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Cicero

The Post Bush political scenario in the country might change looking at the foreign policy shifts the UPA government has adopted.

Sitaram Yechuri

I don't feel that my whole game was bad. Those two plays I gave up were deep balls. They weren't touchdowns but they were long plays and they created momentum shifts. I mean, my body felt good, I was moving well. On the first one they just ran a great route for the defense we were in. Basically, that's what happened.

Duane Starks

This will be one of many full shifts we will see in this tournament.

Fred Sadler

When we look at the ups and downs in the marketplace, frequently they are seasonal or product-related and reflect shifts that are all manageable.

James Gianopulos

The Nasdaq weighed heavily on the index at the end of the day. It took away from gains made by shifts in portfolios at the beginning of the day.

Marcelo Borges

We're not seeing important national trends like the shrinking of crack markets in the 1990s, ... These are responses to local situations, changes in local drug markets and shifts in gangs.

Alfred Blumstein

You try not to think about (getting nervous). Get out there your first few shifts, get my feet moving, get a couple bangs and it all goes away. Just trying to play as simple a game as possible and hope things go for the best.

Matt Siddall

The first game was better than the second game, I was excited to be back. The important thing was to try to keep it simple, try to work hard when I was out there and try to keep the shifts short. Overall it was all right, and I'm looking to improve now.

Josh Greenberg

During the lunch shifts, students slowly come over after they finish eating and socializing.

Andrea Flynn

As we are increasingly shifting to a post-industrial society, the kinds of environmental changes [in business] are as profound or even more profound as those in the 1960s, ... There will be significant shifts again Joel has a great opportunity to really elevate the visibility of SOM that hadn't been there before.

Rakesh Khurana

[With clear chains of command, responses] can be very, very quick because of the fluidity of the battlefield, ... When you're trying to make rapid shifts in direction, that may be an appropriate model.

Barry Jaruzelski

Key trends will be shifts to dual-core processors for PCs, and multi-core processors for servers, to increase performance while maintaining or decreasing chip power consumption. ASPs for all platforms have increased with the economic recovery and will continue to increase with these shifts before price degradation begins.

Jim Mcgregor

Many more Arizona businesses are seeing the changing ethnic minority population shifts and the rates of minority population growth.

Harry Garewal

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Wendy Cukier

The whole ramp up has been a pretty exciting time, so we've moved right from the first and second shifts, into the third shift. It seems like we haven't missed a beat thus far, so it's a pretty amazing time.

Jim Schmidt

Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.

Richard Wiles

You go in, and your partner's up on the board before the game, you might end up playing two or three shifts with everybody. I don't think it matters whether we play left, right. We can all play together.

Ryan Caldwell

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

It was like a ghost town when we played at home. Everything closed -- barber shops, restaurants, everything would literally close down for the game. Coal mining was what everyone did. People would actually call off their shifts to come and watch us play.

Mark Page

Speed to market is critical to retaining and gaining market share. Companies must have the ability to identify shifts in demand and respond to these shifts quickly. Strategic component reuse provides fast-moving companies with an innovative, cost-effective way to produce a new product or service and deliver it to meet fluctuations in demand.

Nancy Koenig

First time I went on the ice and saw that crowd, I was a little nervous, but after a couple of shifts I got it down a little bit. I just realized it was hockey.

Ben Kinne

I have 89 on staff and almost all of them worked at one time or another over the weekend, on 12-hour shifts.

Nancy Edwards

It shifts from something you pursue to it pursuing you.

Mike Staver

The other thing it does is allow him to keep the focus on Social Security in the waning days of this Congress, ... If you put this proposal out at the end of July, the conversation shifts.

Clint Stretch

Santorum is going to have to beat Casey, not the reverse. It's going to be a lot closer in November, but we are going to see Casey unseat Santorum unless something drastically shifts on the national scene.

Jerry Shuster

The solution is to stay connected and not to feel so guilty and bad. Try not to get rundown when there are so many bib biologic shifts.

Gordon Sauer

Fundamentally, we don't see their [business] model going over a cliff. But it shifts toward this new model that is software as a service, and ads.

Tom Bittman

We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.

Adam Adelman

The reductions were necessary to address changing business conditions in both space and defense programs. When you're working on government programs, the work kind of shifts back and forth, increases and decreases, during the program.

Monty Vest

How much of news television viewing is reporter or personality driven? In the past we haven't seen significant amount of shifts when people switch networks.

Lyle Schwartz

We do rotating shifts so we have the guys coming in late this afternoon and as a matter of fact they're going to start pre-salting on the roads at four o'clock.

Jonas Smelcer

It looks like we're going to have another 24 to 48 hours of this, before the wind shifts around to push water out and the rains let up.

Steve Huffman

She would pull double shifts when we were short staffed. She took care of her patients. Never got a complaint on her. Never. Tommy was motivated. Anything he was needed to be done, he got it done.

Randy Wilson

We've been telling our kids how much momentum shifts during the course of the game.

Chris Neitzel

By the time he's buried to his chest, the corn shifts every time he exhales, preventing him from inhaling, and he will suffocate slowly.

Tim Zehnder

Fedor had a strong game. He was strong with the puck and made good decisions and plays. We're looking for that high energy consistently. Not for two shifts or two periods, but the whole game and hopefully the next game as well. He's aware of how we like him to play.

Jim Schoenfeld

There might have been good shifts, but we turned the puck over a lot. They're a good team and jumped on our mistakes. They did all the little things better than us, and that's what wins games at this time of the season.

Toni Lydman

It's amazing how quickly sentiment shifts. Two weeks ago, people would have sworn that the economy was gaining momentum. But there's no reason to believe that if we have normal economic improvement then that won't translate into normal seasonal second-half demand.

Cody Acree

They're making miners work excessively long shifts. They have too many miners underground.

Robin Munro

In addition to existing police shifts, which will not change.

Sam Katz

The market appears to have migrated from something that one could readily measure and weigh according to a fairly reliable set of fundamentals into one where the tide shifts less to natural market forces and more to what is described as the 'madness of the crowds'.

Ross Norman

These numbers point to the enormous cultural and economic shifts we've seen.

Linda Basch

Nicole's (3-pointers) were definitely huge momentum shifts at the time.

Lelani Gordon

Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.

Mechai Viravaidya

This summer is going to be really crazy with changes and shifts all over the place.

Bill Badger

SMILE takes SOA to a new level for two reasons, ... First, it shifts the focus of service interaction away from request/response, and second, it illustrates that SOA and EDA [event-driven architecture] shouldn't be different approaches, but rather SOA should fundamentally be event-driven.

Jason Bloomberg

Our full attention with Sarah now shifts to qualification for and then competition in the Commonwealth Games.

Michael Flynn

[Three custodians work eight-hour shifts every night during the school year at Brooks.] There's 10 people [working] right now, ... more because of the construction.

Randy Bennett

The economic slowdown, coupled with on-going shifts in PC seasonality, clearly had a significant impact on our sales over the holiday weekend, ... We expect these issues will continue to have an effect on overall demand over the next twelve to eighteen months.

John Todd

As the paradigm shifts from Windows to the Web, we will have the dominant server technology. (Microsoft) SQL Server is not Internet enabled. Oracle 8i is.

Mark Jarvis

If the federal government shifts large Medicaid costs to the states, some states are likely to turn around and shift a substantial part of those costs to low-income beneficiaries. And since low-income people have nobody they can shift costs to, they likely will end up paying the price, partly in the form of less health care.

Andy Schneider

So the mention of split shifts and/or classes being held in hallways may be construed as intending to threaten 'dire consequences' by not voting for the referendum.

Ari Rosenthal

Anders did well tonight. He was pushing two shifts all game and kept skating hard.

Jim Segar

A more powerful SIM card can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's good for the carriers because it gives them more control, since they control what goes on their SIM. But it also shifts some of the cost from the handset makers to the carriers.

Neil Mawston

As the science shifts, the work force needs shift. We need to be working with the education community to make sure they're preparing students to meet our future needs.

Chris Sampson

They came in and fed with us in shifts as well as brought supplies and everything that went along with it, even moral support.

Andrew Dipasquale

Sex changes and shifts throughout our lives, depending on our age and depending on what we're going through.

Laura Berman

The larger issue is everything we do now shifts that traffic and that damage somewhere else. So we're effectively spreading the damage across the border by continuing to implement this policy.

Jenny Neeley

Obviously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators. There are going to have to be some major attitude shifts. That includes realizing predation is a natural role, and that people are going to have to take precautions.

Josh Donlan

Four meals a day were being served to two shifts for almost two weeks.

Bill Crawford

It depends on the winds. If the wind shifts by 10 or 20 degrees, it could take you out of it.

Stan Wasowski

We couldn't get the bunt down and then Brittany had two strikes and hit the ball hard, but it ended up being a double play. That was one of the game's momentum shifts.

Marissa Chovanec

They were interrupting the shifts if they were in a working shift.

Bill Raney

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Patrick Smith

They had several shifts working at the same time, so they were anxious to get it done ... before anyone could raise a legal fuss, ... The difficulty is that Fairfax Water doesn't have anyone that they answer to.

Harry Miller

If she's confirmed, the Bush administration will deliver what it promised to the religious right. The entire court shifts to the right on this issue.

Martha Davis

That's disappointing. I think they [Penney] are having some category shifts going on with some of their merchants. They have been promoting but obviously their merchandise isn't appealing to the consumer these days.

Dana L. Telsey

We may be seeing one of the greatest shifts in consumer buying habits and taste since the 1950s.

Michael Silverstein

The first couple of shifts we sustained pressure in their end, and had good control. When you spend that much time in their end, I think everybody gets a little more energized.

Jonathan Cheechoo

The two players who were put on her at different shifts did good job at frustrating her three points play.

Scott Nnaji

The market's growth will involve major shifts in share among the OS platforms. The winners will be Microsoft and Linux.

Bill Hughes

That was one for the ages. There was a winning team but nobody really lost this game. Both goalies were great. Everyone used every player on the bench. We got great shifts from all four lines. This was a special team effort. This was a battle of guts, will and character out there.

Tim Taylor

I had a lot of travel (Monday) and hopefully it didn't show too much. I got a good sleep (Monday night). I kept my shifts short.

Antti Laaksonen

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Sean Collins

We currently run production over two shifts in the body shop, three shifts in the paint shop and operate normal single day shifts for general assembly.

Peter Frost

You are unlikely to see our science-based approach change just because of shifts in the public discourse.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb

[Consultants say direct account shifts are more likely to be made by entrepreneurial companies or those in which the marketing chiefs work closely with top management.] It's an organization where marketing is leading the agency relationship management rather than purchasing, ... The CMO is closely aligned with the CEO's objectives.

Arthur Anderson

Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a couple of shifts later. They turn things around so quickly, it's frustrating.

Alex Auld

It helps that they're going well. We were making good plays, spreading the ice pretty well. I didn't want to hold back. I told the coaches that when I come back I want to play, I don't just want to go out there and play a couple of shifts and try to work into it.

Patrik Elias

For example, the shift control sensors detect acceleration and prepare for the coming up shift by actuating the next gear in the sequence on the parallel gear shaft, but leaving the clutch open until the driver manually shifts. The same process occurs in reverse as speeds decrease and the transmission prepares for a downshift.

Michl Koch

Most of the observed shifts ... were seasonal in nature, with moderate February unemployment rate increases in several areas.

Rick Waclawek

If people can agree that the last 40 years didn't help win the War on Poverty in New Orleans and the Gulf - and even hurt it - then the debate shifts into not replicating the last 40 years.

Mike Franc

[W]hat the Bush proposal doesn't do is discuss what the impact of these massive funding shifts would be on the communities that lose money. Huge cuts in health care and essential support and care services will take place in these communities, and the impact will be catastrophic for many people living with HIV/AIDS.

Terje Anderson

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

Michael Almereyda

Emergency cases are always accepted. The ambulance knows they can bring people here. There is full senior staffing on all emergency department shifts and we have put on additional nursing staff and additional administration staff.

Chris Thorburn

There's no question that we're going to see continued growth. Tallahassee is still having huge new population shifts, and you're going to see retail follow those shifts.

Rick Mcallister

They're working weird shifts, they're working long hours and working under extreme conditions and working under conditions, where they have to deal with passengers that sometimes are not too friendly.

Nico Melendez

Technology shifts are not unusual in this business, but what sets Cabletron apart is our ability to anticipate changing customer requirements.

Craig Benson

We talk about our shifts. I think we have a good understanding of each other. My role is to carry the puck and keep it as long as I can, and their role is to get it to me and then head to the net.

Colin Chaulk

In the area of diet, we are only asking for fairly modest shifts.

Walter Willett

As the ground shifts and the building deteriorates, so does the sidewalk. We shored it up about 20 or 25 years ago and we've had to go back in a shore it up again. It's just not safe.

Dan Myers

In the southeast, fish population and (bottom-dweller) changes are happening in the context of a complete loss of sea ice. But in the northern Bering Sea, ecological changes are occurring in the context of shifts in the quality of the sea ice. The ice there is broken and thin compared with ice floes that were more the norm.

James Overland

At the beginning of the game, I was a little nervous but after the first few shifts I settled in and felt a little more comfortable.

Ben Prepchuk

That's what happens at this level. You get momentum shifts, and the game changes. Once they got down, they really started pushing.

Michael Goodling

I have some heartburn with maybe doing some partial or full property tax shifts on this. It's become pretty apparent to me as I've been dealing with this ... there will be more states over next few years going to a unified statewide rate because of problems they're experiencing with their sales tax. We have states now above 12 percent with sales tax with most of their consumable goods.

Rep. Wayne Harper

This was one of those games where are games within games. We'll make a run, then they'll make a run. We say there are five or six big shifts in every game; theirs just happened to come in the third period.

Jon Nebel

We start the shifts in February.

Linda Casey

We've had a lot of police overtime expenditures. Officers are working double shifts. The fatigue factor builds up. We've been doing this since Monday morning. It creates a burden on our regular operations.

Peter Robbins

A gain in lending may be signaling that people are rushing to borrow before the central bank shifts policy. That's bond negative.

Soichiro Kimura

While China is making noteworthy progress in opening markets since its WTO accession, there have been restrictive shifts as well.

Forrest Miller

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Don Kelly

We came out and had a good first couple of shifts of the game and then we spent the rest of the period in the penalty box. There's nothing like giving the other team momentum when you're putting them on the power play all the time, and obviously the Czechs were able to finish.

Greg Gilbert

Shifts in energy happen over decades and not over years. Eventually renewable will be on such large scale that you see smaller growth rates. But we hope by then that clean energy become 35-30 percent of mix of energy used in this country.

Ron Pernick

It's tough to get any momentum when you're killing for the first 10 minutes. We came out the first four or five shifts pretty good and pretty hard. But when you get back on your heels because of the PK (penalty kill), the momentum seems to swing very easily.

Ryan Johnson

I thought it was a hard-fought game ? real back-and-forth with a lot of momentum shifts. What else could you ask for in a lacrosse game?

John Hayden

Since December 2005, our customers have informed us of significant shifts in their budget and programs.

Derek Mcluckey

The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.

Olivier Roy

That?s only because they?re working 24 hour shifts, which includes sleep time.

Thomas Christie

The governor will look at any proposal that will make Michigan more competitive, but she will not support any plan that shifts the tax burden to individuals.

Heidi Watson

Although many polls show that U.S. consumers are intent on altering their behavior (i.e., driving less), we still have not seen significant structural shifts in behavior.

Edward Meir

Everybody stepped up their game, nobody took any shifts off, and finally we had our offensive production match our goal tending. The boys played hard. A lot of things clicked.

Ed Gantt

I was emotionally keyed up and ready to play all day. I wanted to come out flying the first few shifts and see what happened. That was my plan. I wasn't sure how I would react.

Zach Hamill