We wanted to be in the southern part of the country to take advantage of the growth and emergence of these markets versus what we're seeing in the northeast region. The company's intent is to bring local people on board and offer them the opportunity to join us as long-time associates. We're not here to fill 200 jobs from other places. We want to use local people.

Bob Wheeler

To secure an entire enterprise, offer guest access, and voice over WLAN, you need pervasive coverage versus selective coverage.

Ben Gibson

Our A-B domestic volume is off to a good start, and we continue to expect growth versus 2005.

Randy Baker

It is a proxy battle for a more flexible employment model versus what the French like to call a social model for Europe.

Katinka Barysch

You want to get an idea of how they thought they would use the phone versus how they actually use it.

Jeffrey Nelson

Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.

Florian Mueller

We don't see this as commercial versus open source. More people are using the two together.

Scott Handy

Giving people opportunity to taste wines in barrel versus in the bottle.

Phil Cline

I feel like all three of our games were close. It's hard to win three close games versus any team.

Amy Cooke

There are less buyers today, less sellers and therefore less reasons to pay big money for expensive showrooms and trade shows, ... That's why the building's occupancy has been at about 60 percent over the past few years versus a 100 percent earlier.

Jay Foreman

We have to do more on the front end to educate people, versus the back end of incarcerating people.

Michael Kinard

There are some significant differences between the top category searches in print versus online Yellow Pages, as a higher percentage of online references are credited to the headings of hotels, florists and schools, ... However, restaurants continue to take the most popular heading slot for both the print and online Yellow Pages.

Larry Small

We've raised a lot of money, and learned how different it is raising money for a profit venture versus a non-profit one.

Andrew Shue

If kids work things out in reading versus working it out in real life, it's a much better deal.

Julie Weis

Air travel is growing in leaps and bounds, and airlines and nations are investing in new aircraft to accommodate that growth. Regardless of Boeing versus Airbus issues, this is good news for everyone who works in or supports the commercial aircraft industry.

Randy Baseler

The differences in expectations of construction executives versus their peers in other industries is striking. Growth in the construction sector, coupled with higher costs for construction materials and hiring pressures, will be watched closely by the Federal Reserve as it determines future interest rate policy for the economy in general.

Gregg Steinberg

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Dave Andrew

In the season opener, it wasn't typical Brian. He came back last night. He pitched great. He came back after a so-so outing versus Marshall.

Galvin Morris

They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.

Lisa Alexander

From the softer ad market and the organizational changes in 2005, Fisher is poised in 2006 to capitalize on an attractive business structure going forward as well as other opportunities such as the recent Seattle Super Bowl (that pitted the Seahawks versus the Pittsburgh Steelers) carried on our Seattle and Portland ABC affiliates.

Colleen Brown

Most of the aluminum companies will be flat to slightly up in the third quarter versus a year ago, although there will be one or two that will be up 50 percent.

Clarence Morrison

The doubt is where the mercury is coming from, because it's a global issue, and mercury from power plants versus from other countries.

Melanie Mccoy

We expect Jones to report total revenue of $1.15 billion, a decline of 14.4 percent versus last year, and earnings of 47 cents per share. Management did not provide quarterly guidance, and this quarter will reflect a decline in revenue due to the sale of Polo Jeans Company.

Lizabeth Dunn

We believe continued strong oncology sales and operational execution will sustain the premium multiple versus the peer group.

Jason Kantor

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Jay Bly

The debate over inflation versus growth will linger on because it is true that there is a short-term trade-off - if you want growth you've got to live with inflation.

Iraj Abedian

As a provider, versus a real estate investor, our intention is to keep the communities for a long time. The real estate appreciation that results from improved cash flows is an important part of the business, but not one we see as a part of our ongoing company results.

Ross Roadman

He could have easily had the same deal. This was really a simple case. This is not a case of good versus evil. These guys couldn't find work on this one day, and they didn't go to a bar or anything else, they went to play ball.

Francis O'reilly

When all factors were weighed, it was collectively decided that playing next year's game versus Miami on Labor Day night was in the best interest of all parties concerned. Miami never had the opportunity to host the game on that day and the viewership and exposure for the ACC and both universities from our game 10 days ago was exceptional.

David Hart

I remember when I was a kid having the Friday night games or the Saturday night games - a South East Melbourne versus Melbourne . . . they were huge, sold out, you couldn't get a ticket.

Andrew Bogut

The fundamental feature was the strength of the dollar versus the yen -- and statements that the Japanese won't be supporting the yen. And no one wanted to be long in gold over the weekend.

Fred Demler

It's definitely the religion-oriented Republicans versus those motivated by money, ... Riley will raise more money, but I don't think money will be the answer because people will vote with their hearts.

William Stewart

We know what a tough loss was (versus Simeon). It gave us experience and confidence. This time of year, it's all about mental toughness.

Mario Little

It's between the team with a huge amount of pent-up enthusiasm versus the team that's got a storied history, a national following. And when we look at the data, it's just a tight, tight race.

Bill Furlong

It's not like the spotted owl, where it's loggers versus owls, ... We're all on the same side on this one.

David Bain

It will come down to a choice of new leadership versus old leadership, old ideas and broken promises in the areas of property taxes and education.

David Mcintosh

It's definitely more intense in front of the pack versus the middle or the back of the field. The more you run up front, the more you get used to the intensity. Sometimes, some guys will bump you and try to shake you up so that they can get by.

John Gunter

Peer-to-peer file sharing programs basically act as a warehouse for child pornography videos and images. Having the Internet readily available in their residence allows people to operate in the shadows versus going out and acquiring the material through other means.

John Simmons

Thorpe will be back, which is good. Swimming is huge in Australia, and me and Roland versus Thorpe is already being built up.

Ryk Neethling

Why would they want to buy another PC -- it's a hassle. Having to download plug-ins, having to download content versus having content pushed to you. Our research shows that people want a guided experience on the Internet.

Rob Bartels

Consumers want access [to information] versus an agent who's controlling all the information.

Rich Roberts

In the past with other video game systems, you've had to have them shipped over on a boat, ... We're delivering them day after day after day. And having a regular flow, versus a chunky distribution system is better for the retailer - and the gamer.

John O'rourke

This trend of the stabilization of the broad stock market we've been seeing lately will continue through the year. We saw a sharp recovery in stock prices last year, but right now stocks are fairly valued versus the underlying fundamentals.

Ben Halliburton

The principal reason for Citigroup's shortfall versus consensus was the 10 cents of charges related to Latin America, which were expected. The order of magnitude was harder to ascertain but the fact that they were going to have to take additional charges was expected.

Catherine Murray

Versus the positions as we went into the strike, Boeing certainly looks like they did give more, ... would cost both sides more, so getting it settled earlier is definitely better.

Cai Von Rumohr

Overall the girls, they just did numerous things well versus one thing here. …. I really do think it was one of our better games all-around.

Kris Henry

Some in the market felt that Canada had declined enough versus the U.S. and it was time to take some profits. The Canadian dollar is starting to look cheap.

Reid Farrill

This is the first experience we've had with the high stack. I can understand the reasoning for it because with the limited number of athletes that they have versus our guys, it was important for them to try and get ahead early.

Brandan Wright

We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.

Kate Mitchell

We didn't come out and play real well in the first half versus UNO. In the second half we dominated.

Lori Ulferts

This is the perfect time for consumers to do something about the high cost of gas, ... It's the battle of the titans -- the global Internet versus global gas prices. OPEC was a force to increase the cost of gas. Now, the Internet is the new counter-force to lower it.

Jay Walker

We played a great game versus Holy Cross. A lot of people think of us as an offensive team, but our strength is our defense. Our effort the other night might have been the best it?s been this year. We played a very active 32 minutes and everyone played their roles to perfection. We?re playing our best ball of the season.

Tony Turina

That's the only way they're going to get it passed. It's like an election. You have to appeal to where you can get the most votes. But now we're pitted against each other, young versus old.

Todd Jordan

This might not be the best time to be selling. But they need to weigh the alternatives of selling now versus the feeding costs. Look at de-stocking partially or fully. The net loss or net gain of selling out now and buying back later may be relatively the same as trying to figure out how to feed those cows for several months.

Dr. Ted Mccollum

Anheuser-Busch fourth-quarter sales-to-retailers were better than trend but not strong enough versus expectations.

John Faucher

America probably have the edge just in the sheer numbers of club pros they have - some 28,000 versus 6,500 - and due to the climate and other factors they probably generally play to a slightly higher level but it's important we play our own game and don't get sucked into playing theirs.

Jim Farmer

In February, traffic worsened versus fourth quarter trends, which caused lower unit sales velocity. This led to significantly lower merchandise margins. Looking ahead, we are focused on driving traffic with improved product and new marketing campaigns that begin this week.

Sabrina Simmons

Current lease penetration rate is approximately 23.1 percent versus 19.3 percent in February of '04 and ALG (Automotive Lease Guide) stated that vehicle leasing is increasing.

David Gartzke

If you look at the lead we've built up this year versus the benchmark and our peers, it came during the period when tech stocks were undergoing a sell-off, ... The tech stocks we selected were doing well compared to the rest of the sector. They held their ground.

Scott Evans

It's a beautiful setting with two rivers, the English and the Iowa, in a wooded area and in a rural setting. Our view is that the project works better in that kind of setting versus an urban setting. It provides good ambience.

David Oman

All the studies show that parents underestimate their own kid's risk behaviors versus what kids report they're actually doing. There's a big gap.

Anthony Wolf

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

Jill Koenitzer

Kim talked about them having a target on their back, and when you defeat the No. 4 team in the country, you all of a sudden have become a target yourself — and that's OK. Any coach would prefer being a target versus chasing one.

Cindy Stein

Flying will give us a gain of some five weeks versus shipping, and is the only way to get GBR 78 there in time for the sailing team to practice on two new generation boats and tune up the second boat prior to the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

Peter Harrison

I can't say if it's 75 percent Senate, 12 percent House and 12 percent governor's office. We're giving you a gross amount. It's all state government. I'm not sure if real people really care what percentage is Senate versus House.

Drew Crompton

Excluding the impact of currency changes, futures grew 11.4%, a significant acceleration versus the 8.3% constant-dollar growth we reported last quarter.

Don Blair

You have to see how much (it costs) to prevent, versus how much you actually lose.

Mike Delahanty

It is Islam versus the rest of the world.

David Perry

I think it was just intensity. (In the other games versus Central) we just did not have the same type of intensity. And down the stretch we kept our composure.

Amanda Tewksbury

I think it's healthy -- as long as the candidates are running for the position, versus against their opponent.

Kathy Ward

The research is clear that raising speed limits costs lives. People need to weigh the benefits of getting places faster versus the fact that more people will die in crashes.

Russ Rader

The old generation versus the next generation. There's not too much to look forward to in this season. There's one bright spot you can count on.

Jeff Nelson

It could be the weather or the combination of rain versus sun.

Cynthia Brown

There is insufficient evidence to fully weigh the benefits and risks of C-sections versus vaginal births. Any decision should be carefully individualized and considered with ethical principles.

Mary D'alton

Nationally, there are more opportunities to qualify for the big race. I know there are five in the Northeast this winter versus only two per region in the past. I hope that means more runners toeing the line at nationals.

Mort Nace

Our play will be depending on the focus we regain after a week and a half off. I expect the ladies will rise to the occasion versus Hudson.

Rick Hohenthaner

Clearly they delivered some of the broad-based growth investors have been waiting for the past couple of years and progress has improved, ... But there's still a reasonable gap versus its peer group, so there is still work to be done.

Glenn Schorr

People working on different pieces of code--the user interface versus the back-end business logic--can work together to debug how they work together.

Kevin Dean

I think the change we've seen is a sea change and it will be a several-year change versus several weeks.

Alan Snyder

There's certainly an issue of free speech here. We're not saying by any means that these books shouldn't be read. But ... if it's categorized as Jewish history, versus conspiracy literature, then there's a problem.

Daniel Greene

Creek, they're good. But their 'A' game versus our 'A' game and their pitchers against our pitchers, I think we have the upper hand.

Luke Hardcastle

We don't know how many people are going to actually do it, but we're gearing up for a lot of people to do it. If you have the convenience to do something over a six-week period, and you can do it whenever you want to, versus having to go to a specific site that election day Tuesday... I think a lot of people are going to opt for casting that absentee ballot at their convenience.

Nancy Boren

Think about the amount of energy it takes a person to walk across a nice, dry, grassy area versus a field of mud. The same is true for livestock. Also, livestock may be huddled up under a tree to escape the rain and aren't coming to the feeding area. It may be a challenge to get enough nutrients into them.

Shelby Filley

It became a political issue. I guess I would characterize it as opinion versus fact.

Randy Kugler

We have refined our appraisal of GSM/GPRS/EDGE versus WCDMA. The uptake of WCDMA is not likely to be as rapid as was once thought. It will show good growth, but there is still a lot of life left in GSM.

Lance Wilson

I would want to carefully analyze our reserve versus our debt load.

William Shelton

You can't have anything better than our best swimmer against their best swimmer. And that's what it came down to with everything on the line. It was more of a team effort, but in the end it was one versus one.

Joe Thier

I think the tide is turning in favor of the employee or job seeker versus the company.

Rich Yamarone

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

Milton Pedraza

Some of our grab bag titles are only eight months old, and unless the customer is strictly a new release customer, that customer is not going to see or feel the difference purchasing one of these versus one of the new releases.

Bob Wolf

Sprint is very inexpensive versus the WorldCom takeover. It's over a 25 percent discount. First the $76 that WorldCom will be acquiring it for. And we think it's a very strong likelihood that merger will go through by the end of the year.

Tim Horan

We are currently projecting the box office to achieve 76 percent of capacity versus a budget of 80 percent, resulting in a shortfall of $4,303,000.

Joseph Volpe

There's quite a difference in money with the firefighter contract versus the police contract.

Councilor Dennis Eaniri

The second phase of development has started in India with GDP rate being ratcheted up to 7%-8% a year versus the 5.9% average of the last 10 years.

Deepak Lalwani

There's no comparison when you compare the overall impact of business contributions versus labor.

Larry Makinson

There's a documented need for low-cost subsidized housing for families in Iowa City. The hardship is greater on those families than it would be on a single individual. A family headed by a minimum-wage earner will pay 40 to 50 percent of their income on housing — versus someone who has a full scholarship that pays for most of their needs.

Jim Cain

It wasn't a typical L-S versus Westford match. They didn't play as strong as they usually do, and nor did we. But I was excited that we got the win.

Ken Dimaggio

You tell your team that the next game is the most important game. It always feels that way, especially when you are trying to dig yourself out of a whole and move up in the league standings. We still have our eyes set on one of those top three league playoff spots. Our next game versus Jefferson is huge in taking a step toward that goal.

Mychal Williams

The rough cut in consolidation has probably occurred by now, but the new industry trend affecting competition is the wireless device evolving into the third or fourth screen for a lot of consumers. But the content they will want in each market will be different. What they want in the Caribbean will be different than what they want in the U.S. [In mobile gaming], it could be dominoes versus poker.

Michael Small

The typical toilet seat only has 49 germs per square inch versus the desktop that has 21,000. That's problematic because a lot of people like me eat lunch at their desks. A typical office disinfects the toilet every night. Most people don't disinfect their desks.

Allison Janse

It is different when you face a foreign enemy on the one hand versus a domestic failure on the other.

Mark Mellman

When I was younger, there were more things to choose from geared around kids who might not be going to college versus the lawyers and the doctors. They [Butler schools] have the basic wood shops and things like that, but they could give an electrical type of class.

William Wright

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Margaret Bourke white

He broke a foot in basketball and he's not even jogging yet. He would be my starting left-fielder. The best scenario is he is back versus Heath.

Paul Melvin

DUI arrests during the Christmas holiday doubled statewide from last year. We had 1,209 statewide DUI arrests versus 622 in 2004.

Kelly Baraga

Although we are disappointed with this quarter's performance versus our expectations and believe it is prudent to increase reserves at this time, we remain positive about the future of laser vision correction.

Mark Logan

Some new products are focusing on battling tiredness, a key trait that can actually accelerate the skin aging process. Products such as L'Oreal Europe's Infallible foundation are claiming to resist against the signs of tiredness, which can be felt at any age. It presents more preventive versus reactive options for consumers.

Lynn Dornblaser

So in turn when calf prices start to go down you need to be more conservative buying bulls. But it's always been said, never cheat the bull side of the breeding program. You will see differences in results if you spend $800 for a bull versus $2,000 or $3,000 for a bull, if the genetics back up what the cost of the bull is.

Ryon Walker

We started the year with a victory and we ended the regular season with a victory. I was glad for the seniors to get a win over Perry. We were very aggressive and ready to wrestle whereas earlier in the evening versus ADM that wasn't the case.

Jim Pappas

It is cost prohibitive for GM to fix its $3,500 margin disadvantage versus Toyota and other Japan-based manufacturers. Meanwhile, hidden liabilities continue to exceed hidden assets.

Ronald Tadross

It's not just Catholic versus Protestant any more. I read somewhere that in any construction site in Belfast, they have protection rackets. And you have to clear your trucking with the IRA, just like the Mafia here.

Frank Mccourt

There definitely is a (trend) of up and down all year. But versus a team that shoots as well as they do, you have to be up the whole time.

Kyle Rehrig

It's probably less than an eighth of a [percentage] point because of the scale of fraud versus the industry as a whole.

Mark Fleming

We are looking for consistency and effort from our offense to get where we think we should be. Oakdale had some bad luck versus Central and they will be well prepared (tonight).

Chris Hutchens

It's difficult to parse out the effect of the law versus technology's impact on the amount of spam.

Lydia Panes

The city just imposes a contract on you. But it gets worse. It really has created a 'them' versus 'us' department.

Pat Hanrahan

Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.

Roberta Anding

I think the publicly traded companies will be very careful making acquisitions in the future and concentrate on operations versus being the largest. Currently, asking prices are too high relative to what publicly-traded companies are willing to pay.

Bill Burns

I'd like to see the county conduct a feasibility study on it. It's the initial costs that everyone talks about, but if you look at the cost over 10 years versus the costs of maintaining grass fields, it's worth it.

Jared Dudley

This win just sets up another big one at home on Friday (versus Bowdon). Hopefully we can use that one to set up another big one next Tuesday and next Friday. We've got to dig ourselves out of this hole we're in, but we're capable of doing that.

Ed Clendenen

Some of the kids, especially those who have been turning 720s on a video game with their fingers versus in reality, they tend to get a little impatient. We like to look at where they are and where they want to end up. Then we try to build up those skills to help someone get where they want to go.

Earl Saline

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

Eva Nogales

This is less about Republican versus Democrat - there isn't a partisan way to collect the garbage, ... the national level where ideology is more of an issue.

Eva Moskowitz

It's my country, and there are good players on that team. They have good hitters and I have to figure out how I pitch to them. I can't miss at all versus those guys.

Ezequiel Astacio

It was unfortunate it had to end that way. Both games versus them were great, and now we just have to move forward.

Evan Camperell

The significant 55 tool bookings in Q4 2005 confirm an overall semiconductor cycle upswing. We expect the trend to be sustained in Q1 2006, with bookings at least at the same level as that of Q4 2005 and Q1 2006 sales showing important growth versus the previous quarter.

Eric Meurice

Personal-computer unit demand should grow at least 18 to 19 percent in 1997 versus 1996, and Intel is truly a pure play on that.

Erika Klauer

More bang for your buck. So we could potentially remove 80- to 100-thousand tons from our waste stream, versus mixed recyclable is only estimated at 24,000 tons.

Eric Takamura

As a business person, if I offered you $2.5 million in stock in a private company versus $7.5 million in cash, just in the up-front deal, which would you take? The numbers are unambiguous.

Edward Lanphier

They did grow faster than the market at 64 percent versus 45 percent for the market, but this is a significant miss.

Edward Snyder