[Many analysts say that Electronic Arts's strategy and dependence on sports games - which account for about 30 percent of its revenue - is smart.] Their sports business gives them a leg up on everybody else, ... It's the closest thing there is to recurring revenue in this business. |
[O'Connor took a different tact, embracing his young charges.] What's interesting is that these guys became actors in the best sense of the word, ... They were absolutely committed to each scene. The players didn't have to act -- they discovered that they just had to be themselves. |
[Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable.] The terrorists are still here, ... I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security. |
[Retirement could be tough for the self-admitted workaholic, who received a lifetime achievement award at the British Black Music Awards last year for her 40-year music career.] I never drink, and I have never done drugs, ... All I have ever done is work, work, work my entire life. |
[Texas | Manager Buck Showalter sat in the dugout and saw a statistic on the board showing former Twins manager Tom Kelly's years of service. Kelly guided the club to two World Series titles in 16 years.] [Sixteen] years, ... Take a good look boys, that ...ain't gonna happen again. |
[That's Mason, as in the former county board member who resigned a year before his term was up because he claimed two colleagues were purposefully ruining his good name.] I'm just not going to live like this, ... I have a real life. If this is politics, then I want no part of this. |
[The administration] mourns the loss of each and every one of our men and women in uniform who have made the ultimate sacrifice to make the world freer and more peaceful, ... And the best way to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice is to prevail in the war on terrorism. |
[The Dodgers are not out of this thing by any measure. This was only Game 1, after all, in this best-of-five NLDS. After a day off, the teams play again Thursday night at Busch Stadium before heading to L.A. for Game 3 on Saturday.] We lost the game, ... We haven't lost the series. |
[The lyrics to] You Give Love a Bad Name ... An angel's smile is what you sell/ You promise me heaven, then put me through hell/ Chains of love got a hold on me/ When passion's a prison, you can't break free...Shot through the heart/ And you're to blame/ You give love a bad name... |
[The rise in energy costs caused by Katrina is] going to start taking money out of people's pockets that they would have spent on something else, ... Look for the (impact) in the earnings of discount retailers, restaurants, and travel sectors - start to look for GDP to be impacted. |
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[Turnout rose as the day wore on, said Peter Erben, head of the U.N.-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Board.] The voting started relatively slowly but after the morning it has seriously picked up all over Afghanistan, ... I believe a high number of Afghans have turned out to vote. |
[Was that success down to Price's boss, Alastair Campbell? The way he puts it, it must have been.] He was funny, warm, charming, immensely intelligent, phenomenally hard-working. His stamina was awesome to behold, ... To a certain extent he carried the rest of us along in his wake. |
[Wright will get to experience all the color and pageantry of this storied rivalry up close when he tries to help the ninth-ranked Hurricanes extend their winning streak over the 'Noles to seven games.] Everybody has a story about this game, ... I'm hoping to create one for myself. |
[Years later, the soldiers came again, telling the people to take only what they could carry, and made them cross the Missouri River.] We went to Standing Rock Reservation, and made the best of it, ... We moved 30 miles away from the soldier fort because it was a place of sickness. |