I feel we'll dominate the region. Our goal for the regional meet is to get as many people to state as we can. Once we get to state, it's going to be a fast meet. We need support from everyone.
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Related All we do is change our goal now. It was to win region; now it's going to be to get some individuals... ADAM SCHNEIDER This meet is the best thing for our athletes because we need the competition. There are so many meet... JAY FITZGERALD Our No. 1 goal is to get as many as we can to state. Second, we want everybody to get a personal-bes... FRANK MICHALOWSKI Our goal is always the same. We want to be as strong as we can for the tournament, and we'd like to ... LARRY DEEKS We have a good group going this year. Our goal is of course to send as many to state as possible. Th... BRENT MITCHELL We hope to get her back for the state meet. LACI LONG We definitely feel the constitution for the state of Alabama should be rewritten. We also feel there... DREW JOHNSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We don't have any seniors on our team this year so we are very young. But we have gotten past being ... ANDREW WASHINGTON Our team understands that we're going to be facing great competition from all over the state. If we ... MATT BEATTY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY We could get to the point where we need to draw on (state loan programs) just to make ends meet. HAL LEFTWICH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD From my wrestlers, my goal for them is to meet or exceed their seeds in their brackets. This is a to... TERRY O'NEILL We won't see a meet like this the rest of the season, even when we get to the state meet. JEFF GRIFFIN What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Our retention rate is above the goal. We want to keep as many of the people there as we can. We'd li... A.G. LAFLEY We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what... JOE BECKER We came out trying to get as many as we could to state. We wanted to get everybody to place, and we ... QUINTEN FUENTES This is the meet where we really start gearing up the for the sectional. We wanted to win this, but ... DAVE REDDEN We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to w... JENN DAVIS What this taught us is that in three weeks, the state meet is going to be close. This prepared us fo... DREW YOAKUM I would like to see us build as the season progresses as we want to be playing well enough by the en... JAMES BROCKWAY Our goal is to get as many as we can but we're pretty confident we can get over half of them. BOB WELLINGTON We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we bel... GRETCHEN RUBIN It's always a tough meet. The Suffolk County meet is the toughest in the state and there are no lock... BILL DESARIO We're still improving and that's our goal, to keep improving every week. We just have to buckle down... DAVE STIDHAM Our main goal, like every year, is to get as many girls down to state as possible. That holds true t... TIM ATWELL The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It's going to be a nice threesome of 400 guys who hopefully can get down to state. It's a good compe... BEN PROVENCHER We dropped a little on floor and weren't quite as sharp as we'd like to be on bars and they had just... LORIE COOK Ben wrestled extremely well. We're happy to get him through to the state meet. ANDY FECHT We will be able to keep the network fresh and able to meet the latest standards. Our intent and goal... DIANAH NEFF We expect suppliers to be as committed as we are to our customer's success. We have to get a total p... EVERETT TUCKER Their goal is to win the outdoor County Championship as well, but right now we re just trying to im... NIGEL HOLDER We're just trying to get as many as we can to the regional. And there, anything can happen. DOUG ROPER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO We ran okay, but our workouts for the state meet took their toll. We ran decent times, but didn't ge... AL KNUTSON When someone says we need to talk , what he or she usually means is you will listen . An... JAMES ANDERSON We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab s... MAHMUD OTHMAN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I figure we'd might as well have tests for us to get to state so when we get to state it might be a ... DEANTHONY ZANDERS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I thought that match was closer than the score indicated. But when you get to the state meet, everyo... GARRETT TURNER It was pretty much the same as last week's meet with me and Wayne and Kelso. It was good for us to g... CAMERON GRANT We are short on the goal, but we believe we have the opportunity for the first time in several years... MARC LEVY We need money that schools can use to expand classes. A lot of this depends on the sort of support t... CAROLYN WILLIAMS We are progressing well with this project, and we feel we can meet our goal of starting construction... BOB THOMAS We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many... JANICE ATKINSON Obviously we are going to every recruitment fair in the state of South Carolina that we can get to. ... ANNETTE CRAIG We wanted to get first place. That was our main goal. We set our goals high. We had a goal to get a ... ASHLEY YOUNG The kids responded after last week. We really focused this week on coming out early and starting fas... DAVID GIBBS It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focuse... KIM ADAMS We are struggling right now. They were key players in our defense as well as our offense, so hopeful... ED JARVIS Our main focus is going to be the state prelims and state finals. Our goal for state is to obviously... BRUCE PATMOS Our main goal now is to get it cleaned up and that is our next project. I am going to meet with the ... JOE BROWN I'd like to think that we can be one of the teams in the area that can challenge Ridgewood and IHA, ... JIM MCCARTHY For me, it's heartbreak, yeah. But second in the state is awesome. Not many people get to go to the ... KELLEN HOLLIMAN We are going to build our state with Jerusalem as its capital, YASSER ARAFAT Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER We will hire as many people as meet our high standards. DEBBIE FROST We just need to get as many tries on the board as we can against Pirates. Both teams are going to be... BEN RYAN Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors. ELIZABETH KNOX There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our li... KENNETH EADE We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-bas... KELLY ANTHONY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The state tournament is a possibility for us. Especially if we have the same teams in our region as ... CHRIS WAGNER If this woman doesn't meet the test of insanity in this state, then nobody does. We might as well wi... GEORGE PARNHAM We have been trying to make it for four years now. This kind of shows (future Grandview swimmers) th... HALI ROBINSON We view this report as a wake-up call for everyone who uses our roadways to get involved by contacti... LAURIE GHESQUIERE Everyone is going to say 'I want to be state champ. You only get so many shots at the finals. TRAVIS BULL We can finish as high as seventh or eighth and then we would be playing either Miami or N.C. State. ... JEFF HOUSE Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. MANDY HALE We're going to attempt to get as many people as we can signed to extensions and hopefully get our dr... BILL COWHER The people of a state spoke: they said, 'We believe that in our state we believe we have a right to ... MONTEL WILLIAMS We continue to meet our obligation to serve those individuals needing voluntary inpatient care, cons... FRAN LEWIS We haven't really heard any concrete information about it yet. We like going down to Madison, when y... CARRIE BORES We went into the season wanting to win the Metro but we knew a big goal was to get our two seniors t... BRAD JONES Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... This is a really, really fast track. I'm looking forward to the state meet. GERALD MOSLEY The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we ha... AGNES GUND The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Getting as many guys through to state is the main goal. You have to stay healthy as well. JEFF NEWCOMER Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh... DOROTHY B. HUGHES That's a fun meet to go to because we really get to see some great gymnastics teams. We will get to ... CARLA PETERSON Between the meet last week and the Kansas State dual this week, I think those two meets will get us ... DOUG CLARK We will be hosting our first alumni track meet for the boys and girls track teams. We would like to ... KRISTIAN KUEGLER It is the city's goal to get as many people as we can interested and involved in setting and impleme... MAYOR KENNETH BOSWELL You don't have the best of the best in AAA because Jefferson and Wheeling Park aren't here, but in t... CHRIS PARSONS
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