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It does look like it poses a significant threat to Florida by the weekend. Of course, these are four- and five-day forecasts, so things can change.

It doesn't make sense that taxpayers in Indiana, for example, should have to pay more for services so people in Florida or somewhere else can get more jobs,

I think his first year at Florida was our last year at Auburn. And the only other time was in 1966 - when I was a sophomore at Auburn and he was a senior at Florida.

I still think we're seeing some major kids who go out of state, but you're getting different types of programs each year that are getting those players. When the Big 8 merged into the Big 12, it opened up a whole new avenue of recruits to look at the northern schools. Then, at the same time, you'll see Florida and Southern Cal come in because they know they need to recruit the state.

I still think Florida State is the team to beat. But Florida has really moved in on him and made it difficult for him.

I think it will be a neat experience. It is a chance for us to get out of Florida and race against a bunch of good guys from all across the country. I just want to come up there and be in the hunt. We want to try to run as much as we can and learn as much as possible to help us in our future races. If things go well, we could try and do more races in the series.

I think they're a great basketball team. I think they're as talented as anybody. They play both ends of the floor. They have great depth. They play very hard. I've been exceedingly impressed with Florida State this season.

Just in time for the pickers to get back to Florida for the orange crop,

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal. But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law.

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal, ... But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law.

I'm shocked by this, to be honest. The past four games, we had been doing some positive things and winning close games and building momentum. So to play like this today is definitely a surprise. But the only thing we can do is put it behind us and get started looking forward to Florida State.

Man, that was fun. That's what Florida State baseball is all about.

I'm hoping we can get this thing moving along. I'm hoping to re-energize (South Florida elected officials). We all have to get together to make this thing happen everybody who wants to save baseball in South Florida.

I'm impressed with this Florida Atlantic team. They are going to win their share of games. We knew it was going to be a tough game.

We need something. There are bills that would totally lift the moratorium and the lease sale area has always been problematic. This bill greatly expands protections that Florida and the rest of the country currently has in place and also addresses the problems of the existing 90 or so leases.

The absence of clear and consistent regulations... will undoubtedly lead to further confusion and unnecessary out-of-pocket expenses to cities and counties in Florida and throughout the country.

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The areas that are producing are so small consumers would be lucky to see a Florida oyster right now,

That was a typical tough game on the road in the Big East. It didn't take South Florida long to figure out how to play like a Big East team. ... That team is going to win some games in this league. They're good.

That was typical of what the refs were doing today. But it's not about that. It's about Florida beating us. They outplayed us today.

That was something you don't see every day. It's obvious people are very exited about the University of Florida football, and it's obvious people are thrilled that Urban Meyer is our coach.

That was so hard. I just sat there saying I can't believe we're reading about Florida sunsets when it's 25 below zero.

That was one of the worst (losses) I've ever had as far as being up that much. That game was the turning point of the Florida trip. If we win that game, I think we win the next two, but I think the guys couldn't mentally recover.

I was proud of our team's effort. The Florida basketball team presents many problems.

I was playing golf in Florida the day before this happened. I had the best round of the offseason -- I shot a 78 -- and I was making some money off my friends. I figured I'd keep getting better, then ...

I was one of the happiest people in Florida that day, not just in Bradford County.

Most of the people here think this is the best-kept secret in Baton Rouge. If you're wondering what the dirty little secret is, there isn't one. We're just north of Florida Boulevard, that's all.

Migrant workers are central to the economy in Florida and the rest of the country. We are the ones who pick the vegetables, clean the hotel rooms and work in the restaurants. If we stop for one day, everybody, including President Bush, will notice.

Miami has produced results which speak to them being a great team. We've done a little bit of the same, but we can't control what Florida State or Miami will do. However, we can certainly try to play on their weaknesses. Hopefully we know what we can do and what we can control.

We need to remember that Florida has $22.5 billion in long-term debt ... True fiscal conservatives believe in paying down the state debt.

Wherever this plant is located - if it's in North Florida - everybody is at the mercy of the wind. The plume would go to Leon County as well as Madison.

We feel Florida provides enough skill athletes. There are a lot of quality linemen in Texas.

We'll be reviewing the opinions of the Anatomical Board and attorney general Crist to determine if there are any potential violations of Florida law.

We'll be ready for what comes, ... But the folks in Northwest Florida have gone through a lot.

When it's cold in the Pacific, Florida burns out of control in the spring, ... And when it's warm in the Pacific, you get winter rain, and it's not so bad.

We can play any way you want to play. Florida wants to get up and down, they're going to try to press us, they're going to try to create a tempo that's up and down. That's great.

We played much better on the boards and we shared the ball well on offense. But, the key was we played, by far, our best defense of the year and held Florida to 36.7 percent from the field, an average that was padded with their late game run.

We have to stop the madness. That was the first thing I said. It's not just MEAC schools. We've got schools in Alabama and Georgia that have made a feast out of Florida players. There is no reason why those players can't stay here if they chose to do so. That's one of the things we are really trying to emphasize - keeping our kids in the state.

We hope he goes to Florida and keeps improving. If he does that, the sky is the limit. He's really an untapped talent. When he (joined the football team) he didn't fully understand the game and its idiosyncrasies.

We hope and believe we have elected the next president of the United States. The latest count in the state of Florida shows Gov. Bush winning that state by more than 1,200 votes. They're still counting. They're still counting, and I'm confident when all is said and done, we will prevail.

We have supplies already in the state and we have our logistics teams looking at what possible additional supplies may be needed to move into South Florida if necessary.

We have superior facilities. Our community was very attractive to the Florida Sports Foundation, which organizes the games.

We recognized Florida ranchlands contained some of the best environmental lands in the state. It's better to have agriculture than a mall or housing.

We earned a point and gave ourselves a chance for two, and that's all I can ask. Florida is one of the top teams in the league, and if we can play as well as we did against them we should be able to play as well against most teams. I was really pleased with our effort in the third period and in overtime.

We really need to grasp the concept that extra bases matter, you can't be balking guys over and wild-pitching guys over. I don't care if you're playing Miami of Florida or the New York Yankees; you want to make it difficult (to score runs).

We really love it here. We looked in Florida at Sun City but it was too hot there, so we looked here.

We figure we can get the information from other counties and the Florida Association of Counties.

We don't go to Florida looking for Florida kids. That's pretty much a waste of time. It's too far. For what reason are you going to come to play at Green Bay ? unless we're winning national championships.

We have some say. Florida State, that's not a normal situation. That was added late in the process. Clemson fell as it fell with the 12th member of the league coming in. We and other teams were caught in a hard spot. It's not anything the league did to punish us.

We can't be thinking about what's going to happen down the road. You look at what happened to Florida last year, going in there and getting beat, and then you just watch the tape. ... They're much better at doing what they do than they were a year ago.

We can use that to our advantage going down to Florida to play. It is a lot hotter there, but we know what it takes to handle that weather. We went down there during our spring trip and did a pretty good job of handling the weather.

Well, it's news to me. I haven't talked to anybody from the state attorney's office. To this day, I haven't talked to any police officers or anybody down in Florida about whatever's going on down there.

We believe this is the industry of the 21st century and is going to change everything about our lives. We truly believe Florida has a chance to participate in that in a big way.

We believe this is a good, fair and competitive offer. The rising cost of health care is something that's affecting all Americans. We're asking our union employees to shoulder more of the cost . . . to keep our factories in Connecticut and Florida competitive.

We had hoped that the people of Florida would have an opportunity to speak on this question, whether they want self-interested politicians drawing their own districts. We just have to go back to the drawing board.

We had well over a thousand lives lost in Katrina. If Wilma, you know, comes into the US, to the Florida coast as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, that potential for large loss of life is with us.

We have a great deal of spring merchandise. You see color. I think that is very good for us, not just in Florida and California, but in the whole country. Our customers want to see newness.

We have a lot of kids from Florida who want to go to our camp, but their summers are getting cut short.

We've made extensive effort over probably an eight-year period to try to get the University of Florida to work with us.

We have more stores in Florida than any other state.

We're not a team that breaks you down off the dribble. We have to do it in other ways, on the full-court break or with our power game inside. (Wednesday), South Florida took us out of what we should have run. We stopped setting screens, stopped doing some of the things we're capable of doing.

(USF) coach (Jim) Leavitt contacted me, which he has done before, and this time I decided to take the opportunity. South Florida is a very stable environment with a program on the rise. My future aspiration is to help USF win the Big East, get in the BCS and go for the national title.

Voting in Florida is like there's some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you've got to be persistent to get it,

With the Fed action taking some of the prospects for a rally away from the market, we're just sitting here quietly waiting to see what happens in Florida with the absentee ballot count.

We've done a great job. We just don't seek publicity and recognition for it. We hope members of the Florida Retirement System recognize it.

We're talking about 22 legislators who are having a four-course meal while more than 400 others are dining on table scraps. This should be a wake-up call to legislators in the Northeast, Florida and the Southwest.

We know that there are tens of thousands of other Florida residents who could use the help.

We have worked hard...to develop a viable plan that will enable Florida to produce, harvest, process, and ship healthy citrus in the presence of citrus canker.

We just didn't play a good game. We started flat, and Florida jumped on us hard. The whole game, we didn't have our 'A' game. Florida took advantage of that.

We came out in the Virginia Tech game and played very well. That was the Florida State we haven't seen in a long time. Hopefully we come out (today) and do the same thing to help us for next year.

We have the capacity to open dozens and dozens of shelters in south Florida if the need arises.

Yeah we went on probation, but we made out all right. After all that talk of whether we were a basketball or football program, those girls in spandex made us proud. Florida was a true gymnastics school.

We needed playoff replacements for the Florida Pit Bulls and Gallup Talons. We chose the Ohio Aviators and Boston, partly because Boston changed ownership during the season and did a good job.

We need to find another delivery system into our ports. That means pipelines. We have looked at the existence of pipelines already in Florida so we know we can protect the environment while still protecting fuel supplies for the state.

We know they're going to be tough, especially at home. They're a Florida school and they've got good players and a good coach.

While we have not yet reviewed this particular bill, it is important to note that the initial decision on Individual Assistance for South Florida was based on the findings of Preliminary Disaster Assistance (PDA) teams jointly comprised of local, state, and federal officials who assessed areas identified by local emergency managers.

We got to New Orleans Thursday night. We had heard Katrina was heading towards the Florida panhandle.

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.

We are obviously gratified by the unanimous ruling of the Florida Supreme Court, ... The Supreme Court's clear and unambiguous ruling, that the counties are authorized to proceed with the manual recount, is a victory for everyone who wants to see the votes counted fully and fairly here in Florida.

The problem is Florida voters keep saying eight years, but the legislature is hearing 12 and 24 years. They're just not hearing the voters who cast their ballots by a solid 77% margin in favor of eight-year term limits, so we decided to help their hearing.

We have at least 400 or 500 in Florida alone, so it's impossible to say. I would guess there are about 10,000 shops nationwide, but that would be a rough guess.

The Prepaid College Plan provides Florida families with an affordable means to save for their children's future college expenses. Families can save hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars by locking in the prices now and avoid paying higher fees in the future. If families were ever considering college for their children, now is the time to enroll in the Prepaid College Plan.

We allow guns at the Florida Chamber in our parking lot, we appreciate that you let us make that decision. Leave the decision about what's best for someone's property in the hands of the property owner.

We are delighted to officially enter three dynamic Florida markets through the acquisition of First Florida. First Florida has a team of talented bankers and investment experts who are empowered to deliver financial solutions and make local decisions that best suit their customers' needs. Through our partnership with First Florida, we can increase the resources of the local bank so they can offer even more robust products and services to both commercial and retail consumers in these rapidly growing markets.

When you set that criteria, you will get it. Florida is an attractive state.

We're going to be seeing a $50 billion-, $70 billion-, $100 billion-damage storm. Florida is a sitting duck.

We're not trying to steal any election, ... We are trying to preserve the election as it was conducted under the law that existed before the Florida Supreme Court changed it.

We are really excited to be back north and feel like the last eight games were more of an indication of where we are than the first eight were. We have six seniors, but nine first-years and sophomores, so we are young, and ask a lot of some of our first-years. Playing and gaining experience is one of the best results from Florida and we are looking to build upon that.

We are ready to take on an extremely challenging schedule. The non-conference schedule is filled with tough games on the road including Boston College and Florida State of the ACC and Connecticut of the Big East. The home schedule features the Atlantic 10 teams with the richest basketball history such as Temple, Saint Joseph's, Xavier, Dayton and Charlotte. We think our fans will be very excited that the top teams in our conference will be coming to the Mullins Center, especially late in the year when they can support us.

We are ready to take on an extremely challenging schedule, ... The non-conference schedule is filled with tough games on the road including Boston College and Florida State of the ACC and Connecticut of the Big East. The home schedule features the Atlantic 10 teams with the richest basketball history such as Temple, Saint Joseph's, Xavier, Dayton and Charlotte. We think our fans will be very excited that the top teams in our conference will be coming to the Mullins Center, especially late in the year when they can support us.

We are pleased that Florida has acted in favor of its citizens by allowing them to access the wines of their choosing. This is a victory for consumer choice, fair trade and U.S. wineries.

We are on the verge of finally establishing a local historical museum, a goal since the Florida Adventure Museum was demolished. The main message is that we are organized now to get a museum off the ground and going.

We are deeply concerned about these statistics. We are very upset Florida shows an increase in anti-Semitic incidents.

We are not concerned about the Gulf Coast and we expect little if any impact on the oil industry. This is mostly going to be a Florida peninsula storm.

We are confident that Debby no longer poses any significant threat to the Florida Keys.

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a foothold, ... Another thing is that Florida is not very species-diverse, so there are more options for invasion because there aren't many native species.

We didn't play our A game and Florida took advantage of that. They played an awesome game.

There are other ways to protect people in the state of Florida without resorting to this barbaric kind of botched executions.

We are convinced that it's come to this because the South Florida Management District and for that matter the Corps have shown a consistent bias and unfairness for decades.