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We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

The higher the hair, the closer to god.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Wells Fargo looks good. It had strong loan growth, credit quality remains stable, and the mortgage business looks robust despite higher interest rates.

There doesn't seem to be any real urgency for firms to start hiring, precisely at a time we're seeing a reemergence of people becoming interested in looking for a job, ... Put the two together, and you have a formula for higher unemployment.

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

Women who tend to have more fat deep inside are at higher risk for heart disease, diabetes as well as cancer, ... Fight Fat After Forty.

Women's teams have traditionally performed at levels a bit higher than men's teams academically, so that's not surprising. African-American student-athletes (male and female) are doing better academically than in the past.

Women start with a higher body-fat density than men. It's hard for women to lose weight. The target should be how can we make women less sedentary, how can we build activity into everyone's lifestyles.

The more noise, the higher I get.

We accepted a higher proportion of English-learner students than any other state in the country, ... Our exclusion rate of English learners was 12%, while Texas' exclusion rate was 37.5% and New York's was 29%.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

We developed GbX E-series with the high-performance systems designer in mind. Now, designers can scale their existing backplane platforms to much higher data rates using a drop-in replacement module without re-spinning their backplane design. This option represents a cost savings and quicker time-to-market for our customers.

What we're doing may be a temporary fix for the summer. We'll have to monitor it throughout the summer to see how well the rocks hold in higher flows and decide if we need to grout it.

There is a reluctance to push the euro/dollar higher because of riots in France and pressure from euro zone finance ministers not to raise rates.

There is a real risk that U.S. refineries will be unable to sufficiently bring back capacity in time for the summer driving season. This will force increased reliance on gasoline imports, and higher prices for consumers.

There is a price to pay for pirate DVDs and it's much higher than most people think.

There is a prevailing sentiment that a higher cost for a managed service buys a lower-risk investment. I don't buy that argument.

There are more studies, the risk estimates are more consistently elevated, and they're higher than they were for lung cancer. Plus, there's all these toxicology studies and molecular biology they didn't have back then.

There are some significant differences between the top category searches in print versus online Yellow Pages, as a higher percentage of online references are credited to the headings of hotels, florists and schools, ... However, restaurants continue to take the most popular heading slot for both the print and online Yellow Pages.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime

The only way we can avoid yet higher prices is if President Bush releases supply from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The only way these guys can escape higher fuel prices is by raising fares. The industry is working hard to raise prices. And so far they have been successful.

There are a lot of reasons why California is no longer as strong a location of choice for international migrants as it once was. Housing is one. In California and in San Diego, wages for low-skilled jobs aren't very different than those in Arizona and Nevada, but the cost of housing is much higher here.

There are different mortality rates for males and females, so females get a higher sum assured.

We decided to go for the easy jump, because I had the impression that the harder double full-full-full won't impress the judges for higher scores. I think we made the right decision.

We're playing four straight at home, and it's exciting to play in front of big crowds. We just have to keep getting better now that we're playing games at a higher level like this week. We're really looking forward to it.

We share the government's goal of affordable broadband for all New Zealanders. The broadband market has developed strongly in the last year and we see it developing further this year, helped by lower prices and higher speeds.

We really haven't played well in the last week. We need to pick it up to a higher level (this weekend). But this team is that way and I think they'll do that.

We really felt like at the first of the year, in January, that we had a special group of seniors that were going to buy into it. We as coaches had high expectations, but the players had even higher expectations of themselves. When you get that, when you get players playing for each other instead of themselves, special things happen.

We really feel that Minnesotans are a giving people, and that rate can be higher if people have an understanding of the need. Someone with Kirby's stature just speaks volumes about why this is something that's important to do.

We're 11 months through the year and any measure of core inflation hasn't captured a filtering down of higher commodity or energy prices. That's why we continue to see the 10-year yield under 4.5 percent.

We're as sensitive as anybody else to higher prices. I would like to see them lower I've said that.

We're anticipating things going smoothly this year, but out of an abundance of caution we're making sure the vaccine goes to the higher risk people first,

We heard much higher numbers today of the stimulus package from our two experts than I anticipated we would hear. In other words, if you're going to do something, it better be something significant enough to get the job done.

We having a really good crew working that 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift, and these guys always have higher DUI numbers.

We hold then to 40 percent from the floor, they shoot nine free throws but we turn it over 17 times. We need to shoot a higher percentage and get to the line more.

We did really well. We added a little bit on to our time, but we came up a lot of spaces. We wanted to get higher than 22nd and we did. We were all really happy with that.

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

We've seen for six months on the trot the Bank of England asking for higher rates. A new chancellor will have to build credibility with markets, so he'll almost certainly have to deliver a rate hike if one's asked for.

We have revised our target price from $27 US to $28.50 US to reflect significantly higher synergy and exploration potential at Red Lake despite the higher purchase price.

The expectations for our team have been higher every year. Our players are ready for it. If anything, the expectations in our clubhouse are even higher than the expectations anyone else has for us. That's what you live for. You want expectations to be high like they are now.

The expectations are probably higher than they've ever been around here as far as baseball's concerned. Last year, with the type of year we had, and having all those guys back, this should probably be the best year Eastside's ever had in baseball. There's no reason why it shouldn't be.

The expectations are for another run of good results for the large, diversified miners. With many commodities still at higher levels, we're seeing the continuation of the positive sentiment.

The fact that so many more students now want to go to college shows our young people realize the need for higher standards and achievement,

The fact that long-term rates didn't rise in some sense offset some of the impacts of the higher costs of energy. They fought to a draw, and as a result the markets weren't affected by either interest rates or energy.

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement contributes higher wind speeds and means it will be fairly strong when it crosses the state.

The fact that investors are chasing commodity stocks on the back of higher oil prices, instead of selling stocks outright, suggests that market sentiment is quite strong.

The fact of the matter is that people's paychecks are thinner. In addition to that, they've had to pay higher taxes.

The CPI was higher than expected and is supportive for the BOJ. The markets have already discounted an early end to the quantitative easing policy.

The fact is that housing demand has not slowed meaningfully, nor have supply constraints been noticeably undermined, and the large, public builders are set to post significantly higher price growth, margins and earnings than the Street currently expects.

The reality is that the better he does, the higher his price is. So you're constantly late. At some point, you have to make a leap of faith.

The real concern here is 'stagflation' possibilities as slowing economic growth combines with higher inflation.

There is clearly an expectation of higher bond yields going forward. Negative sentiment towards Canadian fixed income did not shift significantly since the last survey, but then again, it would have been difficult to be more negative.

We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that.

We set the admission goal for new students at 340. Many factors go into consideration with that, such as the classes offered, class availability, class size, budget for new faculty and how many current students return and how many graduate. The number shouldn't be less than 340 but not higher than 355.

We set our sights much higher this year. We want to win the Manufacturer's Championship, and this is a good start because we proved we can run with the best cars from every other manufacturer out there.

The people of New Orleans need to get back to at least the level of hurricane protection we had before Katrina. We were authorized to do that, and do it quickly. It's up to Congress to decide to take it to a higher level.

The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-taxation of dividends and treating U.S. businesses on a territorial basis with regard to their foreign profits. Both of these changes would increase U.S. business competitiveness and spur investment. However, on both the individual and business parts of this simplified income tax, the proposed top tax rates were still too high. For example, the proposed 32 percent corporate rate would still be higher than the 28 percent average corporate tax rate in Europe.

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

The outlook for interest rates is still positive. Canada's economy is still moving ahead, keeping expectations of higher rates alive.

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

Think higher, feel deeper.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

We have a professional market going on right now, ... The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

We have higher goals. We're not feeling like we need to start taking any bows.

We're looking to bring all of these properties up to higher levels.

We're higher than I would like. But with a transition, you're going to get this. People who aren't fitting are not going to be here.

We're got senior citizens who have to pay their bills this winter and it's going to be higher than it needs to be.

We're good through Labor Day, but I have some concerns about the fourth quarter, especially if we get some higher corn prices.

This provides an exciting new focus for our exploration programme, particularly as production in Egypt receives the full benefit of the current higher oil price,

This project was on the horizon. But that incident just pointed out that we needed to bring it up to a higher priority and just get it done.

This program will help students to understand the world of athletics. Our cluster is more tailored for individuals to work in higher education. Even if they don't work in athletics, they'll be equipped with tools to make good decisions as administrators.

There are various competing explanations, ... the extraordinary surge in technological innovation has yielded a sharply higher return in investments.

There are various areas in the state where students don't have good access to higher education.

There are upside risks to inflation given the levels of oil prices and pressures from higher taxes.

There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it's almost a matter of pick your poison, ... But why do we have to run deficits, or why do we need higher taxes? They both really stem from not the tax cuts but from overspending.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

The profit margin index is well above the 50%-level, indicating that, for most firms, profit margins are higher than one year ago, when margins were showing improvement from their depressed levels throughout 2001-2002.

We've rung the bell at $600 and now we're perhaps ready to consolidate before we consider higher price levels.

We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.