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I think people understand the difference between capital improvements and operating money. It's a concern that people might not vote for something because they just passed something else. I don't think it's a significant number of people that would not vote for the levy for that reason.

I think people are going to keep that capital powder dry.

I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

I think people really have a much better understanding of the cost of capital and clearly with debt as cheap as it is, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have a balance sheet with excess cash,

It doesn't stop at technology. Schools are launching capital campaigns to make sure they have the same, if not better facilities than the schools that they normally compete with.

It doesn't matter who owns the assets. You can get capital to build a plant anywhere. What matters is where the plant is,

I think if you get an amendment that exempts those two things, Social Security and a capital budget, you have an amendment that is workable, ... That will not be harmful in case you get into a recession.

John Waters calls it the Hairdo Capital of the World; it calls itself Charm City; and, if home is where the roots are, I call it home.

Judicious capital investments have allowed the small-business community to cut operating costs to the point where many are able to hold the line on -- or reduce -- consumer costs, improve employee compensation, withstand flat or lower sales and still generate higher profits,

It is difficult for the defense to fathom why the Congressman would be eager to discuss these matters on Oprah, yet he would refuse to swear, in a capital case, that the same information is actually true.

Management will need to carefully monitor operating results and capital spending over the next two years in order to maintain the rating. Failure to meet projections could result in a rating or outlook change.

Management is concerned about return on invested capital and return on shareholder equity and that's the focus. Everything else takes a backseat to that.

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles. Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles, ... Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

The acquisition of LCI International was completed in just 88 days, and the integration of the two companies is progressing very well, with operating and capital synergies expected to be better than originally announced.

That was big tonight, coming out focused and not letting them get a lead. Capital picked up the tempo and got into an up-and-down game.

That says a lot about the history of the two schools and the games. People have told me that the two schools are very similar. They are two of the biggest state institutions in the country, both very good academic schools and are in the capital (cities). We each have a lot of fans and a lot of talk and publicity about football. (Football) is really important at both places.

Most of the capital (in Indonesia) is in the hands of limited business groups, which don't feel so secure here. Any slightest risk will cause them take their money to Singapore.

Most of the ad money will go to the Bay Area and the capital city.

Most carriers could really use some capital right now, because many still have to build out their networks.

Micron is a beneficiary of the current weaker pricing environment from the standpoint of its relative cost position, market share, and long term profitability as marginal competitors struggle to maintain a current capital base in a weaker pricing environment, ... Further, while pricing hasn't yet bottomed, investor sentiment is likely near a bottom.

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We have one staff person. We have one investigator. We have no capital case defense lawyers, no office, no telephones, no computers.

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.

You'll see increased capital spending. Even if oil does go to $50 a barrel, these companies are going to show net earnings growth year over year.

Wisconsin continues to lag in venture capital investments, but its angel capital performance is impressive. Today's angel capital investments are helping to build companies that could attract tomorrow's venture capital investments.

Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so large a current account deficit without them and would have had to curb internal demand a while ago. The same is true, of course, of the U.S. (and of the U.K. for that matter). The key question in these instances is how reliable the capital inflows are.

While we remain focused on expanding the company through value-creating acquisitions in our medical systems, domestic appliances and personal care and in our lighting businesses, we'll continue managing our capital efficiently to create optimum value for our shareholders,

Whilst the recent rate of growth in capital values is unlikely to be sustained, demand for prime property investments remains strong.

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

We continue to be concerned with the recent pattern of (the company's) estimate reductions, sales sluggishness in the core personal-care division, increasing margin pressures and deteriorating working capital trends.

We'll clearly have sufficient capital to make sure the equity doesn't trade cheap,

We hope the funds invested in the capital market, including bonds, will increase significantly.

We hope that the system will not only allow us to minimize losses, but will be a major factor in the investment attractiveness of regional operators, and will create beneficial conditions to access world capital markets.

We do not expect any significant increase in capital spending for new restaurants since net new unit growth is expected to continue at 1% to 2% in the near term. In addition, we expect to return roughly $5 billion to $6 billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchase over the next two years.

We do not believe that September was the bottom, but December or March may be. We recognize that carrier capital spending is forecasted to decline, but given our discussions with customers regarding their plans for new product launches and continued inventory reductions, we believe that December or March can represent the low point of the industry downturn.

While capital spending has been the main driver of growth, we're going to see the consumer start to play a larger role. Growth led by consumer spending will increase the stability of the recovery.

We're certainly expecting a pretty solid result and potentially a capital return of that quantity.

We're building a huge capital market, second only to the US,

We're broke, ... What we have presented them is what we think is required in order to operate and attract capital and bid for business in the auto parts sector.

We don't see rates declining much further or a significant firming in the near future, partly because ample capital is flowing into the market after the 2005 hurricane season. At the same time, we are encouraged by the ongoing development of our internal sales culture and by our ability to complete and integrate acquisitions. We anticipate further improvement in both areas in 2006. We also anticipate that contingent commissions could decline this year due to loss experience for insurers in 2005.

We expect both income and costs in Barclays Capital to be rising strongly and the continued good market environment may encourage further investment.

We ended the year with over a billion dollars in cash reserves, a 21 percent return on invested capital and a stronger analog portfolio. Our goal in fiscal 2006 is to drive gross margins even higher.

We ended last year with a good bit more momentum on the capital investment front than we thought. We have an optimistic view about this year as a whole.

We really need to focus as much capital as feasible in rebuilding the roadway. We had a toll increase in 2004, and we had a commitment that every penny of that money would go into improvements in the road.

We can use this capital as a springboard for making ourselves into global institutions.

We can use evidence of homicides committed in other jurisdictions, because under the Virginia statute we aren't trying those other crimes, we're using those other crimes to elevate our crime into the capital murder section,

We can undertake a great number of capital projects and keep the tax rate at 63 cents.

We are thrilled about joining with Bear Growth Capital Partners to help expand our market presence and achieve future growth.

We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to me. This is the nation's capital. Jazz was invented in this country.

When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

We believe this capital cycle in mining equipment is different from those in the past two decades, specifically in length and strength,

We believe this action is necessary to protect the intellectual capital we have worked hard to develop in-house since 1996. Although we have been focused on innovation and building value for our customers, we cannot ignore companies that we believe are infringing our intellectual property.

You are following the money. The great minds and the capital will move to the places that are the most aggressive, most active and where the growth rate is highest.

We will see a change in the drivers of economic growth with capital spending taking a lead. There is a little softness in consumer spending and the inflation data isn't looking that bad.

We've got some significant capital going in. Some is going to payroll this year, some is going to payroll next year and some the year after that. Some is going to fixing up the Trop. Some is going to bringing in new management. We're going to try to balance it, and it's a reasonable amount of money.

We've got some crow to eat. Our approach globally has been that we support the opening of capital markets and the lowering of barriers to investment.

We have begun to aggressively implement best-practices throughout the company and have put stringent controls into place to improve inventory turns and working capital efficiency. We believe that we will be able to reach a point of break-even cash flows by the close of fiscal 2006.

We have been working on measures to further open the capital markets to overseas investors and hope to fulfill the aim this year.

We review our capital levels on an ongoing basis and will, where appropriate, continue to buy back shares through the market as opportunities present themselves while simultaneously exploring other ways of effectively deploying capital.

We're very pro-education here. Anything that can enhance human capital in our community makes us more salable to employers.

Usually when the public gets admitted to something, it's the end of the bubble. The exponential growth in private equity and hedge funds in the last decade is mind-boggling. There's a bubble here that's going to bust. There's too much money. That's true in venture capital and it's true of hedge funds as well.

Usually these capital prosecutions are reserved for bad, bad murders and bad, bad murderers.

We have the know-how, the capital and the manpower to execute these projects, ... It's all a question of timing. We know which fields and reservoirs, and we have the ability and willingness to do it.

We have the financial communities offering us capital so what kind of capital do we want? What is in the best interest of our company and our shareholder?

We have the best economy in the world. Part of that is we believe in making sure we use human capital efficiently and not (wasting) talent through gender or racial discrimination.

Typically, at the present stage of an economic rebound -- roughly two years after the trough in economic activity had been reached -- corporations are borrowing aggressively, funding capital expansion projects, payroll additions and inventory accumulations,

Today, the IRS operates in a low-trust, short-tether budgeting environment, ... This makes rational planning for capital projects such as information technology very difficult.

TICs were something that reps used to bring to the investors, but we're finding that some investors are coming to their reps knowing that they have these huge capital gains time bombs.

Those guys, Scott and Preston, had professionalism, with a capital P. It's a bygone era. I'm getting emotional talking about them.

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

We never have put a lot of stock in having to beat a team two or three times because we have had to do it so much, but we always like to play a different team. It's always good to get a shot to play somebody you've never played before and keeps you motivated. But Capital is playing as well as anybody right now. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if they won.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

We foresee that this year should be a year of investment and high export growth, therefore we need foreign currencies to finance investment and imports of raw material, as well as capital goods.

We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.

We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense.

We made a specific decision about three years ago that being a liquidity provider in the European government bond markets was a way for Barclays Capital to differentiate itself.

We have a very constructive view on China: We like the economic story and we like the real estate story. We have a very deep pipeline and there are a lot of things going on. I wouldn't be surprised if we invest this year as much capital in China as we do in Japan.

We haven't been able to get (DNA) in most of the capital cases. In 75 percent of the cases we take on, we can't do DNA because the evidence has been lost or destroyed,

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

The quality and volume of information you can send through a network depends on performance, rate, reach and cost factors. By enhancing RF hardware, you can lower the capital cost to deliver broadband services. Our products improve network performance by cutting the noise in half compared to current competitive solutions. This allows carriers to reach more customers at less cost.

Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.

We anticipate a relatively clean fourth quarter outside of card losses and slightly lower capital markets.

We are increasing our capital expenditures by 41 percent this year, as part of a long-term plan.

We are delighted that the U.S. Department of Transportation has acted so quickly to grant Delta's request to connect the business capital of the Southeastern United States with the business capital of South Africa via our flagship international hub in Atlanta. We are grateful to our customers and civic supporters for their role in voicing support for this historic new route and we look forward to welcoming customers from around the world to and from Africa as we inaugurate service in December.

We know that based on the Lewis and Clark costs and our capital costs, this probably isn't the last rate increase in the next 10 years.

We'll have an incredible critical mass for purchasing, we think there's some working capital opportunities, so there's a lot of opportunities.

Unfortunately, the fire and the potential financial obligation associated with rebuilding the plant forced us to re-examine the economic soundness of such a large capital investment.

You have the foreign capital coming into China in the form of QFII. That's also positive for the A-share markets.

You have to analyze where you're going to allocate your capital -- and your risk. Comments like that can have far-reaching implications.

Today we have so much more flow of private capital that most international imbalances are financed that way, by private capital movements.

Today we got one answer, and one man can not speak for the correctness of verdicts in a thousand other capital cases.

Though we are trimming capital expenditures in 2002, we will continue to invest capital in the right places, namely our major growth drivers, ... It is critical that SBC continue to provide excellent customer service and invest smartly to grow our data, long-distance and wireless revenues.

Thus, in ordinary language, the word Capital is sometimes used as comprehending every species of Wealth, and sometimes as confined to Money.

We did not receive any official confirmation from the Syrian capital on whether President Assad will head the Syrian delegation to the United Nations Summit that will open on Sept. 14,

We don't have the capital solution that we need.

We don't have nearly the amount of control, from a management perspective, in how to maximize a capital investment as we do in the domestic supply chain.

We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spending for an industry that is expected to grow by 10 percent, compared with 6 percent to 7 percent last year.

We are seeing significant investment. The rate of addition to the capital stock is as great if not greater than anything we have seen in the past 20 years.