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On the economic front, deflation is hurting companies. Mall traffic across the U.S. is down for the last 21 months, there's a lack of fashion newness out there. The average price that teens are paying for an item is down, and it's difficult to see profit pick up in 2003.

On many occasions, we observed weak understanding of basic program management and systems engineering principles, an abandonment of traditional processes, and a lack of rigor in execution.

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

One of the biggest factors was a lack of officials ... the commissioner of officials (Bert Haskins of Merced) said he just couldn't supply enough during the winter. Also, the schools in the northern half of the section were against it for lack of fields. A lot of those schools have freshman teams.

One of the biggest concerns of the district is a lack of focus and lack of alignment. People are using a variety of materials.

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

One of the major problems faced with Hurricane Katrina was lack of communication. This issue has been addressed. We have back up plans and then we have back up plans for our back up plans.

One of the key points to me is the lack of communication (among these departments). I don't understand why you don't have that. And why did the officers leave their point of cover? That completely violates standard police doctrine.

One of the reasons they chose us is lack of natural disasters.

One of the reasons these programs are so hard to get into is because of the lack of professors.

One of the focuses of the investigation will be the lack of regulatory oversight of government employees.

One of the first things I heard (as mayor) was that there's no strategic plan for what we wanted to be in 10 years, ... There's no overarching vision. We lack communication. We lack information. We don't have one clearinghouse.

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

One of the great strong points of this university is the lack of institutional barriers to this kind of thing. In some very top-down universities, it's very hard to collaborate with people outside your departments, if not impossible. But here, it's quite open and has been for quite some time.

One of the primary difficulties in deploying WLAN technology in branch offices and retail stores is the lack of onsite IT expertise to manage the network. In order to be successful, branch and retail WLAN solutions must deliver several capabilities; strong centralized management, wide-ranging integrated functionality for security and voice, a highly reliable implementation, and competitive pricing for cost-effective deployment to a large number of sites. Aruba's new additions to the Mobile Edge portfolio meet all of these needs.

I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.

I wouldn't get confused on the lack of superstar names. That doesn't mean they lack in talent. It doesn't mean they lack in heart. When I look around, instead of being suspect, I think the pitching is plentiful. I've seen a lot of good arms in camp.

I wouldn't have been as frustrated by my lack of high-speed access if the entire area around me also couldn't get it. But around here, almost everyone else already had high speed Internet service. At work I was the only one stuck on dial-up service.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

I would attribute it back to a lack of strong demand.

I guess it's a lack of focus on our part. We're just not getting up for those teams and we can't do that if want to improve our spot for the playoffs.

If we have a concern it is in respect of the lack of detail on Vodafone's ability to extract cash from its investment as it matures.

If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.

If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.

If these two past trade deadlines have been indicative of the lack of willingness for people wanting to trade, it's going to be tough to retool your team to a significant extent.

If they're able to prove this, it would show an incredible lack of judgment.

If they still insist on using the Royal Plaza but lack any sensible reason for doing so, we will have to strictly implement the related law.

If this team were a college program, this would smack of ... lack of institutional control,

I have been touching 140 km per hour regularly in the domestic circuit but I know I lack in discipline. I tend to get wayward and I am working hard on it. What is encouraging and a source of constant motivation for me is the fact that the current team management believes in giving chances to youngsters.

I have daily communication with people. Every week I have direct meetings with 100,000 people in town squares. Most people know my proposals and in no way do I consider it a lack of respect.

I have found that a person is not a failure due to lack of opportunity, but because of failing to focus attention and resources on the opportunity at hand.

I don't have a crystal ball but we could still have a great season despite the lack of natural snow fall.

I didn't want to have to double (team) Ely. Maybe we just didn't think he would do that. The lack of concentration and defensive aggressiveness is hard to understand. I tried everything I could think of. It just wasn't there. We just dug too deep a hole.

I didn't like our lack of intensity in the first half. We can't let other teams get that far ahead on us. We've got to play with intensity the whole way.

I didn't get any sleep ... not for lack of trying. I'm just enjoying not having to worry about my sugar levels and all that stuff.

I don't feel a real distance from people, so I don't think that there is a lack of links. I do sense, at least where I live, a lot of rudeness.

I don't know (what happened). I wouldn't say it was a lack of effort or we relaxed after the Arizona game. The practices we had after the Arizona game, we were focused. We all knew what we wanted. We knew it was going to be a hard game because the Arizona game took a lot of emotion. We were all ready to play, but we just couldn't get out there.

I don't know what's more frustrating, the initial punch to the gut of being defrauded or the lack of follow-up by my community, especially the people in power. You go to the people that are supposed to fight for you and they screw you, too.

I don't know why we didn't come out to play today. That's definitely what it was; a lack of intensity. We as a coaching staff need to figure out what the problem is and not let it happen again.

I don't accept there has been a lack of action.

I do not understand the lack of a sense of urgency.

Ideas are mallable and unstable; they not only can be misused, they invite misuse---and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is by this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful idea is changed into robot dogma that is deadly. The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea, but with the people who are attracted to it, until the last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogmas by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.

I'd acutely felt the lack of a product that I really loved, but there was a tremendous lack of commercial opportunity to start software ventures around these ideas, given the industry's structure, and I did a lot of thinking about how things might be put together, learned a lot about open source, made a pilgrimage to go see Linus, and tried to educate myself.

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

I am enormously concerned with our Nation's lack of border security and the dysfunctional nature of our current immigration system.

I am concerned -- and I think most people are concerned -- about the lack of coordination between agencies, ... The failure to work together to share information -- they're doing that now, in fact. As we know, the CIA director and the FBI director are briefing the president every morning, so there were obviously breakdowns -- particularly in coordinating and sharing information.

I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love.

I am extremely disappointed with this performance and the results showed a lack of commitment, discipline and responsibility on the mat by many of our wrestlers. We have two morning workouts a week specifically for conditioning and when kids don't bother to show up and then get gassed in matches and lose, it is all a reflection of their lack of being willing to do the work.

I am appalled at the complete lack of situational awareness caused by people wearing headphones. If you are completely oblivious to the world around you, you are leaving yourself wide open to many types of criminal attack.

I blame him for his weakness and lack of determination. At the beginning of this year we had a wave of nationalist incidents and attacks on the E.U. project, including some by members of his own party. He did not look the problem in the eye and draw a clear line between anti-E.U. nationalism and the attitude of tolerance. He tried to avoid the subject.

I bet that really did stimulate contributions a lot. The censure resolution, and lack of any other Democrat backing it, really put a lot of Bush-haters onto Feingold.

I bet if I asked anyone in this room, 'Who would you report an electronic crime to in the Police?', no one would know. We are ignorant of the size of the problem. There is a real lack of meaningful statistics.

I believe there are a lot of next steps for this team. There's never a lack of effort. We are focused. We know what we want to do, but there's always something different every game. (At home) we managed to find a burst of energy. We managed to pull through it.

I believe that the Blade has shown a serious lack of dedication to journalistic ethics.

I believe what we may see is a minor pullback due to a lack of fresh catalysts now that the Fed has already said what they said.

I apologized to my team for my lack of discipline, and then I went on the radio and apologized there. It reflects poorly on the program and I think we have a good program.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

But they never mentioned it. Really, the bottom line is in my four years as an NCAA member, the lack of communication is mind-boggling.

But it's going to be a quiet week. A lot of people are on vacation, there's little in corporate reporting or econ data, Congress is still in recess. We lack drama right now, which means we're going to be left to our own devices, which could be good or bad.

But the greatest shortage that will slow us down is the lack of trained people. So we are putting resources in training.

But given the low level of inventories, strong global demand and lack of a cushion, we believe the market still has and will continue to have an upside risk.

But for the Europeans, it is also important to maintain their good ties with the Russians and the Chinese. The cooperation or the lack of obstruction you see from Russia and China at the moment is from the fact that the Europeans gained credibility in the past by going down the negotiations path.

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Because of the lack of pricing power, earnings expectations might be too optimistic, despite the fact that they are being lowered.

Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity,

Because of the lack of economic direction and data at the moment the security issue has played a bit more of a role than it would normally. But if you look at the turning point for a lot of things it's the U.S. non-farm payrolls numbers, not anything else.

Because of the lack of bodies, he turns to grave robbery. There are quite a few shocking moments in the show.

Because Rod means so much to the Ole Miss family, this was a difficult decision. However, due to our lack of success in the Southeastern Conference, I felt a change needed to be made.

Because of the uniqueness of the 3-3 and the inordinate amount of pressure, we didn't run some of the plays that we think we can run as base plays in our offense. It was not a lack of desire to do things. We have a strong directive from the head coach to what he wants to do and what he feels is best for the team. We're going to do that.

China's traditional administration can't resolve the problem of the lack of human rights. I hope we can develop just procedures and create judiciary channels to preserve people's rights and interests in the future.

China's intensified interest in the Western Hemisphere does not imply a lack of focus by the United States,

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

I make films I believe in. Today my strength is emotional drama. I know I lack courage to do a variety of films but I am getting better.

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

I felt good today, maybe a little sluggish this morning, but I don't know if that's just from lack of sleep or the medication,

I feel we're prepared. Despite an overall lack of experience the kids are playing well together and I'm comfortable with their progress.

I feel the odds strongly favor a broad washout before this bear market is over, if only because the lack of a broad market breakdown beyond tech is the single strongest factor supporting the continued high hopes for a rapid stock market comeback,

I feel that traits such as diligence and confidence will help anyone to become academically successful. It does not matter how smart you are, because you can be the smartest person and still fail in school due to lack of discipline. Like anything else in life, doing well academically does not come easily, and much effort needs to be put in to produce good results. Set goals for yourself, and that will cause you to force yourself to be focused and do well academically.

If individuals lack these skills, workplace training and development or progression into further and higher education becomes much more difficult.

I find your lack of faith disturbing - Darth Vader

I feel good. I think we did well given the lack of coverage that the local media gave my campaign.

I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type heroes in fiction, and he wanted to have a writer he likes do that.

I can't say enough about Kennedy, Witasick and Payton, ... To me, Payton's been the biggest. I think it's thesingle best trade we've ever made ? just because of the lack of offense.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

Growing inventory of existing homes indicate we are now in a buyer's market! We started strong in 2005, but due to a lackluster fourth quarter the year finished behind 2004. Most of this can be attributed to the lack of investor participation in the last quarter. Sales for 2005 were about 5 percent below that of 2004.

Given her lack of (judicial) experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers' only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president?

Given the lack of trading volume, it's going to be hard to gauge any moves we make. We have a lot of data to get through.

Given the lack of regulation, the increasing number of deaths, medical concerns and the lack of independent testing, the ACLU of Northern California recommends that the state Legislature and local law enforcement take strong steps to regulate the use of this weapon.

Given the growing importance of out-of-home eating, our lack of a reliable mental process to assess relative calorie values of foods and drinks, could be putting us at risk of obesity over our lifetimes.

given the apparent lack of evidence and due process.

Given that rate of abstention, plus expressions of concern by prominent Venezuelans, we would see that this reflects a broad lack of confidence in the impartiality and transparency of the electoral process.

Given our lack of success we've had against Washington State ... there's a lot of focus and motivation to continue the things that we are doing. This is a big road test, our first road test of the season.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Four police officers suspected of taking part in the incidents were interrogated, but all cases were closed due to lack of evidence,