Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

Silence

It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.

We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

We won't see a meet like this the rest of the season, even when we get to the state meet.

It was just like a little pinch. I finished doing all the rest of the stuff -- I ran the shuttle and all of that. I wasn't feeling that good, and the next day, it wasn't feeling all that much better.

The problem with telecom is not only that it's going through the same economic issues as the rest of the market, but that it's also an industry in transition. Five years ago, AT&T's primary competitors were MCI and Sprint, and now it's the Bells and cable companies. Investors aren't sure what the industry is going to look like and which horse to put their $2 bet on.