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When we were losing, going into practice every day was tough. You go in every day to practice knowing that it will be brutal. And when you are losing, it's that much worse. You don't get to see the benefits of all your hard work, as you do when you're winning. Jim Crumlish
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When it comes back, it will finish off its season with 13 (episodes) in a row, uninterrupted by repeats. And that, we think, will actually benefit the show, and the ratings as well.
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When it becomes the third week, the novelty is going to wear off, but the consumers will still be buying one more item just because of the fact that they're going to be having ... more in their pocket. That one item is going to add up and it is going to benefit the retailer more than the consumer.
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We're meeting an important need by offering our high-end, comprehensive real estate services to clients north of the river, which is the fastest growing area in Southwest Florida. This convenient location will benefit home buyers, sellers, commercial clients, builders and developers.
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We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.
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We remain concerned about the company's long-term outlook and management's preparedness to address the challenges. Still, built-in expectations or valuation appear to be low, and 2006 should benefit from the structural elimination of Brazil and a year of disappointing results in 2005.
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We respect their right to show unity, but our focus is on what's right for our Chicago employees and their wages and benefits packages.
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We're so close to Florida Tech that you get the children of professors and students. We benefit from that.
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We're going to register millions of young people to vote and the benefit concert will help us fulfill our goal, Russell Simmons
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We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.
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We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.
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We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,
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We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.
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We remain on track for your consensus earnings per share estimate for 2001, which is consistent with our longer term business model.
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We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()
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We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.
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We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,
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We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.
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We've asked a lot of him being a young player. ... He's been asked to come in and play a major role in a hurry, but he's a very mature kid and he takes coaching terrifically. Al Groh
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We've always done majority rule. You can't give veto power to one board member. That's a terrible choice. I think it's a real mistake and will create a lot more problems than it will solve.
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When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.
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We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business. Ralph Lauren
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We're major league pitchers. It's one-and-one, you understand. You want to get ahead. You have to play common sense-wise." () Seth McClung
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We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes major releases like Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Office 12 and Windows Vista.
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We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.
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We respect the position of the CBCP in regard to the mining issue although we believe that the revitalization of the mining industry presents as a major viable alternative in the effective abatement of poverty in Mindanao.
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We're going to see major, major changes in the way vehicles are manufactured and who's going to be doing the manufacturing. We haven't seen the last of it yet.
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We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television. Paul Allen
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We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.
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We've asked McKenna to play a lot of positions this year, and she has really done well offensively, too. Joyce Compton
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We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.
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We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.
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We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed. Richard Boucher
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We've always been the underdog, and it's the kind of the position we expect to be in.
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When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner. Marty Schottenheimer
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When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.
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We found that consumer interest in science and science-related consumer products is both larger and more complex than many people previously thought.
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We found people were mostly interested in the herbs, and more interested in anything we made from our own herbs, ... We found the products we made ourselves sold 10 times better than other companies' products.
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We find little in these results to indicate that the group is addressing the dearth of late-stage pipeline products right now and suspect that the risk of opting for quick fixes does not come risk-free.
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We find deals for the people who need it the most: the college students. We might find deals on videos, music or other products a college student might need.
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We felt it was very important to offer this line of products year-round because breast cancer is a disease that can strike at any time,
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We bought products off a man who was licensed to sell them. They're telling me that there were certain products he wasn't able to sell. I only bought products that were advertised for sale to everybody. Robert McNamara
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We believe we have the management, products and financial focus to foster long-term benefits for our shareholders and customers worldwide.
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We believe we are in a period of new demand for products made from the corn wet milling starch stream as we find opportunities to replace products derived from high-priced petroleum. The strong demand should lead to improved long-term returns from corn processing operations.
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United is committed to being an industry leader in customer satisfaction among frequent business travelers. Sean looks at our business through the eyes of our customers, and under his leadership, we will continue to create the experiences we expect for our customers throughout their journeys, develop products to meet their needs, and improve customer satisfaction.
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When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.
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We're going to end up selling the bank at some point,
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What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.
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When we are selling time-saving products, we can appeal to contractors. But when we sell to homeowners, manufacturers need to advertise to people who will own these homes. We need to plan ahead for product launches. Frequently, manufacturers spring promotions on us with less than 30 days notice. Bill Elliott
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When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets, Mick Jagger
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We wound up going from selling 400 bales at $4 apiece to selling 700 bales at $5 apiece and the only change was we made them smaller so the women could carry them and put them in the trunks of their car.
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What history? What tradition? Losing four Super Bowls? Not selling out at (former home stadium) Met Stadium? Mike Tice
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We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.
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We bought small amounts of cocaine out there daily, we bought $20 rocks. These people, same people, were selling $20 rocks all day long. So they have the potential to make a lot of money and easy money.
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To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.
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We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.
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Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning. Kent Beck
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Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.
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When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins. Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.
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We've always worked directly with the owners of content to make that content available. In our experience, that has not slowed us down too much, and it has helped us to build strong relationships that have helped us in other parts of our business.
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We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.
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We've always known we were strong up top, and (Thursday) we got a chance to see it. We needed them to step up, and they did.
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We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.
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We've always had it in us. I think the men's team will continue to get stronger and stronger and we'll be winning many gold medals in the future.
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We've always had a strong presence (at SXSW), but this year's going to be bigger and better.
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We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.
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We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.
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When we were there at the beginning of the year, they handed it to us pretty good. We have to make sure we come out, play well and play smart. We have to be very strong in our own end. Defensive zone coverage is going to be key.
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We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.
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We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.
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When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.
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We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.
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We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.
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We're starting to catch the technology wave and stocks tied to Internet are the stand-outs.
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We're getting there now. People are putting money in bonds increasingly and not buying back technology stocks. This investor sentiment is getting nice and bad, and that's what we need to turn the market around.
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We're going to see the same thing happen in technology and telecom. Balance sheet constraints and problems are going to drive a lot of consolidation.
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We're going to first and foremost start working with customers to commercialize the technology, that's the first priority, and to the extent that we can find companies in complementary markets, who don't compete with us head to head, we may look at licensing agreements with them.