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We're getting reports from cooperatives in those areas who are telling us that as much as 100 percent of their customers are without power,

We're frustrated, our customers are frustrated. (But) there's still vaccine coming. So that's the good news.

We're forecasting $50 million in volume in 2003. This business drives 2.1 million customer visits a year as customers must come into the store to pick out, pick up, and drop off the tuxedos -- creating an excellent opportunity to drive incremental sales.

We're focused on the SMB market. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies and down. We don't sell into the data centre. Our focus is on simplicity and ease of use.

We're focused on managing our capacity for maximum effectiveness, in order to best serve our customers with a broad range of solutions, including our suite of converged IP services. Alcatel continues to be a valued partner and contribute strongly to our industry-leading network performance and global capabilities.

We're fixing leaks on our side of the meters, just as we'd hope our customers would on their side. It's all part of conservation.

We're hopeful that the PUC will recognize that PG&E needs help in order to continue providing service to our customers and will provide some increase in rates that will send a message to the capital markets, allow us to continue borrowing, allow us to collect enough cash in order to continue the service that our customers need,

To our customers Sony no longer represents the only alternative,

To our customers around the world--thank you. We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year.

Through deep collaboration with our customers and partners, today we're delivering powerful new platform capabilities with unprecedented integration between the server infrastructure and development tools.

Through our Executive Forum, we're able to create an environment where our customers can gather and openly discuss with their peers ideas that will help shape the scope of treasury functions in the future. For us, working closely with those who are redefining the relationship between banks and corporate clients strengthens our ability to meet their needs and those of their customers.

Through Microsoft Solution Finder we are able to give our customers and partners better visibility into the industry solutions that exist today, and ensure we are setting them up for future success." ()

Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to people's lives. Our collaboration with Siemens enables us to offer our Yahoo! Messenger with Voice services beyond the PC, on additional devices. Working with Siemens will greatly increase the potential for new and existing users to take advantage of our rich communications suite. Today's announcement is a first step in a relationship that will expand and continue to benefit both Yahoo! and Siemens customers for a long time to come.

Yahoo is very concerned about conversion right now. We do everything we can to trace conversion for our merchant. That means experimenting with things like one-page check-out or multi-page check out. The flexibility for customers to make that choice can change conversion. The design world is waking up to conversion.

With water cooling you can now mount three times the processors in a rack, and customers won't need a raised floor. In the next two years, I predict there will be a standard for liquid distribution in the data center.

We know what the (Friends2BMade) customers like: They like pink, pink and pink, and they like purple, purple and purple.

We know customers don't have to buy laundry detergent every time they shop. So why force them to walk through that aisle to get to the cookies or the meat department.

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

VeriFone delivers innovative, highly reliable payment system solutions that add value and speed to the point of sale. VeriFone is a premium supplier that fits well with our philosophy of providing customers the best service and products available.

Vendors must protect their installed base before trying to increase share because unless customers are happy with the products, they are likely to change at the end of the contract.

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Vehicles that engage customers immediately upon first sight tend to keep those customers around to learn more about the vehicles.

Vegas is where all our customers go. But you can't just jump on a plane to Vegas every time you want to place a bet.

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

With today's extended IT workplace, organizations must leverage new technologies without increasing risk and disruption. Using Sanctuary, Citrix Access Gateway customers can set and enforce granular device and application usage policies to protect desktop and server integrity, while continuing to reap the productivity benefits of their Citrix environment.

With today's announcement, we bring our customers the nation's leading online shopping destination to the palm of their hand.

With today's announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds: more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have a business case to do so.

With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, ... Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on a timely delivery of innovative technologies that solve deployment and integration issues. This architectural shift is happening now, and SAP is the only solution provider to bring together an enterprise-scale blueprint with ESA, an enabling platform in SAP NetWeaver, an available repository of more than 500 enterprise services, and now with Enterprise Services Community Process, a foundation of a collaborative process for building enterprise services.

With this new technology, IBM is providing customers and their mobile workers with an instant backup and recovery solution to protect information on demand. We are extending our technology in storage management software to help people access all the information they need, when and where they need it.

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.

Would customers say they're satisfied? I don't think that's the right word. It's more like they're resigned to the situation. But you have low fares and lower quality of service. For consumers, as a group, that's good.

Work as hard with your internal customers as you do with outside suppliers to establish long-term relationships. That's how to win.

We've got new versions coming next year. And Microsoft has the tough sell of convincing existing business customers and consumers that what they have isn't good enough.

We've got more customers going east than we do west from Bismarck. I've been surprised by the traffic that's been coming out of the smaller towns.

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can. We're fortunate we have 11 other properties that afford us great flexibility from an employee and a customer standpoint.

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

We have seen customers reduce 48 hour backup windows down to 10 minutes with DPM, ... With DPM, customers never have to do a full backup from the production server again; they only have to do incremental backups, which are much more efficient.

We have to grow our dealer body - we are going to need a significant number of dealers to sell our product. We have to really improve what they call the consideration funnel, where customers actually will consider Ford.

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

We have no intention of blocking or degrading other services on our network. We are giving customers what they want, which is fast pipes at a low cost. Anyone who tries to take that away from consumers will be punished by the market.

Whenever there is a change of some significance, it always presents an opportunity for competitors to make inroads. When a visible leader departs for unknown reasons, that always gives customers a reason to pause and provides an opportunity for its competitors to take advantage,

We want our customers to think of energy efficiency as a critical business issue, and to look to The Gas Company for valuable solutions. We also invite any food service representatives to think of the Food Service Equipment Center as their one-stop resource for fine-tuning all of their kitchen operations.

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

We want our customers to feel comfortable with the name change, ... We will take great care to explain the additional benefits they will gain by being part of a national wireless company.

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made.

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

We want to stay in Cottage Grove. Ninety-nine percent of our customers come from the western side (of U.S. 61). It's not an option to move it to (the eastern) side.

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

We want to show the grower how to cultivate a better quality and longer-lasting flower, because this is what the customers want.

We'll be better equipped to meet the diverse and changing needs of our U.S. customers - particularly our major accounts which clearly want to go direct - increasing our potential for growth.

We are also taking customers from everyone else. There is intense competition in the market, and we are confident that many customers will choose us.

We are also enjoying many, many considerable advantages from the oil price increase. Many of our customers are the countries which have become rich as a result of the high oil price.

We are already reaching the point in Auckland where we are planning to take customers off-line, to shut them down so that we can cope with a major contingency.

Therefore, customers do not have to deploy a solution from each family in order to receive a very rich set of capabilities. For example, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides the richest suite of security services including Firewall, a full implementation of IPS services as well as VPN services.

If you get into a customer service fight with a hooker, even if you're in the right, you're in the wrong.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

We achieved a record year at Famous Footwear. The Famous Footwear management team did an outstanding job of execution, driving double- digit operating earnings gains through improved product assortments, good inventory management and expense control, and the effective use of themed marketing (across our advertising, in-store, and in our direct-to-customer pieces). As a result, our traffic levels were up every quarter versus last year, as customers responded well to our offerings.

We accept full responsibility. Our inability to timely respond to our customers is unacceptable.

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

We are very focused on improving our fleet's velocity and creating additional capacity for our existing and prospective customers by applying economics, which maximize the utilization and performance of our fleet. Ultimately, by improving the velocity and utilization of our fleet, we lower the cost to the shipper community for barge transportation.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

This will probably be a major downer for the 2006 holiday season, a big time for PC purchases. It's hard to imagine a lot of customers purchasing a new PC but missing the Vista boat by a month.

This will mean an improved focus on the customers for our core products, profitable growth and a stronger company that will deliver greater value for our shareholders and a more secure future for our employees,

We are honored to receive this recognition by Gartner. We believe the 'Cool Vendor' designation reflects our ongoing commitment to provide our customers with server and storage solutions that meet the real-life needs of today's most complex data centers.

We are honored to participate in this Consumer Choice Initiative, and we applaud the Mayor for recognizing the importance of consumer choice and especially for educating consumers about the benefits of pollution free electricity from renewable sources. Most people don't know that making electricity is the leading cause of industrial air pollution in the United States. Green Mountain Energy Company provides customers with an easy way to purchase clean, affordable electricity.

We are honored to be working with Herbie Hancock and the unprecedented array of talented artists he has assembled to create this truly special event album. Following the success of Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company, Possibilities reflects our ongoing commitment to working with innovative artists and labels to create unique projects which we believe our customers will embrace.

We did it in response to requests from our customers that we start offering what would be like a gift certificate. The idea really has caught on.

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs they have incurred in purchasing power.

What we know about our customers is not that they won't go to the movies if they know it will be on DVD soon. Au contraire -- what we know about our customers is they will see it when they want to, if they want to, and how they want to, so I say let it all happen all at once.

There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.

There is a seasonal cyclicality to that. The March quarter isn't going to be as high as the December quarter. Customers have to do some digestion, and by time Dec. 31 rolls around I'm fairly confident they'll exceed 1999.

There is a professional business approach to dealing with issues and concerns. Yes, these people have made their point, ... I think it's now time to end the blockade and get down to the table to discuss what the real issues are with the customers that they serve.

There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income bracket.

We decided to go out with a commercial model relatively quickly, where we could start bringing on large customers and have them run large compute jobs so we could test the scale and flexibility of the Sun Grid.

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

We've been in business for almost 70 years, yet nearly one quarter of our customers have been added since our last rate case eight years ago. We must be able to recover costs associated with growing and maintaining our infrastructure.

We thought we could grow the business if we could help the sales team treat all of their customers in new ways.

We're a business that absolutely lives on utilities and essentially reselling utilities to our customers through the use of our facilities.

We're about delivering the highest level of customer service when they want it. And we'll work off that for referrals.

We're at 40% of capacity right now. We measure our success and the success of the facility one customer and one order at a time. That way we make sure we are living up to what our customers expect and provide the service they need to service their customers.

We're as upset about the high price of gasoline as the customers are. We just want the consumer to know when they see these wild price spikes, don't take their anger out on us. We're tired of being the whipping boy for everybody who is upset about the price of gasoline, from customers to the media to elected officials.

We're always pleased when our customers are satisfied with the service they receive in our stores. To be ranked the best for this many years in a row is exceptional.

We held a competitive bidding process and awarded the bids based on the lowest price for our customers. We fully understand that these increases are substantial and that all of our Maryland customers will feel their impact.

Yahoo! is committed to renewable power as it helps support sustainable, healthy communities for our customers and employees. Santa Clara Green Power gives us the opportunity to work together with the community to reach our common goals.

We have received a lot of support from family, friends, our community and even the customers Jeremy served while working for Hicksgas, ... The owner of Hicksgas has also been great. He has pretty much taken Amanda under his wing and taken care of her.

We have provided engineering solutions to the casting and foundry industry for many years. We are excited about the capability and features that KUKA offers to our next generation of customized solutions. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with KUKA Robotics.

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

We've seen a trend in the marketplace for customers who are really looking for a more lightweight ESB product.

We've seen a slight increase. Some of the customers that we've had who haven't been with us for a few years are starting to come back. I wouldn't say it's huge, but it's a noticeable increase. I just took a rough figure last week, and I think in one day we had 30 to 40 tons to be delivered.

We have had a deep and mutually beneficial relationship with our bottlers for more than 100 years. One of the historic strengths of our system has been its ability to change and adapt as our consumers, customers and competitors have changed. Change today is coming more rapidly than ever, and if we aren't willing to consider change, we risk missing out on growth.