Crunching Quotes

My body felt extremely tired, ... I`ve got five or six gears in me, but I was crunching to get into second without a clutch. It was a tough day.

I`m always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

(After working closely with business leaders and) crunching the numbers in a dozen different ways, ... alternative ways to fund the downtown special service area, but not do it through a tax.

(All these numbers are perfectly suited to the Internet. And talk about sticky -- a handicapper can spend six hours analyzing the day`s races before the first bugle sounds. The Racing Form`s Web site, drf.com, provides racing news, but its new online product, Formulator, supplies past performance information that you can interact with. Other sites provide past performances, but the Form`s are the most sophisticated. Colorful charts supplant the black type of the printed version of the Form, and some features let handicappers enter new realms of number crunching.) If you want to know how a horse has run in wet weather, click and it`s there. On the grass, at a certain distance, and so forth, ... It is useful for both the experienced player and the novice.

During the night I was awakened by a wolf crunching the bones of a rabbit we had eaten. He was not more than 12 feet from where we were lying, and it being moonlight, I saw him clearly.