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We've had great practices ever since then, and we've played a lot harder ever since then. It changed our effort in many ways because we came out thinking we were hot stuff and they handed it to us.

We have communicated our commitment to cooperate fully with all investigations of accounting, brokerage commissions, sales practices and other matters.

We're taking what we learn in practices and putting it into winning games. I think the attitude of the kids is a lot better.

We have two guys as talented as they are and they make a big difference. The practices leading up (to the NIT opener) allowed us to get our chemistry back.

We had our best two practices of the year on Monday and Tuesday. I think the kids hopefully understand the sense or urgency we have now. We just (have) to get better every day.

We had our best and most enjoyable three practices of the season leading up to this game. We knew if we had a lead after the quarter, there was no looking back.

We had one of the best practices we've had in the 21/2 years I've been here. Guys really seemed committed to getting better. Little things like that are good signs. You hope it translates to the games, but you never know.

We were so disappointed in ourselves. To come out in the first game like that. National TV. The spotlight. And we pretty much laid an egg. We embarrassed the coaching staff, we embarrassed ourselves. We showed that in practice (Sunday). It wasn't one of those practices where we just showed up, took a few shots and went home. Coach was on us and we went at it. That's what you saw in this game.

We have kids that are willing to sacrifice to win games. Everyone practices hard and then some have to sit the bench in games. ..That?s just our tradition and the kids bought into it.

We are now getting reports of a level of operational errors that had not been previously reported in the past. Because we are getting this information it is now helping us understand what are some of the lax practices and skills that need to be sharpened.

We haven't been scoring consistently, so we wanted to be aggressive on defense and force the other team to make mistakes. We had excellent practices over the break, and we played unselfishly tonight.

We haven't played since our break last Tuesday and I thought that we had some of the best practices that we have had this year. It was a total team effort on offense -- and defensively, we played very well after the first quarter.

The pre-season has been long and we've had a lot of practices but the guys are energetic and excited to get the season started,

The practices will be reduced in the intensity and yardage these last three weeks. We rest and hope they can perform at their peak. If they stay healthy we should have a good end of the season.

The practices have been highly intense and the kids have been very focused. They have prepared to be here, and they want to make the most of the opportunity.

The practices are the important part, that's where all the scouts are. I had a great week of practice. I just went out there and competed. It was a lot of fun.

We are committed to making changes to our business that will restore the public's trust, enhance the quality and independence of our audit practice, and allow all of our practices to thrive.

We are delighted to be able to include Matt's expertise among the firm's resources. Our software patent procurement, counseling, and litigation practices have grown rapidly, and with the addition of Matt to the LL&A team, we have expanded our ability to fully meet the needs of our clients in these areas.

We are really excited about starting the season. We have been training for a long time over the summer and have had very productive practices over the last few weeks. We are very anxious to run against some competition.

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

The outstanding challenges associated with managing electronic information assets have the potential to be devastating in terms of professional careers and even corporate reputations. Just look at the impact that deficient records management practices had at Arthur Andersen and Morgan Stanley.

We are dealing with a man who characteristically rises long before the sun comes up, ... He practices his violin for two hours. He goes to the gym and works out for two or three hours. Then, he starts his business day (which can last) late into the night.

We are concerned that much of the emphasis in this legislation focuses on horses already out of the barn, ... We believe that legislation will be most useful when, along with an appropriately designed notification standard, it also creates incentives for business to adopt practices that protect data and obviate the need for notification.

When we're not in pads or it's not live, it's a little different. But as long as he practices like that and gives us a great look, he makes other backs look easier for us. He helps us and vice-versa.

When he arrived on campus in September 2002, I was assigned to mentor him about the practices and policies of higher education. The mentoring was reciprocated. He elevated my understanding by sharing his knowledge and experiences from his broad professional and academic training.

We played with a lot more intensity tonight from the start. We had a tremendous practice (Wednesday). It was one of our best practices of the year.

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game.

We are gratified by the Supreme Court's decision in this case. This means U. S. cattle producers will continue to have the freedom to market cattle the way they want. It also proves our livestock buying practices are proper.

We are convinced that this deal is in our national interest. And the greatest advantage is that it takes a country that is outside the international non-proliferation regime and begins to bring it ... into conformity with the practices of that regime,

We had some hard practices this week. We had a good zip in on (Thursday's) practice. We didn't show it in the first half, but we did in the third quarter.

We had some good practices this week and it definitely showed. It was a good game. They hit the ball well and we hit the ball well. We had some key defensive plays including three double plays to end innings.

We're combining the best practices of the business world to the world of education.

There is little empirical evidence on the best approaches to setting goals, and further investigation is critical. However, states can take a number of steps now, drawing on best practices from business, other school improvement strategies, and just plain common sense.

Wal-Mart has never done anything on a small scale. It has a pattern of entering communities and using predatory pricing practices ... to run competitors out of business.

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Today's case demonstrates that the corrupt practices first laid bare in the Marsh suit are present in additional sectors of the industry, ... Secret payoffs and conflicts of interest that infected the market for property and casualty insurance have taken root in the employee benefits market as well.

Today's application development teams must balance a growing number of demands from both inside and outside their organization, while at the same time navigating through an increasingly complex IT environment. This conference is a great forum in which to share information and best practices that can help software development teams reduce risk and be more successful in today's complex environment. It also gives us the opportunity to gain insight from other industry leaders, analysts and those on the front lines of software development.

Today's actions are significant steps in moving the company toward best practices in corporate governance and compensation matters.

We do expect a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. It's imperative that the local union cooperate with us to get rid of work practices that keep us from running our machines at their full capacity and realizing their full potential.

We urge the leaders of the new parliament, both ruling party and opposition, to work together to devise new rules and practices to ensure that all voters' interests are represented in parliament,

Wal-Mart has brought lower prices to people, but some of Wal-Mart's labor practices are questionable.

We're trying to get them to understand it's perfect practice that gives you good performance, ... practices have been up and down.

We would like to express our strong support for preserving the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine and our concerns regarding several federal governmental policies and practices that have begun to seriously erode these fundamental rights.

We work very hard at practice. Our practices are very intense.

This report by the U.S. government provides a thorough review of today's human rights practices around the globe, except for one glaring omission -- its own record. The United States government considers itself a moral leader on human rights issues, but its record of indefinite and arbitrary detentions, secret 'black sites' and outsourced torture in the 'war on terror' turns it from leader to human rights violator.

This reorganization adopts industry best practices and capitalizes on the strengths of our senior managers, positioning us to achieve our ambitious plans for the next several years.

The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'

We've changed the line-up around, simplified the offense and defense, and we'll see where that takes us the second time through the conference schedule and into districts. To turn things around we just need to convert practice to games. We have had good practices all year long. It's coming. We have been playing better as of late.

We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.

We had a couple of tough practices after the DePaul match and just worked on our intensity.

We had about nine days to really get fresh. We had some great practices and it turned into good playing.

We believe so strongly that it will improve prescription accuracy and lower prescription drug costs for all North Carolinians, that we are investing in its adoption among the medical practices most likely to benefit from it.

There are scenes in such programs that stray from the customs and cultural practices of our people in the East, ... help instill good values among the younger generation.

This sends a message that we are aware of these business practices and will take action where appropriate.

The physicians we have with private practices have no revenue coming in. I need both the money to sustain the hospital and money to support medical staff.

We always say the spring game is mostly fun because you've been working hard and now you get to compete. Any time you keep score, you'd like to win. It's probably a little more impact than a normal spring practice. But they (the players) all know we've got 29 practices ahead of us before we line up for real against Northern Illinois.

When you look at the complexity of the business, it's not really a surprise. There's a lot of legacy practices that need to be fractured. What they have now with e-technology are the tools to really get at it.

The press writes about questionable practices such as excluding option expense from the income statement and the use of pro forma earnings, but few calculate the earnings impact.

The players and coaches are looking forward to this weekend's competition. Each player has been working hard this spring during individual workouts and has shown improvement. Team practices started this past Monday, and it was exciting to get all of the players together and practice in a team setting.

We've got to develop some mental toughness. It's why we don't have back-to-back good practices and why we can't win two games in a row. Right now, we're just not mentally tough enough. I'm disappointed because after a good day, we'll have a lackadaisical practice.

We've hit a wall. I don't know if it's physical or mental. I tend to think it's more mental. We're not as focused or as intense in practices or in games as we were earlier.

With climate change, high energy costs, environmental concerns and increased focus on sustainable business practices by institutional investors, customers and other stakeholders at the forefront of today's global mind-set, businesses are increasingly looking for ways to reduce their impact on the environment. Our experience and relationships put us in a unique position to offer carbon management solutions designed for next generation businesses.

With special teams it's the first time we've practiced with lines - ever. Now we practice wide side of the field, short side of the field. With hash marks you can run full-blown practices without getting out cones and saying, 'This is a hash mark.' You can do situations a lot easier.

We are excited about expanding these practices throughout the firm and further developing these areas and client relationships. We see great opportunities in these new and expanded practice groups for Reed Smith.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

Facilities that use toxic chemicals such as styrene must follow our reporting rules so that area residents and emergency response personnel are informed of possible chemical hazards in the local environment. This penalty should remind others that we are maintaining a close watch over chemical reporting practices and are serious about enforcing community right-to-know laws.

Failure to uphold this Commission decision will allow Microsoft to continue these anti-competitive practices ... in the markets addressed in the current case and would open the way for an extension of the monopoly into new areas.

But rather that just focus on the data brokers, the federal regulators also need to probe the security practices of the phone carriers themselves. The root of the problem is at the source -- with the phone carriers.

But now winning makes all the practices and all the hard work worthwhile.

The governor certainly supports implementing some of the best practices we saw in use in Martin County. And this program will do that.

The good news is that we can make a very positive difference in ecosystem services by 2050. The caveat is those policies and practices are not widespread at the present time, and substantial changes in policies and practices would have to be made in order to implement the beneficial ones at the global scale.

We've been practicing at 5:45 in the morning since we found out the pairings. I'm from Stephen (Minn.), so those early practices are kind of in the blood.

We see some predatory pricing practices that only monopolists could engage in,

We see no indications in the marketplace that the radical Internet business transformation in practices like customer service, supply-chain management, employee training, empowerment, and e-commerce that is taking place around the world today is slowing -- in fact, we believe it is accelerating globally,

Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today.

While we absolutely believe companies have a responsibility to identify appropriate practices in each market in which they do business, we also think there is a vital role for government-to-government discussion of the larger issues involved.

You battle a lot of things - illness, boredom, keeping the guys fresh and academics are a big thing, too. We're used to this to a certain degree, but practices aren't the same. We just want to play.

You can look at him, ... and get that sense that he practices every day like he's the guy that's going to lead this team one day.

We've had the two best practices in over a month, this week. They are more focused and more enthusiastic.

We've had 85 practices and every day starts with defensive stuff. We know if we play defense and rebound the ball, you're going to have a chance to stay in games. You have to develop that mentality.

We've had some very good practices over the holidays. Our intensity has been good and we've been focused. We're just hoping to continue it this week and into conference.

We've had some good practices over the holidays. We got a lot of turnovers, turned them into transition and got some momentum going our way.

We all know that there are products and practices out there that seem to be far more focused on profit than on patient wellness.

We all know that the best hospitals are those that have figured out how to 'get it right' consistently -- the challenge is transferring that knowledge and practical know-how to those that aspire to be the best. Premier's Rapid Improvement Programs revolutionize knowledge transfer by providing access to best practices and collaboration with experts quickly and inexpensively -- right from the user's desktop.

To my knowledge, every member of management in this company believes that at the time we collectively followed appropriate practices for those option grants which affected all of our employees.

The recent disclosures that resulted from the investigation by the New York state attorney general, as well as the practices uncovered by the staff of the SEC, the NYSE and NASD, reinforced the commission's conclusion that further inquiry is warranted,

There is no sport that we have where the team practices any harder than track. They are out there three hours a day, six days a week and there is no down time. (Wilson) plans meticulously.

We have a lot of things to learn. We've taped practices this year to get the guys to learn even faster. Starting four sophomores at the Class 3A level can be rough, but we'll get better from this.

We have a depth on our team that most teams find hard to match. We started the season with 50 players in our program, and have to run two different practices to get everyone some work in.

We have a couple of guys who played junior varsity basketball who have come out to practices and we go against them every day and it helps.

We had three good practices this week and were very solid tonight. We made a couple adjustments to our pre-game routine and despite missing four starters, our depth came in handy tonight.

This week's practices will be all about brushing up on things. We'll help the players with things that they feel they're not doing crisply.

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

What Russia has done recently is surprising and unusually drastic -- I can't remember such practices against diplomats even in Berlin when Hitler was in power.

What really needs to happen is this culture of waste and mismanagement and corruption that the Liberal Party practices must end,

We focused on coming out and playing a little better in the first quarter than we have in the past few games. I thought we responded to that challenge and came out with great intensity. We've had some good practices and this is the time to be playing your best basketball.

We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more.

We have about 10 more regular season games before the tournament, so this allows us to get some rest and get some more practices in.

We have 28 practices until our next game. The best guy's going to play. We took the same approach when Brad Smith was a freshman. We're not going to shut it down and declare anyone a starter.