[Earlier, he had spoken excitedly about the injection of cash he is expecting for next season and of his] genuine belief that there will be money available to get what I would call really decent players into the football club. ... Martin O'Neill has given his clearest hint yet... |
[Eventually he took the bait. With his participation as star and co-executive producer, after various pitch meetings the modestly budgeted $7 million project secured the financing it needed.] If we had been trying to raise money for this without Phil, ... it would've been absurd. |
[Fellow Knick Allan Houston also attended.] When you see something like this and drive around in your car and walk around your house, it's like Steph said, you almost feel guilty because people 10 hours from here have lost everything, ... We're supposed to do this from our heart. |
[First, most rely too much on unnecessarily complex charts. With professional investors using their own high-end charting software,] there's no reason for companies to have overly fancy tools on their own investor-relations sections, ... Complicated charts scare novice investors. |
[For some, the long-term targets include Washington, where many on the right are troubled by the rivers of red ink that have continued to flow despite Republican rule.] It's the ultimate goal of what we're trying to do, ... We want constitutional limits on the size of government. |
[His Razorbacks remained on the ugly end of a 28-24 loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores.] There’s just a sick feeling, ... I got up this morning and the score hadn’t changed. What is difficult to accept is that we had so many opportunities, so many chances to put the game away. |
[In a comment entitled] To say we must stay in Iraq to save it from chaos is a lie ... They told you Britain must invade Iraq because of its weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. Now they say British troops must stay in Iraq because otherwise it will collapse into chaos. |
[Isabella Blow is heading for the MAC hall of fame. The Tatler Fashion Director has helped create a new lipstick called, of course, Blow and described as a] bluey-pink ... If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men. |
[It is] the best low-cost credit card producer in the country, ... You back up that credit card business, you're buying the core bank at eight to nine times earnings. There's no need to chase the big boys when you have Bank One, a $60 billion company sitting there really cheaply. |
[New Browns receiver Antonio Bryant practiced Wednesday and crammed with receivers coach Fred Graves to get ready for Sunday's game against the Eagles. He'll most likely see action as the third receiver.] It's a fresh start for him, ... He might come in and be absolutely perfect. |
[O'Leary is concerned visitors are arriving at Stamford Bridge already beaten mentally.] Teams shouldn't leave thinking they've done well with a narrow defeat, ... I don't want my players to be happy losing 2-1. I wanted points here. It's down to the rest of us to challenge them. |
[Researchers at the American Cancer Society compared the risk of dying among overweight people in two of its studies-one done from 1982 to 1991 and another from 1998 to 2002.] Instead of decreasing, ... the relative risk of dying among the overweight actually increased over time. |
[SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt told Congress Monday that government regulators are conducting an investigation into the Enron collapse.] When Enron began to implode, SEC issued a no-holds-barred investigation, ... But until the investigation is completed we cannot fairly assign blame. |
[Shares of Qualcomm, which rose 2,622 percent in 1999, fell $7.19 to $82.19 Friday.] Fortunes can change and can reverse themselves and I think there is a lot of quality out there both in and out of tech, ... I hope investors aren't so cynical that they don't want to participate. |
[Sternberg returned to his original goal of majoring in psychology, and turned out to be very competent in the higher-level courses.] I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses. |