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You can train as hard as you want to, and your spike catches in the ground and all of a sudden you have a hamstring or groin pull. You can't measure when [injuries] will happen. You do your best to try to prevent it.

Will Ohman

The recent spike in orders is extraordinary.

Taizo Nishimuro

The oil price spike raises the risk that the rate cut may have to be pushed out to the middle of the year.

Robin Clements

The spike in general has an effect on our operating costs. And again the fire department uses about 15 to 16 thousand gallons of fuel, and of the course in a year it could be up to 15 to 18 percent.

Frank Ortiz

Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates or even a little spike in the energy prices. As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued consumer spending.

Farooq Kathwari

Everyone's looking for a bit of the transaction spike.

Seamus Mcateer

This will be a nasty spike down in quarterly earnings and hopefully that will be the end of it.

Mark Headley

We're on a bit of a spike from December until now, with the fatal accidents.

Kevin Honea

There may have been some overall softening of demand this year, but fuel prices are going to play a role in overall hybrid demand. We're starting to come to the realization that the fuel-price spike that we thought was seasonal is now becoming less so.

Alan Baum

Gannett is of more of an expense story than revenue story, ... how the spike in costs are going to carry forward.

Jim Peters

If (UN) sanctions were to be imposed on Iran, the president is perfectly capable of cutting back or stopping exports to cause the West real pain as there would be an enormous spike in prices.

Bruce Evers

The economy appears to have picked up, which seems to have kick started industry. This demand complemented the seasonal spike in residential and commercial demand.

Victor Pereira

I was going after the ball, ... Next thing you know, I'm on the ground. I don't know if I hit a pothole or a seam. I have no idea. But my spike got caught in the ground and wouldn't come out.

Damion Easley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Mick Foley

The sooner we help our neighbor put out his house fire, the better we'll sleep at night. It's an opportunity to stop what could have been a spike in prices, and to assure that the rest of the country won't have a supply disruption they could have had.

Mark Routt

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

Richard Brown

In the next 18 months we are likely to see more change than in the last 10 years combined. If we go to war with Iraq, it will spike fuel prices, scare the living daylights out of the traveling public... and be the kiss of death for airlines.

Kevin Mitchell

Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.

Jason Alderman

The Chancellor is blaming the UK economic slowdown on the recent spike in oil prices and the weakness of the European economy, but this is unrealistic.

Peter Spencer

Even if you're running air conditioning, the hot water is really a big spike in your energy bill.

Fred Moore

Historically, every time we see energy prices spike, the country goes into a recession.

Tim Hamilton

I think a lot of people believe this is not a spike in petroleum prices that we're seeing, but probably a floor. That gives an enduring, financial incentive to develop these coal-to-liquid plants. I think we finally have all the circumstances in place.

Luke Popovich

We give away way too many points. We have such good blocking that there's a good chance that even if we give them a free ball and an easy bump-set-spike, we have a good chance at a block kill just because of our height.

Dave Jirikowic

My sense is there's going be another price spike.

Frank Verrastro

We're exploring other hits. They have to learn that every ball can't be a spike, they have to use different arm angles.

Matt Bowen

We're still struggling with our attack. We've got to set and spike better. It will be good to have some practice time.

Lynn Love

Their comparative lightness translates into greater fuel efficiency, a gain brought home by the ongoing spike in gasoline prices. As alternatives to the internal combustion engine get closer to commercialisation, lightweight materials will continue to be preferred over metals.

Michael Valenti

The hiring of those new detectives is not specifically in response to the spike in murders we are seeing this year, but it certainly comes at a good time for the homicide unit.

Todd Jurkowski

I'd like to tap down spike marks. We get to fix our ball marks, and spike marks are holes, too, so I don't know what's the big deal.

Sean O'hair

What you find if you look at the raw data (is) you get a big spike in crashes as you move into twilight, and they stay high through the night.

Susan Ferguson

The helium 3 spike found in these sediments is the smoking gun that something quite dramatic happened to the interplanetary dust population 8.2 million years ago. It's one of the biggest dust events of the last 80 million years.

Ken Farley

Although the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the spike in crude oil prices may temporarily hit the Japanese economy in the July-September period, it will probably grow back in the October-December quarter.

Takehiro Sato

The question is: How high are prices going to go and how high will they spike? That will help us understand the broader implications to the economy, to the region and to the nation.

Ross Gittell

It's a very unusual situation. I think we could see a drop in prices come late June and in July, and that is typically when you see the big spike in prices.

Juli Niemann

I said, 'Why don't we go to 15 West?'They said, 'They don't like Indians there.' So I said, 'How about the Golden Spike?' They said that was worse.

Jerry Hayes

There's a very subtle effect, a spike, and that's what we're looking for.

Stephen Kane

Now people can gel the hair, spike it, and even mouse it.

Chris Licursi

It is very difficult to take call on the oil sector as it is driven by the global crude oil prices. These are difficult to predict as any negative event can spike the prices. I think it is best to avoid the sector in 2006.

Jayesh Shroff

It is now more significant in the air business which requires us to lease planes for a short period of time to meet a significant spike in our air business.

John Alden

Administrators can monitor traffic patterns to see if there is a spike in any certain type of traffic.

Mike Gallagher

For the last two or three years, we've seen a real spike in home equity lending. Frankly, all the lenders have marketed this.

Blair Glenn

We see a spike on the weekends.

Scott Sledge

Somebody will download an MP3 file, and we'll have this huge spike in (network usage) and everything will just come to a screeching halt. It's kind of tough, because most people don't really understand the effect.

Danny Daniels

Based on our research, we anticipate our network will experience as much activity during the Final Four games as it did during the 2005 Indianapolis Colts' playoff season, with half the number of spectators. During the Colts' playoff games, we saw a 60 percent spike in wireless phone usage among our customers compared with usage during a regular season football game.

Greg Haller

There has been a little bit of a spike and I think things will smooth out in a few weeks or so.

Chuck Olson

It highlights the problems that all of the legacy carriers are facing now with this spike in energy costs.

William Warlick

Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spike in sales.

Wayne Best

If we're on the edge of an outbreak centered in Springfield or Branson, or if we're ground zero, there will be a spike in the numbers.

Josh Young

Around this time, we notice a spike in call volume. We're trying to cover as many areas as possible.

Orlando Dominguez

It obviously is pointing out the fact that extreme fuel cost pressures are offsetting a lot of the progress that Continental has made on the labor cost front in the last few months, ... It highlights the problems that all of the legacy carriers are facing now with this spike in energy costs.

William Warlick

I don't think Lexington is going to have a huge spike (in permits), but I also don't see it having an Atlanta-kind of decline (in recent years) of 35 percent either. It's a very stable market.

Dale Akins

I just saw it, I thought it was there and I just wanted to get in, ... I didn't want to spike the ball so I made the choice and they were looking down from up above and we got in. That was all that mattered.

Matt Leinart

In 1991, the industry in general experienced a similar spike during the Gulf War, when there was a fear of flying overseas.

Mark Evans

The investor will be sensitive to any signs that the sharp spike in energy prices is going to derail the consumer sector, the overall economy and corporate profit growth in the fourth quarter.

Joe Liro

Another gas price spike would be serious.

Alan Gin

We were seeing a huge spike in traffic.

Rob Bennett

There is certainly more going on than just hurricanes and a resulting spike in gasoline prices, ... could weigh on people's attitudes.

Patrick Fearon

We feel we're going to receive a pretty good spike this year and we're encouraging fans to get on board and support the Herd.

Matt Munroe

On the beach, the attitudes are more progressive, so it would be cool to do that as a subset of what we already do - as long as we play on a guy's net, so guys don't spike in our faces.

Kerri Walsh

I was frustrated after a Florida State League game back in 1977 and threw my spike up against the wall. Unfortunately, it hit the picture.

Jim Leyland

If that number starts to spike, that is a red flag.

Rick Sharga

I think the biggest risk to Canadian equities (in 2006) is that we see a more aggressive spike higher in the Canadian dollar, which does put pressure on earnings and obviously competitiveness.

Andrew Pyle

Fukui may make remarks that seek to curtail the recent spike in yields, on the view that recent rises are too much.

Seiji Shiraishi

Each plant has a certain capacity that can handle a spike flow for a day and there?s not a problem.

Jim Grassiano

The threat of scarcity and the potential for infrastructure or throughput damage to refining should cause oil and natural gas prices to spike.

John Herrlin

He probably had one central hiding place that, for lack of a better term, would be a main camp, but then he probably had multiple spike camps.

Charles Stone

When we looked at the harvest data from the check stations, after the first year we did not see a significant increase in the harvest. If we suddenly saw a spike in the harvest we would ask are we having an impact.

T. Wayne Schwertner

We want to have some fun, too, because it's Spike and the nature of the genres we're honoring.

Casey Patterson

While insurgent activity in Baghdad will likely spike as the Iraqi people approach their elections and the insurgents become more desperate, we will continue to focus on providing an environment in which Iraqis can conduct their elections without insurgent interference.

Peter Chiarelli

The real positive for electronics retailers is that the industry is experiencing a strong product cycle in the form of high-definition TVs. Now, with the professional and college football season underway, TV sales should spike at least until early next year.

Todd Kuhrt

This year the real question is 'how do we streamline our operations so we don't get nailed so hard when these energy prices spike like they do'.

Gregg Warren

Ahead of the storm clouds, the American job market was humming along nicely, a result that says little about where things will stand as the recent spike in energy prices begins to bite.

Avery Shenfeld

It is always great to get an award - particularly when it talks about a lifetime achievement, ... There's something about starting and keeping going, rather than a one-off spike.

George Ellis

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

Steve Bartlett

There is a spike in front. You pick up any flaws in manufacturing in the first 90 days; it flattens out [soon thereafter], then rises, especially with a mobile product.

Jim Kahler

We worked the factory in Korea to make the 2006 Rio even better for the money, ... And with the recent spike in gas prices, we've seen a 20 per cent increase in traffic in our stores in the past weeks which is very encouraging.

Bill Porter

Gold has pulled back from its recent spike to around $505 an ounce while the rand has strengthened to 6.34 against the US dollar.

Ferdi Heyneke

What is most reassuring is that core inflation continued to come down and is very well behaved. I think the stability in core will help anchor inflation expectations despite the spike in agricultural prices.

Alonso Cervera

I don't think we ought to make too much of this (dollar spike) but it does represent what we're going to see more of, which is China gradually accommodating its behavior to the wants of globalization and the global marketplace.

Donald Straszheim

As this transition has taken place, it's taken away the summer spike in unemployment.

Gordon Kettle

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Lefty Gomez

There certainly was a spike in filings.

James Knight

I don't know what to make of it, exactly, but I am so for it, ... I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie, now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made.

Maurice Sendak

Big positive surprise, especially in the face of the spike in oil prices in August. The guidance to a higher number for the year just shows that the core business is extremely strong and the company is confident that it continues to strengthen for the rest of the year.

Tim Ghriskey

With the spike in gasoline prices like this -- a tank of gas is $50 or $60 -- it certainly makes the criminal mind more inclined to see what they can get away with.

Paul Fiore

The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price spike in the aftermath of Katrina. This is quite promising for the growth outlook.

Haseeb Ahmed

Oil prices are heading to levels that may kick off a pullback in equity markets. A spike in inflation could slow down growth.

Pablo Garcia

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Patrick Fearon

We have seen a spike in interest in E85, ... Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Roger Price

Jenna's spike was a good way to end the match. She was tired, but came through.

Lori Cooper

[The CPI report is] consistent with the view that growth is still fairly solid and core inflation is still relatively tame, ... Still, a key issue now will be whether the latest spike in gasoline prices leads to another 'soft spot' in consumer spending.

Kevin Cummins

I'm modeling it as if Windows 95 were selling at the rate it was already selling at. [Windows 98] staves off a potential drop-off in sales. But nobody expects any spike in earnings or any substantial drop-off.

Tom Hensel

Within the last six to eight weeks, we've seen a spike. A lot of the people riding are new faces.

Mike Carroll

We could have very easily lost in two, but I thought we battled and we had a lot of fun. We laughed about the play where there was nobody up (to block) and Rachel dug (a straight-down spike by Walsh) off her boobs.

Elaine Youngs