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The problem is the technology picks up some kind of anomaly or variation of soil. We go in with big backhoes and bulldozers, we spend all day doing it, and all we hit is rock or water tables.

Lauren Mack

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

James A. Michener

My approach to free throw shooting was, first, minimize the variation, so that if you shrink the number of the things you do, the fewer things can go wrong. I shot in a tunnel - that was my view of the basket. The notion I would miss right or left was never in my mind.

Daryl Moreau

If the number is 50,000 above or below, that's a variation where you'll see a reaction. If it's below, then people will right away start talking about what the revision will be next month.

Hans Olsen

Whether the NFL wants to admit it, betting is also a part of why people watch football, ... I think fantasy football is probably a variation of that.

Chris Myers

It's a comedy-drama, but it's also sort of a mystery. Strange forces come into play and we begin to make deeper connections between these people. It's done through a line or two heard once, then repeated later on, or a variation on something we've heard before.

Charles Erven

It will also help us understand other important processes in biology like evolution, recombination and the forces that have shaped this genetic variation in the human population.

Dr Panos Deloukas

If you make a mistake, it's not a mistake. It's your own variation.

Lynn Seaberg

Because food-chain length influences the bioaccumulation of contaminants, understanding the causes of variation in food-chain length will help us understand the variation of contaminant concentrations.

David Post

There should be a three-year moratorium on pitches of any variation of American Idol .

Reginald Hudlin

She's got so much time, she's got so much variation on her shots. I just had to take care of my side most of the time. I know if they attack her, she's always ready. That makes life a lot more easy on the mixed doubles court.

Mahesh Bhupathi

A central goal of conservation is to protect and preserve the ecosystem functions and processes upon which all life depends. Because food-chain length affects these ecosystem functions and processes, we need to understand how food-chain length varies and what causes this variation.

David Post

If this is just a variation of the millions of ideas already out there, no one is going to be interested. There are too many calendars chasing too little retail space. There's going to be fallout in the industry.

Tom Burke

But Watson offers a seam option which will give the bowling attack - presuming McGrath, Shane Warne and Brett Lee are all fit - a balanced look and sufficient variation.

Andrew Ramsey

Over land we see tremendous diurnal changes, a strong peak in lightning in the afternoon over land. Over water we see very little variation. We believe it's due to the land absorbing heat and causing strong convection. On the other hand, water can store a lot more heat, and release it slowly.

Hugh Christian

CRP has a good earning capacity, and it is our ambition to improve it further. Its order backlog for 2006 is at a good level and we believe the market will be strong over the next few years. However, it is important to remember that this business are almost entirely project-related, which entails great variation in order bookings and consequently also in invoicing between different quarters.

Lennart Johansson

Despite some variation in quality and affordability, Afghans are able to access health and education services here that are unavailable in their home country, which is one of the main concerns, particularly for women.

Haris Gardaz

Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.

James Alan Fox

If there is a substantial variation, it should go back before the commission.

Councilwoman Shari Mackin

People should realize that there is variation here. Everybody wants to focus on the average. Nobody is average.

Gary Claxton

You get this kind of variation (away from normal) more often in winter than in summer. But this has been really unusual, to have it this long in the heart of winter.

Pete Boulay

The second stage benefits we found were a simple expansion of those benefits; that Linux provided a simple variation of IT efforts, enhanced IT staff performance and helped to retain existing IT staff.

Charles Kingsley

It makes sense to use symmetry variation in mate choice. If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations.

Randy Thornhill

Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

Judith Cone

It hasn't changed that much. You can look county by county and see the statistical variation, one has a downward trend and one has an upward trend, that tells me it's random.

Steve Carrellas

The Switch Rodeo 5 - a variation of a cork was the trick that clinched it for me.

Justin Bray

We found a way to give players a variety of games. The games are the same, the mathematics are the same, and the objects of the games are the same. But there is just a little variation.

Lee Skelley

When you talk about genetic variation being lost, you need to really reduce [the population] to a small number of individuals.

Yvonne Chan

That's how I play. I'm going to have maybe 50 unforced errors one day, but I'm going to also have 50 winners that day. People just have to accept me the way I play. Maybe I can add variation to my game, but I'm going to win matches only when I hit those winners.

Sania Mirza

The household saving rate has fallen to less than 1 percent, quite low in its range of historical variation, ... If households, on net, take steps to return the saving rate closer to the middle of that range, which, I might add, would provide welcome support to capital accumulation, then a sustained period in which consumption grows more slowly than income would result.

Roger Ferguson

The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.

Dennis Mcmillen

There was a wide variation of things going on, and we're trying to figure out what is the timing of some of construction.

Kekuewa Kikiloi

The differences observed are not in and of themselves outside the range of variation seen in the normal population.

Jeffrey Lieberman

The truth in the matter lies in the fact that anything repeated too long without variation tends to become boring.

Don Ellis

Extremely sensitive to variation and can result in different ratings in the same vehicle, such as when one has leather-covered seats and the other has cloth-covered seats.

Alan Adler

This is the first time anyone has actually been able to infiltrate an antigenic variation program. We forced the cell to switch our gene on and others off.

Alan Cowman

There has been a significant shift in the support for gay rights here. There's a growing sense that homosexuality is part of the normal human variation.

Stephen Klineberg

The Republican leadership in the House is more ideologically homogenous than parties have been in a century. You don't find great variation in policy positions.

Bruce Oppenheimer

We've got a number of options, which include doing nothing, proceeding with the restricted transfer notice, increasing the price, decreasing the number of conditions or some other variation.

Andrew Evans

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Johannes Brahms

The next step is to find out what biological difference imparted by this genetic difference causes selection to favor that variation over the others.

Bruce T. Lahn

The show has a little bit of variation, ... but it's all music high school and college kids would like.

Eric Myers

Each class will begin with fun, physical activities, such as circuit workouts, a 'Mission Possible' exercise challenge, or maybe even a new variation of a game like tag. Kids typically have so much fun with these activities that they don't even think of it as exercise.

Emily Baker

When you look at national figures you get one picture, and you get another when you look at geographic variation. The places in the country where we have very high rates of deaths from heart disease are places that have historically experienced economic underdevelopment. ... There have been a lack of opportunities for people to experience healthy living compared to other areas.

Elizabeth Barnett

Everybody loves pizza, and kids love pizza, and this is a nice variation because it's not your same old tomato sauce and cheese.

Elizabeth Hiser

The really curious thing is how the species managed to persist for around 3,000 years with almost no genetic variation. Genetic variation is the toolkit for dealing with whatever the environment has to throw at you. If you have only a couple of tools, you don't have a lot of resilience for dealing with an unexpected event.

Elizabeth Hadly