanding of this tremendous program put in place to create these amazing pieces of visual artwork.

We were a team going very well for an extended period of time. In the last 10 days we have not played near as well as we are capable of.

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

We'll be as competitive in the time period as we can.

The reforms on the table really get to the meat of the matter, which is changing an institution envisioned for the post-World War II period to work in a very changed world. The challenge now is that after so much attention to expanding the Security Council, this package sounds like leftovers - when it's really the meat and potatoes of reform.

The refineries are entering their biggest period of maintenance. People will start to look for the refinery run rates and look for bigger-than-expected draws on gasoline.

Women who drank more than two to three cups of coffee a day were at about one-third the risk of suicide over the 10-year period compared to women who never drank coffee,

Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain some better coping skills, learn the signs of abuse, become stronger and feel better about themselves and their decisions, so they are more likely to move into independent living and less likely to return to the battering situation. It's a key to their becoming independent and increasing their self-esteem ... so that they can make decisions for themselves and move forward.

We actually had a 3-1 lead in the first period and then we ran into penalty trouble and they (Port Perry) scored two power-play goals to even the game at 3-3 after the first period.

We absolutely do welcome this, the end of this long period of internment.

We abandoned what was working in the first period, and that was shooting the puck. We wanted to pass the puck into the net. In the first period we shot the puck and went to the net.

Wayne reached out as soon as he accepted the job to become general manager. We realized we had a lot of work to do in a short period of time if we were going to reach an agreement and avoid the arbitration hearing, which always is the goal.

This was a sacred day ù a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.

What we're doing is saying, this is a six-month trial period to see if Community Resource Center can bring forward a viable project.

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

There are some things that you notice, and some things that you really need to be presented with to really notice them. Like maybe hitting a ground ball to third base, a chopper or something like that, something that you might beat out when you were younger. Maybe it takes you a little bit longer to get to first base. That half-step might not be there. I think there is a period of time when you get frustrated because your body doesn't react the way you want it to for a while.

The only way he fails is if he goes to the hospital for an extended period of time, gets in trouble with the law or somehow becomes academically ineligible. I just have to make sure he stays both physically and academically intact. As his mentor, I'm going to make sure that happens.

The only problem is, nobody's ever seen it, ... This is a huge trial period coming up for Microsoft.

There are eight sponsorship opportunities available for this conference, and we anticipate that they will be sold-out within a short period of time. Similar sponsorship opportunities were all sold-out within two weeks after we recently announced our Spring Real-World AJAX seminars in New York City and San Jose.

We declared a ceasefire nine months ago. It will hold until the end of 2005, after which there will be a transition period towards resistance.

We've been in this trading range between 5.375 and 5.75 (30-year bond yields) for a very long period of time, ... Then we finally broke out of that and the next target people are setting their sights for is 6 percent. We have a refunding this week, we have an awful lot of corporate supply and we also have next week's FOMC meeting approaching.

We've been interested since day one in expanding the tour. It was just something that had to be assessed over a period of time.

We've been in a period when a lot of equity has been dropped in our laps, and it has been fairly easy to get to that equity in tax favorable ways. In these circumstances, savings will fall given the strong consumer attitude in America.