Jim Gray
Jim Gray
competition five four friday itself last register team won year
The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.
enforce influence laws workers
We need to enforce the laws that are existing. But I am acknowledging the big influence workers have on our economy.
breaking good month
When a good month is just breaking even, there is no making up for the bad.
If we had a little more snow, it would have been nicer.
air basically hour nine questions
Basically we do about nine questions an hour over the air on KVSC.
challenge people pick runners team town wants
We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.
few hovering past teams
We've been hovering right around 70-75 teams the past few years.
energy oil
We're an energy city. In my lifetime, it doesn't get better than $60 oil and $11 gas.
conscience ethic high man pragmatic strong work
is a man of very high integrity, high conscience, a strong work ethic and a pragmatic guy.
bigger bit preparing
We're preparing for something a little bit bigger this year.
certainly faculty larger
He certainly has accomplished that. The faculty has been transformed into a much larger and world-class faculty under Doug Breeden.
fast good interested looking pick
We're still looking for volunteers. The good shifts go fast so those that are interested need to get down here and pick out a time.
almost court entirely high people police school teams time together weird work
We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made up almost entirely of high school teachers. We had a team that was all police and court workers. It's a time to get together with your friends and that's typically the people that you work with so we have these weird little bunches of people.
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In December 2004, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma won its battle in Congress to determine our own laws and citizenship, ... It was the end of a long road to independence for our tribe, but the beginning of what we feel is most precious: our sovereignty. I am often asked if gaming has taken over the national debate on Indians in America. But gaming is an extension of our sovereignty, not the other way around and we cannot allow others to frame our issues for us. As Indian people, sovereignty comes first.