We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.
We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating margins to more than double from third-quarter levels ... this should lead to earnings-per-share at least several cents higher than the consensus First Call estimates of $0.16.
We're going to continue to see not only higher prices but gasoline availability issues on the Gulf Coast and other issues in the southeast United States, mainly due to fuel distribution problems over the short term.
We feed off of his energy. When your best player comes in with high energy, it's like a domino effect. It goes through the rest of the team.
We faxed the application to about 12 other (state high school) associations, and Florida was one that posted it.
We fall in highly competitive post-MFA era that began from January 1, 2005, as we are competing with some giant RMG producing countries including China and India.
We face some very high hurdles, and negotiations will require a tremendous effort,
We faced some good guys in the finals, especially Sonny, because Ian is a high school All-American and strong. He's tough to beat, he can catch you any time. I thought Sonny wrestled very good match.
We experienced the high Friday night and the low Saturday night.
We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the proven quality-of-service, high bandwidth, and peer-to-peer features that the 1394 standard delivers.