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We believe that established enterprises accelerated IT, equity investment, partnerships, and other types in spending since they feared that an unexpected and superior dot.com business model would threaten their existence. With the diminution of the dot.com threat, purchase cycles should lengthen, return on investment should matter again, and the worth of business models will have to be demonstrated.

We believe that demand will remain buoyant in fiscal 2007 due to increased IT spending by organizations.

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.

Whether you have one bill that grows government at 10.9 percent or try to spread the spending over three different bills, this is still not consistent with the House's previous statement on the need for a true spending cap. We don't understand why some in the House now appear to not be willing to live within the cap they've already passed on themselves.

We've also centrally-contracted our top players which is something the WRU want to replicate and we both have successfully established a thriving academy, ... The use of new technology is another area we've learned from. It's not rocket science. We must ensure the right system is in place to identify the most talented players and develop them accordingly with players spending as much time as possible with the best coaches at the best facilities.

We've addressed the ranking thing, and how fickle that is this time of year. Every weekend, two more games go by, and someone moves up or someone moves down depending on those games. So, the ranking doesn't matter.

We usually have to catch someone in the act. But it's always a good idea to dispose of it properly, and depending on the rate of decay, our wildlife people may want to examine the remains.

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

We believe that the patient -- the health of Texas -- is in critical condition ... and that immediate intervention is required to stabilize the patient and offset impending worsening of the patient's condition.

We believe that the improved order outlook suggests that the long-awaited acceleration in spending for 3G infrastructure build-outs in U.S. and China is upon us in 2006.