Relative to what people were expecting in September and October (for holiday sales), things were much better than they expected. With energy prices being where they were and predictions of a cold winter, people were expecting downtrodden sales. It turned out to be just the opposite.
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I have talked about his poise since he has arrived here and he has proven that. Every time he goes out he gives us a chance to win. Even when he doesn't have his great stuff, he minimizes the innings and gives you a chance to win. That's all you can ask for.They won partly because the incumbent is governing so badly, and partly because they were doing so well at providing social services, welfare benefits and so forth to individual Palestinians.
I'm committed to the position of mayor and to the village. I believe it's a full time job and because I'm retired I will have time to devote to the position.
This is the same team who were not fortunate enough to go to the World Cup finals. Football is also about luck and then we didn't have any. Today we played really well and won and it should make us feel good about the rest of the competition. We're here to go as far as possible.
Our department's lawyers have certainly studied this and are prepared to go forward and defend the existing policy, ... To date, nobody has presented anything that's caused us to believe that we should abandon our current policy.
It's going to be a front-runner, but it really has a mountain to climb, because never have we seen a gay romance in the best-picture race before.
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