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I think we were a lot sharper in the second half. We came out flat in the beginning. At halftime we knew we had to get physical. Barrow played a game tonight.

I think we were a little flat today,

I think what was fast was the amount he threw off flat ground and how much better he felt.

I think what it's saying is that '04 was an outstanding year, which leaves us flat with '05.

I think bouncing around flat is probably what we'll see for the next few months until something begins to give us a clue on the next direction.

I think all the teams are probably finding it reasonably difficult to understand the conditions here, ... I think the flat water and the little bit of a 'random factor' will make the racing even closer and the results more unpredictable.

I think as the week goes on, I start to progress from the second and third reads to my flat check. I mean, if I'm in doubt, I just hit the running back on an angle route or flat rout. It's not that hard. Playing quarterback is a lot easier than playing receiver.

It has been a while since I ran US 36. ... It is a fast place. You get a lot of G's in the corners. It's flat out each and every lap. It would be great to get a couple of wins this weekend as we start wrapping up the season. We have 9 so far and have a goal of 15. We won at Moberly (24 Raceway) last year and have done really well at that track, so I am looking forward to getting back there.

I think we're going to see the preliminary GDP show that this economy is flat or even negative. But that's old news. What the market needs to focus on is numbers that show us we are beginning to rebound.

Lately we have had a lot of bad things happening with broken motors, flat tires and things like that. Tonight we didn't have anything bad happen to us. We were decent in the beginning and then got to running single file. We were happy to finish in the top five and hopefully this will get us going in the right direction for next week and we can carry some momentum into Knoxville.

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

I think they let it fly in the first match and they were down in this one. They were flat and weren't ready to wrestle. They were so elated with that first win that to come back against a quality team ... they had to be ready to go, and they weren't ready to go.

I think they thought Price was their biggest obstacle and they came out flat because we were here. They thought they had an edge on us.

I think the thing that was the most frustrating for everybody was how flat we were. Our energy level was zero. We were just going through the motions, and that's tough on everybody. It's tough to swallow, just because we're so much better than how we played.

It is a rather broad, flat summit so there is not likely to be one good place for a single 360-degree panorama. We might do several panoramas from several spots on the borders of the summit plateau.

I thought we were flat offensively. We were still making a lot of mistakes. We really need to come out and play the first quarter.

I thought we were a little flat tonight. It could have been because we had a forfeit right away. Against a good team like Spring-Ford, coming out giving up forfeits doesn't put you in a good spot to have things going your way.

I thought we were a little flat in the first half and I took it upon myself to come out with a lot of energy and fire in the second half.

Just because you can play the game doesn't always mean you can coach it, but Brett can flat out coach. He emerged as the best candidate and there was a lot of support behind him. We felt like this was the best fit for us.

Just getting ahead early, I think, was a big key. We came out kind of flat the first two innings. We just stepped it up later in the game and got on them. We kept putting up runs. It's easy to play when you've got a pitcher up there throwing strikes.

Jarrett took it real because he didn't want to get beat by him. He knew he was flat and tired, but he is just focused right now and his head is screwed on and he's competitive.

JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ... The World is Flat

Last time we played, they just flat out stepped up and shot the basketball. But without Meg, West Virginia certainly is a different team. She is a great all-around player. But they still have talent.

Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.

I said no, no, no. I?m going to jump off the Empire State Building ? flat on my face.

Ironically, with all this strength, the net effect of these data on the fourth-quarter GDP number could be flat or possibly even marginally negative. This is because durable goods inventories were flat, which should more or less offset the positive influence of the stronger-than-anticipated December shipments figures. For first quarter GDP, however, these data are unambiguously positive.

Our guests enjoy an industry-exclusive 21 square feet of personal space, a 78-inch lie flat bed and a companion seat complete with a full size table. There would probably be enough room for King Arthur and his Knights to have a productive meeting at the Round Table on one of our flights.

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Our problem is we're not good enough to come out flat and expect to pull it out. We're not as good as advertised.

Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid and predictable, and perhaps of more importance, that we have momentum moving into fiscal 2006. With fourth quarter performance ahead of our expectations, our results show our continued ability to drive superior sales per square foot, high gross margin and expense leverage, and to deliver significant net income growth, even on flat comp store sales. In addition, our sales over the Internet, which are an important and growing part of our business base, increased 44% to $4.0 million in the quarter, and for the year contributed $8.7 million to our sales.

Our forwards have been flat out battling. They know to be aggressive with those big kids. The key was keeping her out of the game.

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Overall, the dollar is flat but it has been quite soft in the New York time zone.

Overall, production is down this year to a point where it's flat to slightly lower. So they're going to try to offer these packages so they don't have to do anything involuntary.

Our back line was just stout tonight, ... We played a little flat for the first ten minutes, but we came together later in the game.

Our bowlers learnt from the experience of bowling on flat pitches.

Riverside can flat shoot. They've got about four or five guys who can light it up. And none of them are afraid to take it.

Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Piper is going to come here and flat out lay it on us.

Playing flat in the back with the speed we have, all we had to do was play the ball over the top and let them chase it down. I'm not going to change what's working and that worked ? so that's what we went with.

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.

Recruitment trends are tied to confidence in the economy and 56 percent of hiring managers expect the economy to improve in 2004. While more than half of hiring managers will be focused on employee turnover in the coming year, what is encouraging is that almost one-third will recruit to expand their business, introduce new products and services or enhance customer relations. After two years of a relatively flat job recovery, this is a positive indicator that job creation is on the rebound.

Refiners have been producing gasoline flat out since the storms. Gasoline was needed, money was to be made and there was political pressure. The last thing they wanted was to be hauled into a congressional hearing and hear about a windfall profits tax.

Price pressures were fairly mild, despite the economy operating flat out.

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Paula hit a rock when out training and developed a bruised foot and it is taking a long time to settle down. In particular it has been causing problems on the track, constantly flaring up and she cannot do proper flat out training sessions. It reared up again at the end of January and we feel it would be stupid, too much of an unnecessary risk, to compete in Melbourne.

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

Our men played well, we just couldn't get things going our way. They battled hard, but came up short. Andy had a good win, but we were flat in our doubles and hopefully when we get the chance to play them again we will perform much better.

Survey respondents are facing flat job growth figures and are mirroring the concerns expressed in other surveys about the national economy, which has slowed considerably from solid growth in the first three quarters of 2005. Purchasing managers are displaying mixed signals looking forward into 2006.

Some in this state say they just want to amend the constitution like they were fixing a flat tire.

That establishes their flat bill amount. For 12 months. Their bill will not go above that amount.

Terryville had something to prove tonight. We beat them twice during the season. We came out a little flat at the start, and in tournaments you can't do that.

Terry McAuliffe is flat wrong and slanderous when he says the president was AWOL,

My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.

My putter failed me, but I probably failed my putter, ... I think I got a little flat after the bogey on 16.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

Market demand in 2002 is expected to be generally flat compared with the previous year in both Europe and North America, ... The group should achieve an improvement in operating income and value creation for the full year 2002, excluding items affecting comparability.

Mark's definitely a dual threat. He's got very good accuracy and he has deceptive speed. He can pull the ball down and run with it. He can gain a lot of yards in a hurry because he can flat get on down the road.

Linden is a very solid football team. They just flat outplayed us from the first play and in every aspect of the game.

Linden is a very solid football team, ... They just flat outplayed us from the first play and in every aspect of the game.

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

Lincoln dominated us in every way. They beat us defensively. They beat us on rebounding and the flat out outplayed us.

I won the first ever flat race here as a jockey back in the early '70s on a horse called Jem Mason trained by Danny Morgan.

I was very pleased with the way the girls battled back. I'm a little disappointed in the way we seem to start flat every game, though.

I was trying to find the puck between my legs. He caught me right at that moment when you're on your heels and kind of backing off and flat footed. That's just part of the game. It was a good clean hit.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

I think he's looked a little flat in the slalom, but he has a way of stepping up on race day. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get some medals. I've been betting on Bode for years.

I think making it a flat fee would be a very good thing. I have a car and a truck and paying a flat fee of $26.25 would save me a little bit of money.

It hasn't been typical that we come out after halftime flat like that. We have lost a whole bunch of games by 10 points or less this year. We're struggling to get over the hump.

I thought Kirby played really well for us and shot the ball well. We were a little flat after our game against Carthage the other night.

Judicious capital investments have allowed the small-business community to cut operating costs to the point where many are able to hold the line on -- or reduce -- consumer costs, improve employee compensation, withstand flat or lower sales and still generate higher profits,

Man, before we hit the start of the race we had a flat tire. It was a really tough day for us.

We normally get the ball rolling in those middle weights and it usually keeps going after that. Unfortunately we were flat today and now we're going to have to work twice as hard in practice now just to make up for it.

The answer, unless he falls flat on his face, is Abe. He's tall, he's nice-looking, he's young...He stands up for Japan and is tough on North Korea and China.

That was a huge turning point. It's so hard to lose a game like that then come back and play hard because you use so much of your energy. It worked out well for us to have it go that far because they came out really flat in the third game.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

I was really impressed with the way we got emotionally excited in the second game. We got a little mad. I've been looking for us to get mad when we're not playing well or not doing some things. We flat out got mad, and we got determined to see what we could do to win this ballgame. I was really proud of them for showing that.

I would not expect any far-reaching reforms like the flat tax to be planned let alone executed in this parliamentary period,

Most of the aluminum companies will be flat to slightly up in the third quarter versus a year ago, although there will be one or two that will be up 50 percent.

Why we came out flat in the second half ? Why? ? that's my biggest thought. We've had a problem with that at times.

While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%, we are not excited about further inversion just yet.

We just came out with a lack of energy. We didn't have that pop that we usually do on the defensive end and on the offensive end. I don't know what to attribute it to. We can't come out flat like that. We have to come out with that fire from the get-go.

We just came out flat to start the second half. You can't say it's due to fatigue or anything like that. We just didn't guard them as well. But I could talk all day about how proud I am of these kids. They never quit, and we had no seniors on the floor today.

We just came out flat. Sometimes your teams will do that. Normally, one or two players will come out that way. But we have a tendency as a team to come out that way. This is about the third time this year we've come out flat as a team.

We just came out flat in the first half. But we played better in the second half. It was a learning experience for the girls.

We just came out flat against a good team and when you do that on the road, you pay for it. We just got down by too many points.

You can even hear me go flat in places, ... It's all over that recording. The audience was in a dark depression. We didn't even include all of their responses, as you might imagine.

We can't come out flat like we did tonight, we have to play two strong halves. Wylie is a young team with a lot of sophomores, but they played hard. Mineral Wells is a little bit of a lesser opponent, but we can't expect them to just roll over for us.

We were very flat in the beginning of the game. There just wasn't much energy. We didn't have any energy and we weren't executing any of our plays. But as the game went on, we started to pick things up. We played very well in the last 10 minutes and that's why we won this game.

We were very flat in the beginning, but we made a miraculous comeback. We could have won that game. We are slowly moving in the right direction, the only piece of the puzzle that is missing is the discipline...we still take too many penalties.

We were very flat and we simply didn't play very well. We trailed the whole game and just couldn't put anything together.

When it's all over, I expect holiday sales to be flat to up 1 percent, which would be the lowest reading since 1990. That's what I see for Christmas.

We can say authoritatively that federal bankruptcy law changes are doing no measurable good whatsoever. They've done nothing more than put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back due to a financial crisis over which they have no control.

We played great yesterday (Saturday in a 4-3 loss to the Rangers), didn't get rewarded and came back and we had a flat start. They took advantage of our mistakes today.

We played flat and we played down to their level, and that's been one of our problems all year. We had to push it up before they could make a run at us like the Penn State-Illinois game last week.

We played at a really high level the night before and came out this afternoon flat and unfocused. We didn't hit the ball at the plate, and they did. There were bright spots and some good plays made in the field (by infielders Knapp and Lewis and first baseman Barnes). We had one bad inning and then played fair the rest of the game.

We dominated the first half, but we let them have the second half. We just went flat and I don't know why. San Pedro was intense and played with a lot of pride.

Those guys can flat out hit. Fortunately our pitching was able to minimize the damage from the errors.