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I think we finally reached a tipping point with Southwest. Our costs per passenger are falling as our competitors' costs are going up.

John Huggins

That is so much of the market it should reach a tipping point, ... It won't make sense for the automakers to build two fleets, one clean and one dirty.

David Doniger

All along, our biggest problem has been that the management team did not recognize that a 50 percent pay cut in a year and a termination of their pension plan ... if that wasn't enough to be the tipping point, I don't know what is. So, I believe that they (Delta management) recognized that.

Lee Moak

Consumers are clearly being impacted by the three hurricanes, ... That, combined with natural gas and gasoline prices, is having an effect. I think $3 a gallon gasoline is the tipping point to a consumer that is under siege. But this number is really no great surprise.

Jeffrey Saut

I think we've been guilt tripped enough into giving people tips unnecessarily, and it's time to stop tipping people who give you abominable service.

Hilka Klinkenberg

This deal is a tipping point for Indian IT, ... It shows Indian IT companies are on a level footing with larger global competitors.

Nandan Nilekani

We are increasingly a software company ... we've kind of hit a tipping point.

Brian Mcfadden

Nobody knows the rules about tipping. And even when you think you know the rules, they change when you go to a different country. In Japan and Australia, people are insulted if you give them a tip, and if you give a New York City cabbie a 5 percent tip, he gets insulted.

Laura Powell

We think that it is about time to end the French exception that goes against European wishes and lift the TIPP (special petrol tax) on those oils as well as make them legal.

Alain Juste

It's almost like we're at a crossroads. We can work together to save all of this -- or we can hit the tipping point and it can become a downward spiral.

Robert Ramming

I think there's the potential for some compatibility. But there needs to be a balance and the balance seems to keep tipping in favor of people speculating on student housing.

Linda Crider

It's always tricky to know what's the tipping point that makes someone not want to put out the effort and the money to come as far as Alaska to hunt.

Tom Paul

You can say Germany is at a tipping point. Germany is facing some choices. In the worst case, they can try to avoid it again and put things off, rather than taking their medicine. You can postpone, you can procrastinate, but eventually you have to do it. That's what is staring Germany in the face.

Jackson Janes

Greg came to the forefront during the fourth quarter, which he's done so often for us. He was constantly tipping the ball inside, keeping it alive, and also pulled down some key rebounds for us.

Jim East

There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.

James Annable

At that point, I was impassioned about abolishing the tipping system because I felt it created a false servant-master relationship between servers and guests at the restaurant, ... would just make the staff member feel really horrible, as if they had done something wrong.

Danny Meyer

We've reached the tipping point with the LSB. If you're an application developer targeting the Linux opportunity, your job just got a lot easier.

Jim Zemlin

If you don't limit your tipping universe, you won't know when to stop.

Rachel Weingarten

This is a very delicate moment. The economy is already very imbalanced. On top of that, we've had a massive oil shock and now we have a natural disaster that might be something of a tipping point.

Nouriel Roubini

Yes, people do tip more for good service, but they don't tip that much more. Literally, the weather outside has as much of an influence on tipping as does the level of service.

Michael Lynn

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population.

Harvey Bernstein

The tipping point is not a question of if, but when.

John Fontanella

We shot probably 30 percent. They were tipping in rebounds of their misses, and every time there was a rebound, there was a Charlestown jersey grabbing it. They're athletic, but I've seen us on occasion be just as athletic.

Tom Grassa

I believe this housing issue has brought our community to a tipping point, ... We're compromising our health, safety and welfare.

Randy Hall

We might well be reaching a tipping point at which it becomes acceptable to start to use Linux.

Azeem Azhar

We're approaching or hitting the tipping point. The dire consequences of doom and gloom have proven false.

Paul Billings

We're just too early in this to be tipping our hand to our rivals.

Jeff Weber

It's inevitable in the short term that legislators will look at this issue. If you look overseas, when the device reaches a tipping point, you start to hear rumblings among legislators. Pretty soon we're going to hit that tipping point in North America.

Xeni Jardin

The window busted, and the door got sucked out. I looked at my grandmother, and the walls were like Jell-O. The trailer was rocking back and forth. I jumped between the coffee table and couch, and I remember the trailer tipping.

Matt Suter

The balance of power is gradually tipping.

Barbara Kellerman

We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban centers tipping the scales as either overweight or obese.

Wang Longde

It was already a very shaky balance between gangs. If you add this new element to it, it's reached the tipping point.

Charles Rotramel

There was a lot of volleying and tipping going on in the match, and not too many kills.

Mary Warren

Parts of the match went well, but you could tell we had some home court jitters because we had 10 hitting errors in that first game. We were swinging aggressively, which was good, but we were tentative in tipping. We had to get them into the mindset of staying aggressive, but keeping the ball in play. We wanted Upper Iowa to earn their points.

Lisa Schriver

The tipping point in Washington is when you go from being a subject of caricature to the subject of laughter. She's in danger of becoming the subject of laughter.

Bruce Fein

That's what we're doing tonight, tipping our hat and saying thank you, August.

Jack Viertel

Industry and government are kind of going on a hope and a prayer ... that we don't cross the tipping point of ecological destruction.

Dan Woynillowicz

I don't like rally scoring. If you're going to play the tipping game, with rally scoring, you're going to stay even and keep the momentum on both sides. And that's what we were doing. We weren't playing our power volleyball.

Bruce Udvari

I think we only had one of those, years ago, and we haven't contemplated it at all, since. Actually, tipping fees haven't been around all that long -- since about the mid 1990s. Prior to that, the entire cost was taken up by property tax.

Bob Harper

We may have bracketed the tipping point.

Denis Pombriant

My concern would be ... there comes a tipping point in the financial services industry where the balance goes so heavily towards electronic means of communication for bills and bill payment that they may get more aggressive in providing incentives to customers to get them out of the mail.

Tom Day

The start was definitely the difference. Jumping out like we did. The kids played great on defense. I thought they moved their feet. They were tipping balls away. Then on the other side we were finishing.

Jim Myers

Broadband created a tipping point. Broadband is a fait accompli. There are just too many people using it to ignore, and these media companies are realizing that a PC is just another screen.

Gerry Kaufhold

I believe that we have reached the tipping point between pragmatic patience and a genuine missed opportunity. We cannot wait any longer. . . . Now is the time to act.

Lane Beattie

It's hard to predict what the tipping point will be, but when you have a number of influential and outspoken firms (taking a stand), it's going to raise the ire of the companies trying to do the deal.

Justin Dew

By dramatically changing the landscape, we are tipping the balance in a way that is increasing the risk of malaria transmission. This is one of the most detailed quantitative field studies in the Amazon that directly addresses the potential link between deforestation and malaria.

Jonathan Patz

Data is now tipping toward lower inflation and anticipation of the Fed stopping raising rates is increasing. People are getting excited about that.

Scott Merritt

I think the credit-card industry is reaching a tipping point.

Travis Plunkett

They are getting closer and closer to a tipping point, ... Let's encourage them to go all the way! Be nice.

Tim O'reilly

It should be a tipping point, I hope this is a tipping point.

Jeremy Rifkin

Certainly with our team he is not flying under the radar. We know he brings a lot of energy and toughness. Scott has the ability to be a combination guy. Next year you'll see that. But his staple is outworking people, getting offensive rebounds, tipping and diving for loose balls.

Derek Wright

The success of this event, including the effective use of video advertising to reach consumers at work, could prove to be the tipping point where television ad budgets begin to shift online.

Peter Daboll

If we hadn't had a recession a year ago, and we were watching the fall in employment, a stalling manufacturing sector, falling bond yields and falling stock prices, many people would think we were entering a recession. There's an assumption that the recovery will continue and get stronger next year, when in fact it's possible the economy's tipping over again.

Rory Robertson

We really lost our momentum in game three. We struggled with coverage and with tipping, and we just lost our momentum.

Jeri Morin

There is this tipping point coming. I expected it sooner, but now I see it's going to happen.

Patrick Grady

We see him walking through the Pearly Gates tipping his hat.

Jennifer Thomas

We've got to quit tipping right to where people are at.

Cindy Nelson

The first two games were the best we've passed all year. Everything was right to the setter. In the third game, all of a sudden we lost our focus. Airport did a good job coming back. They were digging up everything and then they started tipping on us. It seemed like they hit the same spot seven times in a row.

Diane Tuller

We believe we are at a tipping point whereby the anti-war sentiment has now become the majority sentiment.

Brian Becker

Nothing in the result was a surprise so it (share price fall) could just be tipping off the market's weakness.

Tony Gordon

The oil-dependency issue now meets all the criteria for having reached the tipping point: an overwhelming majority expresses concern about the issue, the intensity of the public's unease has reached significant levels, and the public believes the government is capable of addressing the issue far more effectively than it has until now.

Daniel Yankelovich

Something has changed. We've reached some kind of tipping point.

Bill Perkins

If you think he's tipping, you get it fixed. But if you're throwing it middle of the plate, he's not tipping pitches. They're hitting bad pitches.

Burt Hooton

What we will see in 10 to 20 years is that this award was a tipping point for 'green' chemistry (the environmentally friendly use of chemicals). At the fundamental molecular level, we can meet environmental and economic goals at the same time.

Paul Anastas

We're at a tipping point. We're getting to the point where there's some question whether this is seasonal or long term.

Alan Baum

Global warming is the greatest threat facing the planet today and we are close to passing the tipping point of irreversible climate change. That is why the action that the Mayor is taking through the London Climate Change Agency is so important.

Allan Jones

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population. The data we recently collected indicates 2006 to 2007 is the time frame from which the builder population moves from a majority less involved to more involved with green building.

Harvey Bernstein

The first match (Hunter) kept tipping to the same spot, and we lost because of it. The second match we did a better job of covering on tipped balls. I think we learned a little bit.

Shane Jones

We have to take a look at the tape. We have to go back and examine things. Maybe there was something that we were doing. We were tipping our technique or something.

Ted Cottrell

You've got to tip an awful lot. It seems like we're tipping everybody.

Eric Reed

I learned a lot being in the big leagues last season. For one thing, I learned I was tipping pitches with my glove. They don't see those things in the minor leagues, but they see them up here. I'm working on that.

Edison Volquez

This will change Arizona politics forever. This is a tipping point (for) the Latino community and its energies.

Earl De Berge