Marshall's pregame speech to the Shockers finished with talk of cutting down the nets at Staples Center before getting on that plane back to Kansas, saying Wichita State didn't have to play "a perfect game" to beat mighty Ohio State.
At a separate hearing in Congress, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, played down the latest spate of escalatory talk, suggesting it was bluster.
He has tried hard in recent weeks to talk the price of oil down.
He went to the House of Representatives in 1995 but retired in 2001 after sticking to self-imposed term limits. (Mr Carson replaced him.) His small-government militancy has led him at various times to talk of closing down the Department for Housing and Urban Development, and of privatising Social Security.
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Red Bull driver Mark Webber, another director of the GDPA, played down talk of a strike at Silverstone, but confirmed that they were taking the issue very seriously.
This is largely because, for all the talk of school choice, much of the current reform movement is surprisingly top-down.
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The odd thing is, this time it does not involve European Union politicians, but the journalists who cover the EU. The divide is pretty serious: the British and American press stands accused of trying to talk down all of east and central Europe, and talk up stories of splits and disunity among the 27 members.
At the United Nations today delegations from nearly 190 countries sat down to talk about efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
But the prime minister, speaking at the start of a European summit in Portugal, slapped down talk of a cabinet split.
President Bush's re-election campaign said the senator is trying to "talk down" an economic rebound that has resulted in the creation of 1.4 million jobs since August.
Mr. EDWARDS: Well, our training in Montgomery County was based on bringing community activists, who are respected people, into the training academy, to sit down and talk to your recruits and explain to them the concerns of the various different communities.
Part of the reason I went down there is to talk about energy with the Brazilians.
That may seem like science fiction to many, and private companies don't usually talk down the promise of their products.
We think that our vote and our support is now sufficient that it's time the Church of England grew up and decided to sit down and talk with us about the issues that we're getting across to our supporters.
He admitted that he was excited by the potential of the Leeds squad but the former England manager played down any title talk so early on in the season.
The health reform process drags on, with talk of a repeal and a Supreme Court decision on the horizon that may strike down the bill.
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There was talk of his stepping down from the CFO role in early October.
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Immediately, there was talk of reducing the size of standing sections and cutting down on the mandatory allocation of 10% of a stadium's tickets for away supporters.
John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design (formerly of the MIT Media Lab) and Jon Gebbia of AirBnB sat down together to talk about creativity within business.
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There is now talk that the government might water down some aspects of its Immigration and Asylum Bill.
There is even talk of a motion picture sometime down the line.
In Philippi, less than an hour's drive from Sago, members of the Malcolm family sat down on Friday morning over coffee at the Medallion Restaurant to talk about their community and their lives with a mix of resolve and holding back tears.
It may be, says Roland Bryan of Associated, that this is the equivalent of small talk at a cocktail party, and that people will eventually get down to local politics.
John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.
Earlier, at a separate hearing in Congress, Mr. Clapper played down the latest spate of escalatory talk, suggesting it was bluster.
Yet for all the official talk at home about ever-improving exam results, Britain is beginning to slide down the international league table of educational attainment.
Some, like Extended Stay, are giving workers permission to make mistakes while others are playing down talk of profits or proclaiming the virtues of failure.
In general, he seemed to want to talk down expectations of more unconventional measures from the ECB, not ramp them up.
Teams might talk about whether they want to cut that down from the size of a standard school backpack to something such as a laptop carrying bag.
When I met him, Quijada was preparing to deliver a talk on the topic of phonoaesthetics, that hard-to-pin-down quality which gives a language its personality and makes even the most argumentative Italian sound operatic, the most romantic German sound angry, and Yankee English sound like a honking horn.
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