"I don't want to make the number look bad.
That will only make the number of kids who want to play baseball grow.
But make the number 20 years and think of what happened with personal computers between 1980 and 2000.
"Numbers matter too much here -- the number of dollars people make, the number of cars they drive".
"Arresting a couple of venders will not make the number of burglaries drop, I can tell you that much.
"The government should do something to provide shelter, and do something to make the number of beggars smaller," Mr. Hu said.
Mayor Giuliani and law enforcement officials, however, have said that such comparisons can make the number of arrests seem disproportionately high.
"What the authors of this study are highlighting is that as you change those assumptions, you can make the number go up or down," he said.
To make the number, he hired Chuck Singleton, who guided a generation of Fordham students in the craft of news radio reporting.
One reason why missing earnings by a penny per share can crater a stock is that investors assume the company had lots of fudge room and still couldn't make the number.
In order to make the number in each pot equal, at the start of the draw one of the nine European teams will be drawn into Pot 2, and will definitely face one of the seeded South American sides.
