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The top of the lineup just battled all game. They took good swings and got the job done against a team that can really swing it, too.

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

It was the right guy at that particular time. I say whoever swings the bat better, that's when he will move up.

It was another tough game. At times it looked like a football game, with the big swings in momentum. Heather Olsen played with the flu and Liz Roberts had a sore hip, but they both gave 100 percent. And all the seniors provided leadership and gave their all.

The telecom equipment sector, and wireless communications, in particular, has very huge swings in relative valuation, depending on the comfort level that investors have in a company. The pace at which we believe the margin improvement will occur in mobile phones is not at the level that we had anticipated. On the infrastructure side of the business, we are still optimistic.

The swings of international assistance from government to nongovernmental organizations and back, according to the legitimacy of the government of the day, have disrupted long-term development in the past,

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

The third cylinder of economic growth is beginning to fire, ... The other two cylinders are inventory swings and consumer spending. Outside of telecommunications and airplanes, business capital spending has begun to improve already, beginning in the first quarter.

The third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. He was getting a lot of good swings at it, had me under a lot of pressure. But the fifth, I had a few good easy hold games and started to relax a little bit more and hit my spots a little bit better, so that helped me to relax on my return games, as well.

Sometimes guys play a long time in the Minors and have a hard time finding a role, ... He's solid; he swings the bat pretty good, too.

Probably in my dream we would have won all three. I was able to get in a pretty good groove and put some good swings on some pitches.

People don't see the ball, they don't have good swings on him. I can't really tell you exactly why, but there's some deception to him. Some of it might be his height, some of it might be the downhill plane all the time, but there's deception to him and I really like it.

People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

Normally, economists downplay periodic swings in energy prices. However, the most recent run-up is a source of concern because it may be raising inflation expectations. Workers do not live in a world that excludes food and energy prices. Wage demands, especially in the current tight labor market, will be based on the increase in the overall CPI.

Normally, economists downplay periodic swings in energy prices, ... However, the most recent run-up is a source of concern because it may be raising inflation expectations. Workers do not live in a world that excludes food and energy prices. Wage demands, especially in the current tight labor market, will be based on the increase in the overall CPI.

After putting good swings on the ball for six innings something good is bound to happen.

The oil market is possibly at that dramatic stage near the end of a big run, when price swings tend to be very dramatic, and the euphoria and panic levels are at extremes.

Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa,

As commodities fluctuate, underlying securities will follow... That's where they are going to trade for the next little while, as we're going to see volatile swings of this nature.

As a result, the swings between March and April in the Census figures tend to be smaller than the swings in the retailers' report. Chain store results from the retailers may overstate the weakness in March.

The boys took it pretty hard. Like any event, ball striking is key, and we haven' t got our golf swings quite where we want them yet.

That's Jasmine. She swings the bat well. We got opportunities and had to cash in on them and she did.

(Albany) swings the sticks pretty good, so we just had to match their intensity and keep battling and hope we came out on top.

You pretty much get what you put into it. Somebody who swings faster is going to make the ball go farther, we all know that. He's just not getting something that he doesn't deserve.

This bunch really swings the bats, so you've got to keep it down against them. We got hurt when we got a couple of pitches up and they hit it out.

A lot of it is being comfortable at the plate. I think early in the season we had some guys who were a little nervous, trying to live up to that No. 1 preseason ranking. Now we're shortening up our swings and making better contact.

Although short-run swings in firms' energy costs might be absorbed in their profit margins, a persistent increase is likely to be fully passed on to the consumer,

Almost all of this slowing trend is due to the dramatic swings in Information employment in L.A. County.

They do events in a great way and we have no doubt that they will be ready to receive us in 2008 as their tourism industry swings back into action.

You don't get huge swings like this if you don't have huge amounts of capital being put to work,

ASU is going to be another strong program for us to face. Having to play a single game before the NIST is good so we can keep our swings going strong. We are playing well right now and need to keep building each day. If you look at the level of play from opening day to now you can tell how much progress we have made in a short amount of time.

It's just things like that, and they're really not taking any bad swings at anything I throw up there. I'm sure people are saying I don't have anything left in the tank. Whatever. I know I still have good enough stuff to get people out.

It's just a tribute to his work ethic and his passion and love for hitting. He's a blue collar guy when it comes to hitting, there can never be enough swings for him.

I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.

It was the best I've felt as far as my stuff goes. I got some swings with my change and I got a strikeout or two with my slider, so I'm happy.

It was a strange night. I put good swings on two balls and hit them hard. It was nice, but it would have been nice to win.

I told him after the first two at-bats that he was swinging as good as he did when he left. His swings were really good.

It really developed out of a clear need to give guidance, We knew that there were too many swings in a set.

I tried to get too fine. Derek had a couple of good swings against me. It's that fine line between being aggressive and being picky.

It's the best possible win for the case, but it is not the end of the battle. The next test case will really be long-term users. Investor sentiment certainly swings probably more than it should on each individual case.

It's going to be a tough task. West Jones swings the bats well and East Central is a tough club. I know Wayne County has a good team also, so nothing is going to be easy.

It's going to be a big week for economic data, but a lot of it will be compromised by so-called seasonal adjustments. The warm weather in January may cause some unforeseen swings in the data, making it look rosier than it would have been otherwise, and that could cause some volatility in the markets as well.

It's easy to get to this level and try to do spectacular things, which we all do, ... It's been a learning experience this year for me. Being back up here, I've been telling myself to trust my hands, stay back and put good swings on good pitches.

It's great to see him out there healthy. I saw him take some good swings out there. That's encouraging. You know as well as I do, we're going to need him if we're going to win this thing.

Even when I was struggling up there, I felt pretty good. I was getting good swings but I just wasn't getting any hits.

It's still meaningful -- it's a sector that accounts for a lot of swings in activity.

It's starting to warm up a little outside and I think our bats are about to come around a little bit. Our bats have struggled at the plate and that's no secret. So it's always good when it's warmer out because the swings look a little freer.

Everyone agrees we need to take steps to avoid swings in exchange rates,

The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the nature of my day-to-day activities. Arthritis was my morning wake-up call, mood swings between ecstasy and despair my daily state of mind, and Scotch my release from it all.

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Swings in U.S. stocks always hit here hard, but lingering concern about the health of Japan's banking system is the main factor weighing heavy.

It kind of swings momentum our way. They score that goal, they've got all the momentum, they're coming after us. Tomas makes the big save, we go down, we make it 4-1, 5-1, then the game is out of reach.

It was a good match between two very good teams. That's volleyball. The momentum swings back and forth. When you've got two good teams that hate to lose . . . you're gonna fight like that.

I've kind of been hit or miss the past couple of weeks. I've done some really good stuff, then made a bad swing when I shouldn't. However, this golf course will do that to you. Sometimes you can't just dial it in to the perfect yardage to some of these pins. I just need to be out there making good swings and taking the results it gives me.

Oh my gosh, he is unbelievable. I was down taking some swings in the cage and I saw that thing going out and the whole place just erupted. You know when certain guys get up there it's just another day at the office. They don't think of it as a big play. In their minds they just know what they want to do, then they hit it and enjoy it.

The volatility that we're seeing is ... (because) greater than 50 percent of the activity is program trading. The swings are really violent.

They view it that that is more likely to keep the overall economy performing in a relatively smooth way so that the seasonality - if there is any - in credit demands doesn't cause large swings in interest rates, which in turn cause activity to turn on and turn off in an erratic way.

It was a game of momentum swings and runs, and they (Flandreau) had the final run when they needed it. They stretched the lead, and we had to put them at the foul line ... but their kids stepped up and made big plays in those situations.

The rest of winter in Indiana will continue to have swings from warmer-than-normal to colder-than-normal temperatures.

That's a good team. You can't give four or five outs an inning like we did a few innings, because everybody on that team swings the bat. No easy outs on that team. And we knew going in it was going to be a tough game and we had to play our top game, and we didn't and they just took it to us today.

Their guy was really good. It wasn't anything else. Everybody that took the mound today was really good. They pitched well, hit their spots. We took our swings and didn't come up with anything.

I'm down 0-2 and my first two swings it looked like I was taking good cuts but I had no shot of hitting those balls. I think if I would have hit it, it would have hit my hands they were cutting in so hard.

I'm glad to get this series over. Obviously, we would have had four swings at it. I'm glad to get it on the first swing. Now it's time for us to try to get some rest and get some bodies healed and get back to practice, because that's my favorite part of this whole deal.

In China, purchases from major consumers, including power cable makers, are still normal at this price level. Buyers are doing futures to hedge price swings and help reduce losses made on the spot market.

I knew we'd eventually bust out. You just never know when it's going to happen. We were taking good swings before that, there was good energy on the bench. We just stayed aggressive and kept swinging.

I had some good swings and I felt comfortable, ... After five days, I was happy with how it went.

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

If there are big swings in the future, it could have an impact, but there hasn't been any for now.

I had a couple of bad swings at the end but I played pretty well today overall, ... This is a course where you have to make a lot of birdies, and my style is to fire at the flagsticks.

I had a legitimate strikeout pitch. It's a pitch I can throw and get a lot of swings and misses. I had never even tried throwing a splitter.

If you're counting on home runs to win games, you're in bad shape. Home runs are not going to come every day. Home runs just happen. You get good at-bats, you put good swings on the ball. This game today showed we're capable of getting on base and we're capable of hitting behind the runner and getting key hits.

If you look at the type of swings I've been taking the last couple of days, I'm right where I need to me. If I'm healthy, I'll be fine. That has always been the case with me.

In this category you have swings of 30 to 40 percent in one quarter,

I just go up there and whale away after it and hope it hits the barrel of the bat. I don't think there's any plan. The biggest key is having guys on base. When you do that, he has to throw it for a strike. If he does, he might leave it up, it will tumble more and you can get good swings at it.

I played well except for three swings off the tee. My goal for today was 14 under. I got there but then I had a couple of bad shots.

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

In the middle of a correction, the market seeks to find a bottom and a top -- some kind of range that it can operate in comfortably. So you'll get wide swings as traders try to feel out where's the top, where's the bottom, where's support, where's supply.

I really didn't feel like I was able to get any good swings off Garland all night, just had trouble getting anything timed. I was just able to get a pitch and stay inside of it.

I had checked swings at a couple of pitches early. I got myself behind. I was able to stay in the at-bat long enough until I was able to get the hit.

I had checked swings at a couple of pitches early. I got myself behind,

I just felt like we just took a few good swings against him,

Him taking swings in a college batting cage is a long way from doing baseball work with us, ... It's just another step in his rehab. To what extent this is of any significance -- until I'm told otherwise -- it's just part of the exercise regimen he's going through. Once he's accelerated to the point where the doctors are ready to turn him over to us, then he can do more meaningful and substantial baseball activities. But for now, this is just another step.

He's seeing the ball well and putting a lot of good swings on the ball. It's a lot of fun to watch. He is very calm up there and has a good approach.

He's putting good swings on the ball. And he's aggressive.

I don't put a lot of faith in the month-to-month swings in the trade data, but we had expected a modest widening in the gap. This narrowing will feed into a little bit more positive reading to second-quarter GDP.

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

He's very athletic and strong. He's raw and green, with a lot of swings and misses, but he has a great body and strength to work with.

He took swings Saturday or Sunday and he didn't do too good.

He throws his entire body at you with 96- to 97-mph speed. We took some good swings at him. But he has good stuff. You tip your cap to him.

He swings the bat well all the time and uses the whole field. That's why he's in that spot. We count on him to drive in runs, and he came through today.

He swings the bat real good at the right moment, especially when we need it.

He swings the bat and we can use every good bat we can get. I'm very excited about him joining the ball club.

He swings so easy. When he's healthy, he's one of the greatest players there is. He can do everything on the field. If he's healthy, we've got a chance to go to the World Series.

He threw a lot of strikes and worked very few deep counts. I didn't see impatient swings on our part. He just pounded the strike zone all night long.

Gay Brewer swings the club in a figure eight. If you didn't know better, you'd swear he was trying to kill snakes.