M. Wolfe Year Quotations

Whereas we typically see a new year's increase, our polling indicates that workers are approaching this year with a 'wait-and-see' attitude. This is not a great cause for concern, though, as worker sentiment remains essentially unchanged from December, which showed increased optimism overall.

The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in August and that due to political noise, if you will, we are not going to see a rate hike in October. But on the earnings front it is a different issue. Looking into 2000, our longer-term forecast, we've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it is going to be pretty difficult to show up with another year of 30-to-40 percent earnings growth. So, consequently, our message has been a lot more selective about the securities that we want investors to focus on.

If after the report on Wednesday investors believe that FedEx will be able to post double-digit (earnings per share) growth during the first half of the fiscal year 2001, we believe the stock should begin to act a bit better. If FedEx management guides the street downward, we believe the stock will be dead money for some time.

We got to $1.5 million last year and hopefully we'll have the same feeling this year when we get to two (million).

He's done an outstanding job for us. Each year his responsibility has increased.

We've been waiting a year for some sign of a turnaround in IT spending, and we haven't seen it. Any kind of reinforcement of that message tends to have a depressing effect on tech stocks.

This is the best we've played all year as a team.

We had a goal of a half-million dollars that second year and as the thing kind of blew up and we realized we were close to a million, it was the seventh or eighth inning and (Red Sox vice president of public affairs) Charles Steinberg called us and said they're donating the last $25,000. The feeling was incredible.

Although classes are not back in session this year at the time of the concert, we do have students who are planning to volunteer and attend, ... Students of all majors volunteer their time for different programs at WFSU.

It's definitely hard. But every step of the way, I've said to myself, 'Don't be stupid.' I know what this year has been like, and I don't want to go through it again. The thing I need to do is not rush it.

Both teams played really, really well. It was sad to see either team lose this year because they both could have won a lot of leagues. It was fun to watch because I've never seen 12 kids so totally focused.

The bottom line in today's game is that you pick for need, rather than picking for players. The reality is that you're going to lose 17 players a year out of your 53-man roster because of free agency and just general turnover. Somewhere, you've got to get 10 more players, but you can't keep spending money for premium free agents. It's how you fill those needs, and a lot of them have to come from the draft.

I think at the moment they're riding a crest. The entire jeweled trend is waning, and by the end of the year it might crash and burn.

Crime is a constantly renewable resource. Every day people continue to kill each other in bizarre and unfathomable ways. Even if murder goes down by double digits, there are still thousands of people killed in this country every year and killers who warrant prosecution.

There was lots of wailing about the cost and difficulty. A year later, senior executives have told me this has worked out really well; having complete information 24 hours in advance forces them to load more efficiently and effectively.

With home heating oil expected to increase by as much as 31 percent this year and residents already facing a 71 percent increase over last year?s natural gas costs, energy costs are going to have an even greater impact on families this year,