It's a big step. We're not looking to creep into the playoffs. We'd like to go in with more than five wins. We have that opportunity with three of our four games at home. |
It's just the normal range of ups and downs. |
It's like a perfect storm, |
It's like having a designer dress compared with one from Woolworth's. Which one is more impressive when you go to the debutante ball? |
Many species face degraded habitats at both ends of their migration flights and the thousands of towers are a new threat along the way. |
Mark was like a father figure to me. |
My first foray into Evan's late-career albums, and it's even better than I had hoped for. Eddie Gomez on bass, and Evans even plays electric piano on a couple of bonus tracks. But the real meat is the original album. It's heading where it needs to be, but there are moments of surprisingly upbeat swinging, as well - and a nice take on 'Theme From M*A*S*H' ('Suicide Is Painless'). Once you've gone through the original trio recordings, you're going to be hooked for all you can get by Evans. |
Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further. |
Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable. |
Ordinarily it would have been surprising that consumer sentiment did not increase for a fourth consecutive month, given the range of encouraging economic news. |
Our 5 and 11 p.m. news had their strongest performance since we signed on. |
Our patience wasn't good enough. We didn't guard them in the post and they got easy baskets, but we've really got to take care of the basketball and good shots every time down the floor. |
People are complacent about interest rates now. The risk of the emerging strength in this data is that the media coverage of interest rate risk will start to intensify again and that will start to worry people. |
People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the data will result in more intense media coverage of the risk to interest rates. |
Retailers will be disturbed to see that. Our view is that interest rates will remain steady for the rest of the year and most of 2006. |