O. Henry
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 September 1862
CityGreensboro, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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We expect housing and construction markets to continue to stabilize in the remainder of the year, but be down relative to last year's record levels, ... As a result of this environment and continued pressure on our cost structure due to higher raw materials and energy costs, Johns Manville's outlook for 2000 is for net sales and underlying earnings to be essentially flat with last year's record levels.
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I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.
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Besides the second game yesterday, this about matched Georgia last weekend as far as how effective we were swinging the bats and getting runs in. Hopefully we're hitting on all cylinders here.
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The team really works hard, everyone does. It's a great group of kids, and having a winning record is better than going 0-16 like we did last year, so it really shows how far we've come in one year. It's important to us. Our coaching is awesome, and how we play, it's just real hard work.
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We're almost as nervous as when we were down, 0-3, in the ALCS last year.
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Most of the proceeds from last year's breakfast went to The Clinic. We like the mission of The Clinic. We've helped out other area organizations like The Colonial Theatre and Phoenixville Area Community Services (PACS).
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We have known for a long time that primary infection of typhus confers immunity in man in almost all cases and that this immunity lasts a lifetime.
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On the last match day in Europe France snatched a place in our World Cup.
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It will be fun to see Auburn again. We knocked them out of the tournament last season so we are going into their park with a bull's eye on our chest. They want to get us back. It will be a big challenge for us but that will be fun.
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Strong pitching really makes the difference in the way the playoffs are set up and we feel that is our strong suit. We are in a very tough playoff, but so is everyone else. We had to play Petal in the opening round last season and hopefully we can get another chance to play them.
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It just wasn't clicking for her last night. She's starting to feel better and better all the time. Jackie is a wild woman when it comes to the conference meet. I hope that she can be healthy on the conference day, and she'll run well.
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We've started hitting the ball better the last few weeks of the season and hopefully that will carry over. These type of games can turn at any moment so we have to play sound baseball.
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We were consistently told - even on the last day - that it was going to take five years to sign Johnny. We weren't willing to do that. Our best offer was $40 million over four years.
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We usually struggle to go through but I think we are all happy about qualifying. Other teams are struggling to go through -- and we have been there -- but we are in the last 16 now and it's a nice thing to already be through.