This being our first year, there have been positives and negatives.

The changes brought on through another full consolidation would make it difficult to achieve a successful final vote in November 2006.

We found we needed to focus on facts and answer questions.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

I have to identify the negatives and accentuate the positives.

He would copy negatives and would publish them.