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Investors let their guard down in February, and they tightened it up as the year went on.


Francis Gaskins

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KIT BOND We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the ...
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GERRY MATTHEWS They aren't going to go down as fast as they went up.
CATHERINE ROSSI They marched down on us running it down our throat. Then we stepped it up and didn't let them in the...
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TERRY PRATCHETT They had their own combine down there this year, ... The [NFL's] Combine ended March 4 [in Indianapo...
PHIL SAVAGE They had their own combine down there this year. The [NFL's] Combine ended March 4 [in Indianapolis]...
PHIL SAVAGE They picked it up and we just couldn't match their intensity. Mentally, we let down after that first...
HEIDI HEWITT The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind ...
C. VIVIAN STRINGER Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It appears the battle will start tomorrow and investors are understandably taking a nervous stance. ...
HIROSHI SATO They got more confidence as time went on and on. The more we let them stick around the worse it was.
DAN GANDIN We do not want people to let their guard down. That's when we have the greatest number of deaths.
CRAIG FUGATE They went up there, and then they ran down here, and they went up the big evergreen, and then they w...
LIN DUTTON This is too much reality for a Friday.
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MYRON WILLIAMS It tightened up on him. Hopefully, he'll be OK by Friday.
RICK ADELMAN We cannot afford to let our guard down,
MICHAEL CHERTOFF I know it's only February, and golf is not on people's minds, but last year we turned down 30 golfer...
JIMMY DEAN They caught us off-guard on defense at the beginning. In the first four minutes of the game they too...
COACH JOANNE HENSCH We definitely came out fired up, but I think we kind of got worn down from their size as the game we...
ERIC BALINBIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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ANGELO REYES We let our guard down. Maybe it's the emotion of being in the state tournament.
KAMILLE WAHLIN It's real easy to say, 'Hey, we're in this thing. We're OK, ... We've got to keep the intensity, the...
GREG ZIPADELLI The question mark in investors' minds has been will this year stack up as strong as 2005. This adds ...
ANGUS GLUSKIE They are seniors and they know what it takes. They didn't let me down. They let themselves down. The...
COREY KLINE The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they...
BENJ STEINMAN tightened it up a little.
BOB MORRISON As many companies are switching from traditional pension plans to defined contribution plans, more i...
DAVID MCCLELLAN The January-February surplus was $1.3 billion wider year-on-year, which highlights the pressure on t...
TIM CONDON We had problems. Every time we would go to our two-guard front, they would go to their 2-3. If we we...
LOY MOORE It seemed like every shot they put up went in and they made their free throws.
DAN REGNIER We unloaded off the truck, and this thing is awesome. We've got to keep the intensity, keep the pres...
GREG ZIPADELLI They went over to the guard shack at the tower and he (the guard) was able to raise someone.
BOB PARKER It's just something that tightened up on me and hasn't let go. I'm hoping I can get someone to drop ...
ADAM STERN We were able to make some plays down the stretch. We tightened up our defense and offensively we kno...
PAT MILLER It would scare you to death if they were running up and down the field, it would scare you to death....
BOBBY BOWDEN We let our guard down. We kept letting them get the boards.
DEB BABER They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
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MIKE SCIOSCIA We can line him up over the center-guard gap in short yardage and let him attack without hindering h...
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NIGEL HAMILTON They loved to hit down because of the power they have up front. But by digging, it would frustrate t...
SANJA TOMASEVIC We cannot let our guard down until this disease is put back in a box.
DICK THOMPSON Nevada fought very hard. They improved as the year went on as much as any team I've seen in a long t...
CHRIS LONG Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting t...
DAVID HACKWORTH They're definitely talented at the skill positions. We're going to have to prevent big plays and con...
DICK FOSSA Whenever they went through the wall, it knocked the ATM out flat on the floor and they just reached ...
BOBBY DUELL They went on a big run and wound up capitalizing. Our defense wasn't as good as it's been in the pas...
JOE MILES We cannot let down our guard, we cannot underestimate the risks of the outbreaks,
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WENDY STRUB I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Realtors have been selling properties by telling investors they can't lose -- that their investments...
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QIN MA We're not out of danger yet. We can't let our guard down.
BRAD HENRY And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS We must not let our guard down and let our enemy know we have an empty holster, so to speak.
CONRAD BURNS They quit on themselves. Slowly but surely, they gave up. That first quarter, they had a lot of figh...
TRAVIS LATENDRESSE The earliest it would show up on consumer bills would be bills received in February.
ROSEMARY FOREMAN This is a leveraged buyout play. The investors' goal was to milk the thing, lever the baby up and ta...
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JAY BENNETT I just put some heat on it and kept going. It tightened up, but in the playoffs, things like that ha...
DARRELL JACKSON They made it tough on us. When we collapsed on Gamble on the inside, No. 24 (Johnson) would hit thos...
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REX HADNOT We had them backed up on their own 1 and let them out. We needed to come up with some third-down sto...
JOE LOBENDAHN I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let ...
CHANNING TATUM It was hands down our best performance of the year. (St. Francis) had three really good athletes wit...
BRANDY CORBETT As a matter of fact, in our Super Bowl year in 2002 we went to Denver on a four-game losing streak, ...
NAPOLEON HARRIS We will know on February 23 if their detentions are being extended as well.
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HIROYUKI NAKAI I knew [the quotes] represented money, and I knew they went up and down,
BILL NYGREN As investors have gotten their 1099s and have seen large distributions every year, it's evolved that...
DON PETERS As investors have gotten their 1099s and have seen large distributions every year, it's evolved that...
DON PETERS They really stepped it up in the second period. We could have laid down and let them keep their come...
DEREK DAMON There will be an inquest as there was last year when we went up, and as there was the year before wh...
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JOHN LUTHER They were one-guard oriented. Everything went through him. Our whole thing was, take him out and see...
CHARLIE THOMPSON They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moo...
BRYAN ROBSON In February, we basically decided we could do it this year.
ELIZABETH SWANK their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
SAPPHO We started out slow, but we just tightened up our defense on the basketball.
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FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON