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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Douglas Adams

Though oil is only available in certain areas, energy usage is throughout the world, even in the darkest places of Africa.

Michael Hick

While I would characterize what we saw in terms of very large databases on Linux as early adopter usage, it foretells the increasing presence of Linux in years to come. We expect that in the next survey we will see even significantly more Linux presence than we saw in this survey.

Robert Dorin

I can't guarantee aren't going to see some lawsuits because you probably are. Why not do it in a licensed model? If usage happens, value follows.

Brian Roberts

Helping customers manage their bills is also a priority. This includes encouraging customers to take advantage of 'Budget Billing,' whereby they can spread their bills evenly over the year, avoiding the jumps that come with higher usage in summer and winter.

Tom Graham

All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model.

Jeff Papows

A single base station will handle 30,000 subscribers using 300 minutes per month, based on current cellular-usage models. But we expect to drive a change in usage patterns. Even at 3,600 minutes per month, the system will support 2,500 users.

Chris Whiteley

The gain was smaller than we had expected, and much of it came in utility usage, reflecting the extremely cold weather in the period.

Steve Stanley

It's rewarding to see customers taking action to lower their usage and be on track to earn the rebate.

Tom Bottorff

At the very beginning, 50 years ago, HALO established itself as the industry leader in quality, usage, and innovation in recessed and track lighting. Cooper Lighting continues to grow this legacy and create new products that consistently meet the growing demands of the commercial, industrial, and residential lighting markets.

Tim O'brien

We went through the Alabama Rural Water Association to help us calculate our rates, ... We looked at about eight scenarios to see what effect they would have. We want it to have a minimum effect on our fixed income folks. Most stay under 2,000-gallon usage, so their sewer rates will stay the same. We did take that into consideration.

Paul Barnett

Making it non-mandatory for usage may free up the state from any funding; but we have spoken with our insurance company and they have said not enforcing the use of the seatbelts would open us up to many liability issues. I'm not completely against (the bill). My main concern is whether or not the school will receive the $10,000-$15,000 needed to make the change?

Kent Polsgrove

We work with the YMCA, LANL and the schools, which are very important to us, ... We met yesterday with Dr. Anderson to talk about the use of the auditorium. Apparently they don't want to exchange facility usage as before, they want to start charging us.

Carlos Ramirez

It was not a correct usage of a bulk mailing, but we've determined it was an innocent mistake.

Al Desarro

We've had Denny's Wireless Internet in our restaurant for close to two years and our customers love it. Now that we're offering it free, usage is growing, which adds to my top and bottom line.

Joe Terrell

Traditional networks take an evolutionary approach in responding to changing needs and usage patterns. If additional capacity or enhanced functionality was not originally designed in, those needs often go unmet. Leveraging our core technology and integration skills, we take a revolutionary approach to rapidly deploy 'on demand' networks.

Robert Ford

Every two weeks, our music usage is doubling, ... At some point in time, this is going to present a big-enough problem that we will block all audio-type sites.

Danny Daniels

Don makes this fun and easy to read but has great ideas for practical usage.

Delma Smith

These yearly and quarterly ad spending gains point to a sea of change in media usage among marketers, reflecting how the Internet has become an essential element of daily life for more and more individuals.

David Hallerman

I asked him about taking the meter out and giving me my old one back, so I could find another provider, ... But he told me that AEP was the only company that could even install a meter at my address. And if I did switch that the meter would still report power usage to CPL.

Sharon Brown

Even though search engine usage by marketers has broadened in the past couple of years, marketers are still slow to test the newer search providers. Lack of management tools and relatively low traffic volume are the biggest deterrents.

Sapna Satagopan

I can anticipate higher usage, which could mean a larger utility bill at the end of the day.

Roger Knight

Obviously, it's a pleasant scenario for customers. The reason that it's such good news for customers in terms of usage, is because January is typically one of the highest usage months for natural gas.

Jeff Holyfield

Purchasing a Toshiba notebook with the Yahoo! Music Engine preinstalled makes integrating music purchased online into daily notebook usage a snap, granting users quick and easy access to their favorite music at a great price.

Dave Goldberg

Some of the country's power plants and industrial users have the ability to switch fuels, and others are scaling back their usage altogether, ... It's encouraging to see that people have scaled back on their usage. That means we should be in pretty good shape going into the winter.

Bruce Bell

All that area inside the building is used as locker space, and it's being expanded partially into the old stage area. It's a lot more efficient layout, so they'll get better usage of that space as well.

John Mahon

Our usage doubled during the hurricane.

Salil Dalvi

We seek to distribute content for digital consumer electronics as well as game consoles. We believe this collaboration will enable our two companies to provide new and highly accessible forms of entertainment to our customers through an integrated hardware and content usage model.

Yoichi Wada

[Return on investment] is essential to justify silicon usage. Stepping back and saying, how can I help my customers be more profitable is a very important game change that needs to happen.

Rajeev Madhavan

It's actually going up about seven cents per gallon as far as usage is concerned. ...The big issue is the access charge, which isn't a doubling of the bill, it's more like a 25-26 percent increase. ...

Jerry Joerger

As a farmer, I see the need to keep developing markets for our commodities. Renewable fuels has been something our industry has been working on for years and I think we have only begun to scratch the surface as far as demand and usage.

Dan Meyer

The momentum of the Sprint Music Store is remarkable and truly an industry first, with our second million downloads reached in less time than our first million. Since we stopped offering free promotional incentives on Jan. 14, the usage of the Sprint Music Store has actually increased.

Nancy Beaton

The Coliseum is getting used an awful lot. Our usage, to be honest, I don't know how much more we can squeeze in.

Greg Simmons

We are excited about this promotion as consumers celebrate the time-honored holiday of Saint Patrick's Day with a chance to find a 'Pot of Gold'. First Horizon offers our clients All Things Financial, and this promotion is a great opportunity to remind consumers that First Horizon account holders enjoy totally free usage of other banks' ATMs.

Terrie G. Spiro

How do you tap into the audience to contribute more to overall storytelling experience? Every phone capable of delivering video is also capable of capturing video. During the London bombings, a lot of photography was generated by user cell phones. How do you create a community around that usage? That's one of the areas that tops my mind.

Salil Dalvi

It will increase [cable modem] usage and speed up new technology development. You'll have AT&T involved in cable modem development and getting involved in standards bodies.

Aydin Tuncer

We really think the usage pattern over [product] life was different from what we assumed previously. Whether we always had that wrong or there's been a change is hard to say.

Paul Curlander

We found very, very low levels of usage of public assistance and other public benefits.

Nik Theodore

There is no chemical evidence, no physiological expert listed to indicate steroid usage and its effects.

Ronald Bourget

Dynamic optimization gives us an entirely new way of managing network traffic. Traditionally, communications networks are designed around a static scenario based on peak usage patterns. But of course traffic patterns are always changing. In the evenings the majority of mobile device use is at the home, during the day it is in the office area, and during rush hours along the major traffic arteries.

Mike Flanagan

Kerry's words will ring hollow in light of the fact that he helped block the president's energy bill to increase America's energy independence through more renewable energy usage.

Steve Schmidt

This is an ongoing usage.

Jeff Griffin

Increased usage should mean more ad revenue.

Bill Grueskin

The cool thing about the ticker is that it makes impulse information access a reality. Here the Web comes to you and that's why it will drive usage.

Roger Entner

E-mail has faced its challengers -- viruses, spam, regulations -- and emerged with its reputation bruised, but intact. Except among teens and young adults and inside certain fast-paced work environments, e-mail is staying ahead of instant messaging in terms of usage.

Mark Levitt

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Ambrose Bierce

We are interested to hear about initial response to spring assortments, especially as gift card usage is on the rise, which could have led to higher spring selling January and February.

Jeffrey Edelman

The building has had a lot of usage by the university. The decision (to implode it) wasn't easily arrived at.

Joe Rogers

Tool usage in wild apes provides us with valuable insights into the evolution of our own species and the abilities of other species. Seeing it for the first time in gorillas is important on many different levels.

Thomas Breuer

His usage probably wasn't as consistent as he would have liked it to be. We got him for his stuff. I think he's a nice Major League pitcher.

Rick Kranitz

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Mike Flanagan

Easily concealed, easily smuggled, very inexpensive. And we've got to get ahead of this. We've got to do what we can to prevent their acquisition and usage.

Peter Defazio

The routes are kind of hard because you're burning more gas. You're going, stopping, going, stopping, shutting the car off, turn it on, which all impacts gas usage.

Beverly Griffith

Negotiations for usage of the name fell through.

Jeff Gaulton

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Meg Whitman

There are a lot more variables now. There is a need now to document chemical usage, stewardship, a whole range of issues.

Jeff Herrick

Overall growth in cell phone usage demonstrates a robust consumer demand for newer and better wireless products and services. And the wireless industry is not the only sole beneficiary of the demand. Technological advances and better service offerings have reduced cost per minute charges for consumers over time.

Tamara Gaffney

It makes sense that if you're using part of your brain a lot, it's going to get worked out and there's going to be more stuff in that area to support increased usage. In a sense, that's all we're seeing.

Sara Lazar

The usage is only going to change as more people move into the township and find it and use it. People who want to use it have been using it.

Bob Foster

Along with really protecting a lot of the young kids because they've been abused (in terms of usage) in high school and college, we're also going to be really aggressive with the guys that are in the system already. If they show us that they're strong enough, they're going to go out there, and if they can go 90-100 pitches, they're going to do that.

Johnny Almaraz

We've got to adjust our usage, whether it's buying smaller vehicles or using fuel more efficiently.

John Efford

Increasing usage of the Internet for these core business functions means that business disruptions from Internet security can seriously impact a company's revenue.

Jim Hurley

When confronted with the need to take a particular medicine, it is certainly worth asking what data are available that justify its use in a particular patient. Much more tailored approaches to medication usage need to happen in the future. This should allow for optimal benefit with minimal risk.

Michael Watkins

The expected increase in network investment is in response to higher demand for cell phone usage.

Vikrom Sriprataks

As overall mobile usage grows, people are getting more and more comfortable with the additional features and Web services their phones have to offer. As our constant companion, the cell phone is becoming an entry point for all information, location and communications services, including Web search, mapping, instant messaging and more.

Bill Schwebel

We already have the Getting Around Illinois Web site, which is a one-stop destination for travelers. We want to expand this by installing kiosks and making usage as easy as possible.

Matt Vanover

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

Small business owners need to reach a point of equilibrium where credit card usage is balanced with other financing methods.

Todd Mccracken

A related issue is the privacy of information gathered from sensor networks and how to protect the privacy rights and expectations of citizens. For example, if sensor webs have cameras attached to them, the usage of the pictures taken in public spaces is subject to a number of legal and privacy considerations that need to be built into the technology.

Shankar Sastry

Then, when the critical peak pricing period starts in the afternoon, you start adjusting that temperature upwards, going as high as 78. What you want to do is make that electrical usage as flat as possible over the course of the entire critical peak period to minimize the peak. Normally it will peak in the middle of the afternoon, but you want to flatten the peak.

James Braun

If you have a product that's really gaining a lot of usage, then it's probably a good idea.

Larry Page

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

Having a venture of this magnitude fills two obligations: One to the state to get as much usage of the stadium as possible, which is a hard task; the other is to our suite holders, who we try to get a couple of extra events for the buy they make.

Dennis Mannion

If that happens it would be a tremendous partnership in which their usage of the building would end in the late afternoon and they would not need it on weekends. That would provide the league a revenue source to pay the overhead, and allow us to continue to offer batting cages and build the training back up.

Bo Batts

Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is being adopted by organizations of all sizes for every conceivable mission and that organizations are abandoning their investments in other operating environments. However, when IDC shines the light of empirical research on Windows NT usage, a different view emerges.

Dan Kuznetsky

The result: Digital cable and on-demand usage will surge. And the TV schedule will soon be as irrelevant as last night's news.

Josh Bernoff

Since WRDS was first made available to outside institutions eight years ago, it has revolutionized research at business schools. Along with the growth in subscribers and increased usage by subscribing institutions, the feedback we receive from our users further indicates that we meet the diverse research needs of our subscribers.

Michael Boldin

Enterprises have been completely blind to their users' SSL traffic. Companies would like to have the same level of visibility and control of SSL traffic as they do with non-encrypted traffic. With SSL usage rising rapidly and security threats proliferating, products like Blue Coat's SSL proxy may fill a significant enterprise need.

David Passmore

If your usage has gone up, your bill will be adjusted upward.

Leigh Morris

With today's extended IT workplace, organizations must leverage new technologies without increasing risk and disruption. Using Sanctuary, Citrix Access Gateway customers can set and enforce granular device and application usage policies to protect desktop and server integrity, while continuing to reap the productivity benefits of their Citrix environment.

Dennis Szerszen

This doesn't only make it load more quickly - it also saves money for those who pay high fees for data usage on their phones.

Tor Odland

Connection cost is a meaningful cost. If the usage would drop, it would reduce companies' connection cost, and they'd get a slight benefit to their margins.

Ned Zachar

We are no longer going to throw the doors open at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. and close it at dusk, it will actually be staffed and we are going to be conducting more of a recreational program. We are feeling pretty confident through the dual usage and the monitoring we can actually increase use at that park.

Jennifer Clarke

These schools were not built for the amount of usage we are now requiring of our buildings.

Roland Moore

Even though the winter was milder, even with lower usage, we were seeing a lot higher average bills than we typically see.

Kip Bowmar

I don't think you ought to assume that for the long term you're going to be able to pay the same amount as the ... more casual user and be fair to all our customers. So I think you'll find over time that the amount of usage that you demand from the network each month will in fact have to ... drive the pricing structure.

Dick Lynch

There is heavy usage by all the P.E. departments, the sports teams and almost the entire student bodies.

Melinda Gladitsch

As ac drive usage increases, the amount of harmonic current will also increase, further straining the already stressed distribution grid. This will eventually force manufacturers to place more emphasis on purchasing ac drives that provide some means of harmonic mitigation.

Mark Kenyon

I know of no decision to use the jet in any way differently than the usage of the King Air.

Becky Hultberg

Mac OS X is not invulnerable--it, like any other operating system, has security deficiencies in various aspects of the software. However, the general architecture and design philosophy of Mac OS X, in addition to usage of open source components for most network-accessible services that receive intense peer scrutiny from the community, make Mac OS X a very secure operating system.

David Schroeder

Is it a federal crime? Technically, yes. These mailboxes are designed for the sole usage of the postal service to serve customers. Items such as fliers or anything outside of correspondence or other mail matters is prohibited.

David Lewin

Before we see significant uptake, operators need to sort out predictable costs. There are flat monthly charges, but they tend to have a usage limit of 1 Gigabyte. Those details need to be sorted out.

Rachel Lashford

I'm told this is pretty much in keeping with past usage patterns.

Patty Henson

Helping customers manage their bills is a priority for us. This includes encouraging customers to take advantage of 'Budget Billing,' whereby they can spread their bills evenly over the year, thus avoiding the jumps that come with higher usage in summer and winter.

Gary Stockbridge

We scored high in community usage of the facility and staff relations.

Chris Patritto

While network cameras usage will grow within both existing infrastructures and in new environments, most opportunity lies in new installations. Vendors are already penetrating new verticals.

Chris Chute

Yes the calls are free. But you're paying for the mobile access and that drives usage and something that drives usage is good for the operators.

Niklas Zennstrom

Whether you need to bill back clients for printing in a law firm or track usage of devices by department to cut costs, Lexmark's Embedded Document Accounting Solution brings a flexible, unique solution to the table that can significantly impact your bottom line.

Paul Rooke

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

David Kirk

Most of the leading search sites excel in responsiveness with no notable slow downs during peak usage periods. At these speeds consumers will not note a significant difference between any of the leading sites.

Ben Rushlo

From the results of our study we have noticed a shift in reward programs and an increase in usage among younger demographics. This presents an opportunity for marketers to better understand different demographics and apply this knowledge to effectively target consumers.

Jim Litwin

You're just seeing some regional differences because of what's available locally. We have a good supply, but there seems to be a lot of speculation on usage.

Bruce Bell

They are going to take a look at everything from usage numbers to the fees needed to fix the problem. They will look at this problem closely.

Jeff Hutchinson

The Grokster case did not result in a rapid decline in P2P usage.

Andrew Parker

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

Brad Stone

There's also a nice demonstration where they compared incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs in terms of heat generation and energy usage. And there were two comparisons of batteries and they both came out with the same results. I thought that was interesting.

Jill Monroe

We actually saw usage increase dramatically last January, and from what we've been able to observe so far this January, we've noticed it as much if not more.

George Brown

The problem is the environment is changing. Mobile usage is increasingly dynamic, and tariff information changes depending on where you are in the world.

Rip Gerber

It was a great way to build awareness and it fit perfectly with the holidays. People always enjoy getting something for free. We saw high repeat usage scores as a result of consumers redeeming the coupons.

Susan Mcdermott

You need to manage these devices. If you allow ad hoc employee device usage, it will put you in legal hot water.

Richard Levine

Six months from now, P2P usage will be beyond what it is today.

Michael Weiss

For an individual consumer, the money and effort spent purchasing these products is not trivial ? as many as 12 percent of purchased products are never used and eventually discarded. By understanding why we buy products we never use, we can change our purchase and usage habits to reduce product abandonment, thereby saving money and reducing waste.

Brian Wansink

Clearly usage on 3G shows higher revenue potential overall. The variety and quality of content and ease of navigation on portal sites will play a key role in gaining traction and increasing the prospect for maximizing profits.

Kanishka Agarwal

If a town needs more water and demonstrates the need, then we will give them the extra water. But if you do want more water, we want to know first what you can do to mitigate your usage.

Duane Levangie

What's happening today is a result of a long-term history of poor design or mismanagement. A lot of sewer lines have been down there since the '50s and '60s and we have an increased amount of people and therefore more usage.

Melody Heidel

We were extremely pleased that we exceeded our consolidated financial expectations for the third quarter and significantly reduced our operating cash usage, ... We expect that these trends will continue into fiscal 2002.

David Wetherell

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend.

John Nelson

The overall growth in cell phone data usage is a boon for carriers. The popularity of mobile activities such as text-messaging is a solid revenue driver, with bundled pricing for data packages averaging $20 a month or 10 cents per message on pay-as-you go plans, in addition to the costs consumers already pay for their voice minutes.

Tamara Gaffney

At one point we were going to charge based on kilobit usage, but our chief information officer intervened and said no. We didn't want to provide an incentive for Department of Transportation agencies to step away from using our systems because they thought they could find a cheaper way.

George Ramick

I am confident that we could find enough savings to pay for the certificates by studying the city's current energy usage.

Tom Ivers

It allows them to budget based on past usage.

Buddy Eiland

We would like to pursue an additional study on the city's energy usage and energy practices.

Tom Ivers

We encourage anyone who thinks there may be an error in their bill to contact their retail electric provider and request that a representative look at their meter. A lot of them will slow down, but we've found that less than one percent are actually over-reading Š Also keep in mind that this time of year is a peak usage time.

David Hooper

We make our living off of phone numbers that spell words, ... We've created companies like 1-800-FLY-CHEAP. We actually pioneered shared usage.

Steve Parker

Most carriers want their users to stay on the company's home page, yet this could drive usage of data services.

Linda Barrabee

The usage is not the issue. The issue is whether people would purchase the legal one.

Timothy Chen

This trial will guide us on usage patterns and some of the social issues in using mobile phones on aircraft. It will also help us to confirm the business case for rolling the service out across the remainder of the fleet.

Nigel Turner

We're pretty much seeing what we would call capacity usage during our prime season.

Chris Mather

The rating reflects the company's geographic concentration in the western and midwestern states, high leverage, usage of debt to fund a large special dividend, relatively aggressive expansion plan, participation in a highly competitive industry, and reliance on the unpredictable popularity of Hollywood films.

Tulip Lim

First, we really want to see the field playable. Second, we want to see if we can work out a joint-usage agreement, like we have with GW, because we really want to spread football to the South. We have a lot of potential players down there, but they have no opportunity like the northern and central kids.

Richard Lai

With both airlines, initially there will be a couple of airplanes -- two or three airplanes -- equipped with this system. During that three months, we'll all be evaluating how it's going, what the usage is, how we handle the crew issues, and so on.

George Cooper

After talking to a number of end users, we found that running 32-bit applications [on Itanium] was not a common usage model.

Erica Fields

It's not a tax. It's a utility. It is a fee proportional to their usage. If the utility is doing the job right, (taxpayers) should pay less.

Eric Thompson

For a small usage fee, we have all these rooms (four rooms, plus bathrooms and chapel), and Jeff Jackson (a teacher and the son of Doris and Elmer Jackson) takes the kids to play basketball. But I tell the children to find their own sport because at $200 a month (for tuition), we cannot do it all for them.

Elmer Jackson

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Elizabeth Drew

We've got people who deal with these things all the time, and it looked to them like it was a usage issue. We just followed procedure, and in this case, it didn't get resolved as quickly as the customer wanted it to.

Ed Legge