Instead, they were holding exit meetings at their training center, believing they're not far from being at the level of the Pacers or even Miami Heat, who open the East finals on Wednesday.
"Both appear to be doing well and their spirits are definitely at a higher level, " said Audra Mincey, public relations manager at the medical center.
Others marvel at the shopping center itself, a five-level riot of curving glass in steel arches that looks like a greenhouse designed by fantasist M.
The Literacy Education project described here has been one of the recent successful programmes run by the NFDE center of MECS and implemented at the local level at NFE Enlightenment centers.
The results are not in yet at the Joint Center, but there is a high level of confusion.
Body weight is controlled mostly by the hypothalamus, a structure at the center of the brain that fine-tunes metabolism to a level that no conscious calorie-counter could match.
Greece, which is at the center of Europe's debt crisis, has struggled with an unsustainable level of debt and an economy that has been in recession for years.
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The nation at the center of Europe's debt crisis, Greece has been struggling with an unsustainable level of debt and an economy that has been in recession for years.
In my reporting for the story, the closest I came to a system of determining worse and better on the candidate level came from Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, who has pioneered much of the academic work on deception in presidential campaigns.
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"This is the only conglomerate under the control of the Beijing municipal government so that justifies a premium, but at the current level it's a bit expensive, " says Wilson Yung of Nikko Research Center in Hong Kong.
"This technology should provide an opportunity to see parts of the field even down to the leaf level, " said Phil Hamm, director of the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Oregon State University.
Greece, which is at the center of Europe's debt crisis, is battling to stay afloat in the face of an unsustainable level of debt and an economy that has been in recession for years.
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