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One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Dennis Ross

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

The analysis said the bridge needs to be completely replaced. The plan is to build a new bridge to the north, so there is a better (road) alignment when you come out of Red Bank.

The announcement is a lot about messaging and a lot about focus, ... We said, 'Let's align ourselves more closely with the release schedule of Microsoft and not force developers into something they don't want to use right now.

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

We invest millions of dollars every year, and now more than half is being aligned through vertical marketing efforts for partners. This is a significant shift for us, because two years ago we weren't doing that at all." ()

We intend to supply more than simple investment, by bringing to bear the experience and perspective that's put Sun in a leadership position on the Internet, ... We're looking forward to promoting the success of companies aligned with Sun's vision, and broadening our strategic portfolio.

Jim DeMint

I think the technology pretty much exists, we just need to align it with existing government warning systems,

I think they're looking to align themselves with a much bigger player and I think that means someone tucking in Imax within a bigger corporate structure that can then help them ... attain some of these goals.

I worked for General Foods building restaurants around the United States. I've always loved history. I went back to school and got into museums. The shared principle is how you can better design and align an organization and service.

We have some people this year who bought a Fan Forward for George Mason. They may have bought ticket rights for $5, thinking that this was the year the stars were aligned in their favor. By purchasing this reservation early, they now have the chance to buy Final Four tickets to see their team at face value.

We do that as another part of making sure director interests are aligned with shareholders. The best way to do that is to make sure they are shareholders.

James Morgan

Unfortunately, the continuing downturn requires us to make some tough decisions to align our operations with current levels of demand for semiconductor equipment,

When you sponsor a bowl game, you get your name in lights. College football fans are the most passionate fans in the world. Bowl games are 90 years old. There is such tradition. You align yourself with that.

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I didn't know that in so many ways, I was living my life not in alignment with that. And once I learned about those ways I could be loving animals better, I made those changes, which made me happier and had me living a life that had me contributing.

Fundamentally it's to bring back the creativity, the cutting edge forwardness of Reebok, what it always stood for. To do that we have to do it in step-by- step procedure, ... The first thing was to get everybody aligned and focused just on one strategic plan. Our mission is to discover, to design and to delight our consumer. And we're doing that every day now. We're getting closer to doing it better and better. We're maybe I would say 50-or-60 percent of the way there, but the consumer's only seeing 10 or 20 percent of it because it's yet to really reach market.

GM management made the decision to align the plant's production output with current and forecasted output demand for the product built at those facilities.

To get a big fire, you need high temperatures, low relative humidity, dry fuels and winds all aligned on the same day. We haven't seen that much this year, yet our overall acreage burned is much higher than in the past.

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

What you have is an alignment of cases -- of the stars, if you will -- in favor of a dramatic shift in the U.S. Supreme Court that certainly holds great promise for the preservation of life.

He's a rubber stamp for the national Republican agenda. That's going to be the fundamental choice in this campaign: a person who's going to align themselves with President Bush or a man or woman who's going to represent Marylanders.

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

Adam Schlesinger

We take the concept of corporate responsibility seriously and think it deserves more than lip service. For Audubon Condominium at Feather Sound we chose to align with the Make-A-Wish-Foundation because they do such a remarkable job in making wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

He was successful when we asked him to throw it. Portsmouth played an eight-man front all game and we are able to block it. We connived a lot of looks for them such as putting our fullback in motion, shifting. We did some thing they probably have never seen us do before. It caused them some alignment problems, but that's what we decided we were going to try to do.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be a good major league player. It's just that the time frame didn't align with how this team has matured.

He is a good athlete. He is the bell cow of their defense. They structure their defense around him. He makes the calls and he runs the alleys well. He keeps everybody aligned so that they do not get out of position. He is a dangerous football player.

I don?t know exactly what the alignment is at this point; I haven?t seen the final line on the map myself.

Richard Perle

France has aligned itself with Saddam -- there's no other way to look at this.

From inception we have placed the interests of our investors, customers and fellow partners (employees) first and foremost. We believe that aligned with Sprint Nextel we are poised to move to the next level. This is an across-the-board success. It results in an attractive price and provides certainty for all Nextel Partners shareholders.

Katherine Johnson

We wanted to work with Sierra Mist to create something that was relevant to our viewers and people who love comedy. We have two brands that make a lot of sense. It's a perfect alignment of assets that speaks to the TBS viewer.

We are pleased to be able to align our shareholders with the well-diversified, high-quality portfolio of Health Care Property Investors. The scale and breadth of the combined companies will better serve our investors and customers.

We are pleased to align ourselves with a cutting-edge and proven laboratory, such as NutraLab. They will prove to be an invaluable asset as we begin to work on our next generation of innovative products in the coming months,