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We've made a quantum leap forward in our efforts to prevent the use and abuse of alcohol. We've taken a strong stance and made some progress. Attitudes have changed. We're all in this together, shaping the way kids grow up and look at the idea of drinking.

Diana Greene

Sometimes, we overlook or forget the significance of being a parent. It's a real job. You can't have a kid and forget. Parents are shaping, grooming and molding a human. Parents who are neglectful, who lack fortitude -- we offer them the support they need. If they need help, we show them how to help and groom.

Jackie Hayes

The summer of 2005 is shaping up to have record high demand and reduced airline capacity.

Jack O'neill

The remainder of fiscal 2006 is shaping up to be extremely robust and we are on track to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time in our history.

Jim Balsillie

These are just the people I've confirmed. I'm still shaping up the final plans. We'll also have several service agencies to voice questions.

Cody Ford

It's really shaping up to be a good tournament. It's going to be a half a million dollars good to somebody. I just hope it's me.

Davy Hite

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.

Justin Hill

You hear more and more about people going to China and not just to Beijing, but also to Shanghai. It's a place Americans should see. They're shaping up to be our big competitors.

Pauline Frommer

This merger is all about shaping our future.

James Rogers

With their advanced shaping and scheduling capabilities, the pseudo-wire enabled ACE-3100, ACE-3200 and ACE-3400 permit operators to implement overbooking strategies, allowing them to optimize network utilization, avoiding congestion in the packet transport.

Gaby Junowicz

To my knowledge, I'm the only candidate who lives on the neighbor islands. The competition is probably going to be shaping up over the coming few months. It's hard to say exactly who is running.

Sen Gary Hooser

Rising oil prices are the biggest risk to what is otherwise shaping up as a robust recovery.

Bruce Steinberg

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Lynch

We just wanted to let the lieutenant governor know what is going on with KEEP, what we anticipate our legislative proposal will be. We wanted to give him the courtesy of a face-to-face meeting ... and how we are shaping our proposal.

Bob Elliston

We have a clear interest in coming to the negotiating table and shaping the transaction jointly.

Juergen Hambrecht

This year is shaping up to be a year of business as usual, dealing with very challenging economic times.

Lisa Strand

It is important for us to hear from the public as we go about shaping this year's salmon fisheries.

Jeff Koenings

They were unhappy with the way the business was shaping up. It wasn't producing the returns they wanted.

Harold Vogel

The strength and diversity of our group of investors and advisers is a major asset for New West. We believe our new model for regional and community-based journalism can play a big role in serving both residents of the region and visitors, and in shaping the conversation about the future of the West.

Jonathan Weber

We could not have found a better candidate to lead our marketing efforts as the company phases up operations, ... Alicia will oversee our marketing team, shaping and articulating the company's image on a widespread basis, especially as we follow through on our growth strategy over the next few months.

Bill Gallagher

In these Games, they still do have a chance. It's not shaping up as great right out of the gate as we expected it to, but you never know, that could spin the other direction. The [U.S.] team is going to be the best in the world.

Picabo Street

Obviously, this is a significant loss to the musical legacy of our nation and the history of Beverly Hills and its role in shaping American culture. Despite repeated pleas from local residents, Beverly Hills still has no mechanism to protect its historic and cultural treasures.

Ken Bernstein

It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition.

Debbie Andrews

It's shaping up to be another big bass slugfest that time of year. We could see a Classic record for biggest weight.

Dean Rojas

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Stella Pence

These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.

Diane Ablonczy

Despite difficult weather conditions up and down the East Coast, Ford and industry sales remained strong in January. With consumer confidence at all-time highs, and a record-setting economic expansion, we believe 2000 is shaping up to be another very good year.

Bob Rewey

There's a lot of worry. We have seen some improvement over the winter, but soil moisture is nowhere near where it ought to be. Things are not shaping up for a good year at all.

Gary Clark

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Bob Mould

More than any other leader, he is shaping the agenda and setting the terms of debate in the region. Chavez has the initiative, he's on the offensive, and everyone else is reacting to what he says and does.

Michael Shifter

I saw it last year and they did, too. It's not secret that last year is going to happen again. How our big-league club is shaping up with a lot of rookies, they are going to keep their eyes on us and how they go about their business, how they perform.

Luis Dorante

Our study indicates that participating in wild nature activities before age 11 is a particularly potent pathway toward shaping both environmental attitudes and behaviors in adulthood.

Nancy Wells

Obviously, this is a significant loss to the musical legacy of our nation and the history of Beverly Hills and its role in shaping American culture.

Ken Bernstein

We're giving talented people the opportunity to work closely with the real innovators in the in-game advertising industry. New recruits would be able to develop campaigns for leading global brands such as Ben Sherman, Red Bull and Orange, work with top publishers, and most importantly have a hand in shaping the hottest advertising sector.

Justin Townsend

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

It is shaping up to be something more serious.

Matt Bryden

It's shaping up to be a very tight league. Everyone has already won at least one match.

Noel O'connor

Several major educational trends are shaping the planning and design of 21st-century schools.

Jeffery Lackney

I think it is shaping up to be the Classic to beat all Classics. The weather will dictate just how good the fishing's going to be, but I can't see a situation where we won't catch them strong. It's just shaping up that way.

Terry Scroggins

These victories are the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum-wage revolution in the states.

Jen Kern

Played a significant role in shaping and advancing the Republican agenda to roll back civil rights protections.

Harry Reid

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Tom Barrett

You would think so. If you look at the way the team's been shaping up and the way things have been going, this team's about the future. You have to build for the future. You don't know how realistically a guy like me is part of the future.

John Leclair

Consumers have a lot on their mind ? rising interest rates, a cooling housing market. They're riddled with debt and the holiday season thus far is shaping out to be just okay, not exceptional, not terrible but okay.

Vera Gibbons

The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, ... As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.

Tiffany Shlain

If they raised that much money and raised it that soon, it'll top a million. It is shaping up with the same themes as the Rural Heritage Initiative, just more money because the agriculture community is going to be there in spades.

Herb Williams

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think this is a pretty good draft class overall. It's really shaping up that way because of the underclassmen. Usually, they're the key factor in whether a draft is good or not. It's very deep at a lot of positions.

Mel Kiper Jr

Anybody can win any day. It's shaping up to be a real tight finish.

Ryan Mollica

It's shaping up to be similar to other years in which we've had some severe fires. This is worse than 2000. That's when we had Los Alamos.

Charlie Liles

It is shaping up to be a lot like the last one. It will come in quickly and start out warm, hitting more of the northern Sierra and then brushing up against Tahoe.

Brian O'hara

The sale is shaping very well, with the average 50% up. I hope and believe the trend will continue over the next two days.

Matt Mitchell

There is a trust there that Callahan will bring Nebraska back to its stature of old. In the past 10 years, only two Nebraska recruiting classes have been in the top 10 in my book, but this is shaping up to be one of the better looking groups out there.

Allen Wallace

Investors are conditioned to see politics-induced pricing weakness as a buying opportunity and our base case is that this time will prove no different. Still, this is shaping up as an exciting week.

Tim Condon

Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. There's Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and he's now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis.

John Logan

Smithy is a quality addition and skipper Dave Weston is happy with how things are shaping up for the new season.

Mel Booth

This year is shaping up for another record year of sales, and it comes as we are embarking on an unprecedented wave of new product introductions and partnerships that will fuel our growth into 2000 and beyond.

James Holden

October 2005 is shaping up to be different from October 2001, when we saw a substantial rally effect in the aftermath of 9/11.

Raghavan Mayur

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

David Wyss

[But that doesn't mean his contribution at the court hasn't been historically significant.] Someone can have a huge effect on shaping our constitutional jurisprudence even if on some of the 'big cases' they are on the losing side, ... Chief Justice Rehnquist changed the conversation. He brought back to the table certain ideas about limited government, federalism, and texturalism.

Richard Garnett

The rescue work is shaping up as very difficult. It is very problematic getting into the hall.

Fritz Braun

This isn't shaping up to be just a civil war - it's worse than that. It's a war of all against all. What we have is a security vacuum that has given rise to various different forces fighting each other for control ... it's much more fractured than a civil war.

Toby Dodge

What we hear and what we learn will help the shaping of this report.

Tim Adams

At this point we have an idea that water is probably abundant on Mars in the form of ice. It's not a matter of finding water on Mars but learning its importance in climate change ... and clearly it has been important to shaping the landscape.

Alfred Mcewen

Lingerie has come out of the closet. People talk about it. People are looking for things to enhance their figures, you know, body shaping. It's the whole trend.

Monica Mitro

The year 2006 is shaping up to be a strong year for new ETF issues on the American Stock Exchange. Creativity and product innovation are hallmarks of all our issuers, and the Amex is pleased these institutions have chosen to list their products on our market.

Cliff Weber

There are ups and downs in the fish world. Last year was one of the latest runs we'd seen, and this year is shaping up that way.

Cindy Lefleur

We believe that it's important to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these students at the most formative moments of their careers, ... As juniors and seniors, they have started to determine the role they would like to play in shaping the future. The scholars we honor at this year's ceremony are on the path to becoming tomorrow's leaders.

Neil Sullivan

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Ted Clark