All the i's and t's seem to have been dotted and crossed, leaving us players to focus on training, tactics and getting used to one another.
Unfortunately what they didn't do was dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" when creating and using the Department for Transport's complicated economic model for assessing franchise bids - which meant that in a judicial review of the Department's decision to go with First Group, launched by Virgin, the current holder of the franchise, the government was bound to lose.
Mr. RAPHAEL GARRON(ph) (Realtor): The days of slipshod paperwork and not doing the crossing of all the T's and the dotting of all the I's is over.
And again, I don't think it's appropriate, and I won't, therefore, comment on something that's under ongoing investigation by both the Justice Department and Florida authorities.
The American people don't think it's fair and don't think it's right.
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Now, if that's their opening position or their closing position in negotiations, then we're probably not going to make much progress, because I don't think that's economically sound and I don't think that's what the American people expect, is for us to stand by and do nothing.
Mr. NEIMAN: If you use the metaphor of an earthquake, we're in the shaking stage and it's still shaking and we don't know when it's going to stop shaking and how much damage is going to result.
And more than 70 percent say there's so much conflicting information, they don't know what's right and what isn't.
His advice: Have an accountant or attorney help each year to make sure the "I's are dotted and the T's are crossed, " he says.
And if you don't see a role model, you say to yourself, my gosh, I can't be like that person because there's nobody who looks like me and I don't inspire too much, and that's a problem.
These young children and babies can't protect themselves and it's not an adequate response to say well, the parents didn't do everything they should have done.
Now that doesn't mean he's succeeding and that doesn't mean everybody has to applaud what he's doing, but he's got us back talking about a different subject, and that's really important.
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Her identity and whereabouts haven't been released, and U.S. authorities also haven't said whether they believe she is working for the Chinese government.
"They've got to be careful about dotting the i's and crossing the t's, " Ms. Feddis said.
That bottom-dwelling, budget tier, first announced at this past Mobile World Congress, has already seen a couple of category cousins come out into the open (see: Vodafone's G 300 and T-Mobile's G 312), so color us unsurprised to find yet another single-core, Googlefied device crop up at the FCC.
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Windows Mobile devs should start dotting their I's and crossing their T's, because Microsoft's going to be ready to take a good, hard look at their latest and greatest apps come the 27th of this month when the company finally swings open the doors to the submission processes for inclusion in the Windows Marketplace.
"They're a great squad and we've been together in hotels for the last two weeks and I didn't have a moment's concern, and I can't say that about some teams I've managed in the past" he said.
But there's one image he can't shake -- and that's of the woman who couldn't be saved.
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"I wish that I'd gone round, but I didn't and that's all there is to it, " she adds.
This senior official said that the Bush administration wanted to "cross t's and dot i's" before it authenticates or dismisses the latest e-mail.
"There's so much more on JD we didn't use, and mainly it's because John didn't want us to, " Mr Davis confides.
But returning some of the smaller items like invitations and tickets is difficult because they aren't unique and it's hard to know from what collection the material was taken.
So that's its problem and it hasn't become a manufacturing continent and it's still just not earning not enough money.
Inside Google, some executives were told Mr. Page's issue isn't serious and that he's "OK, " according to a person familiar with the matter.
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For his part, Sessions offered an amendment to require Democrats to present a budget that balances in 10 years -- something Murray's budget doesn't do and President Obama's is not expected to do when he unveils it soon.
He described it as a hobby for the company, won't say how many he's sold, and didn't mention it during the company's fourth-quarter earnings conference call.
"We didn't panic and that's something we've done, but we didn't, " coach Doc Rivers said.
Keep in mind that these numbers are from last week, so Disney's two blockbusters aren't included and HD DVD's highly successful sale of the HD-A2 was too late in the week to impact the results, as well.
ENGADGET: Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 4th, 2007
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