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Is it a risky strategy for retailers to have both tighter inventory and fewer promotions over the holidays? Yes.

Jay Mcintosh

Since the 2004 Jobs Act, the requirements are a little tighter. Now, the taxpayer must hold the acquired property for five years, in addition to living in it as his personal residence for at least two years.

Stephen Wayner

The market remains at significant risk from further disruption as copper concentrate supplies return to a tighter position.

John Neyer

The women's pack is a little tighter (than the men's). And we are in the middle of the pack. But anyone can win. I don't think we're that far behind.

Roch Pilon

With the European Central Bank joining the global trend for tighter monetary policy, the backdrop for equity markets is becoming more challenging.

Clive Mcdonnell

Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.

Phil Bloomer

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

William Albert Allard

You can tell that we've been a lot better every game. We're right there every game, and that's because we're playing tighter defense.

Matt Murley

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

This was a big reminder of how tight the system is. And what Katrina did is make the system even tighter going forward.

Roger Diwan

When you hit your foul shots, you make the game tighter. But we are extremely proud of this team. They came out and competed against a very good Division I team and they didn't back down.

Shawn Pompelia

It would be nice if there were a policy response in the form of a tighter fiscal policy.

Richard Fox

The Beige Book verifies what the data has already been saying - labor markets are tighter and wage pressures are intensifying.

Jay Feldman

Schools look to us to find the balance between aesthetics and cost. Public schools typically have tighter budgets.

Deb Michener

It's gonna be just a little more tighter when we get up here but we're going to have to get used to it because it'll be good to be back up here together with everybody.

John Crigler

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Joe Godinho

These kind of ball games will do nothing but make us better. Our team is close knit and we'll be tighter than ever.

Chuck Huggins

Friendships have grown tighter and tighter (through this project). The long-range plan is that it generates additional interest in the game.

Steve Kocmond

I think they packed their zone in a little tighter in the second half and we had a little bit harder time getting it to him. We were attacking their zone with penetration and hitting the gaps inside (in the first half) and we just didn't seem to attack it as well in the second half.

Rick Ruffin

Our executives like the level of expense detail we track now. It is particularly helpful during our budget review process as it allows us to see the details behind each line item and helps us maintain tighter control over our costs throughout the year.

Laura Brady

I think what we're seeing is a much tighter holding on spending than we would have expected, ... It's really a general tightening that we've seen across the board that's been commensurate with releases we've seen in that time period.

Patricia Russo

If you're on a diet, you're expecting this to happen. But if you're eating the same way -- and now have to adjust your belt a few notches tighter -- you could have a serious problem.

Neil Shulman

He has to improve the physical aspect and get more involved in the tighter areas.

Kevin Prendergast

You can definitely tell the growth of the band and how we've become tighter as musicians and friends.

Cam Grenstiner

It's pretty stressful. I think last year we were even in a tighter spot. It was even tougher back then, ... Unfortunately your team is rated now on whether you make the Chase ... and everything you do all season long, no matter how good or bad you were, people are going to look back and see if you made that Chase.

Ray Evernham

He implicitly admitted that they have a bias for a tighter policy. They believe that rates are very low and need to be higher.

Thomas Mayer

It's very early in the season, but the early indications are that it will be tight, or tighter than last year. Particularly with the potential for a larger crop, that's making me uneasy.

Mike Gempler

That was a good time for districts. My coach (Janet Bright) and I want me to go 51 at states and today was 52.8. It helped being pushed. My finish was pretty good but my turns should have been tighter.

Sam Palser

We've definitely gotten a lot tighter since last year.

John Burrows

Go excess volume: more of a bend in the fringe, more of a bend in the sides, tighter curls -- because as the night goes on it's going to drop. Go bigger than you feel comfortable going.

Chela Davison

You have an oil market that is quite tight in the products side, particularly in the U.S.. Then you have a hurricane which closed eight refineries. The market looks at the situation and realizes supplies are even tighter. Prices will only fall if demand declines.

Robert Mabro

Most likely there will be tighter policies introduced in the coming months, if not weeks. The questions is: what is the right approach to deal with an increasingly market-orientated policy?

Rob Subbaraman

Diesel this time of year is always tight. Now, the diesel situation is even tighter because we are not getting the product we usually get. It's not like everybody is out, but it's very tight.

Jim Tudor

Occasionally, they get grants or small amounts of federal money. They have to depend on their state aid by the number of students they educate. They have an even tighter financial arrangement than a traditional school system does.

Debbie Ratcliffe

These guys make me look really, really good. I have much tighter relationships with patients here than I've ever had.

John Fergason

The boys are pretty upset about the free-throw shooting, but it's sectional time and the rims get a little tighter. We shoot between 68 and 70 percent, so that's unusual for us.

Dustin Nelson

The fear here is the economy is overheating. And this points to a Federal Reserve with a much tighter monetary policy.

William Sullivan

As the resources get tighter, we have to get smarter.

Joanne Kline

I still see lots of things we can fine-tune. I think we're slowly but surely getting a little bit tighter and executing better. It sounds funny, when you're 11-and-0, but we've played some bad stretches of basketball and still been able to overcome that. Our goal is to eliminate that and become more consistent.

Steve Bergman

We had been scoring quite a few goals (lately). Up until the last four or five games, this team had won mostly 3-1 and 2-1 kinds of games. Maybe this was a little reality check or cold water in the face, that we need to play a tighter system defensively and try to win the 2-1 games.

Sean O'donnell

There's a pretty dramatic innovation rate enabled by these fully functioning chipsets. That kind of integration -- the better use of battery power, the lower cost, and tighter integration -- will let manufacturers roll out product that is technology-agnostic.

Dylan Brooks

It would be a much easier task if this was just about higher fences and tighter perimeter security. But it's not that simple.

Rick Engler

There has been a clear shift in ECB rhetoric and gears are shifting in favor of tighter policy.

Todd Elmer

We want to keep an open house and let visitors in, ... But maybe now we have to look at tighter restrictions.

Peter Hess

(The offense) slipped a little bit, so we had to buckle down a bit tighter. We had to cover their backs.

Darryl Tapp

It makes the financing more difficult and the cash flow tighter, and it may take some people out of expansions. But the market has had this (rate increase) built into it. It's expected. Projects that make economic sense will still be taken on.

Steve Carr

I figured it'd be tighter. Our kids just kept winning the tight matches.

Jason Stevenson

Immigration there is getting tighter. It's probably because of the [current] political situation.

Luz Urdaneta

It's been great from the start, but I'm realizing that the music has just gotten tighter the more we play together.

Jim Messina

We all believe we have a shot. We've been through a bunch of changes, but the band is tighter than it's ever been, with the existing members. We are going to do everything in our power to make it happen.

Art Hill

The knee is getting tighter, which is good. It's a long season and the 10 days of rest that she'll get will probably make her a lot stronger for the next seven Big Ten games, which is more important than having her for this one game.

Janet Rayfield

Farmers have lost control of that food as it's going through the chain. And maybe it's about time that farmers held on and had a tighter grasp of that production, and took it through processing and packaging.

Craig Hill

Why are they doing this review if not to cut benefits? ... Remember these were claims that were allowed at the time. They are also not going back to review claims that they denied and should not have been. . . . I think this is going to make VA decision-makers tighter with their grants for disability payments.

Dave Gorman

Global supply/demand conditions remain tighter than expected earlier in the year. As a result, we anticipate meaningful upward estimate revisions in the next several months.

Mark Parr

We expect very significantly higher prices, higher deductibles and tighter terms and conditions as a result of Katrina. For the next year or two, underwriting results, absent another large catastrophe, should be very, very strong.

Keith Trauner

There was great emotion from both teams in the first period. The game was being called tighter tonight than (Game 3). But when you play like that, penalties will happen.

Claude Noel

If we stay tighter and stay strong, it could actually help us.

Tyler Jones

Once it got down to it and we realized we were in this ball game, our defense got so much tighter. We wanted it so much.

Andee Whitaker

But that's the nature of the game. Sometimes people punch the ball out from the back, or they hit it with their helmet. But it's nobody's fault but mine. I've got to hold on to that ball and squeeze it tighter.

Josh Scobey

Gasoline prices have begun their seasonal move higher. Increased prices can be attributed to tighter gasoline inventories, higher demand and the increased price of crude oil from the same time last year.

Kris Lathan

We're definitely not believing we're done in this room. We've just got to keep going. It gets tighter and tighter. And, yeah, these games mean a lot, but we have to go right back at it [today].

Joel Kwiatkowski

Something that could have squeezed supply a bit tighter would be a sustained cold snap and there just hasn't been the cold weather in the U.S. yet to test out just how well the market can supply.

Tobin Gorey

The parties are in a perpetual game of political tug of war. For the past three years, one side has moved the flag an inch, only to lose that ground the next election. It is hard to imagine this parity could get any tighter, but it appears that it has.

Tim Storey

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Heath Clarke

During fiscal 2006, we expect the retail market to remain extremely competitive and tighter consumer spending to continue for at least the first half.

John Fletcher

We're just trying to get tighter and better. We're just having a blast playing. It's just a big party when we play.

Jimmy Gambler

This is not the same at all. This is a different team. The atmosphere is a lot better and the team is a tighter unit with all the players standing closely together.

Dietmar Hamann

Though the shuttles are unmarked right now, signs are in the making. Hopefully the shuttle will provide a tighter student support system, where students look out for each other.

Shawn Tallant

As we continue to use more gasoline in California, that margin of error gets tighter each year.

Rob Schlichting

He said it was tighter and tighter and that he wasn't going to be able to play.

Harry Statham

Defensively we did a good job - we're starting to mark tighter and play as a unit. Molly Augustus and Leigh did a great job in the back.

Mike Voss

The win-loss record doesn't show it, but we're a far tighter team than last season. We're not going to throw our hands up and give up. We can beat the Cats.

Andrew Mitchell

The gasoline barrels from Europe might take two weeks to get here. Things will get worse before they get better because stocks will be tighter.

Aaron Kildow

Oliver is probably the best high school basketball player that has ever played here on this court. He is just a phenomenal scorer. He hit every shot with a hand in his face. I don't think we could have guarded him any tighter than we did and he still made them, even on the four-point play.

Dustin Lanz

A large majority of companies are willing to accept tighter terms. Venezuela has large untapped potential reserves and oil prices remain very high.

Patrick Esteruelas

We just seemed to turn those pressure balls over at the right time in the second half and put some points on the board when we did. Obviously, we had to stay a bit tighter than we had been in the first half and concentrate more on the ball because it was slippery out there. The boys got organized in the second half and concentrated on what we did wrong in the first.

Rodney So'oialo

That had nothing to do with him. With the limp he had, I didn't think he (could). But he just loosened up (his shoe), pulled it a lot tighter and walked back in on his own.

Monte Mattei

The ball was jumping out of his hand. His velocity jumped up with it, his slider was tighter and he had a dominating performance.

John Flaherty

There was a housing development nearby and tighter space to the north. There was no room and a cloverleaf-style interchange is more expensive.

Mark Gregory

A lot of smaller businesses are going to get washed out. The market is going to get tighter going forward.

Brian Hicks

What I tell them to do is to work on their shots and not play down. Still play at a very high level and work on things they don't normally get to work on in a tighter match. And just be consistent.

Nancy Clouse

When this golf course plays firm and fast, I don't think that length is an issue for most of the field. When it gets wet and soft, I think it's a huge advantage for the longer players. They're not going to get to some of those tighter areas off the tee. They'll have a big distance advantage. We'll see how well it dries up and drains overnight.

Jim Furyk

They were definitely very aggressive. Defensively, they played us much tighter than what we are used to. And we just shot bad.

Heather Empson

I'm still glad I did this. Obviously, we would have liked to have a tighter game. But we got to play 60-some kids here tonight. We got to build enthusiasm within the team. And our kids got to build up their confidence.

Steve Shiffert

If it was to fall over, zinc is a market that's getting tighter by the day, and this would just add to the tightness.

Glyn Lawcock

I don't see anything that's unhealthy with Dell's strategy, ... The problem with the consumer business is the margin issue. Profits can be a whole lot tighter than with the corporate business.

Knox Fuqua

The bank is strongly and immediately sending the signal that financial conditions may need to be made tighter.

Glenn Maguire

Sometimes, when we close up, they'll jump the fence and keep skating. We're going to keep a tighter eye on that too.

Richard Blankenship

Things are tightening up a lot here. Wherever the race is, it's within the margin of error. This is now a much tighter race now.

Howard Wilkinson

We began tightening security earlier this year after a congressional study released in December warned of the need for tighter security (at smaller airports and over private planes). We also have sent the study to our tenants.

John Dubose

We have developed a 100-day integration plan that is being launched today. We are targeting a tighter timeframe on the key and essential items.

Vince Borg

These are truly local heroes, working to make community life stronger, tighter, happier, richer -- busy people who unselfishly give their time and energy to help others, who always seem to be able to make time to offer a hand or a shoulder.

John Brewer

Few sites have garnered the kind of trust and loyalty that brands like Coca-Cola have. Portals that will prosper are those that can build closer and tighter relationships with consumers.

Barry Parr

There is still a big backlog to be made up before it feels like a tight job market. Clearly it's a tighter job market than it was a year ago, and if we continue to add a million jobs a quarter, we'll move in that direction. But I think it will take a little bit of time.

Bill Cheney

What she's doing is despicable. We certainly aren't going to open any doors to folks that are attracted here because of that book. If anything, we'll probably be a little tighter lipped.

Peter Burling

The track here is not suitable to prepare them for the Games and the whole idea is to make them accustomed to the smaller, tighter track. This is 47 degrees at its steepest and calls for a lot more control and concentration so we want to make them comfortable on that type of surface.

Charlie Pile

We're gonna be more aggressive with expansion, but it makes good sense not to have too many teams. I think history is going to prove itself here - the smaller, tighter controlled leagues are the ones that last and that people want to be in. We've built some great rivalries and we have a chance to build more.

Dakota Crow

Again it comes down to movement without the ball. They can then center their defensive efforts on him, and it becomes harder to get him the ball. Also, people stopped looking to get him the ball. I think if we got it to him more, things would have been tighter in the end.

Matt Noon

We've had to rescue animals from fires before and needed to give them oxygen. These (masks) fit tighter around their snouts (than human masks) so they can get 100 percent oxygen.

Rod Thompson

Improved performance in our Pennsylvania delivery and international delivery business segments more than offset the tighter margins in our supply business segment.

William Hecht

This is a continued cry for help from the people stuck in traffic each day whose only option is to grip the steering wheel tighter. This is both a state and a regional failure to address the problem. We've really shortchanged infrastructure in the state and in the region over the past decade, and it's taken its toll.

Jim Wunderman

Not only was our pack back, but it was tighter than when they ran at [Burr and Burton]. There was only a 37-second gap between the first and fifth runners.

Kevin Quinn

There's going to be fantastic opportunities for people who heeded the warnings about diversifying their skill sets and understanding the business. Those folks will put themselves in a great situation. But those folks focused on a specific technology run the risk of finding themselves in a tighter market and tighter circumstances.

Kevin Knaul

Obviously I'm real happy with the way we are hitting the ball. I think our defense could be a little tighter, but we are on a roll.

Andrew Bradley

After the sharp rise in gasoline prices, we believe that crude and transportation fuel prices will remain at historically high levels for a prolonged period of time, reflecting a tighter global balance.

Francisco Blanch

I think the legislature is going to start to define blight a lot tighter. We may not have that eminent domain ability much longer. I don't know what happens to the Heart of Boynton then.

Marie Horenburger

Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become even more popular. Price has gone down and bang for the buck has improved.

Eric Rasmussen

Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become even more popular, ... Price has gone down and bang for the buck has improved.

Eric Rasmussen

The government's tighter control over Chinese-bound investments will scarcely have any impact on flat panel makers as they did not bank any hope on an opening to save costs as other sectors did.

Eric Lin

By automating controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, enterprises like Cummins realize cost and time-saving benefits. Longer term, Movaris Certainty will create an environment of tighter overall financial control management for Cummins and its many business units.

Eric Keller

With a case this notable and with the death-penalty issue, it makes it more difficult to seat a jury. It's a much tighter scrutiny of jurors in this type of case.

Erik Friedly

I was kind of mad at myself at 17 because I was 5 up after 11 and now he was coming back at me. I just told myself to make a good swing, otherwise it's going to be even tighter. I didn't think standing on the 12th tee that I'd be standing on the 17th tee.

Edoardo Molinari

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score eight or nine, and our defense has got to do the job of holding them to seven or eight.

Ed Stephenson