But the focus of the event was on celebrating and giving a nice time to military families and their kids, and the event itself was overwhelmingly for children.
For young Bill Blass the local cinemas promised another world, of glamour, where people did nothing all day except wear nice clothes and have a good time.
"You'd be led to believe that you put in real-time pricing and a nice Web site and immediately get a 15% reduction in energy use, " says Accenture's Guthridge.
"To have this kind of scientifically valid study that confirms a lot of what we as military spouses have been saying and noticing for a long time, it's nice, " she said.
North Carolinians say Democrat John Edwards seems to be a really nice person, but he spends a lot of money and a little time representing them in the Senate.
All Microsoft execs and managers care about is a cushy job, nice dining room with great benefits and tons of time off.
I've been out here a long time now and it is nice to put some icing on the cake.
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Will leave now with a wish that you all have a nice time over the coming holidays and enjoy Christmas.
Some of you know that I grew up in Hawaii mostly, and we got some pretty nice outdoors in Hawaii. (Laughter.) And you spend a lot of time outdoors, and you learn very early on to appreciate this incredible splendor.
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For many, this is a celebratory time to honor the woman who gave us life with flowers, a nice brunch, and a goopy, sentimental card telling Mom how much you adore her.
It's always nice to see an old tech stage a comeback and this time it's happening around the coasts of Europe, with nine low-frequency radio transmitters substituting for GPS' satellite-based system. eLoran's radiowave-based system is stronger than satellite signals and less jammable, based on the Loran system that was previously used for shipping navigation by both the British and US navy over 50 years ago.
Not everybody gets it the first time, but he is terrific and he's a very nice guy and I think anyone who makes the mistake of thinking that his cordiality or softness is making a serious error because he's one tough kid.
Now, the chart doesn't contain a ton of additional information that would help put it in context -- a specific time period in 2007 would be nice, as would and driver and OS versions -- but we've been hearing about NVIDIA issues with Vista from the start, and this seems to confirm it.
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One notable exception, however, is United manager Ferguson, who sent him a letter telling him to "keep going" during his time at Nice and who has since phoned the forward to offer similar encouragement.
Windows 7 also had the benefit of coming out at a time when laptops had finally reached a nice balance between cost, performance, and durability.
This is the first time I've been to the United States, and San Diego is a really nice place and the people are very friendly.
And he took a moment to warn the parents of the young children that " they grow up to be, like, 5'10" -- and even if they're still nice to you, they basically don't have a lot of time for you during the weekends.
Last time I stayed at the very impressive Hutton Hotel, which is a very nice and somewhat trendy boutique hotel, sort of a more upscale W or Kimpton, but without any pretense.
In the meantime, the phone will let you scroll by tilting it back and forward, which seems like it might be a nice upgrade over having to touch the scroll bar all the time.
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It would be nice if it did well and it's been a lot of fun and I'm having a good time getting it off the ground.
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"He was a huge celebrity at the time we met him and all my wife can really recall is that he had really nice shoes, " said Mr Engst.
They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.
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