We struggled a little bit in the beginning. Maybe I'm a little spoiled, but I wasn't pleased with how they came out. It was a lot of individuals. It just wasn't clean.

On the fringes of the market, there is beginning to be some talk of the possibility that the Bank of Japan intervenes to sell U.S. dollars. While possible, the probability seems low at the present.

She's getting better every game. She's made a lot of strides since the beginning of the year, so you know she's got a good future in front of her.

We're really going to have to wait to see the employment number at the beginning of the month. That's really more the basis for decisions (on interest rates) at the Fed.

That was the beginning in the 1970s.

We talked a lot about the beginning of the year as a team that we were definitely going to rebuild a lot and whatever we can take out of our season each game we were going to take it and apply it not only to this season but next as well. The girls have played very hard.