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We were trying to pin them deep. And we just had a breakdown in our coverage. The films may show something else, but it was basically a breakdown. We took chances the whole game, and sometimes you get hurt by them.

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

We'll be in the Oakland Country meet and the Milford regional, that basically is all new to us. Good competition brings out good performances, and our kids have responded pretty well in the past. Now they have to step up a little more.

We are all hurt by insurance scams. As health care consumers, we all end up paying the price for fraud. Health insurance fraud perpetrators are basically stealing from consumers who are paying into the insurance system. Whether it's a doctor charging for a procedure that wasn't actually administered or a phony insurance agent selling fraudulent insurance to a senior citizen, the cost of fraud ends up being passed on to consumers.

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

We did have to work undercover and film covertly. It was basically just the two of us as a crew the whole time. We were also in territory if people knew what we were doing, there was the risk of retaliation.

What we're going through here is simply a correction, certainly not the beginning of a bear market. Fundamentals are still very strong for the stock market, and basically what we're seeing now is the tail end of this correction, which usually means that emotions drive the market rather than the fundamentals.

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

There are some negatives out there, but manufacturing and factory orders seem to be coming back and there will be a lot of rebuilding down in the Southeast. I think we've basically been too negative.

There are four ways you can help, ... First, you can bring food donations to any of my branch offices between now and the end of November. The specific types of food needed are listed on handouts and posters at my offices, but it's basically canned goods and boxed grains, the types that are non-perishable.

We're playing better. Our guards are playing better defense and are starting to understand they can play with basically anybody.

We tried to collapse more on Peterson, but basically we went with the same game strategy. We were just lucky. We're very fortunate.

We thought we'd have more support than we did. Basically, they didn't want to have anything to do with us. They gave us no support, they gave our families no support, and it was hard for our families, not knowing who to turn to. So it was basically our lawyers and people like Amnesty that gave support to our families and helped them get through it.

We really knew before high school that it was going to happen like this. It was our time. It's basically just been confidence. It's not been thinking you're better than anybody. It's just believing that you can do it.

We really felt all along that the Corps was a group that we could absolutely trust. They wouldn't do sloppy work, or allow sloppy work. They realized that this community basically lives and dies on the strength of those levees. Now, what's happened -- it's like finding out that your mother lied to you all the years of your life.

We really feel for the city. They're still basically at a crawl in terms of communications there.

We ran out of gas, that was basically all there was too it. I thought we gave it a pretty good game for the first 25-26 minutes, but after that we ran out of gas.

We didn't want our wings dropping down and allowing them to kick it out for the three, because that's basically their offense -- to penetrate and kick for the three.

We have basically plagiarized the Wal-Mart deal and adapted it for Blair.

We have basically made a call out to the rest of the United States of America for a short period of time, anybody who's got water, ice or some version of a MRE (meals ready to eat), we would take everything they've got,

We have basically been just trying to calm people down, let them know, once again. this is another kind of mistake made either by the federal government or the insurance companies or both.

We have basically an optimal present economic situation, with solid growth and benign inflation.

We've seen a sharp sell-off, bond markets have risen strongly, equity markets have basically collapsed very, very quickly.

The extra money to build the stadium basically comes from visitors. That's a really smart thing to do because the more attractions you have, the more people you bring in.

The fact of the matter is that we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying turn the tide of history.

The fact is, this church is real close, and we've basically lost two people that we love so much.

The fact is the company's doing everything right for the future. They're buying back shares. They're basically using their size as an advantage.

The fact is that they basically need to convince the consumer that soup is relevant, that soup is a convenient meal as opposed to being a side dish. It's either that failure or that success, to get that idea across that's going to grow the category or shrink the category.

There is a lot more dead money now. You're basically married to a player for at least two or three years.

There is basically 100 percent pricing for a tightening in U.S. rates ....

There is a whole generation of homebuyers stuck out in far suburbs. It's sad, but Japan has basically forgotten about them, and is moving on. They are just left out there.

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to music or play music. I'm basically always playing music, even if I'm not stressed!

The people of Hawaii are basically ignorant. If you don't believe it just look at me. I was elected by the morons. In any other state I would be homeless looking for a janitorial job.

What we can learn from him, I hope -- because this is a process which he may not participate too willingly in -- is basically what operations are out there that we can defend against and forestall,

What we basically had last year was an anomaly. We had a spike (in revenue), then it leveled off.

What we basically do is take stories that deal with multicultural experiences and react to it.

We have asked that those cities interested in bidding for 2016 to just basically not become too active at this point. We've asked them not to start forming committees, developing logos or spending lots of money just yet. We are not telling them they can't speak about it.

We're here to educate lawmakers on a poorly written bill that basically advocates for the fugitives and the person who house them.

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.

We've talked about if you dream big, big dreams will happen and that's what is basically happening right now. The kids never gave up and kept believing.

Whenever you talk about something 10 years from now, it's always basically going to be guesswork, something approaching science fiction and fantasy more than reality.

Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

We had big hopes of winning the national championship, ... and those were basically shot. Our dreams were gone.

We had been playing with three players in the back and loading the midfield, but this year, with the talent we have, we can play with four in the back and it works out to basically give us an extra forward because the defense shifts in reaction to the overload,

We had basically asked the BRG to review his action in three months time instead of keeping him out of the game, which is his livelihood, for a year.

When I have the patient open and close, it will pick up any kind of noises, vibrations, any things we normally can't hear, it will pick these up and basically almost like a seismograph type of thing.

When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

When the measure appears on the ballot, it doesn't present the whole case. It doesn't ask if they want money for parks and recreation. It just basically asks people if they like the name Candlestick.

The pricing is something that has been a problem for quite some time, when the front of the plane was basically subsidizing the back of the plane. The very small number of people who were paying for the very high fares were resentful.

What I am looking for basically is improvement and consistency from everyone all around.

When you consider alternatives such as Linux, arguments in favor of Windows are not as appealing. This worm was basically an exercise to show off the flaws in Microsoft security and Microsoft didn't fare too well.

When you buy a company sometimes there are some short-term cuts, but basically we make money when companies grow fast...so our interests are linked with the number of people working for us.

When we started out doing this, basically what we were doing was throwing money at the problem. In most cases, people had absolutely no idea how to spend the money.

When we started out (as freshmen), we were like the youngest Division I team in the country. So basically we just had to buy into what our coach was telling us. He always tried to keep us focused. We always believed he knew what he was talking about. We stuck with it, and it paid off for us.

When we started back in '96, we basically wanted to play the music that we liked. Everything was very naive. We never expected to reach this kind of level, or even to be one day professional or living off the music. It's so new and so fresh, we're happy about the little things.

We've never believed in WAP. I think it will take some time, probably, before people start realizing that WAP is basically just a walled garden with limited content you can give your subscribers, when they could have the full Internet at their fingertips.

The place he was staying at was a derelict house and there was a bunch of younger guys staying in it. I basically just packed up his stuff said to him 'come on, you can come and stay with Kirsty and I until we get you back on track',

We made a decision to go with straight entertainment programming in late night, ... That's just basically a scheduling opportunity that we felt over the long term had more potential.

We're looking at staying as long as it takes this time, ... We're going down there basically to make a wage with our equipment.

We're concentrating (our search) basically on the Island area because we have information that he has been seen earlier today there.

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire about nine or 10, and I think that would move us into this winter and spring. We're basically hiring and training year- round.

Like Coach Tice told me, I can't get out there and try to jump back in and try to run and get where I was, ... I've got to step up the ladder. So basically I've just got to be smart right now instead of trying to be who I am.

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Let's see how he feels tomorrow. That's about kind of what I expected based on (the fact) he's been throwing off and on every other day basically for the last week.

Let's say that you decide to electronically file your tax return, but want a paper check issued, you're still cutting your time basically in half by electronically filing your tax return.

Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we have to come back here to win three games to go to the NCAA Tournament.

'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

Look, there are a lot of people who care about him and work with him, ... He has to be careful how he responds to the media. Basically you have to be careful. ... He wants to do well. He gets a little bewildered.

'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

Many of us feel basically that this was a waste of time and effort in this particular venue.

Shareholders basically have got more debt, more fees, more equities.

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Scott was punk rock and basically we were just worried about his health. We got kind of midway through the drums and he started having really bad headaches and he knew, ... he knew he was sicker than he let us know - which I'm glad he did because if we had known how sick he was we would have sent him home.

Scott did a fantastic job here in Enfield, was completely nonpartisan, which basically led to his downfall, which is the unfortunate part because that's what you want in a town manager. You want someone who gives you their professional opinion. I think Manchester would really reap their rewards if they hire Scott.

Several of our customers have basically a net booking of close to zero this quarter,

Sean and I are still very good friends. We're just severing our professional ties. Basically it's a win-win for both of us.

So from the first year to the fifth year, we've seen Data get closer to basically being human-but he's not.

So it tipped the hat to segregation but it wasn't really segregated. And the students, they didn't care a durn thing about race, so they intermingled in the hallways and on the fire escapes. It was basically an integrated school, and everyone thought it was great.

So many rumors were thrown at this company that we basically consider unwarranted. This really validates the integrity of the management.

She was able to leave the apartment, get down to the second floor, where she summoned help. We set up basically a rescue team to hold containment, because he was still up in the apartment. So we moved in and rescued her and a couple of other neighbors who were there.

She took basically a year and a half of my life away, and I didn't know if I would ever be able to stand up for a few years.

She was basically overshooting greens. Without those penalties she would have had a real good score.

She was basically going to need more time.

She was, as she said in interviews, basically broke. So I didn't marry her for anything that she could give me as far as financially. I just loved the woman. I mean, I just loved her, unconditionally loved her.

She's very family-oriented. She's basically a happy kid, a good kid. She's fun; she's funny; she's smart as a whip. I'm very worried about her.

She suggested basically that a lot more was being read into that than what she was trying to express,

She's basically evaluating how the peace process is moving forward.

She's got a lot of knowledge of how to basically ruin someone's life, and I just didn't wanna leave it ... like her angry at us.

She's got a deletion of a certain strand of DNA that produces survival motor neurons. Because she doesn't have that, she basically loses the connection from her nerves to her muscles and the muscles (then) atrophy.

She's definitely a dominator out there as far as when she's on the court. She makes big plays for us. She can basically handle all of the spots (on the floor). When our point guard is down, she can bring the ball up the court. She can post up, and she's a great wing player.

Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.

Olympic Dam is a highly-prized asset which will take off. The real viable alternative to the high oil price is basically nuclear.

Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Short term I don't think it will have a dramatic effect. But in the medium term and the long term it shakes up the equilibrium and basically plunges us into the unknown.

She has basically led us into and through No Child Left Behind, with a glowing record, I might add.

(She has a) severe blow to the head. She has a broken jaw, broken pelvis. They basically left my wife for dead. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love. I can't see no love right now.

She did not say the president's childhood in any way caused his behavior, nor does she believe that. I think that she was basically stating some feelings about his childhood, but that they do not excuse his behavior.