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[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

Bill Clinton

When I was in high school, we would load up out-of-state hunters in a 1955 International pickup truck and tell them to hang on. We would bring them back after the hunt, dustier than heck and they would give us some cash.

Dennis Jones

Two miles north of Falfurrias a pickup heading north on 405 hit a car hauler that was carrying eight cars. That vehicle was headed south on 281. The pickup failed to yield and was struck by the car hauler.

Lisa Block

Once the auto surge plays out, we should see a pickup in spending on other items.

Stephen Gallagher

A big thing we did this year was pay for everybody's leaf pickup. We're going to continue it, but we're gong to assess the people. It was important to us. Between 85 and 90 percent of the houses have leaves. When you do a whole neighborhood, they give you a break.

Maude Hooper

I had a guy try to sell me a piece of the bridge he had in the back of his pickup the other day. I don't know where he got it. I asked him why I needed that.

Mike Page

Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them.

Adrian Aucoin

Well, it's the farm's pickup.

John Ames

Not quite as good as my Ford pickup, but almost.

Gresham Barrett

It looks like the brakes locked up, and he slid under the pickup truck.

Margie Long

The September employment figures could be interpreted as signaling a slowdown in the economy with a pickup in wage growth, but don't count on it, ... The impact of hurricane Floyd might well have been larger than indicated.

Mike Englund

The Kodiak is like a huge pickup truck with wings. This is the plane of the future as we see it.

Jim Sims

Barring a major economic dislocation, such as a big pickup in inflation, I think home builders can grow their earnings at a double digit basis for the next two to three years.

Lawrence Horan

What we'll see over the next few years is a pickup in overall development in the city and the fringe areas around the city.

Bill Geiger

This is similar to when we decided to get into the pickup truck segment.

Joe Veltri

We believe our guaranteed express pickup offering, which enabled customers to shop for Christmas gifts over the Web through Christmas Eve, was a competitive advantage during the month.

W. Alan Mccollough

Detroit needs to increase its competitiveness by focusing on things it does well, like Ford's F-Series pickup trucks, and they need to discard brands that have outlived their usefulness, like Buick, Mercury and perhaps Pontiac.

Daniel Gorrell

It's a hope. I don't think they're doing anything that is unique to promise a second-half pickup. They're basically at the mercy of what the demand will be in the market.

Stephen East

We called Daimler Chrysler and asked them to examine the pickup to see if it would be covered under warranty. But they said the condition of the engine is indicative that the maintenance schedule was not followed.

Mark Medinger

There has been more capital-markets activity than anticipated and the pickup in volatility has helped proprietary trading revenue.

Frank Fernandez

Scott didn't start today but he did a very nice job coming off the bench. He did what he had to do for us, give us a little spark or a little pickup. He did that. I'm very happy for Scott.

Scott Burzynski

The long-awaited bounce in economic activity has finally arrived. While we had forecast a pickup in the second half of the year, this kind of strength was not anticipated.

Rosalind Wells

(Intel) may focus investor attention on the likelihood of a pickup in Q3 (the third quarter).

Christopher Chaney

Drive your most sensible car. If it's a trip to the grocery store, don't take the pickup, take your compact car.

Justin Mcnaull

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

Larry Merchant

The much hoped for mid-October pickup in personal computer demand has failed to materialize, which suggests to us Intel's guidance on its Tuesday afternoon conference call will be more cautious than most investors anticipate.

Jonathan Joseph

We are used to it. It did seem like a pickup game out there at times but we got the win, which is the important thing.

Reggie Jessie

The Fed will probably feel the data is distorted by the Iraq war and that there's enough underlying strength in the U.S. economy for it to pickup after the war.

Kevin Grice

There was significant pickup in the last six weeks of the market; the buyers came flocking back. Part of it was the anticipation of the Wall Street bonuses, part of it was the feeling that there was some opportunity to buy and negotiate.

Pamela Liebman

We had to make two trips in the pickup.

Karen Cole

This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the [growth] curve is still ahead of us.

Hugo Stephenson

You just have to go out and play your game, whether it's pickup in the gym or against the best defensive player in the conference.

Todd Hendley

It's consistent with the view that things are not good now, but there's the potential for a pickup. The only question is what the magnitude of the pickup is going to be, and we're not as sanguine as [Greenspan is] about that.

Gerald Cohen

We believe that our estimates are fair. However, with a slight pickup in end-market demand or market-share gains, it is reasonable that they may be conservative.

John Rizzuto

He's a good pickup. He comes from a good program. He's a big kid who likes to smack people around a little bit.

Mike Frank

Traffic is already increasing. We didn't use to leave from the first pickup point until 5 a.m. Once we are delayed by a certain point, we move the leave time back by about five minutes.

Heath Kramer

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

Dominic White

It's one of the best runs as far as pickup games because coach (Carlos) Briggs does a real good job of keeping things competitive. If you can't play, you come off the court. It's something you want to be around.

James Head

You can afford a new 2005 pickup truck, why are you stealing from the Salvation Army?

Bonnie Musfelt

Expanding bulky-item pickup service has been one of my priorities.

Mufi Hannemann

Rita hit on a Saturday and interrupted our pickup that day, and we lost power at our facility until that Tuesday.

Andy King

We have a good opportunity for the dollar to do better than it seems for some time. The pickup in yield is quite wide.

Paul Chertkow

Two other vehicles stopped to let the girl cross but the driver of the pickup did not until after the collision. We hope one of the two drivers who stopped will contact police.

Jacqueline Chaput

The market's drifting to the bottom of its trading range. What we really need is for a big corporate name to come out and say they've seen a pickup. It's going to come from the U.S. because they're further along the [economic] curve than we are.

Nigel Cobby

We've seen a noticeable pickup in concern over the last two months.

Richard Cripps

The driver of the pickup truck wasn't aware that he had lost his load.

Tom Vinger

The person who buys a Focus is more likely to stay with us to move into a mid-size car or SUV or pickup trucks.

George Pipas

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Lynn Reaser

People do pretty well with big differences, like pickup truck or sedan. When it comes to details it's a different thing.

Gary Wells

We had a pickup truck full, ... We bought hundreds of dollars worth of supplies.

Douglas Ward

We've seen a dramatic pickup in these loans since rates starting going up.

Anthony Hsieh

The pickup rate [in the Indian mobile market] has been performing very well over the past years.

Dennis Lui

I've got to admit there are a lot better sensors already on the market, but you might end up spending $400,000, and you'd have to have a pickup (truck) to carry them around. You get to a point where you say, how much better than good do I need to be?

Lee Bzorgi

If you do a $1,000 worth of cleaning with us, you might get more open windows for pickup and delivery than another customer.

Ceo Payam Zamani

As time passes, excess capacity is being worked off and inventories are being accumulated once again ... [and] companies don't buy enhancements in technology or machinery until after they've seen a pickup in activity.

Sherry Cooper

The driver (of the pickup) just kept going. He was in a Ford Ranger, kind of a blue color, and kind of high for a Ranger.

Ginalyn Ofamin

This is not where we want to be, but we knew it would be a very challenging start to the year. We need to pickup our sales pace going forward.

Paul Ballew

It would have cost us about $630 just for gas for a pickup truck and trailer.

Dennis Richards

What you have now is corporations trying to manage expectations with the intent later this year and certainly early next year of beating those expectations, ... So this market is really getting set up for a major change in perception once we begin to see some kind of economic pickup.

Robert Goodman

And by lucky coincidence, here comes a green Mazda pickup with a brown stripe.

Robbie Burroughs

This is obviously our first step into the real pickup truck category, ... Let's leave it at that -- a first step.

Tom Elliott

If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.

Don Anglin

What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with a private company? Town pickup?

Alan Simon

Probably every two years we see one big trend emerge, like the pickup skirt this year.

Kristin Stoner

I have penciled in a bit of pickup in private consumption because of wage increases.

Dirk Schumacher

The economy remains extremely sensitive to external demand. Even if we have a pickup in external demand, it's going to be quiet for some time until those backups are cleared.

James Malcolm

It's a chance for a pickup for the Democrats. When Kolbe announced his retirement, it lit up the (congressional Democrats).

Andre Pineda

You may be a redneck if . . . you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Jeff Foxworthy

If prices are rising in response to a pickup in global demand, that's a good sign for the economy. Though it does impart a drag on the economy, you don't feel it as much.

Gerald Cohen

There's no defense in pickup games, you just show what you got on offense.

Deandre Rice

We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.

Andy Bryant

On Monday, your lineup is set in stone. You can make a pickup any day, but it won't show up in your lineup until the following Monday.

Gregg Klayman

I know I've said this a thousand times, but it was only a couple of pickup games.

Tar Heels

We're not doing away with free shipping, but we're adding a new option, which is free pickup. Free shipping is a promotion that comes and goes on a daily basis or a weekly basis.

Jennifer Davis

We are hearing that boats are considering not doing USVI drop-off or pickup, ... That revenue could be lost.

Pamela Wilson

The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.

Paul Sheard

The big thing is just how they never get beat. In pass rushing, they're always on. You never see them on the edge of somebody. You never see them missing a blitz pickup or something like that. I also try to pick up little technique things that maybe we won't have time to go over in practice.

Joe Thomas

If you're going to cover the Iraqi military forces, you have to be with them. You have to see how they live. I will tell you one thing, a few months ago when I was there and we wanted to get into an Iraqi pickup truck, one of the American soldiers said, you can't do that. It's way too dangerous.

Martha Raddatz

Any time an event becomes the center of national attention, we see a pickup in related items. This includes the good and the bad.

Kevin Pursglove

Having a really solid drummer behind us gave us all a charge. Dave is just this gem in Pittsburgh, this national caliber drummer. We were very fortunate to have him. It's like playing a pickup basketball game with an NBA guy, it just forces you all to play better.

Jeff Schmutz

We've seen a tremendous pickup (in investor interest) in the last year.

Mike Crinieri

In Argentina in particular you have seen a pickup in volatility over the last couple of months, and it has to do with the fact that it has higher yields available and longer duration and makes it prone to volatility.

Enrique Alvarez