Having been locked in four gaunlet-style contests with the rough-and-tumble Indiana Pacers who are fantastic defensively, but struggle to score the Knicks figured they'd be in great shape to force a Game 7 if they could only have a breakout game on offense.
The fall in the unemployment rate is also due in great part to strangely low growth in the labour force, a troubling sign for the underlying vigour of the economy.
And signalling his intention to fight on the Blairite centre ground he said that with the Lib Dems in coalition with the Tories he believed Labour can be a "great unifying force on all shades of centre left opinion in this country".
In America, particularly after the Great Awakening in the mid-18th century, it was a potent force for progress, an ally against statism and hierarchy.
The second world war (in which Mr Stevens served in the air force) ended America's Great Depression, and ended the need to look far and wide for work.
"Having watched the game industry grow from a niche into a major creative force in entertainment, I have a great deal of respect for EA's understanding of the interactive format, " said Spielberg.
In short, deflation is at least potentially a great liberating force.
Without providing a great deal of detail, in theory the FCC would force local TV stations to sell chunks of airwave spectrum rights to the U.S. government, which would then use them for public Wi-Fi networks.
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Speaking of the financial crisis of 2008, just as Mr Obama was elected and poised to take office, he said that the president "moved quickly to break the back of the financial crisis and reignite growth, and because he, along with Congress, responded with great speed and force, our economy is in better shape today".
Courtesy of the Great Recession, men are no longer dominators in the labor force.
Indeed, the very arrival of the coffee-house a public place for all classes to gather, exchange gossip and debate the great issues of the day was in itself a force for change.
And finally, my goal has been to work hard to ensure that the concerns and needs that we hear actually lead to some real change coming out of Washington, because the quality of the lives of our military and their families means a great deal, because in the history of our all-volunteer force, we have never asked so much of so few.
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Scarcity is a powerful force and it leaves those in control of limited resources wielding great power.
Raising the minimum wage by 20% would do them a great disservice and further contribute to the deterioration in the quality of our labor force.
By contrast, in 2007, before the Great Recession began, the share of those reentering the labor force by starting businesses was 8.1 percent.
This is great news for people with disabilities who want desperately to be included in the work force as well as all the other areas of the community.
He said he did not want gay people to be "excluded from a great institution", but would not force any groups to hold ceremonies in their places of worship.
Spurred on by a couple of inspiring runs from Matty Smith, they finally found a foothold in the game and Goulding was forced to come up with a great cover tackle to force the marauding Meli into touch.
Florida's statute makes it clear that the justification is not available to a person who initially provokes the use of force against himself, unless such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he has exhausted every reasonable means to escape.
By a quirk of history, the United States rose to great power at the same time multinational corporations were emerging as a decisive force in world affairs.
The great rotation everyone was looking for in late 2012 continued in January, and in full force with retail investors jumping into exchange traded funds and mutual funds.
"When you get a triggering force like the Washington victory, you generate a great deal of dynamism in other cities, " says Political Scientist Marguerite Ross Barnett of Columbia University.
He said the force was working with First Great Western and Arriva Trains Wales, which operate services in south Wales.
The irresistible force of Fed money-printing collides with the immovable object of a great correction in the smash-up, the debris flies in every direction, giving us a bewildering, mixed-up picture that looks a lot like stagflation.
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The great American prosperity of the late 20th century owes much to the highly increased participation of women in the work force.
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