Phil Smith
Phil Smith
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We hope to make arrangements with the 40 percent owner (local developer Peter Solomon) to do something with the entire property and not just 60 percent. Our first order of business is to work with Mr. Solomon to make a deal for that to happen.
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Paul is opened-minded about his options but obviously at this stage of his career he needs to be playing regularly.
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Our main goal was to protect the houses on both sides of it since it was already fully involved ... we wanted to save the other ones and keep it from spreading.
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If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.
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It's usually after we see about a week of 70-degree weather that we start to see a problem. It usually is when you have a wet spring followed by a warm, dry summer. That's what we had in 2003 when we had our worst outbreak.
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They have ways of working which do not necessarily fit comfortably into the patterns that most people might be used to.
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It was great experience and allowed us to bring players up to match speed.
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It's always been our position if it takes you eight hours to walk out of a mine, then there ought to be eight hours of oxygen for you to do that.
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It will take the government telling the coal companies 'You must do it,' and therefore it creates a market. But if mine operators aren't required to put them in the mines, the mine operators won't do it.
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We say it every year, but we should have an incredible tournament this summer. We couldn't ask for a better field and with the later starting date, there's an extra feeling of anticipation.
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He was a nightmare and I came up with a compromise figure. He could be 10lbs better, or worse, than his mark.
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We don't really have a voice on whether they should reopen the mine. If they believe it's ready, we're going to have to take their word for it, and so will the miners.
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Yes, Wasps represent a tough start to the campaign especially with Ian McGeechan now their director of rugby, but, like every other team, they can have good and bad days.