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(Kansas) is really a great state, and the people there are very friendly, and there is an incredible sense of community. But, I grew up at the foot of Pike's Peak and I really missed the mountains. My family is all here. This is where I play, live and work. |
(Railroaders) are unique people because they are spread out over hundreds and hundreds of miles of the railroad system. Many of them work unsupervised, on their own or in small groups. - They are all filled with a great deal of initiative to get a job done. |
(Rice's) conditioning really has been a measuring stick for everybody in this league, ... It is so easy for us to point to Jerry Rice when we are trying to make a strong message with a player who we may not feel is as serious about his game as he should be. |
[A's G.M. Billy Beane is suitably impressed by Mariners phenom Felix Hernandez.] There aren't too many 19-year-olds with those kinds of weapons, that kind of command, that kind of velocity, ... He's going to be a dominant guy in this league for a long time. |
[After that, residents would be able to get different types of federal assistance,] in some cases outright grants, in some cases low-interest or no-interest loans, ... And those problems will be coordinated through both our office and the governor's office. |
[And the imperfect House -- a brilliant but troubled diagnostician -- is an ideal character through which to channel these stories.] He's certainly a character who's dramatically very, very rich, ... physicians often feel pulled in a hundred different ways. |
[Another pro golfer on the program, Tom Kite , also recalled Stewart fondly.] He was always loud and boisterous and fun to be around and showed his emotions, ... He loved the interplay with the gallery and he loved the interplay with his fellow competitors. |
[Arizona | Troy Glaus hit his 33rd and 34th homers off sinkerball pitcher Aaron Cook.] He makes it hard on a lowball pitcher, because he is a good lowball hitter, ... He can lift the ball with the arc that he does and the strength he has can hit a home run. |
[Before the game, the veteran Morton pulled Ponder aside, promising his young teammate that great things were in store.] He said, 'We're going to do something never done in Giants' history. You're going to score and I'm going to score,'Ÿ ... And we did it. |
[But Etheridge still had to have the lump removed. She still had to go through radiation and chemotherapy. And] you can't say 100% that you have been cured of breast cancer until you die at 95 of stroke, ... There's always the possibility of it coming back. |
[During the 6th Annual Americana Music Conference, from September 8-10 in Nashville, an all-star] house band ... explore the linkages between social struggles, respect for fundamental rights and the recognition of personal dignity and community empowerment. |
[Economists had forecast a slightly stronger 0.2 percent rise in the index. Even so, the 0.1 percent gain suggested to many on Wall Street that the nation's economy has more life in it.] I think we're going to see a strong fourth quarter, ... Before Hours . |
[Fox's group faced a dilemma: If you try to make history, and only the print media show up, will anyone hear about it?] Obviously, this is postmodern, ... We're going to have two events. We'll do it first for the photographers, then again for the TV people. |
[Greenspan] acknowledged unambiguously that there is not yet enough data to be sure growth has slowed in a sustained way, ... But his willingness to dig deep to find possible reasons why it might have suggests he is ready to wait before raising rates again. |