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Some sort of correction was overdue. The market may now be moving into consolidation after recent sharp gains. There is still a good appetite for stocks.

So up came Gehrig. He was a sharp hitter. You could double him, too, now and then, if the ball was hit hard and straight at an infielder.

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Cody did a good job today and holding Ball State to only a run was important. Tyler did a solid job coming in and closing out the game. It's tough for him to be very sharp because he hasn't pitched a lot, but he is a guy that is really going to help us.

Coming on the heels of stronger reports on retail sales and durable-goods orders, as well as a sharp drop in first-time claims for unemployment, this ... drop in consumer confidence was a cold slap in the face to all of those economists, including ourselves, that are looking for a second-half rebound.

Coming off a 10-day break, sometimes you're not as sharp as you want to be,

Despite the sharp jump in prices, August's data do not change the picture of a strong downward trend in the annual rate of house price inflation,

a new and sharp turn in the relations between the two countries.

As far as we can tell, confidence now seems to have run a bit ahead of the improvement in the stock market, and the failure of the Nasdaq and Dow to make further progress in recent weeks makes it doubtful that confidence will continue to rise at the May pace. The sharp rise in unemployment is likely to become a negative factor, too.

A sharp rise in yields raises interest rates across all forms of debt. The last thing the Bank of Japan wants to do is to surprise the market.

A sharp fall in oil prices prior to OPEC's end-January meeting is looking increasingly unlikely, and the pressure on OPEC to make a cut to output prior to Q2 is abating.

A sharp double-digit drop in natural gas prices and a decline in fuel oil and electricity prices drive our call.

Ashley is becoming a real force up front for us. She's fit, sharp and been extremely dangerous.

Ashley is a truly amazing young person who possesses profound intelligence, sharp wit and a great sense of community obligation.

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision.

The boys are looking very sharp in training and it looks like we've put the game behind us which is what you need to do after a disappointing performance. We're looking forward to Saturday to rectify the loss.

The bottom line on Knight Ridder papers is that in order to make these deals work, someone has to get extremely aggressive with costs. There's no question that this means that any buyer has to go in with a very, very sharp knife and trim the fat and maybe into the muscles to get this to work.

At Wheeling, he wouldn't run the sharp turns too well (at 550). So out of necessity, I put him on the backside (660). Derby Lane is a different track; he's taken to it well.

Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

Backups don't get a lot of praise or glory, but you get to that spot by working hard. He comes from a line of quarterbacks and an athletic family. It's bred in him and he's a sharp kid.

a spare but sharp setting for her unsettling, vividly literate lyrics.

Al has defined himself as someone who identifies problems before anyone else and offers solutions while others are still mulling the question, ... The hallmark of his career has been his talent to navigate great public policy challenges guided by a sharp intellect and a big heart.

You want a vehicle that's going to crash and crumple in a controlled way, so you don't get a lot of sharp metal intruding into the car,

You're going to have your 0-for-4 days, but you don't want to have days on defense when you're going to cost the pitcher a run or two, so you have to stay sharp on defense.

Young buyers tend to get raked over the coals by really sharp salespeople.

This is a wide angle endoscope - about 100 degrees - a new way which gives an extremely sharp image. This is what I call a revolution in endoscopy.

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

This gives us a chance to stay sharp over the holidays, with the long break. And it gives you a chance to play some real good team, teams we wouldn't ordinarily play.

This force ... will speak softly, by which I mean that it will be friendly to everybody ... but it will have very sharp teeth as well as very big teeth if anybody should try to oppose it carrying out its mandate or to threaten its personnel.

This ends a period of uncertainty and will arrest the runaway prices in central Mumbai. But there's enough demand and momentum to prevent a sharp correction.

This is an appointment which is so right, and I just know that Gary will make an outstanding political editor. He's a razor sharp political journalist whose judgement and insights are utterly sure-footed, as demonstrated in his masterful handling of some of the most charged political stories of recent times - for example, our scoops on the Attorney-General's advice on Iraq, the Hutton and Butler Inquiries.

This is a matter for the Central Bank, which has a very cautious policy. We aren't going to see any sharp changes.

This is a disconnect; job growth is psychologically and practically the core of what's happening in the economy. In sharp contrast, the oil price is volatile. It's certainly not meaningless, but it's subject to so many variations that it doesn't have the same importance.

This happens fairly often. I have no control over whether or not I am disqualified but in the event that I am Judge Sharp assigns another judge to hear the case.

A lot of people didn't look sharp in that game. You can just see in the give-and-goes and final passes. It really was not there, which is too bad for their homecoming. Maybe they were trying to push it in front of the home fans for the first time.

Although the (Fed) will not be pleased with the sharp decline in productivity growth over the past year, they will view it as a cyclical phenomenon rather than a retreat from the productivity-led expansion of the past 5 years.

Also, this market still needs the underpinning of improved corporate earnings. We've not got the evidence that that's happening in a meaningful way. I like the way it has stabilized following the sharp moves since Sept. 21, but I am concerned that not enough fundamentals are in place.

Also, this market still needs the underpinning of improved corporate earnings, ... We've not got the evidence that that's happening in a meaningful way. I like the way it has stabilized following the sharp moves since Sept. 21, but I am concerned that not enough fundamentals are in place.

They got a great performance out of Arroyo. He was very sharp and stayed on the attack. Ben was good tonight but Arroyo matched him pitch for pitch.

The yen's loss of upside momentum should also come as a relief to the high-yield currency bloc, with a sharp strengthening of the yen perhaps the biggest near-term risk for these currencies.

They are putting their hopes on a sharp snap-back in the market. Management has been in denial for a while, and they continue to be in denial. If the snap-back isn't reasonably sharp, they have to think about very, very deep cuts in spending.

This past year has seen the sharp rise in fuel prices more than offset the efficiency gains and a strong revenue environment.

This month's modest gain indicates that the sharp rebound from the post-Hurricane Katrina meltdown has been completed. The gentle slowing trend that had been in place for much of 2005 may have been halted, but it is too soon to tell with any confidence.

There was profit-taking in select blue chips and China-related stocks after recent sharp rises. Investors turned cautious as US and Tokyo markets were weak.

There wasn't anybody going to beat Sinister Minister today. No one. Bob had him sharp and ready to roll, and he was much the best. I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going, I might as well keep him going and not give anybody a chance to get close to him.

There were lots of good performances, particularly up front, while Matthew Watkins looked sharp in the centre and full-back Lee Byrne did a couple of special things, so there were a lot of positives,

There were some good and disappointing things on 3-meter. I thought we had dives that were in position to hit and we didn't focus through the finish and those are mistakes that are nice to pop out now because we have a couple weeks to correct it and get sharp for conference and zones. Overall a very productive meet.

This is without a doubt the biggest win we have had since I've been at Mercer. Our pitchers were as sharp as they possibly could be and really set the tone. We took advantage of the chances we had at the plate and played outstanding defense.

They really want to see something more obvious and tangible as they have been at the sharp end of IRA violence. The unionists want to see the melted-down guns.

They have some good athletes. We've got to be as sharp as we were against Romulus.

At least in the near term we are seeing a sharp decrease in natural gas prices because the weather has been warmer nationwide and storage levels are running 30 percent above the five-year average. So it's good news from the standpoint that we had a mild winter and that prices are starting to approximate last year instead of being 30 percent or 40 percent higher.

It's exciting for the kids to continue the tradition. Getting both teams back to state is exciting. We weren't as mentally sharp as we could have been Monday knowing going in that it was going to be us against us (third-place Pine Tree finished 53 shots behind the Gold squad). Today, the kids really came out and played awesome golf.

It's a sign that things have bottomed out, but we're not seeing a sharp turnaround in capital spending just yet. So it's encouraging, but it doesn't suggest anything more than a relatively muted and fragile recovery.

It's a short run to the first turn, but he should be able to put himself in a good spot right behind Sharp Humor, who figures to set the pace. Naturally I'd like to be closer to the inside, but it shouldn't be a problem.

It was good to be working under the new coach (Guus Hiddink). He seems to like lean, sharp players so I think I fit the mould. It's down to the coach now but hopefully I can get the opportunity to represent my country again.

It was good to be working under the new coach (Guus Hiddink), ... He seems to like lean, sharp players so I think I fit the mould.

It was a very well-played game, but it all started with pitching and defense. Again, we didn't tear the cover off the ball. We scored one run. This is what we have to do to compete. Hopefully, we can put it together. This is probably the third or fourth sharp game that we have played, but this the best that we played.

It's a big win. Especially since we gave them that first run. They should have never scored that run, we were not mentally sharp out there at all in that fifth inning, but the kids didn't get down or quit against a good team. Then Mo gave us the big hit.

It?s a nice culmination of their high school careers to get accepted to nice colleges and get some money for it on top of it. They?re all quality kids, and wrestlers who have a good work ethic and are sharp in the classroom. It?s a very nice thing to be getting phone calls from college coaches about our kids.

It's a real surprise and a shock. You knew one day Coach Sharp would retire. We didn't know that she would announce it today. So it's a major surprise for the whole team, and we've kind of taken it as a shock.

It's all swollen up and puffed up. I think it had a little effect on him. He wasn't quite as sharp as we've seen him.

It provided us with a solid week of training. During the season teams are often preparing on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for a Friday competition. During those weeks we really have to watch our volume of training. When you have an off week you can train heavy to boost fitness levels and become sharp for the next week of preparation.

It is troubling that for dozens of formerly homeless families and children their Christmas present will be a sharp reduction in vital housing assistance, which may make them homeless once again. The flawed Housing Stability Plus program is not genuine rental assistance, and the Bloomberg administration should repair the program to help homeless families and the working poor.

Foreign selling seems to be behind sharp losses in some stocks like Matsushita. It's no secret they want to lock in profits in Japanese shares after being severely hurt in steep falls in U.S. shares.

It's one of the most exciting things we do. There are a lot of sharp people in education and we are able to show that. The best part is the spontaneity of it all.

It's not very common for a big, slow-moving aircraft to ram into a high-performance jet fighter, ... And we definitely made a sharp left turn -- that was called uncontrolled flight -- inverted in a dive after he impacted my propeller and my nose.

It's only a matter of time before geopolitical developments give the market another sharp tug. The chances of a benign settlement in coming months over the Iranian nuclear issue have receded in recent weeks.

It's looking more likely ... that we're going to get a sharp contraction.

It's always great when you can jump out early because it allows you to do so many things offensively. We were able to bunt and run the bases and feel lose out there. We played solid softball. We've been pretty sharp during our three wins.

It's a normal pullback after a sharp rise that was driven more by speculation than fundamentals.

It's hard to imagine that Jay Lefkowitz would be taking this job to be window dressing on a separate track. I'm confident that he is not going to be a potted palm no matter how many people at the State Department seek to stick sharp elbows in him.

It's been an upside down time for him over the last week or so. He's not going to back away from a challenge, he just wasn't as sharp as he could have been.

It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.

It's probably the most I've ever experienced, not just with the Marlins but since I've been playing. Having someone who's going to work with you in between games or on an everyday basis is going to be very good because it'll keep you sharp on all your skills.

It's tough to stay sharp getting one at-bat as a pinch-hitter. It's a totally different approach when you start.

It's tough to remind myself that it's still early, especially days like that where it wasn't sharp command-wise by any means. I felt like I did a good job making pitches when I had to get out of jams. That's what I'm going to focus on right now, getting that mental aspect back.

Consumer confidence held up relatively well in February, following January's sharp bounce.

Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'

Even with prices falling, companies like Sharp are going to be able to keep the second-tier manufacturers in China and Taiwan out of the market.

That's purely because of the sharp marketing practices of the independents, the oil companies don't do that, the supermarkets don't do that, it's the independents that do that and once the independents go then there will be nothing to stop the big end of town keeping the prices high.

That's a good outing for him. He wasn't as sharp as I've seen him, but he pitched well. He stayed in and he battled and he gave us a chance to win.

It's something we preached from Day 1 (of spring training). But you've got to give a lot of credit to Mulder. He wasn't sharp early on and allowed some runners, but then he got the ground balls he needed for the double plays.

It's not a corporation or an insurance company, which have an incentive to settle, if they value the case properly, ... I have said for years what the state needed was a very sharp insurance claims adjustor.

Each quarter throughout this next year I think we should do a bit better, although we certainly don't expect any sharp improvements.

Everyone on the team has room to improve over the next few weeks. Neither team was very sharp at the Championships. We can only get better.

Everyone feels the pressure of losing right now. We've just got to be as sharp as we can.

The biggest surprise: watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the picture itself is sharp and vivid, with crisp action that never smears; the screen is noticeably brighter than on previous iPods. Second, because the audio is piped directly into your ear sockets, it has much higher fidelity and presence than most peoples TV sets. Finally, remember that a 2.5-inch screen a foot from your face fills as much of your vision as a much larger screen thats across the room.

The betting trends have been public and sharp money coming in on the favorites all week.

The Bank of England will be pleased to see that producer output prices remained largely contained in December, but less good news is the further sharp increase in input prices as gas prices soared.

Syd threw another great game. She was not sharp early on and they got a run, but she settled in after that and tossed a great game.

Strong performances in continental Europe and Asia were more than offset by a sharp downturn in home-related spending in the UK, presenting B&Q with its toughest trading environment for many years.

It's important to stay focused on the interplay between the consumer and the overextended housing market and sharp increases in energy prices, ... That will be key as to whether or not the US economy will sustain itself in 2006.

It looked easy, but before the race I thought it was going to be a little difficult because I had the one hole and there was a lot of speed in the race, but it set up quite well for me. I got lucky. I wanted him to break as sharp as he could but he kind of bobbled coming out of the gate, just a little bit, one or two jumps, he kind of lost his balance. After that it was no problem.

It just scared me a little bit. I felt a real, real sharp pain.

It's hard to be critical of our group because things have gone so well. We've worked so hard and then we have a game like this where we weren't as sharp as we have been. I'm not going to criticize our team for this hockey game.

It's different seeing your own hitters. You'd rather see different hitters, but you have to ... be as sharp as you can be. If they need you, it will be a clutch situation.

It's done in a very condensed amount of time essentially the time it takes for a dinner party, ... It's extremely sharp and focused writing. As usual, his ear is very sharp.

It was an impressive day for the Tigers with the bats against a pretty effective pitcher in Callahan. We were opportunistic and played some good defense when we needed to. I didn't think that Dani was particularly sharp but she was still talented enough to win.