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Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Ross Gittell

[FPL buys oil on the futures market to protect against future spikes in energy costs, but that is not enough to offset FPL's increased costs from] a world oil market that is going absolutely crazy, ... We can't hedge our entire fuel needs.

Bill Swank

Perhaps worst of all, the bill still does virtually nothing to limit the nation's growing demand for oil: the core cause of price spikes.

Sherwood Boehlert

This boy says he did the spikes by himself and he doesn't know who did the wire.

Jerry Cook

From now on, we'll bring the quarterback over to the sidelines after he (spikes the ball), and you can be in whatever personnel group you want, but the quarterback's going to know what's he's doing for those two plays.

Dan Hammerschmidt

We expect severe price spikes over the next two years following years of underinvestment by the industry, unexpected demand shocks from China and other emerging economies, supply disruptions to existing mines and a lack of response in bringing on new supply.

Jeremy Gray

We have seen spikes in giving based off of those things (television telethons for Katrina families).

Melissa Temme

As the game gets more serious or more important, the effect gets stronger in a linear fashion. We didn't see any spikes after the games in visits. What we assume is that people decided to wait.

John Brownstein

The continuation of cool weather in the United States is expected to bring big spikes in heating fuel demand.

Tobin Gorey

The reality is the people have a hard time believing gouging or collusion is not taking place when they see these spikes, and I have a hard time believing it myself.

Ray Lahood

It's almost like already being in the major leagues here. They even clean you spikes for you. High school sure isn't like this. I don't know if I want to go back.

Kalin Dreyer

If natural gas spikes up on a particular day, it could be the result of a report. This winter is a classic example that the Thursday reports can have a major impact on things.

Jon Davis

It was a good call. It was just one of those things. I would have taken it but it definitely was the right call, especially the way that it was explained. If I were Spikes and that call would have gone against me, I would have been irate.

Rob Bledsoe

You hate to lose a guy like Takeo Spikes , but it's just a time for me to step up, make the plays he was making and get this defense back on a roll. It is mixed emotions. But I believe he'd definitely want me to step up, replace him and get the job done.

Angelo Crowell

We have tremendous economic momentum entering 2006. If you look [at] what happened [during the] past few quarters, our economy largely shook off the oil-price spikes and largely shook off the hurricane shocks. So I'm predicting a very solid 3.8 percent GDP [gross domestic product] growth for all of 2006.

Paul Merski

Recent incentive programs have established lower market pricing that makes GM increasingly vulnerable to volume declines which could occur as a result of a decline in economic conditions or simply a sustained falloff following recent industry sales spikes.

Mark Oline

His intentions were not very clear but there is a sense of disappointment in the market, considering some people were thinking the recent spikes in the short to intermediate sector of the yield curve were overdone.

Akihiko Inoue

The volume of traffic to advertisers' Web sites really spikes before, during and after the game. There is no question the Internet is becoming increasingly important both as it relates to Super Bowl advertising and as it relates to advertising in general.

Peter Hershberg

The inventories have built a little bit, but that doesn't mean an outage somewhere doesn't cause price spikes.

Tom Bentz

An editorial cartoon should push boundaries and make people think. An editor who spikes a cartoon must have some clear grounds to do so. If it's going to incite a real riot -- and not just a riot on the Internet -- that would constitute strong criteria not to run it.

Kelly Mcbride

Spikes and stuff are what bog down the network.

David Edwards

I'm more of a cheerleader now, but I get to put on my spikes, ... It means a lot to me.

Jeff Bagwell

DOE is right-on with its estimate. But we will see a lot of spikes outside of the forecasted range in April and May, maybe as high as $3 a gallon around Memorial Day, before trailing in June and July.

Bryant Gimlin

We are tracking prices and looking for unusual spikes in specific locations, ... If it seems unusual, we will call the station owner for more information.

Richard Head

After realizing that some of our biggest spikes in site traffic were immediately following the race, we, along with Jack Daniels, launched the call-in show and are absolutely pleased with last season's success.

Scott Bailey

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Ty Cobb

If we had a wide-scale and prolonged freeze, we could have big stock draws and price spikes. There isn't any shortage of crude in the market, the problem is getting it refined into heating oil and gasoline.

Veronica Smart

They didn't set the pipe as much as the first time we played them. It took us out of our game. We were still bunching. The lack of pipe setting, it opened the way for them to bang (spikes down) the line on us. We weren't able to get out there on the pin.

Matt Wade

As a result, we've seen spikes in some dining locations on campus, such as Commons, which is more busy than it has been in the past.

John Root

How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?

Ryan Cabrera

The commission is very conscious of the swift and severe price spikes that occurred immediately before and after Katrina made landfall.

John Seesel

It's a hard bullet to swallow with Spikes going down like that, ... It is mixed emotions. But I believe that he would definitely want me to step up and replace him and get the job done.

Angelo Crowell

When it spikes, that gets people's attention.

Mantill Williams

Oil company profiteering, not increased production costs, are the cause of the price spikes at the gasoline pump. Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering.

Jamie Court

It's a hard pill to swallow, Spikes going down like that, man. It is mixed emotions. Those shoes are big, but I'm going to go out there and play my game.

Angelo Crowell

There are natural cycles in this disease. Some years we see spikes, some years we see decreases. But certainly we think that vaccination...and public awareness definitely contribute to the (overall) decrease.

Donna Rheaume

Historically, when you look at spikes in the natural gas price, this stock has been the most leverage to that phenomenon, ... So that's been our top pick for about the last two months or so now in the energy sector.

Shawn Johnson

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

John Enoch Powell

The biggest problem is the lights with the spikes on them for the pigeons.

Ted Bailey