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We don't have the big bad wolf Lakers, ... but who's to say there will not be another terrific team in two years. If (Shaquille O'Neal) holds up, Miami could be that team.

The pilot did a terrific job getting the plane down. We were lucky enough to survive that crash. It's something you're grateful for, and I guess it just wasn't my time ...

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.

We promised all along that this Thunderbird would have a limited production run, and we're being true to our word. Thunderbird was a terrific image builder for the Ford brand showroom at a time when we needed it.

We're excited about it. It's a great opportunity for him. The Bucks have done some terrific things this summer.

You look at our series with Traverse City, and they were all very close, very tight games without exception. I expect this will be a terrific series, right down to the wire. Scotty and Mike (Stapleton) do a great job of coaching up there, and they'll have their guys ready to go. This one could go the distance.

We were all incredibly frustrated with the way the year has gone, ... If anybody should be blamed, it should be me. I think Jim is a terrific manager. Despite how hard we tried, we couldn't get on the same page.

We became a terrific basketball team. We have had some times when the expectations weighed heavily upon us. As the season wore down, we saw our window of opportunity start to become more limited. The greatest thing we did was we kicked the window out and we made the opportunity for ourselves.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

We stayed with our game. A couple of the previous games we were terrible, but tonight we did a terrific job. We were happy, we were moving and rolling.

We stayed in a man-to-man and Siena had terrific post play (in the first half). We made some adjustments in the 2nd half and we did a great job to stop their inside game.

The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness, beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced; there was and can be only one Valentino;a great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term friend.' -John Gilbert

What we told them to focus on before the game was not winning but getting better. In the big picture, it's only our third game of the year. Our objective was just to get better, and I thought the first half was terrific and the best we've played all year.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

We knew we had a terrific combination of films led by some of the biggest stars in the world, created by some of the top filmmakers in the business today, and we're thrilled that the audience responded in such a big way. We look forward to continuing the success this fall.

There are many fantastic old photos in family collections that would be terrific to share with other fans in this type of setting.

We pick up a terrific business. We are replacing a slower growing franchise that does not fit.

We pick up a terrific business that replaces the earnings that we essentially transfer out. It?s the right asset at the right time.

We'll just do it like we always did. I'll sit down with Ken and Glen and we'll start jamming and we'll slowly put the jigsaw of metal together. I know we will make another terrific metal masterpiece ....

Winning Test matches in India is a difficult business at the best of times. For England to share the series with only half a full strength side was a terrific performance.

With a guy like Moose, you don't have to make a perfect throw. He runs great routes, he's got terrific hands, and he's a guy the opposing defense has to respect. He just makes our whole offense better.

We asked Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest to design a course that would complement and not disturb the existing natural environment. They did a terrific job and the course has a very mature feel already.

We can't thank our fans enough for the record support they showed. For all our clubs, a terrific season was made even better by the enthusiasm and encouragement our fans displayed night after night. We are deeply appreciative.

We're all friends as well as teammates. We have a terrific time. We have fellows of all walks of life.

We don't anticipate any impact on the stock. While Kelly has been both an important and strong leader as well as a terrific man, UPS is a large company with great management depth run by committee.

When I was elected CEO, I said I hoped to have the perseverance to stay long enough to get the job done and the wisdom not to remain too long, ... By the end of 2001, I will have been a part of the PepsiCo team for 30 terrific years. I'm sure it will be surprising to very few people that I now feel it is time to move on to creating a new chapter in my life.

We wouldn't have got this far without thinking this would be a fantastic opportunity for our business here, for people in the business and the merged business going forward. We see terrific opportunities for different parts of the world.

We kept scoring and then Ray got hot. That's a terrific win. They're awfully good.

Why not? ... We see it happen with television ? stars just emerge out of nowhere and stay there. It would be terrific for terrestrial radio to find a replacement for Howard that works.

Those 22 deserved to be in for another game after that terrific result last weekend.

This year we're using two terrific venues we haven't used in the past; the Hartford Stage Company and The Bushnell. We'll be doing stand-up comedy in the Bushnell Theater, which is a first for First Night in 17 years.

We got in penalty trouble and gave them the momentum. They've got a terrific power play, and that's what got them the game.

The problem is that terrific news on inflation is not what we need right now, ... We need terrific news on the demand side of the economy. The economy hasn't stabilized yet so we don't have any great need to buy stocks.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

The prestigious Hilton Humanitarian Prize is a terrific boost as we seek not only to provide direct medical services in seven countries, including our own, but also to bring countless supporters into a broad and global movement to promote basic rights for the poor. Winning the Hilton Prize is the greatest recognition yet received by Partners In Health, and we are proud, honored and grateful.

We've got to bounce right back and get ready for it. It's great when you have the defending national champion and the top collegiate player in the nation in Pablo Martin from Oklahoma State coming in. That's going to be a terrific test for us.

With so many terrific rides available, we wanted him to let him explore his options for 2006 before the end of the season.

With IPTV dramatically changing the entertainment market and helping to spur demand for broadband, IPTV products will be one of the hottest items on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor. The Broadband Services Forum is a terrific group to give Telecom NEXT attendees the critical information that will help network service providers with their network purchasing decisions.

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.

When you are looking to put new money into investments, it's always wise to wait until you get a better sense that the Fed is very near the end of raising interest rates. But there are some terrific earnings stories in this market, and some of these earnings stories, at least in my opinion, already reflect a lot of the worries about potential economic problems. Airline stocks are a good illustrative example.

When we look at our passing game, the one element we have not been able to utilize effectively is LT as a receiver. There is no doubt he has been a terrific receiver for us, and we haven't done a good enough job in getting him the ball.

We had some terrific meetings including one with the NHTSA Administrator and the Secretary of Transportation. The NTEA decided to host this event to raise the profile of all of the associations and to educate the decision-makers in DC that the motor vehicle industry is more than just the big passenger-car manufacturers. The day was a great success and hopefully, it will be the beginning of many more joint efforts among the associations.

We had some terrific donations from the community. There are too many people to thank to name them all.

We had some real good runners, but we never could put together five terrific runners to win a championship.

We are excited to provide our enthusiastic PC customers with a great retail partner to experience first hand the difference our computers offer in immersive game play and powerful multimedia capabilities. We want to give Best Buy shoppers an upscale computer selection to accompany the terrific service and advice they are accustomed to today.

We are excited to have Robbie join our staff in a full-time capacity, ... Robbie has done a terrific job here and he deserves this opportunity. This is a great addition to our program and we are looking forward to the fall season.

We are excited to have Nicole as part of our team. With the growth we are experiencing in our chemical and litigation practices, Nicole has arrived at a great time for LL&A and its clients, and she will be a terrific asset to both.

We are excited to have David join our program. He is a fine young man who represents al that we look for in a student athlete at FAU. As a player, he gives us another ball handler who can run the team while putting terrific pressure on opposing guards. We were fortunate to find him at such a late date.

We are excited to have David join our program, ... He is a fine young man who represents all that we look for in a student-athlete at FAU. He's a good person and a good student from a good family. As a player, he gives us another ball handler who can run the team while putting terrific pressure on opposing guards. We were fortunate to find him at such a late date.

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.

Two sectors that have taken a terrible beating here over the last couple of months that we think have terrific long-term prospects are technology and biotechnology. A lot of those stocks are - even though they've bounced back here in the last couple of days - still down 50 percent from where they were only a few weeks ago.

The reason we believe we have a great chance of actually winning the best-picture Oscar is because people are passionate about the movie. With all due respect to the other best-picture nominees, all of which are terrific and of great merit, there's a sense that people admire and respect the other nominees, but they are passionate about Crash .

The governor is doing a terrific job of leading, not only as the governor of Texas ... but he's also doing a great job of leading during this transition period. He's getting ready to be a great president.

The good news is he's really becoming a terrific player,

We're thrilled to have him in a Diamondbacks uniform. We think he's going to have a terrific future, and we're very excited about it.

We're thrilled to be able to celebrate our boys basketball centennial by directly involving the fans, who have supported our tournament in great numbers throughout the years is a fun was to get folks interested in our rich history and set the table for a terrific celebration in 2007.

We're thrilled. It's not every day that you can make a movie for everyone and I think Gore and Jerry really did that. They did an absolutely terrific job of putting an original piece of film into the market this summer.

We're talking about terrific athleticism from these two young people. They both have a great history in terms of winning at the college level.

Top to bottom, it's been terrific all year long. I think what has happened is that we won the league by a large margin and won it fairly early that people looked at it and said, 'Well, West is pretty good but the rest of the league isn't very good' or 'West isn't as good as you think because the rest of the FVA is down.' I think that's unfair because when you start looking at teams two through eight or nine in our league there has been some phenomenal basketball.

Todd, from the moment he's been here, (has been) very upbeat, and he is a very good coach. With recruiting during the summer and the camps, he already is a terrific addition to the staff.

While the minister and governor are here, let me commend them for their terrific leadership, courage, and the skill and confidence that they bring to the monetary and fiscal economic policy issues of their country,

You better believe he's having a terrific spring. He has a chance to be a real player at the major-league level.

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

We had a terrific year. Momentum built with each quarter as our wholesale and retail initiatives produced strong results for our company.

We had a terrific week last week, ... Investor sentiment has shifted to people not wanting to miss out on any strength. There's a lot of cash on the sidelines.

We had a terrific fourth quarter and finished 2005 with good momentum. Our product portfolio is very competitive, our new initiatives such as kits and segmentation are starting to ramp, and our enterprise approach is winning with customers.

To me, he's a terrific player. I had mixed emotions about that because I really liked Jalen as a person and a basketball player but this is the NBA, we've all been there before.

Very good, terrific imagination. The key to the series was the England bowlers and with the way that they have performed, he has been able to attack and defend as he chooses.

The race is over unless Bush not only stumbles but collapses, ... He has such a huge bankroll, he starts out with such terrific poll numbers, he has demonstrated such significant campaign appeal that it's hard to imagine this is a race.

The orientation camp will be a terrific opportunity for our staff to come together with the candidates for our Olympic team to assess the potential makeup of our squad. It will not be a tryout camp as the evaluation process will continue through the first part of the NHL season, however it will be an important first step in the process.

This was the second-windiest Key West in which I've competed and I've been coming here a long time. It was a great regatta - beautiful weather and terrific wind.

This was a terrific win. Nobody gave us much of a chance. I told the girls that we didn't necessarily have to do it in the first five minutes (of overtime) or in the second five. Just be patient, and it will happen.

This was a terrific quarter in which all key performance metrics moved in the right direction, ... We were able to translate our strong sales growth into earnings per share that were higher than we originally anticipated.

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

This was a fantastic run by the girls team. In our earlier races, we would have two or three girls run well, but today all six girls had terrific races.

What's driving this is techs have gone from terrific to terrible,

We fully understand the terrific strain Tulane University has been under in coping with this tragedy, ... We are doing everything we can to assist Tulane in its hurricane recovery efforts.

We fully expect him to be with us and have a terrific senior season.

We just knew we needed about two minutes. We went with Alex and he was terrific in those two minutes.

This year had been outstanding at its capacity. We've had terrific attendance.

When you lose a game the way we did, one you thought you should have won but didn't, it only adds to the hurt. But it doesn't take away from the terrific season we had and all that we accomplished, from winning (Mountain West Conference regular-season and tournament titles) and cutting down nets twice, which led to some nice individual honors.

What was impressive is Jake knew what we were looking for, he knew the boys needed a rest down there in the bullpen, he just went out there and pitched his heart out, that's just a terrific effort, he really picked us up there.

We had terrific results, yet we're not firing on all cylinders. The one we're not firing on is our consumer business, which we saw good customer interaction and lower credit costs, but we also saw revenue growth was not where we hoped it would be.

We had terrific results, yet we're not firing on all cylinders.

We had such a terrific start to the game. And to me, as soon as Peter went out, our whole energy just dropped right off the cliff. Our energy went right down the tubes. That's the second time that's happened and that's got to change.

The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the agency the credibility it needed. She has done a terrific job.

When I read 'Rocky V,' it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in Adrian's lap, and by the time they get to the hospital, he's dead.

We don't typically use sports programming, but the Super Bowl happened at a time of year when dieting is at a peak. It was a terrific opportunity to get real reach to a vast audience, of which females are a big part.

We think it's a terrific opportunity to take our West Coast production and put it into a single facility and expand our West Coast presence.

We're very pleased. We had terrific weather, and I think that helped bring in lot of people that wouldn't ordinarily come.

We're very hopeful that it will be a terrific success down the block here.

We feel that Chris is not only a tremendous player, but also a terrific leader. For us to have success, Chris is going to have to be a big part of it.

You have to recognize that you have a chance to have a special place in baseball history, so you're going about it for more than just the moment or the money or the stats or the attention. I think that will be the key for some of these really terrific young pitchers. You have to be really good, and at some point you have to dedicate yourself to your place in baseball history.

You look at Hoosiers , Miracle on Ice , all those terrific movies in real-life stories, that's what we were hoping for. We weren't able to overcome their talent.

This situation has been terrific for me. When you play with guys that can get you the puck, it's easier than having to do everything yourself, like I had to do in junior. You don't have to press as much. The game's simpler.

Total is a terrific brand, but it's been starved for marketing support. It's not what it was in the 20th century when it was a strong power brand for Big G. It doesn't go head to head with any competition, but it was one of the pillars of the adult-cereal portfolio.

We think that this is an important moment in history and a terrific opportunity to act globally. They are global companies and we need to be global unions.

Vincent Spaulding pitched a terrific game. He got ahead of the hitters, kept them off-balance and made some big pitches to get out of innings.

We are very pleased with our new graphic identity. Ryan Partnership has done a terrific job of creating a clean, bold, professional look which clearly conveys our commitment to philanthropic ideals and we are proud to introduce it.