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He had never seen a corn dog, much less tasted one. It took him three quarters to eat one, and then he ate three.

He'll be playing out on the perimeter a lot, ... How much, I don't know. He might start there the first and third quarters and play a power position in the second and fourth quarters.

This was one of our better fourth-quarter games. All four quarters we played good defense and shot the ball well, and we rebounded very well.

We expect to see a modest rise in delinquencies in the quarters ahead.

There is a keen interest in many quarters on concluding before Thanksgiving , and that's a fine target if it can be accomplished, ... But we're going to do it right. We're not going to do it fast.

We talked about putting four quarters together. I don't know if we have all year. We might put together a half. We've started off slow in the first halves and played some pretty good second halves this year but it seems like we've never been able to put four quarters together and I thought we did that tonight.

We talked about playing this team eight quarters in a row. We wanted to get the win tonight, but they're going to come back ready to go (on Tuesday).

We've been through a couple of quarters with a lot of uncertainty around the subscriber numbers, so the last thing I want to do is put out a number that is a stretch.

We've got to wipe this out. Hopefully we'll play well for four quarters and not two. We'll try to comeback Monday ready to go.

He's a great player. He shares the ball for 3 1/2 quarters and in the last six minutes he turns it up. He's phenomenal.

Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in the quarters ahead, but the 1.8 percent Central Bank estimate appears to have more downside than upside risk at the moment.

He's earned the award. The company has done well, the stock has done well. They've delivered clean quarters since he's come aboard. He's had an opportunity to stretch a bit, and make his mark.

We may have hit bottom here, to some extent. We're facing two quarters -- the fourth of 2001 and the first of 2002 -- of close to zero growth. But this may be the first recession we've gotten through without two quarters of consecutive shrinking gross domestic product (GDP).

We may have hit bottom here, to some extent, ... We're facing two quarters -- the fourth of 2001 and the first of 2002 -- of close to zero growth. But this may be the first recession we've gotten through without two quarters of consecutive shrinking gross domestic product (GDP).

We match up with them well, but we got to put four quarters together instead of just two.

HP's being very competitive. There's a chance they could challenge Dell in the fourth quarter, as they have in fourth quarters before.

Growth should decelerate through the final three quarters of the year and once that happens inflation pressures we've seen will begin to ease. That should lead to a more benign tightening cycle, which won't be threatening to the financial markets,

I would say no company has a lot of visibility past a couple of quarters all you can have is a framework. No question that going out a couple of years is really hard to do, and the level of certainty you can predict two years from now is lower than even what you can predict in the current quarter.

I thought we played well the last three quarters, but we need to develop mental toughness and not take quarters off.

I thought we played well for three quarters and even in the fourth quarter we didn't play that poorly. We had open looks at the basket. The shots wouldn't fall for us and they did for them.

It is a little bounce and it's not to be unexpected given how much the markets sold off last week so I wouldn't read too much into this. Earnings are going to be very important to help set the tone, but the out quarters are still very much at risk and those estimates have not come down to the extent I think they should.

I think the last five quarters is exactly what we needed. We have remembered that defense is what makes us a good team.

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

I think the economy stinks and the numbers (corporate results) for the next couple of quarters are going to be lousy. You have exhausted sellers on the one hand and the crummy economy on the other, so you get a standoff,

I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated and that's not acceptable.

I thought we played four solid quarters of basketball. We started out with a great first quarter. I thought we handled their half-court trap very well. Kenneth (Bradley) got loose for some big points down low. He scores nine of his 16 in the game right there. I thought we did a better job of looking up the floor and being patient about moving the ball from point to the wing and hitting the middle.

I thought the third and fourth quarters we did a terrific job making them take some tough shots.

I thought that defensively we struggled. We gave up 43 points in the second and third quarters and that's not acceptable. We need to win games on the defensive end of the floor.

I thought our interior defense was outstanding. They're a great shooting team. You have to pick your poison with great teams. We chose to try to stop them inside and stay out of foul trouble. We know they were going to be shooters but hopefully you can wear them out in four quarters (and) she made a great shot.

I think we were embarrassed in that first half. They outplayed us in every way. They beat us in all ways that you could. We came out and competed in the third and fourth quarters but were just too far down.

I think we should move step by step. Rome was not built in a day. Two players playing in a Tier Two event's quarters is not enough to prove we are reaching the top level.

I think a couple quarters down the road, the worst will be over. This is a terribly oversold market and it is undervalued.

It goes without saying that the third quarter was one of the most challenging quarters ever for Compaq and for our industry.

I think something plain and simple and not too busy. If you notice all these quarters here, we have a big depiction here, only have a small little quarter that we're going to be putting the design on.

I think we're heading into a phase where we could be peaking. We're certainly getting better. I don't think we've topped off playing our best basketball yet. We certainly haven't put four quarters together, but we're certainly playing well.

Lately, we've started to put things together. I don't think we've played four quarters yet, but we're building toward that.

Late in the third and fourth quarters we just had too many turnovers and let them get into the game. We had 20 turnovers against a good team, and that was our downfall.

I was worried that we would come out with some nerves, which we did, and we're lucky we got over it. It took us three quarters to settle down and run the offense. We forced some shots that we shouldn't have, and we made some bad entry passes. I'm OK with the turnovers in transition because I want us pushing the ball.

I think there is going to be a demand explosion in the third and fourth quarters that surprises even Intel.

Japan turned positive after seven quarters of negative comparisons. That's the story here.

Our kids played solid for 32 minutes. That was the key. Anytime you play well for 32 minutes, good things will happen. We have played a lot of good quarters and halves this year, but we put it together for the whole game this time.

Our kids are just having a little trouble putting four quarters together.

Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software providers. The business software cycle is on the rise, rebounding nicely from the Y2K problem of last year and the successful transition from client-server architecture to Internet architecture software.

Our players finally got rewarded for their hard work. We had three strong quarters against San Jose State. Overall, it was a good win for us.

Our second-quarter results are right in line with our expectations and with the view we've been expressing since last October, ... Essentially, we've had three quarters of slow revenue growth, driven by a combination of the Y2K slowdown and a series of actions we've taken to improve our business portfolio. During that time, however, we have been able to produce satisfactory earnings growth.

Our second quarter has been our quarter all year long. In the second quarter we turned things around and did the things we had to do to stop them on defense. But we have to have three quarters to go along with that other one.

Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to get their systems ready for Y2K. The mainframe business is a dying business, and our feeling was IBM would see it in the third and fourth quarters because the growth patterns weren't normal.

Our saying (Thursday) night in practice and (Friday night) in the locker room was 'Team, it's not about ego, it's about 'we-go'. Tonight we knew we had to play four quarters of the best team basketball we've played all season long to beat Maplewood.

Our focus for these games has been to play four quarters of intense, Western defense. Our biggest thing was just to help on the ball, help in on the post, and focus on limiting them inside.

Our focus was putting four quarters together. We came pretty close.

Our fourth quarter was not as strong as we'd hoped, even though it was one of our best fourth quarters ever.

Our cost efforts are more important than ever, given the softness we have seen in demand, both in past quarters as well as the current quarter, ... Despite this slowdown, it is our intention to return to profitability as quickly as possible while positioning the company for profitable growth.

Our core business has been really strong. That's to say, just our retail stores grew at 6 percent year over year. And again, this was a depressed quarter. We've actually been 7 percent or more in most quarters and we expect it to be that way during the fall period. That's one of the strongest performances in all of retailing. So our core retailing business remains exceptionally strong.

Overall, the macro-environment was somewhat challenging for software vendors in the third quarter, but we are expecting to see in-line quarters from most of the companies.

Our visibility into the first and second quarters of fiscal 2006 indicates good revenue growth on the road to restoring Thermal Energy to profitability and becoming the company shareholders expect and deserve. We look forward to reporting those results to our shareholders in the coming months.

Our view of the global economy suggests several more quarters of low volume growth and continued price pressure, ... Lower raw material costs and more favorable currency comparison. combined with results from our productivity focus should all contribute to our ability to weather this cycle more favorably than in the past.

Our view is that there is a long way to go down. Whether that's Monday, next month or over the next few quarters isn't known.

Our company has weathered one of the most difficult quarters in history, marked by recession and war. The remainder of the fiscal year should benefit from operating improvements currently under way, as well as favorable trends for some of our most important products and brands.

Playing two quarters, three quarters, wasn't going to be enough. We needed four quarters and that probably wouldn't be enough. It was a great learning experience for a lot of young guys.

Reggie certainly had a fantastic game throwing and running the football and really only played 2 1/2 quarters to accomplish all of that.

rebounds pretty strongly from this sort of event. After several quarters of rebuilding, our productive capacity should be back to about where it would have been otherwise.

Rebate checks, a rate reduction on tax day and a stimulus package helped turn three quarters of decline into two quarters of growth,

Our overall growth for the next several quarters will be generated from newer product sales, line extensions of existing products and recent product launches, ... As a result, we will rely less on Prozac sales growth.

Part of it is to give the starters a rest. The other part is to get the others more quarters and get them into the flow of the game.

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

People have very different perspectives and very different life experiences based on their ethnicity. When you put them in close quarters in a situation designed to highlight cultural and racial differences, you realize they don't really understand each other very well at all.

Survey respondents are facing flat job growth figures and are mirroring the concerns expressed in other surveys about the national economy, which has slowed considerably from solid growth in the first three quarters of 2005. Purchasing managers are displaying mixed signals looking forward into 2006.

Starts at year-end 2003 will provide additional support for GDP during the first two quarters of 2004 as construction activity gradually brings these buildings to completion.

My points in this game came throughout the game. Usually I have big spurts in quarters either in the first or the second, but tonight it just seemed like my points were spread out through the whole game. We're finally starting to come together and play team defense and start to execute on our offense a lot better.

My quarters would disappear really quickly. Frankly, I was awful. But there were guys there who could play forever on a single credit. They really knew the game, when to duck left and swing right to deal with a really difficult zombie. I was in awe.

Looking further forward, we are expecting slower growth in the quarters ahead as a softening housing market starts to dampen consumer spending growth.

Look for manufacturing employment to continue to decline in the coming quarters -- a clear negative for overall employment quality.

Marshall was outstanding tonight because he really competed at a high level. He had to play point guard for almost three quarters and that is not his natural position. We are really excited about what we did in the regular season.

I was very happy with our defense. In three of the quarters they had four, five, and five points, and that's just us playing with a lot of heart and on Senior Night that was great for them. We were on the floor for every loose ball and we got after it.

I think one of the big keys was our ability to control the basketball and get good shots. We were able to run some clock off and shoot a good percentage. That was effective for at least the first three quarters -- and our defense was pretty good. Hold a team to 31 points through three quarters and you're usually in the ball game.

I'm still waiting on the team to show up that can show up for us. We have not put four quarters together, so hopefully, coming into the tournament we will start seeing that fourth quarter team.

We've talked about what we have to do to be in the upper echelon in the West, and beating Calgary is one of those things. We haven't completed 60 minutes in a game and we need to get four full quarters in.

We now have reported four consecutive quarters of gross margin improvement and achieved a significant milestone in reporting GAAP profitability for the fiscal third quarter.

The almost four full quarters of approval process were put to good use in planning the integration of our operations by a team experienced in integrating merged companies.

The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. "All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable," stated the Malleus Maleficarum.

That would represent back-to-back quarters of growth, a noteworthy achievement.

That was the first time all year I've had to get in my kids' faces about effort. To their credit, they responded. But we needed three quarters of great basketball after that, and we didn't get it.

That was a lot of fun. That's how we want to play basketball here. Now we need to find a way to carry that over to all four quarters of a game.

That was one of the best first quarters we've had, one of the best first halves we've had, and definitely one of the bets defensive (efforts) we've had. The defense was really good for us tonight; obviously, they only got 31 points against us.

That's the way it goes. We got off to a slow start (against Epps), but actually the next three quarters we got ourselves back in the game. I think we're a little more mature now (than last season) and know a little more of what to expect. We had a good week of practice, and hopefully we'll be ready to play.

Most communications chip companies have grown two to three times their sustainable growth rate over the past few quarters because everyone was building up inventories. There was a shortage mentality, and suddenly everyone is beginning to say there is no shortage anymore, so I don't have to over-order.

We need to play four quarters of solid basketball. We've played a good half or even three quarters in games, but we haven't closed teams out.

We haven't seen this kind of positive sales performance since we began tracking the group in November 2000. Fourth-quarter profits for department stores rose 5 percent compared to a 1 percent rise a year ago. We've now has a couple of quarters of improving trends.

We jumped out early in the first quarter and led 14-3. We played pretty good defense early, but then it was pretty even until the fourth when we out scored them 23-16. The second and third quarters were evenly matched.

You'll definitely start seeing enterprises switching carriers in the second and third quarters of this year,

Winning the first and fourth quarters usually gives you a pretty good chance to come out on top.

While we still expect the housing market to cool gradually -- and the data over the past couple of quarters has been consistent with that view -- the February existing home sales number shows the considerable strength that is still in the residential sector.

We continue to believe that while domestic express volumes may be close to a bottom, ground volumes, (international express shipments) and especially yields are several quarters away from bottoming.

We were magnificent for three quarters of this season. But since then these players have not been working hard enough. They must work hard in every match and I will be looking for a vast improvement in our final three games.

We played it for three quarters at the pace we wanted.

We put four good quarters together, which we haven't been able to do all that much so far this year.

We played four quarters with consistency and pressure defense. I knew eventually our shots would fall, we're a good shooting team.

We finally put four quarters together against Unity last week, And now we've played eight in a row.

We played three quarters of basketball. Unfortunately you've got to play four. We did the same thing up there and it was the same quarter that got us.

We played three great quarters and forgot to finish the fourth quarter, and on Monday we turned in our uniforms.