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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See, the thing is, when you do a press day, sometimes you're tired in the morning and you say things at the beginning of the day that you have to spend the rest of the day trying to correct.
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It took a little pressure off. It was huge.
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It's a good tandem because it takes the pressure off Travis,'' he said.
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It's a peer pressure kind of thing, because everyone's on it. Everyone wants to be on it. But, with all the dangers, I don't even know all the dangers, and that's why I'm here tonight.
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That took a little pressure off. And I didn't expect that to be the winning goal because they're a dangerous team but it was a huge relief.
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There was pressure, but I tried not to think about it. I just tried to go out and play hard. The pressure was there, but you try not to think about it.
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Despite the attempts of some to portray Theo's return as a win for someone and a loss for someone else, this is a win-win situation. As Theo said in his press conference on Nov. 2, and as we have all repeated, there never was a power struggle between Larry and Theo. It was simply mythology. I can assure you as we move forward that Larry's role has not changed at all, and no general manager in baseball could ask for more autonomy than Theo has. This has never been an issue for us - only in the media.
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He was our last hope tonight to score points. We had some who didn't come through in the semis, and that put a lot of pressure on Matt. Give him credit. He stepped up.
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We talked about it a little bit, just jawing back and forth. He was telling me that he saw the game (against Jacksonville) Sunday on TV and he wasn't going to have any of that. It goes back to those old days.
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We just happened to catch up with her. It seemed like once we got a hit it became contagious. All those runs were with two outs so we happened to bust out at the right time.
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We miss Ashley really badly... we know what he can add to the team when he comes back.
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We wish Pedro nothing but the best going forward both on the field and off the field, ... He pitched with every ounce of his being for the Red Sox over the course of 216 games. Some of those performances were among the most memorable in Red Sox history. Who will ever forget the 1999 All-Star game? He has earned everything that he has accomplished, including his World Series ring and his reputation as one of the greatest who ever lived.
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We are bringing through some outstanding youngsters and the character they showed to get us through to the League Cup semi-finals at Doncaster gave us a real lift for the Christmas matches and I think we took that into the matches against Charlton and Portsmouth.