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When we started, we were renting office space in a garage in West Port. There was no room for manufacturing. I sold the products, mainly custom window coverings. In those days, there was a huge network of people sewing from their homes in St. Louis. It was a cottage industry.

We will mainly have Russian news, but we will also show international events and express them from our point of view here.

We've not had a great deal of response right now, mainly because they're still in the throes of it. They haven't had time to stop. I think it's going to come back later when they have a chance to step back.

The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans don't know about. He regularly did portraits of his friends, and a lot of figure painting as well. I think he mainly did it for recreation and didn't charge them for the work, or if he did it was very seldom.

The portfolio decline was mainly a product of our desire to be opportunistic, and the spreads between mortgage-backed securities and agency debt were not conducive for growth. The tightness of spreads gave us fewer opportunities to grow.

Both sides benefit. Thermo King was the crown jewel. And, what's left is the power generation business with very large contracts particularly in developing markets, mainly in Asia.

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

We've had a couple of close matches this season, mainly with John Paul II. We've done well so far this season and we hope to continue to do what we've been doing.

Women are mainly mothers and have their own careers, so it's kind of hard to find someone who would be effective. They just can't drop their careers for something they won't be reimbursed for.

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

The recent drop was mainly due to a downtrend in New York, especially that in the technology sector. So the rebound came as a great relief to investors here.

Two carriages were hit by a fire which gave off a large plume of smoke. We have about 15 light injuries, mainly people who inhaled the smoke.

We had a great deal of exposure to China last year but we've been reducing it mainly due to value not being there at the moment.

We have a lot of work ahead of us that the prior administration, mainly financially, left,

This was mainly just a bunch of people trying to get away,

This week we mainly worked on the tyre choice for Bahrain . We worked on long and short runs, but the temperature has been too cold for us. I am sure that a warmer temperature will ensure that we are more competitive. The new aerodynamic package has been a good step forward. All in all we have done a lot work, but of course we will find out in Bahrain how we stand up against the other teams.

This was something fun for the kids to do with the water obstacles. We were mainly concerned with not getting any injuries.

What seems to be happening is that people are handing over their cards in shops, garages and restaurants the details are being taken down and then used to buy goods and services, mainly online.

What's amazing about 'Desi Rascals' is that once you get over the all-Asian cast, what it seems to be mainly about is what everyone else is concerned about. Young people. Getting off with each other. Being embarrassed by your parents. Being hurt by romance. You'll watch it because it is entertaining, because it is moving, not because it is Asian.

When you play a rivalry game, you have to throw out the rankings and all that stuff. It's mainly about respect. They came in and fought us.

We taught him enough basics to survive the fight. We work mainly on defense. Of course we want to win, but we respect all fighters.we fight to win, not to lose.

We've been somewhat concerned with transportation companies, trucking, mainly because of the fact that we're not in a very strong economic recovery.

We just try to keep them out of the post mainly and beat them on offense with our quickness if we are quicker than them. That's all we can do.

We might talk about that a little when we get down there, but we've mainly been focused on preparing and just trying to get better.

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

We saw resistance to the initial Korean cars, but that was mainly related to quality. If the quality (of Chinese cars) is up to snuff, if the consumer feels there's value, they'll go for it.

We scored on our first three drives, which set the tone for the game. Our offense did a great job because they got the first downs under pressure when we had third and fourth conversions. After that, we mainly concentrated on defense.

You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.

Those who have paid and put a deposit in would just have it carried over. Then, if some of the students have moved, they get a refund. I really don't mind giving the money back now, though the full amount would be hard, mainly because I have already incurred the expenses. It is hard to know how the parents feel. I would rather give them the full refund than give them a bad taste in their mouth.

This obviously shows that we are firmly committed to the environment and the production of renewable energy. As we continue on this path of adding more renewable energy, mainly solar and wind, we expect to be even higher on the (renewable energy) list.

Washington's tattered relations with Latin America have mainly translated into a series of lost opportunities for both sides. The US could end up paying a stiff price for the region's economic reversals and unsettled politics ... Washington can do better.

We are still focused mainly on the potential that the Bank of Japan has decided to officially end its intervention. This is helping to boost the yen,

We like to push the ball up the floor, but mainly we focus a lot on defense. We play real good, solid defense and that creates a lot of fast breaks and easy buckets.

Breakfast is Special K cereal. If I'm having a big meal, it's lunch instead of dinner. Some kind of wrap, like chicken for protein. For dinner, mainly vegetables. I mix it up if I go out to eat.

Even on the phone, there was this resonance, but mainly this warmth, that was really ideal for the character.

Besides jobsite signs, we do no marketing. We mainly focus on the higher-end areas of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.

Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.

At some point, rock 'n' roll was mainly guys. So it makes sense that women would stand there and watch, kind of like a football game.

At the beginning of the quarter there was a considerable EMU-related portfolio flow from domestic markets into the euro-zone, ... While this has continued in months two and three, there has been renewed interest in non-European asset classes, mainly Japan and the far east.

At this level, we're mainly competing to get personal bests. We stress personal bests and it's really what our athletes are searching for at these events. These kids are just always trying to improve and the states are a nice reward and the New England championships are another nice reward.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.

CVRD is still down 8 percent on the month mainly due to a stronger real currency, which affects this big exporter. CVRD became too undervalued and this new rise is natural.

Crude oil supplies are low and demand has been increasing, ... It's been mainly a supply issue that's making prices higher.

Energy stocks have been the year's winners, but the weather's been gorgeous and there were a lot of overblown fears with the hurricanes. So sectors that have been out of favor, mainly technology and the financials, are now providing some leadership, the banks, in particular.

Drilling systems today mainly use water to move mass up the tube and away from the bit. In space, you need to develop a closed system to do that.

Due mainly to my record on an open chemistry competition given by Cal Tech, I was admitted, graduating in 1939 as a physics major.

Erosion was endangering the road, but it's not collapsing or anything like that. Mainly the road was closed for the safety of the workers.

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

First we did our primary workout. Then we worked mainly on the mechanics of the exchange because we pretty much have our steps down. All this year we have been balancing relay work with the work needed for the individual events, so we are prepared.

Farmer weighs 180 pounds and is playing tackle. Frye and Roach barely played last year. Alcorn is a first-year player. Bryant played JV (junior varsity) last year. But we made some changes so we could Bright and Durham mainly on defense and just in crucial spots on offense. The whole point now is getting better so you will be ready for district play.

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry.

There was a discussion of names. It was mainly our suggesting names to him and talking about names to him. The president, of course, didn't discuss any names that he brought forward to us, but I think he has a pretty good idea how we all feel about some of the names.

There's a couple more things to work out with that, mainly with the FedEx points and where we sit with that program. We're hoping to get that contract soon, meet here and discuss what we need to do and send that right back to the tour.

There's no direct cost for that transaction but it's mainly for paper and the cost of keeping the system as a whole running.

The times are past when DRAM chips were mainly built for the PC market. Nevertheless, the demand for memory chips has not decreased.

I've been yelled at plenty of times so I know how to handle it. I mainly keep quiet. You can't argue back. With him, when he says something, you can't say, 'Well I was doing this.' You just have to take it.

I've been thinking about it. Mainly I'm just going to try and keep it out of my mind. This is totally a different year and a different weight class. I don't think it should have an affect on me.

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

I used to block field goals in junior high, so I just pulled out that technique. In a situation like that, you always want to get a hand on the ball, but mainly you just want to disrupt the pass however you can.

I use mainly a glass slide. It has a completely different tone and feel from a metal slide. A lot of people play slide and put it on for a few tunes, but I have it on at all times. I completely incorporate it into my style.

I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.

The world will not believe a man repents; And this wise world of ours is mainly right

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets and some Spanish language poets, and I keep in touch with their work through either their websites or email.

These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,

The right to private property ownership is one of our core freedoms, ... Historically, eminent domain has been used mainly for well served public purposes such as highways or schools, but this decision sets a dangerous precedent for uprooting families simply to accommodate wealthy developers.

I've really learned that you have to be a lot with yourself mainly with yourself.

It was the same in Asia. It mainly occurred in family clusters of small size, and mainly in children.

The Second Amendment is probably one of the least respected amendments that we have, mainly because there's not enough education about firearms. So we're hoping that this event will raise awareness for firearms and incite some very good discussions about the Second Amendment and gun rights.

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

The state has demanded maps from mining companies from the beginning, so there is a good map library. But, those maps were mainly a way for the state to collect royalties. That means that some shafts were not mapped.

These levels of activity have brought new players, mainly large independents.

The snow will be mainly confined to the mountains.

The snow issue isn't as a big a problem in April (as early December). People tend to forego some of these (late spring) values mainly because the sun is coming out and they've started thinking about golfing (and other warm-weather activities).

The slowdown in UK GDP growth is mainly being driven by sharply lower growth in household consumption, as the cooling housing market and the higher personal debt burden dampen spending.

The slip in the sector has been mainly attributed to portfolio switching at the beginning of the New Year.

The team's performance, mainly in the second half, was affected by the absence of eight regular players. It was evident most in the defense. But they will learn from their mistakes.

The taxation change is mainly aimed at encouraging car owners to consume less oil and at cushioning environmental pressures,

The talk of an increase is mainly to give comfort to the market. It is refining capacity we have to worry about.

The thorniest issue of late is that Merkel's shadow finance minister wants a 25 percent flat tax and no loopholes as a way to stimulate the economy. The left says it will mainly benefit the rich, and some among Merkel's ranks object too.

The sort of deceptive lull the past two months of the attacks was mainly because of the sustained effort on our part to stop terrorist activity and to prevent suicide and homicide bombings from coming out of the territories or out of Gaza. Had we not taken this campaign we would have had many suicide and homicide bombings like the one we experienced today in Haifa.

I've never done it before. I might do a few Steely Dan things that I particularly like, but it'll mainly be my stuff.

I've mainly just sat and listened, and I've understood the concepts.

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Some will be used mainly for business, and others will be for living.

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.

Right now, unfortunately, there are some problems with the environmental impact statement on this section, mainly due to the (Cumberland) river crossing.

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Psychologically, it was a difficult moment for me. I don't like riding in the peloton in the chasing peloton. That's not my game, ... But I held on, mainly out of respect for my team. I have not given up doing well in the Tour one day. But on the evidence of things, I have to begin questioning certain things. We will analyze all that this winter.

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Our concern in Montreal is mainly with the advertising. The actual cars are pretty good.

Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.

After the Fall was written mainly as a joke. It wasn't a personal love poem at all, I was just feeling fed up with housekeeping and children.

Age discrimination cases have been probably the most common type of discrimination cases for several years and possibly longer, mainly because there are so many people in the protected class.

A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called.

A few days after the incident, we had a meeting down in Nogales with anyone involved with the AYSO who wanted to come. Mainly, it was parents and mainly they were angry this had occurred. They were concerned it was going to happen again and they wanted to know are we going to have a season next year. We assured them that this was not going to happen again and that we would not be closing down the region.

Some tell us that Hawaii is half and half, half 'study nonstop' and half 'don't know what studying means.' Others, however, feel that 'while there's a handful of students who have ambitious career objectives are focused on studying, the typical student is focused mainly on the beach or going to the clubs.'

Once your bowl game is over this is what you work for. That's why I want to come here and compete. I don't want to delay it any longer. I'm ready to get back to doing some football-type things instead of working on mainly these drills.

Acting is easy. Mainly because we have a lot of roles-and they're like our friends and they want to be in movies, so we put them in.

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.