The positives are that we have a Rooney Rule. We have a league that is not in a state of denial, but in a state of action to try to figure out solutions and working with us in a positive way. Every time there's been adversity, we've come back even stronger.
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I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.
I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
They both play really hard. Sean with his ability to make some shots is really valuable to us and Cyrus with his ability to grab some boards is valuable to us, too. Those are two positives I really saw last night.
The attention that basketball gets here is incredible, and that's what you want. You want interest. You can have a great team, but if nobody cares, it doesn't do any good. I think there's positives, and some people will say there are negatives. But there also are a lot of positives.
Even though 2005 was the Company's second-best level of net income and EPS, the effects from various operational issues that arose throughout the year at our US Argo facility hurt the bottom line. However, the year had several important positives, with our South American business posting its best year ever for sales and operating income and our Asia-Africa segment continuing its recovery to near-record sales and profit levels. We also strengthened our balance sheet and achieved record operating cash flow.
We're approaching the use of biometrics very, very cautiously, ... We feel that the technology is not even close to the accuracy being claimed by some of these companies. As such, there will be thousands of false negatives and false positives when you scale up the millions of travelers.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. Obviously, I wanted to perform and knew I had the ability to do that and maybe I tried to force it too much. You look at the year before and you know you're capable of putting up those kind of numbers. You're human, so you have thoughts like whether he can't do it anymore that come into your mind but that's the last thing you want to think about. As hard as it is, you have to try to find positives in everything.
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
I'll answer all those questions when it happens. From my perspective, it's all positives.
I think, as first games go, we had our good moments and we obviously had our moments where we can obviously be better. The positives are that we got the first goal and also that we got the go-ahead goal at 2-1. The negatives are that we gave up a couple of goals that I thought could have been prevented and let them back in it.
I think right now everybody has already showered it off. We'll be playing cards on the plane and getting ready for the Orioles series. One thing is we have short-term memories -- that's the Sox. That's what you have to have in this game. We've had our backs against the wall, we've had adversity, we've had positives. But we're going to battle all the way to the end.
I'm happy for Rick. He's definitely been an ambassador for baseball in this area and he'll bring a lot of positives to the table as far as being a father figure.
In the final analysis, synthetic and Bermuda were both seen as viable options with mostly positives associated with them. We chose the best of two good options.
I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.
This first World Baseball Classic is a great success and it showed a lot of positives to the baseball world, but I don't really know how the Olympic committee would perceive this success.