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Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of road pricing at national level.

Long Island Sound is a regional area, and regional funding is definitely required to help solve this problem.

Looking forward, the revenue picture is expected to continue to strengthen as we increase capacity in North America with new large regional aircraft deliveries.

Looking back over my 30-year career I have to go back to the 1987 regional finals against Cairo to find as big a comeback. We were 15 down at halftime against the fourth-rated team in the state and beat them by two. I have been there before, but this is as big as any I've been involved in.

Matt changed how he mentally approached matches after the regional tournament, and he did a great job today. He's in a position so many wrestlers can only dream of.

It fits with my industry thesis that the regional players are going to be marginalized by the national providers and left to take whatever growth is left.

It feels good right now. We're in a regional final.

It feels amazing to win in the regional final, and with the teammates I have. And Connecticut's such a great team. They gave us a game.

I think everybody sees us as being the surprise team, but us. I honestly believe we have the ability to be in this regional tournament. I feel like we're supposed to be there.

I think most of us were hoping for maybe a regional or sectional championship. But, it still hurts to lose in the first round of state. When you're 29-1, you kind of want to have your own spot in history. ... We couldn't do that.

It does take a little bit of the pressure off when you might not be expected to be there. This town has had a lot of close calls, so it's great just to be able to go and be part of the regional tournament. It's nice walking around, and have everyone say how cool it was to see you win a district title, and wish you good luck.

It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.

It has become increasingly clear that the greatest operational benefits come from strong local and regional scale.

I think for the next seven years Beijing will be on good behavior, ... There is a potential by the year 2008 for the same thing to happen to Beijing that happened to Moscow in the 1980s should the Chinese stir up regional security trouble in the western Pacific, and I primarily mean Taiwan.

I think it will be a very competitive regional because not much separates the one, two, three and four seeds. It should make for an excellent day of tennis.

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Managers may also be expecting strong performances by investment banks and financial institutions that specialize in regional mortgages.

Managers believe the economy is growing and expect the Fed tightening cycle to end soon - setting the stage for the financial services sector to prosper. Managers may also be expecting strong performances by investment banks and financial institutions that specialize in regional mortgages.

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

We've talked as a staff how important it is to do this one well. And I think it's real important for Grand Forks to show it supports high school basketball. Hopefully the people in the community will come out and support the tournament. Devils Lake losing in the boys regional didn't help our attendance. They were by far the best-followed team in the East Region tournament.

We need more people evacuated immediately to Europe as well as to the other regional countries. In the camps, it's only a matter of hours or days before we have epidemics that can become full-blown health hazards.

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

The 30th anniversary of the Games will be hosted in a state known as a breeding ground for not only the greatest players to rule the game but also, and more importantly, for fans who make the game great. The regional passion for basketball along with Louisville's obvious charm and southern hospitality were key elements in this landmark basketball decision.

The acquired business has now been profitable for three consecutive quarters, in line with the board's expectations, although regional performance has varied.

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

The amount of development they're planning is of regional interest.

The appointment of regional CFOs is a natural step in the regionalization process we announced last November. Under John's leadership, this will create a very strong finance team that will improve our finance systems and analytical capabilities. Additionally, each of these regional CFOs possesses significant automotive retail experience and will be located with our regional vice presidents. This will enable them to support our regional vice presidents in standardizing and unifying our key operating processes, improving our cost structure and our overall efficiency levels.

The annual country study program, called the 'Year of ...,' has attracted regional and national attention. Over the last 20 years, the number of international faculty and students has soared, as have the numbers of our faculty and students who have had international experiences. Similarly, the campus community has become much more diverse in its racial and cultural representation.

The Asia-Pacific region enjoys stability as a whole, and broad and multiple forms of regional cooperation has produced marked results.

The Asia Cup is the best platform for regional teams to do well and get tuned up for bigger events like the World Cup.

The 15 Fed rate hikes and higher energy prices, even with the warmer than expected winter weather, are having negative impacts on confidence among regional supply managers and business leaders.

That was an impressive team we wrestled tonight. They?re a legitimate, well-coached Division I program. They showed us a couple of weaknesses we need to address before (the NAIA regional tournament) next week.

That Super Regional was unbelievable for my confidence and really makes me believe that I can compete at this level. Getting comfortable and being out there are what really helped me out.

I was proud of the way we hung in there and fought. It's always good to get a win in regional play.

I would like to see us build as the season progresses as we want to be playing well enough by the end of the season to get to the regional final. There anything can happen to go to state.

Metro-North is interested in a regional solution to the traffic problem and moving people where they want to go. Many of the people in Orange and Rockland are interested in going to Manhattan, but there are trans-corridor options that are going to be studied. We are not predisposed to any option.

We haven't won a regional here for 26 years. I think the girls are really ready and focused. They don't like to lose and if everything goes well, I don't think a trip to sectionals is out of the question.

We in the Iraqi opposition have a common stand that the opposition forces, assisted by regional and international states including the United States, must undertake comprehensive democratic changes.

Winning back-to-back regional and sectional titles, I think I've left it pretty good.

will only fuel wider regional instability ... and escalate the conflict with NATO.

Winning the series would be a huge boost and show we can go to (NCAA) Regional and the College World Series.

Winning the regional title and beating North was an emotionally difficult experience for me because Dave and I have been friends for 25 years and we had to beat someone you care about and kids your care about. But I like to think of it as a great basketball game between two good teams.

Wherever you're located, you can be a good producer or a poor one in terms of being lower cost and higher return. Concentrate on being a good producer in your location through management. That far outweighs any regional differences.

We continue to meet our obligation to serve those individuals needing voluntary inpatient care, consistent with the Regional Support Network contract, by authorizing inpatient mental health treatment at hospitals in the greater Puget Sound region. It is important for the community to understand that during this time the majority of services offered by the Regional Support Network remain open.

We continue to build our brands and expand our international, national and regional capabilities. Our objective is to provide seamless, end-to-end global transportation solutions to our customers.

We continue to believe the acquisition would make strategic sense for Pinnacle, transforming it from a regional operator to a national casino company with an extensive development pipeline.

We played a tough schedule this season in preparation for these type of games. It's paid off for us at the district and regional level and it did again tonight.

We played a tough schedule that allowed us to enter the West Regional tournament and we're excited to be there. The team deserves this opportunity.

We hope that the system will not only allow us to minimize losses, but will be a major factor in the investment attractiveness of regional operators, and will create beneficial conditions to access world capital markets.

We hope (Gilson) has a really good hammer competition and she hasn't made a regional mark in the hammer yet. I'm also looking for them to do well in the discus as well.

We do not have the luxury of blaming others for our own problems. It is high time we addressed our national and regional problems with courage, sincerity and openness.

We do more routines as the regional gets closer.

We went to the regional finals last year and we had a lead with about two minutes left in the game. It was a disappointing loss last year. We tasted it. We spent a year having this goal in mind. We're here now.

We really want to (put this behind us). We want to take care of business in our next two ballgames on our regular schedule. Then we have an opportunity with the regional here for our guys to play on their floor, and that's special.

We do those because our research shows that high-tech growth is a critical part of regional economic development. Those cities and regions that do have a strong tech component generally tend to do better than others.

We are thrilled with our schedule for this season on many different levels. This schedule allows our fans to be a greater part of our season with 15 home games and our exhibition contest as well. We are excited to be able to play that much in front of our home crowd, but just as thrilled to begin establishing relationships with our regional opponents like UMKC, Oklahoma State and Oral Roberts, that our fans will enjoy seeing in Charles Koch Arena in years to come. Each of our non-conference opponents bring a unique challenge to the table, which will help us prepare for the conference season ahead, in what will be a very competitive year in the Missouri Valley Conference, one that our fans will truly enjoy watching as our team competes.

We must pull together and work hard in ensuring that SADC succeeds in its agenda of development, economic cooperation and regional integration,

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

We've got our own pressure. We don't need anyone else's. Our first goal is to be seeded number one going into district. The second goal is to win district and the third, to win a regional title. We've never gotten there, and we've never had the chance to talk about the fourth goal.

We have been waiting to get back to the regional finals for three years. Jordan Cook (6-10 Hampden Academy center) is a game changer and changes teams with his defense and is pretty smooth offensively as well.

We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.

We have to keep our big girls (Harris and Best) from getting into foul trouble. That was one of the main factors that cost us in our loss against Dudley in the regional semifinals last year.

With the success of LIVESTRONG Ride Portland in 2005, we learned that these regional events have the ability to bring together entire communities in support of cancer survivors. Expanding to five cities this year will help the LAF bring its message to an even larger population. We anticipate that the series will grow each year, expanding into even more communities and enabling more participants to support people affected by cancer and to celebrate survivorship.

We have always taken second or third. That was one of our goals going into the year. That, and win the regional and sectional were our three goals. We have accomplished the first one, and now we have the other two coming up.

We have always featured regional bands but this year wanted to add a national headlining act. Gary Allan is very popular right now and drew lots of fans when he played in the Pavilion a couple of times.

We have to understand that what we did in preseason meant nothing in conference and what we did in conference is not going to determine the outcome of this game. Everybody is even keel. We've got to play ourselves into the regional tournament and anything can happen.

We have the talent again this year to challenge for the regional championship, especially with the boys.

We have the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. How we do there determines what we get in the regional tournament. Hopefully we can keep it going.

We needed that wakeup call to get us back into it. We came out and played pretty good at Hamilton (in the regional championship). This game just topped it off.

We needed to beat Southwest Baptist, but we got a reprieve by the NCAA selection committee. That's why I think, going into our NCAA regional tournament, it's let it all out because we've been given a second chance to compete.

We came together and took a regional approach to determine what our needs were.

We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.

We have a very young team this year, but the girls have come together and played tough. Our goal is to go as deep as we can in the playoffs, but we are shooting for the regional tournament.

We need time to review it, but obviously an expansion there is necessary based on the regional factors and the growing city. It will be looked at by the commissioners in that light.

The president and the Chinese leadership will review multi-facetted bilateral relations, regional issues and other international developments of mutual interest.

Those banks have done quite well. Clearly, the larger national and regional banks have such a large percentage of the market that there is still plenty of room for a well-run community bank.

Weakness in overseas and regional markets affected trading, dragging down blue chips and H shares early.

We aim to have four or five stores in one area to justify building a new distribution facility. The challenge, however, is to balance DC locations with stores and regional growth initiatives. We are strategically planning for the future with our new Savannah center.

We are delighted to set up our European regional HR BPO operations in Krakow. There are strong economic, cultural and language connections between Poland, Germany and other European countries, so we expect the Krakow center to serve as an attractive resource for our global and European clients.

We know that anything can happen in the regional tournament. When you're down, you still have a chance. But I hope we don't have to come back twice this year.

We'll have a walk-through practice on Saturday morning if we win. We would have to focus, because anything can happen at a regional tournament.

We'll get after it in practice next week. It's regional time. We'll see what happens.

Though some local governments have published their own regional administrative maps before, quite a number of regional borderlines are vague and the place names are not in compliance with government standards.

We are a better tournament team than a dual-meet team. I expect us to make some noise at both the Southwest regional and PIAA tournaments.

We are raising our recommendation on Pinnacle West based on the company's core competencies as a regional energy provider.

To be truthful, I don't even know why it's so necessary to close the regional centers. It's going to end up costing us more money to close them than it would be to keep them open.

The overall balance of the Antarctic ice is dependent on regional changes in the interior and those in the coastal areas. The changes we are seeing are probably a good indicator of the changing climatic conditions there.

We had another excellent year in 2005, both financially and strategically. Our business units performed well and delivered solid financial results, which are even more impressive considering we added the USF companies to our portfolio and realigned our regional service coverage.

When you're playing a regional semifinal the passion is there, the energy is there.

We played a lot better than we did a week ago in the conference. The girls worked hard all week and improved on some things. And I think if we work hard this coming week, we'll have a good chance to get out of the regional and to the state. So I'm pretty happy to be coming out of the sectional.

We opened the West Regional with NNU three years ago and lost after beating them twice during the regular season. You can't overlook anyone and you can't expect anything.

We're left out of the loop because we're actually a public corporation, not a local government. You have to go through a regional district or a city to apply.

We still have a third of the season to go. We are still fighting for an NCAA regional berth.

Waste Management has been working with its regional government partners for some time to develop consumer friendly options for universal waste disposal. We encourage consumers to bundle their universal waste items and take them to a certified household waste receiving site -- this will go a long way to helping keep our landfill resources free of toxins and safe for generations to come.

We are just not playing well together yet in certain areas. They'll improve. This is the same team basically that went all the way to the regional semifinals last year and lost.

We recognize the importance of the state and regional transportation networks and the role they play in supporting the economy of Northern Arizona. Whether it's residents or visitors making trips for business or pleasure, they rely on a dependable system to meet their needs. Recently there have been many examples when system reliability has simply failed.

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

We're excited about getting started. In our bracket, anybody could win the regional title. There really isn't much separation from top to bottom. It's really hard to know just how good the other teams are. You have to really take things one game at a time or your going to lose and be eliminated. It's going to be an exciting tournament.

There are no strong regional players on the west coast. The west coast tends to be mom and pop stores. It's a lot more open for competition than the east coast.

This would be the capstone of this grand project of Chip's, to transform what was a regional brokerage into a global asset-management firm.