Anomaly Quotes (47 Quotes)


    I hate to sound Pollyanna about it, but I do believe that this is an anomaly. Business will bounce back and over a period of time it'll fight its way back.

    The era of the political was one of anomie crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

    Tonight was kind of an anomaly. You're not going to threaten teams with five power play goals. Since we picked up Joe, though, we've had one of the most dangerous power plays in the league.

    It's something that has not been looked at as carefully as it could have been, in terms of regarding shoes as a protective device. But one year's worth of data does not make it a problem. There can be anomalies.

    Hopefully, this is just a statistical anomaly, as far as numbers, ... We certainly are doing everything in our power to prevent all (suicides). That is our institutional objective to have no suicides. That is drilled into everybody all the time.


    But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.


    December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.




    Normally, it would take awhile to get a huge wave of products out to people very quickly. But the PlayStation is an anomaly, because, with a vertical application such as games, the uptake can be taken on quicker than normal.

    This is an unusual decision based on a procedural anomaly. It has nothing to do with the merits of the case or the substance of copyright law. We have filed a motion asking the court to reconsider. To date, we have won the only two court decisions on the merits of our cases. The basic fact remains Regardless of age, if you violate the law and steal from record companies, musicians, songwriters and everyone else involved in making music, you can be held accountable.

    The CIA has released more than 26m pages to the national archives since 1998 - a huge amount of work by a small number of people. Other agencies also released CIA documents. Though the process typically works well, there will always be the anomaly.

    We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.





    Housing continues to remain the anomaly in this downturn, with continued strength coming presumably from the impact of a low unemployment rate, good income growth and historically high levels of home affordability.

    Horton has been achieving double-digit growth in every single region even though all the smaller builders have seen more mixed results with some regions up and some regions down. So I would say Horton is more the anomaly than the rule.




    Right now, I'm looking at it like it's an anomaly. The high pitch count in the first innings have happened this year more than in the past. I think there are a few things that can be adjusted to try to prevent it. We'll work at that.

    We do still think weather was a factor, so it could be a factor this time around. But the important thing about our bid is we've got the advantage of having all the venues in physical proximity of each other. . . . So I think that should overcome any concerns people have about the weather. . . . The ice storm really was an anomaly.

    Right now, it's an anomaly. It will be reviewed and scrutinized over the first few years to see how well it works for both the team and sponsor, and see if we might have a new model and if it works.


    In Providence, the noise scene is very anti-rock, ... But we don't want to outright reject rock clubs. There's a different set of influences in New York. (DFA) is a pop music label, and we're kind of an anomaly on the label (but) ... we can take advantage of the different resources available here.

    When you have a performance like that, people might say, 'Uh-oh. Maybe that's our defense. Maybe what's happened up to this point has been a fluke,' ... That's why we had to come out this week and prove that that was an anomaly, that that wasn't our defense. We came out here and showed that today. We showed the way we can play against a great offense.





    We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this calendar year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.


    I know there are labs out there that basically went out and bought an NIR and set themselves up as a lab. But they have no clue as to what went into the calibration of that instrument, or what to do in case they have an outlier. They probably don't have qualified people and probably shouldn't be in this industry.

    The problem is the technology picks up some kind of anomaly or variation of soil. We go in with big backhoes and bulldozers, we spend all day doing it, and all we hit is rock or water tables.



    My view is that there are just a lot of anomalies that come into play when you talk about playoff pairings, particularly in the first rounds. I think the concern this year is because we have two teams in the West that seem to be way ahead of everybody else.


    The fact that the Fed is a secretive organization that restricts access to him, for the most part, and the fact that he gives only a small number of strictly off-the-record interviews, has made the public immensely hungry for information about him. In our OprahJerry Springer confessional society, a person who doesn't let it all hang out is an anomaly.

    He was a great story. But that is an anomaly. He presented himself as a cartoon character. He was a 50-year-old man proving he could still do it in the ring. All his kids were named George. People latched onto that.


    Our customers' funds remain safe and secure, and we continue to take pride in the honesty and integrity of our team members. Our control procedures are strong, so if we do see any anomalies, we take swift action.

    For an NBA sponsor, the worst nightmare is to have two small-market teams in an NBA Finals. If it's an anomaly, the league will be OK, but if it's a trend that continues, it's not good if the top media markets aren't well represented. The problem, of course, is the league can't do anything to control this.



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