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The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.

We are definitely focused on small business. Our average client is 25 to 30 desktops. That's the market that we've been in all along and we intend to stay in. Virtually all of our clients are less than 100 employees, although we do have larger clients where we do some aspect of supporting their environment.

Web-based multimodal and speech technologies are a welcome solution to the information overload we all face today, representing a fundamental change in the software capabilities of mobile devices. In fact, without them the Web would be practically useless on mobile phones. Wake Forest is a leader in delivering personalized information to students and faculty virtually no matter where they are.

The proof of the pudding is that the Ford Explorer has seen virtually no decline in August.

Today we are reading virtually every meter. I expect in about 2006 or 2007 we'll do another evaluation to see if it's cost-effective to change.

We were able to make this transition with virtually zero downtime. No one at Kindred would have been aware of the change if they hadn't been told. We designed our new SANs to be extremely stable and reliable.

We basically, like most teams in this league, do center by committee, ... We needed to get another committee member. We've got a couple of young guys in (Robert) Swift and (Johan) Petro with Vitaly and now Mikki. Mikki's 7-foot and a little different player than Jerome, but their stats are virtually the same. Mikki runs the floor a little better, Jerome gives a little more bulk.

Xamlon Web allows developers to be immediately productive in new deployment scenarios with virtually no learning curve, ... Now developers can use the programming languages they already know to create seamless business applications that deploy via the Web on practically any device or computer in the world.

The data show that Americans are ill-prepared for retirement, and gained virtually no ground over these three years. The low saving rate and weaker returns in the stock market held back wealth, despite strong gains in housing. With the baby boomers rapidly approaching retirement, we need to start saving fast, and are showing no signs of doing so.

The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far.

The Delphi bankruptcy is a real watershed point for the UAW, ... The UAW is virtually powerless now.

The deal is virtually done and it's not going to be just revolutionary for the NHL, it will be a new chapter in collective bargaining agreements for all sports because it will most closely tie together the fortunes of the owners and the players.

The days when staff were taking two-hour lunches and going to the putting green have virtually ended,

The fact that the federal government is looking into this matter is significant. However, I understand that the United States attorney for the District of Delaware was alerted to these problems a year ago and did virtually nothing, ... It is my hope that the real professionals from Washington direct the inquiry, because I am confident that they will do it in a fair manner.

The explosive growth in the size and quantity of databases is a well-known phenomenon in virtually every vertical industry. Making intelligent use of this data is now seen as a major part of companies' efforts to improve their operational efficiency; to better serve customers and partners; to develop, market and sell better products; and to stay on top of their regulatory and compliance requirements. SAND Technology's SAND/DNA reveals a unique and creative way to solve the problems endemic to data warehouse archiving.

What incentive do they have to repair their tracks now in the face of immunity? I submit, virtually none.

What we're talking about is improving customer service. Virtually any company can benefit from this.

We believe that Wyndham Worldwide translates perfectly as the bold new identity for a company that provides consumers with the widest choice in global travel accommodations for virtually any occasion, price point and experience.

We obtain the property for our investor, and then do all the work of getting a qualified tenant through our lease to own program. The way we do this results in higher rents than traditional rentals, putting more money in the investor's pocket each month. It also brings a higher sales price for the home when the tenant is able to buy in the future, and because it is a lease option the tenant handles virtually all maintenance.

While only 10 percent are considered 'financially troubled,' virtually every Internet company we have come across is tightening its belt. Clearly, the company has a lot of work in front of it.

We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state,

We continued to enjoy quality growth in virtually every area of the company during the fourth quarter and throughout all of last year.

We have been exploring a strategy for entering the Asian marketplace for some time and have indicated that our entrance into this hugely populated market would be through one of our existing brands. These cruises represent a first step in this initiative and will serve as a platform for future expansion into other areas of Asia. Although all of our brands are virtually unknown in China, we chose Costa because it is already very international in nature, serving guests of many different nationalities, languages and cultures.

When one does all these things to increase the attractiveness of the place, does that not drive us toward a place where only the rich are able to take advantage of it? That was a concern of ours from the very beginning. The cause is what might be called non-price sensitive demand, people that can pay virtually anything. We were thinking ahead enough to realize it would get worse very quickly. We started thinking about this in '75. It may be the most aggressive affordable housing in the country. It wasn't enough.

This requires virtually no investment by Northwest and represents about 5 percent of their inventory. For business travelers like me ? I am 6-foot-5 ? this is going to be very appealing.

There has been virtually no motivation on the part of state government to address these changes. Whether it's the governor, the Senate or the Assembly, it seems like the people in power are insensitive to it. We've never held them accountable as a business community or as voters.

There has been sort of a selective amnesia. If you look at the Will Smith movie 'Ali,' it virtually washed away Ali's history in the Nation of Islam. People are being told that Ali stood up for his beliefs, but they're not being told what those beliefs are.

We think this is unfair, unworkable and unacceptable. It virtually ensures that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions go black.

We're pushing like crazy trying to get in there by Sept. 1. It's virtually around the corner.

To be sure, heretofore there has been virtually unanimous acceptance of the belief that the middle of the universe is the earth.

This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all, ... Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.

We believe our product offerings are complementary. We have virtually no presence in the lightweight preferred market, so we don't really compete with the postal service there,

Truth be known, I am actually looking forward to this round, ... The West Series has never competed on this track, so it is pretty much like sailing into uncharted waters. There is no open test so everyone will be on the same page when practice gets underway on Saturday morning. A lot will depend on the crew and that is one of the areas where we excel. Our Lynch Mob crew is very good at getting the job done in short order. Once we have run the track a few times, we should be able to get our Mr. Gas Dodge in race trim in with virtually no problem.

With cases of the deadly disease detected in Iran and India, Afghanistan is practically surrendered. Today we can say that an outbreak of the disease among birds in Afghanistan is virtually unavoidable.

Yet it wasn't so long ago that virtually every person in the world felt perfectly free to show up on the doorstep of any other person in the world.

The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.

There are really not any state guidelines on who can and cannot be a sonographer. What's lacking here is that virtually anybody can buy an X-ray machine and say that they do sonography.

This should be a great quarter for the investment banks across virtually all their business segments. High-margin merger advisory, sales and trading, and stock and bond underwriting all look really strong this quarter.

This record performance was the result of strength across virtually all of our businesses. While the second quarter was characterized by uncertainties that roiled the interest rate, credit, commodities and equities markets, the third quarter saw trends reassert themselves.

The president went into last week wounded, and he came out of last week just battered. He claimed to have political capital going into his second term, but I think that capital is virtually gone.

There are always going to be those 'citizens against virtually everything' (CAVEs). But small towns must take chances to grow.

What's high on the radar for environmental organizations has virtually nothing to do with what people think. If you dig deeper, and ask what environmental problems are you concerned about, water from the tap and the local dump tend to outpace global warming. People, when they think about environmental quality, think about it in their own town.

Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with a $500 phone for virtually nothing. An early-termination fee allows the wireless provider to recoup the costs of giving a phone to a consumer for a steep discount. Without it, you simply have an economic model that doesn't work.

Without oversight or enforcement, rule changes are virtually meaningless.

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

When you are running on a distributed environment that is loosely coupled, you can scale virtually on demand by throwing in more power.

When we start, we start them with a very flat roller and therefore the bike will virtually stay up on its own.

We've offered our hourly-wage earners a health-care plan that's virtually identical to what we've provided to thousands of our salaried staff. It's a plan that gives them five options to choose health coverage that best meets their economic and medical needs.

Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don't want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn't be good at it; they're too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren't capable lawyers. We're saying the same thing. Let women in, we'll show you we can do it.

Few United Nations officials have demonstrated the calm, grace and professionalism that you have in the face of virtually unprecedented pressure and attention over the past several months.

Exports are off in virtually every category. I don't see much near-term improvement for the trade deficit. The trade deficit will probably shave about 0.5 percent off of third quarter Gross Domestic Product.

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.

You are much safer on a cruise ship than you are in virtually any community in the United States.

While the immediate 'rollback' of 24 percent offered by the union would materially improve league economics for the 2004-05 season, there is virtually nothing in the union's proposal that would prevent the dollars 'saved' from being redirected right back into the player compensation system, such that the league's overall financial losses would approach current levels in only a matter of a couple of years.

We've had very little economic growth, virtually no job growth. The only way you'll get income growth is through wage increases or through tax cuts.

We've had tight battles with virtually every time we've played them. It was a playoff-type hockey game tonight.

We've gone to virtually every shelter in the state.

We'll have to take Kosovo from virtually nothing to practically everything in the next few years, and that entails entire administration, the rebuilding, bringing the refugees back.

We all know that Washington is a town in which the flow of important information is virtually nonstop,

We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up.

We will be faced with a year and a half of virtually no growth in this economy. We should not have had interest rates ever getting to 7.25 percent. The monetary policy cycle is far too aggressive.

We have accomplished more in the last year than I've seen us accomplish in the last 22 years. Change is really difficult for people. And virtually everything has changed.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Those surpluses were virtually eliminated in about 18 months. So this is one of the reasons the governors are sort of concerned and really want to run surpluses of 5 to 6 percent.

Those surpluses were virtually eliminated in about 18 months,

This was a big scrimmage for us today in terms of evaluating players. We ran around 100 plays and came away virtually healthy. I wanted to find out if our players could stay focused when they became tired and hot and not have any mental busts. Our staff wanted to see where we stood heading into the preparation of Duke. It's safe to say that right now our defense is well ahead of the offense.

We find socially responsible companies in every sector and virtually every industry, ... It seems such a natural way to invest ? Why buy into liabilities and hidden risks that are created by poor practices? It's a good way to assess companies.

Though our employees are scattered across the country like many of clients, we have been operating virtually for about 10 days now. Our only limitation is access to paper files and a temporary inability to access servers housed at our Canal Street office.

Twenty years ago, pneumatic cylinders controlled virtually every axis of a case packer. New case packers today are often all servo-controlled. We are taking old case packers and adding two-axis pushers and servo-controlled elevators to provide significantly more speed.

To get it away, they are going to have to virtually give it away. There are too many uncertainties about the outlook to get it away satisfactorily at the moment. I think they ought to put it on hold.

You have circumstances like the University of Houston and Texas Southern University, which are virtually across the street from each other. And they've got two separate law schools. Obviously, that's a legacy of a different time. So as we go into the future, does that kind of model make sense?

You have buildings standing in water for what could be up to 80 days, which is the time period they're thinking of before they can get the flood water out. What you're now talking about is constructive write-off for virtually all the buildings.

You can imagine what's going on in people's minds who lost virtually everything.

With hundreds of breakthrough features, including Spotlight, a lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac, Tiger will fundamentally change the way people use their computers. We're thrilled that Fujitsu has developed a solution that allows Tiger users to Spotlight search their collection of scanned documents, photographs, and other electronic files.

With real energy prices on the rise, more rapid decreases in the intensity of energy use in the years ahead seem virtually inevitable,

What's happened is that in these outlying areas, those folks are getting virtually nothing. The church is a distribution point. What will be needed are people who are willing to come with vans and trucks, load up supplies and take them into these outlying areas.

We understand that Butch Davis inherited an awful football team with virtually no talent. However, why do you keep defending the man (and his talent evaluation skills) when he clearly had awful drafts for the Browns?

With fewer job cuts last month and virtually no let-up of demand for skilled workers across all industries, one would expect far more wage pressure than has been seen,

We felt that Bryan Robson set the tone for much of this from the first minute. He was insulting our players and our bench virtually from the start. After 57 seconds, he was out of the dug-out accusing Damien Duff of diving and shouting at the referee and that general tone continued.

We are very disappointed in Stevie's attitude. I'm stressed about it. Stevie was virtually given the keys to run the team this season ? and now he's gone.

We think it's appalling that an animal like this, a social animal, should be kept alone in a dark barn for 10 months. That's virtually half of its life, and that's no way to treat an animal.

We think it's a fairly sizeable market. If it is not priced terribly high, it could be used in virtually every filling application.

This soft revenue performance is seen virtually through all of our businesses. While we are not yet seeing any precipitous decline, we certainly see no signs of a recovery.

We think the chances of a hike next week are virtually zero.

There have been little donations or grants and no sugar daddies. That's virtually unheard of in the theater business.

We are virtually playing with no post presence on either end of the floor, and every game we have still been right there. Considering what we are and where we are coming from, we are doing a great job.

We didn't leave anything in the bag. We played virtually every defense we could play. We ran a bunch of sets we hadn't run in a long time. Both teams really gutted it out.

brings a breadth of experience and knowledge that is virtually unmatched.

Even though we prevailed in virtually every research class action that's been adjudicated, we are settling these cases because we want to avoid the distraction and expense of further litigation.

At our current rate of sales, that's about 600,000 hybrids in the U.S.. To achieve that goal, we will have to look at offering hybrid power systems in virtually all of our vehicles, including trucks.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Doubtless, the substantial improvement in the access of business decision makers to real-time information has played a key role, ... Today, businesses have large quantities of data available virtually in real time. As a consequence, they address and resolve economic imbalances far more rapidly than in the past.

Doug has played some outstanding rugby for Auckland recently, while Rico has played virtually every Super 12 and Test match since mid-February.

Currently we have construction job levels reaching toward the ceiling but manufacturing jobs are virtually at the floor. With hardly any room to fall further, it doesn't seem likely that problems in housing and in construction will spread to manufacturing this time.

And virtually none of them had ever worked in the gaming industry before. You can count a small handful that has any experience at all. These really are regular people.

Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork.

Essentially, ... we learned after the 2004 permit was issued that virtually all of the existing slips had been tied up in long-term rental, and that Whitefish Lake Lodge had already committed a number of the new slips to long-term rentals in violation of the original (planned-unit development, PUD) and lakeshore permits.

During the quarter, we announced acquisitions in virtually all operating areas of the company -- in television stations, the Internet, outdoor advertising and syndication, ... We believe these new investments will create significant value at both CBS and Infinity in the years ahead.

First of all, the chances that both guys are there (at the 13th pick) is virtually nonexistent. The chances that one of those guys would be there is very, very slight. If that were to happen, I would imagine the phones would be ringing pretty steadily.