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My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

Long before he benched Ramsey and went back to Brunell on Monday, Gibbs handled the quarterback situation with about as much aplomb as a fast-food shift manager firing a fry cook on the spot.

Marian is arguably one of the top players in the world and is always a scoring threat. He consistently places among the league leaders in all offensive categories and holds several of Ottawa's team records. He also competes hard on every shift and sets the tone for his teammates. We believe he is the type of exciting player you will want to come out to Philips Arena and watch.

Lions eat people. There has to be a pretty serious attitude shift on how you view predators.

I won't be running my posts past any editor before they appear. I will continue to write simply what I believe or think, however misguided I may be. I will continue to correct any errors in the full light of day and change my mind if new events demand it or new facts compel it. I think we're going to see a pronounced shift towards the brand of the writer. Media outlets may find themselves in the position of football clubs, forced to pay higher and higher premiums if they want to keep their stars.

I was trying to create offense. It seemed like I caught those guys flat-footed. Maybe it was a long shift for them ... I don't know. I just skated around them, and found the goal.

I was trying to shift the receivers around, and I asked Roy if he could play the Z (flanker) position for the rest of the game. He said he didn't think his leg was up to that. I had to base things a lot on his decision. I can't feel how much his leg hurts.

I was told to take it to make the night shift go easier - but I blew it into the loo. I was too scared to take it. I'm happy I didn't. I have seen what it does to great chefs.

I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

I think everybody knows what's going on and everybody knows the situation. You just have to go a game at a time, a shift at a time and just concentrate on our play.

I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.

I think he can be a superstar. Everybody is watching him, but he handles it so well. It's tough when everyone is watching you on every shift ... but he's very mature for his age.

I suppose the Ivey may be having some small effects, but we don't think it should be. Fundamentally we don't think there's been any real shift in the Canadian economy.

I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

It could shift at any point. It's really a matter of not taking any chances, having the supplies in place.

I thought it was an easy ground ball because I forget we had that big shift on. That's without a doubt the softest he's ever going to hit a ground ball off me, but Carlos made a great play.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I think this is a very significant moment in Brazilian history. The gay movement has exploded and there's a real shift in people's understanding of homophobia. The media is finally catching up,

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars', but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

I might capture all this on my mobile device but want to view it on my big screen TV. The important thing that the internet brought about is that we're becoming our own programmers - we get what we want. We're taking that paradigm shift and putting it on the TV or on the mobile device. That's very powerful.

Most of the roundtables have been wrapped up in by-laws, but are now moving ahead into substantive stuff and talking about issues. The danger is that the procedural stuff will turn some people off. During the next month or two months, we'll be making the shift from talking about rules and choosing leadership to how we work in a collaborative manner.

We now see more and more of these Old Economy-New Economy hybrids cutting their online staffs, ... Companies that were hoping, if not expecting to eventually shift the lion's share of their business to the Internet may be forced to consider entirely new strategies for both short term and long term.

We now know a great deal about adolescent sleep. Biological clocks shift by two hours after puberty. There are literally not enough hours in the night for them to get enough sleep.

We need a mind shift to looking beyond the valley to the peaks ahead. We have to look at the history of the nation after it's faced other horrible disasters. We always come back bigger and better.

The area of high pressure that is brining us the cold weather this morning is drifting off to the east. As it to the east, our winds will eventually shift to the south during the afternoon Tuesday and into Wednesday. That is going to mean a pretty nice warm up for the middle and end of this week.

That was a momentum shift for NFA with that run in the second quarter. They went to that half-court trap and that gave us a lot of problems. That (trap) slowed us down and created the tempo they wanted to play at.

That's the way kids will think when you are down like that. You try to tell them to take it one shift at a time, one goal at time, but, you know, we didn't get it done.

That's a tough loss. He's had such a tremendous year with that consistency and jumping over the boards every shift with his intensity and emotion.

I was open, and when you're open with these guys, they'll find you. You can read my stats and I'm not a goal scorer. The last thing I thought was I'm going to score on my first shift in a Red Wings uniform.

Most major firms have already reported their earnings, so market players are starting to shift their focus to macro indicators from micro ones.

Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.

While the delay in launch dates for these two highly anticipated products caused a timing shift in expected subscriber additions, the products are becoming available now and will help drive significant growth in the coming quarters.

While the data is clearly dollar positive, I would expect that the market will quickly shift back to the attention it is giving to Fed policy.

When the beef market returns to more historical levels, we can add a full second shift across the board.

We invest millions of dollars every year, and now more than half is being aligned through vertical marketing efforts for partners. This is a significant shift for us, because two years ago we weren't doing that at all." ()

We couldn't get into a flow offensively. We definitely thought the momentum would shift in our favor once they went on a run but it didn't. We came out and turned the ball over.

We'll continue to shift the balance of our business in favor of lower carbon energy sources and in particular natural gas,

We'll continue to shift investments to these markets.

When it comes to shift planning, the considerations involved in deciding on the shifts of any one employee can be numerous. Taking into account that a service organization may have tens, hundreds, even thousands of employees to organize into shifts in different geographies and organization units, the need for an intelligent tool to manage this process automatically and optimally becomes apparent.

We are a young team and we have a bright future ahead of us. Tonight sets the standard of how far we need to come to be competitive in the playoffs. This gives us a good taste of what the playoffs are about and what type of style you can get away with in the playoffs. It's intense throughout and if you take a shift off, they put up nine goals.

We realize that gas prices are important to consumers and we're certainly not denying that there's an impact. We are seeing more interest in consumers understanding fuel economy of vehicles. But there's not the shift we saw in the 70's and 80's.

We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what we are and where we are and make it more of a community event.

We went very athletic, very casual for a number of years. It's inevitable that we'd move through those cycles and shift to a different direction.

While early home networking initiatives were driven by end users, the whole-home networking model envisioned by most service providers puts control of home network resources firmly in the hands of the network operators themselves. This dramatic shift in perception will have huge and permanent ramifications for the entire home networking supply chain.

We're also having general flooding (on roads) because the water has nowhere else to go. If it continues and we get more damage, we'll roll into a (double) 12-hour shift like we do for snow removal.

We can't worry about what the end result is going to be on Monday, we have to make sure that we come out and work hard and just worry about the next shift we're on the ice. We can't look further ahead than that.

When you're in orbit, there's a shift of fluid from your lower body to your head. It's like hanging upside down. You get that puffy-headed feeling a lot of times, like having stuffed up sinuses.

We believe the recent demand pullback is mostly a short-run response to a price spike, not a long-run shift in consumption patterns.

We happened to have a number of senior priests who retired . . . and that essentially had a domino effect. It was the largest shift of priests we've had in recent years.

We had guys in the past who wanted to win; now we have guys who expect to win. It's an attitude shift in the way we think about ourselves.

We had to shift our lineup because of injuries. We proved we could adjust to the environment even though they may not be our strongest pairs. We will go back to our original lineup as soon as our players all get healthy. But right now we are just concentrating on this competition, rest and then prepare for the weekend.

U.S. heating demands will shift back toward normal going into the middle stretch of January.

Utilizing tools like portfolio optimization technology allows media managers to think strategically about paid search campaigns and shift focus to more value-added activities such as expanding keyword lists, adjusting advertising creative, and testing landing page response rates.

US yields have continued to rise in anticipation of tightening beyond normalization, and we should also prepare for a paradigm shift in Japan as well.

With the entertainment industry undergoing a seismic shift in reaction to the rapidly changing consumption habits of the youth and family audience, we recognize there now exists a unique opportunity to create a forward-thinking company that understands both this audience and their increasing demand for content across multiple platforms.

to lower consumer confidence levels, driven primarily by the volatility of fuel costs. We anticipate these factors, along with a continued shift in product mix, to continue into fiscal 2006.

We came up with certain objectives and in order to drive those critical success factors, we decided we needed to raise the level of administration to take the JCA to be a more efficient and professional unit, ... we have always employed a CEO based on cricket knowledge and not business knowledge. We decided to shift the focus of who ran the business side of the game.

We are not the first group to call for impeachment. We have decided to add our voice to the call. All the reasons given for the invasion have shown themselves to be half-truths or misleading. The conflict continues to drag on taking the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. It is clear that George Bush does not intend to change course in an effort to right this great wrong. He has had enough time in his second term to begin a shift and he has not. It is time to remove him from office.

We have a number of conservation and environmental groups that want to take our farm program spending and shift it over to some kind of conservation payment or green payment.

We know that cash flow is a top concern for small businesses and that they look for practical tools to help keep money flowing smoothly. Whether small businesses simply need to update their PCs or plan to invest in their first server or a new custom business application, the fixed-rate loans from Microsoft Financing enable customers to shift their focus to acquiring what they need to move their business forward, instead of how they will pay for it.

Unified messaging is really an old architecture. It has been around since the mid-'90s. There is a shift happening, because Microsoft is getting into the business. Still, you can't really say that things will change overnight.

You have technology showing leadership again today, but I think you'll see a rotational shift by the end of the month, with investors pulling money out of sectors like tech and industrials and putting it into those that have performed less well, like pharmaceuticals.

We are required to turn up at the police headquarters before our 2 to 10 p.m. shift for instructions.

We are placing a very large bet on our ability to shift a significant part of our development to Asia, ... We are doing that more aggressively than any semiconductor company.

The policy shift will highlight the strength of Japan's economic growth. A recovery in asset prices will be a big long-term plus for shares, especially for banks.

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

We project based on where we our in our life and our beliefs at that moment; however, when we shift those projections to positive, come from a place of love we transform where we are in the next moment ;)

When a team comes out and gets a little momentum like that, I think it's very imperative to come out and throw a crooked number up on the board the next half inning. It's a quick momentum shift back to our side. Once we got that shift, it just seemed like we held it from there.

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

We're keeping them on the snow shift in case we get any weather tonight. It's really cold, and we don't want to see any ice in the overnight hours.

We still believe the U.S. economy is beginning to pick up speed but, near term, there is little to shift equities out of their summer torpor with the coming week relatively light on economic data.

We are locked in the chase now, so we've accomplished our first goal. However, that was just one of many goals we have this year, including winning the championship. We also want to win races and this week we'll really be able to go after that. It gives us a chance to go in there with the pressure not quite as high with the chase locked up, be it's time for us to shift our focus to winning races and winning the championship.

We recognize that investors who have been trained to only expect steady price declines and even price wars will find this shift towards high-tech counter-intuitive. As a result, many may be inclined to miss opportunities and/or to exit strong performing stocks too soon.

The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts,

This street is so built up we would cut driveways. It would be better to shift to another area.

This starting time change was made because of Indiana's shift to Daylight Savings Time, which also had an effect on scheduling with our television partners at ABC Sports. We think this change will have minimal impact on our fans. Sunset will occur one hour later this year due to the time change, which will give us just as much daylight as last year, when the starting time was noon.

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment.

We believe digital health imaging margins will remain under pressure as doctors shift from printing X-rays to viewing on screen.

The decline was probably linked to a shift in construction patterns. Last winter was a much harder one, and the construction season started later than usual.

The demographic shift to older, wealthier consumers is also driving strong growth in the luxury segments, especially entry-level luxury products.

We stayed up late the night it was voted on and I called down here to the bartender on shift and said, 'Oh my god! It's passed! From that moment on we lost a bunch of customers.

We should see pressure to shift to heating oil if natural gas supply can't meet demand, and the shift to distillates will push prices up further.

There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity from buying to selling, resulting in less demand and increased supply in certain markets. Once these factors work their way through current housing supplies, however, we expect the market to move to a new equilibrium which will provide a platform for continuing and sustainable growth by KB Home.

When John announced his plans to retire, we discussed how we would shift the duties. We plan to incorporate the deputy marshal and other qualified personnel from the fire districts to fill the gap during the transition of the department.

While tax authorities have increased surveillance and regulation in a bid to stem the flow of investment capital and profits to low-tax jurisdictions, it's easier to shift money around than it used to be thanks to technology. Both legal avoidance and illegal evasion techniques have become more accessible.

We were now going to be recognizing individuals whose business assortment may not be the most profitable to our bottom line. That said, the playing field for earning credits under our form of measurement is level, and we have continued to be successful and profitable despite the huge shift in business over the past eight years. It's important to note that a large part of the high ratings and profitability of our company lies in our retention. We're saving big dollars every year by retaining our best advisors. In 2005, we retained 100 percent of our top 100 advisors. That's huge in our industry.

We view this shift in financial policy as more aggressive because we had expected free cash flow to be applied largely to debt reduction.

We view the change in vehicle prices in the PPI as a random shift and one that does not reflect reality.

We can't shift people out of nursing homes without an alternative system in place.

We can't play good for one game or one shift and then not play well in the next one. We've been up and down a lot this year, and that has to stop now. We have to be consistent.

We constantly evaluate our product capability and productivity against customer demand to be able to shift capacity to support our customer base.

This whole shift to digital media is enormous, and there's a lot of money at stake.

there has been a slight shift of opinion toward there being international links.

There has been a significant shift in the support for gay rights here. There's a growing sense that homosexuality is part of the normal human variation,

There has been a shift this week towards expectations of another U.S. interest rate rise in March -- the interest rate differential is there and it is helping the dollar.

There has been a shift of investor sentiment away (from funds). However, it wouldn't be unreasonable to see some people do some bottom-fishing.

There has been a shift in the susceptibility of wild fowl to H5N1. That's something that needs very careful attention if we're going to be ready for possible introduction of the bird flu virus in other locations through wild fowl.

There has been a shift in math instruction away from an emphasis on computation and drill, and more of an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, ... The changes to our math curriculum forces students to do more analysis.

There has been a permanent shift in consumers' minds as far as gas prices goes. The sustained nature of gas prices has changed how people buy.

There has been, and continues to be, a strong shift of consumer spending away from traditional department stores and specialty stores over to discount stores.